Pages Tagged “Chrome”
Reviews
- Chromium (Web Browser) ★★★☆☆ The basis for most web browsers these days, driven mainly by building Google Chrome. Less tracking and branding, but stable updates are only available on Linux.
- Consent-O-Matic ★★★★★ Convenient browser extension that detects cookie consent pop-ups and automatically fills them out according to your choices. Lets you know it’s working without getting in your way.
- Floccus Bookmarks Sync ★★★★★ Very flexible, syncs across many different desktop browsers and mobile devices, and for privacy it can run on your own server or encrypted on another cloud service.
- Google Chrome ★★★☆☆ There was a time when Chrome was the fastest web browser available. It isn’t anymore, and over the last few years it’s felt less like a user agent and more like a Google agent.
- KeePass Password Managers ★★★★★ KeePassXC, its browser extension, and KeePass2Android are a nice, clean set of apps to manage your passwords on your OWN desktop and mobile devices, auto-fill websites and apps, and sync over your own server or cloud provider.
- Privacy Badger ★★★★★ Tracking protection add-on for web browsers that also converts embedded media to placeholders and adds GPC support to browsers that don’t have it built in. (It used to detect new trackers automatically, but had to stop when someone figured out how to track that.)
- Ungoogled Chromium ★★★☆☆ This takes Chromium and removes everything that connects to Google services…including things like safe browsing and the extension store.
- Wayback Machine Browser Extension ★★★★☆ Useful for when you want to make sure the pages you’re reading will still be around in some form in the future, and to easily get at additional context. Checks every page you view against the Wayback Machine, so turn it off when you’re not using it.
- Xmarks (Discontinued) ★★★★☆ Xmarks was a cross-browser bookmark sync service that I used for a long time to keep Chrome, Firefox, IE, and Safari on multiple computers using the same set of bookmarks. It shut down in 2018.
Tech Tips
- Getting Flash to work on Google Chrome for 64-bit Linux (Obsolete) Flash works on the Google Chrome beta for Linux, but may need an extra symlink for the 64-bit Chrome to use the 32-bit Flash.
- Keep Your System Updated! Most drive-by computer infections use old vulnerabilities for which patches are already available.
- KeePass Password Managers KeePassXC, its browser extension, and KeePass2Android are a nice, clean set of apps to manage your passwords on your OWN desktop and mobile devices, auto-fill websites and apps, and sync over your own server or cloud provider.
- KeePassXC Browser Extension vs. Flatpak (Not Working Yet) Web browsers running through Flatpak have trouble interacting with KeePassXC.
- Reverse the Colors when Viewing a Web Page Not as good as a real dark mode, but you can easily reverse the colors on any website you’re viewing, turning light pages dark and dark pages light.
- Tell (most) Linux Web Browsers to open Gemini links with your favorite client Most Linux web browsers will open unfamiliar URL schemes with XDG, which will look for .desktop files for the applications that can open it.
- Useful Bookmarklets A collection of bookmarklets that I’ve found useful.
- Using Bookmarklets on Android You can’t use menus for bookmarklets, but you can use auto-complete.
- Why is NginX serving different localhost sites to Chromium vs. Safari or Firefox? If you have NginX listen to IPV6 in one localhost server {} block, listen to it in all of them!
Blog Posts
- Internet Explorer Goes Chromium
Microsoft has confirmed: They’re building future versions of Edge on top of Chromium, bringing the web another step closer to monoculture.
- Web Intents
Cool idea: Google is designing a “Web intents” system for web apps similar to intents in Android. For those who haven’t used Android, “intents” allow apps to register actions they can take — such as “I can share (or edit) images!” — and other apps to hand data over to them. That way your camera […]
- Webkit display:table-cell Problem
Bug: I wanted to retrofit an old table layout with CSS to help out iPhone & Android users, but WebKit only applies block style to some table elements.
- Browse-o-Smart
After a week of playing with Chrome as my main browser, I’m back to Firefox. Chrome’s fast, but often won’t let me do really simple things I actually need.
- The Network PC Returns
So if I’ve got this right, Google Chrome OS is essentially booting your computer directly to a web browser? Thin clients really are back.
- First Impressions of Google Chrome
Now that it’s live, I’ve downloaded the Google Chrome beta on my Windows box at work. Â Thoughts so far: Good: Site compatibility seems to be fine so far, with a couple of minor issues (see the “Bad” section). Â Mostly I’ve tested it with a couple of forum sites, LiveJournal, Slashdot, and WordPress. I like the […]
- Do No Evil?
Catching up on Slashdot this morning, I found the article on Google Chrome. Check out the number of comments:
- New Browser: Google Chrome
Google Chrome seems to be a multi-threaded open-source browser based on WebKit (with some code from Firefox as well), focusing on making a browser that will work well with web applications. It’s got built-in support for the Gears API (not surprising). And, like Firefox 3, IE8, and Opera 9.5, it’ll do full-history search & auto-suggest […]