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Many Chrome browser extensions do sneaky things
2014-08-20 14:08:05| InfoWorld: Top News
An analysis by security researchers of 48,000 extensions for Google's Chrome browser uncovered many that are used for fraud and data theft -- actions that are mostly undetectable to regular users. The study, due to be presented Thursday at the Usenix Security Symposium in San Diego, forecasts growing security problems around extensions as cyber criminals tap into the rich data contained in Web browsers for profit.
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Google ships 64-bit Chrome for OS X
2014-08-06 13:42:38| InfoWorld: Top News
Google has promoted the 64-bit version of Chrome for Windows to the browser's more stable Beta distribution channel, and boosted Chrome for OS X to 64-bit on the more preliminary Canary and Dev builds. Chrome for Windows 64-bit shifted to Beta on July 30 after about two months on the less-polished Canary and Dev lines. Google has touted the 64-bit version as more stable and faster than its 32-bit predecessor, which has been the Chrome standard since its 2008 debut.
EFF releases Chrome, Firefox plug-in to block third-party tracking
2014-07-22 13:20:10| InfoWorld: Top News
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital privacy rights group, has released a downloadable plug-in for Chrome and Firefox designed to stop third parties from tracking people's Web browsing. The tool, Privacy Badger, is in beta and comes following an alpha launch several months ago. Since then more than 150,000 people have installed it, the EFF said Monday.
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Google Chrome dumps 30-year-old Windows technology
2014-07-21 14:04:00| InfoWorld: Top News
Google last week said that it was finally ditching a 30-year-old technology to display fonts on Web pages in its Chrome browser for Windows. In an announcement Thursday about some of the notable changes in Chrome for version 37, which reached Google's Beta build channel earlier that day, a software engineer said the preview relied on Microsoft's DirectWrite technology.
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Google Blocking Some Downloads of uTorrent in Chrome
2014-07-20 02:37:40| PC Magazine Software Product Guide
It doesn't happen every time you go to download it, but Google seems to think that the uTorrent setup file is malicious.
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