Weekly Issue: 2020-12

Google Chrome with updates built-in, alerts you when your passwords are involved in a data breach, uses Safe Browsing to protect you against dangerous websites, malware downloads, and harmful extensions.

We’re equally feeling the effects but satire always gets its way! It is without a doubt that we’re facing difficult times as the Coronavirus continues to spread across the globe but what can we do about it?

Generally, Scrollbar scrolling happens in the main thread in the Chrome browser, Microsoft which is contributing to Chromium has found scrolling the vertical scrollbar by dragging isn’t great when the main thread is busy.

Google Chrome browser by default doesn’t show https://, WWW and http:// prefixes for Website URLs in its address bar, if a site is fully secure it shows a padlock icon in place of https://, similarly, Chrome shows “Not secure” text for unencrypted websites.

If you reach a page that is not in your preferred language in the Google Chrome browser, Google Translate service built-into Chrome with automatic translation asks the user whether the browser needs to translate the page into English and offers specific options for that site and language.

While on one side, with Chrome 80 release Google has started to roll ut SameSite cookies to prevent cross-site attacks, on the other side, the company is working to improve cookie Settings UI for its browser on Android.