Weekly Issue: 2020-25

Google is now rolling out the new features it announced last month to Chrome browser along with new ‘Extensions’ Menu, here is how to disable the Extensions menu if you don’t like it.

New Microsoft Edge does not contain ‘Set aside tabs’ feature from Microsoft Edge legacy, now you can add it to the new Edge and Chrome browsers by installing an extension available on Chrome and Edge add-on Stores.

This may be a coincidence or intentional after row over Google removing some malicious Chrome extensions, there is now an ‘Extensions Checkup’ experiment in Chrome stable, which when enabled, warns users that some extensions can affect users’ privacy and Chrome performance.

Google has released Scroll to Text fragment extension for Chrome on Chrome Web Store and is now available for download. Recently Google integrated Scroll to Text Fragment feature into Chrome browser (available in new Microsoft Edge also).

Firefox and Chrome browsers have a privacy flaw where the user typed search terms are sent to DNS servers of ISPs, even when Private browsing mode or Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo is used or DNS over HTTPS (DoH) is enabled.

PWA developers started to update their Apps to support showing app shortcuts on Android and jump lists or tasks on the Windows taskbar. Progressive Web Apps are the future.

After updating to Windows 10 May 2020 Update, some users noticed they’ve been signed out Chrome and sync has been paused whenever they restart Windows.