Weekly Issue: 2020-34

Google is currently conducting an experiment named “Omnibox Rich Autocompletion” in Chrome with the aim to autocomplete suggestion even if the input is part of the title or not a hostname prefix. Generally, the prefix of the URL will be autocompleted.

Google is making a lot of improvements to its password check feature on Android and desktop. Recently we covered Chrome for Android allows us to check for compromised passwords and lets you view, edit, and copy them.

The Password Check feature for Chrome for Android is getting ready, recently we covered the feature, as well as Safety check, are working in the Canary version.

Usually quite reliable, Google is reporting that Gmail and other G Suite applications are seeing a “service disruption.” Gmail, followed by Google Drive, being down is the biggest problem right now. Issues started late on Wednesday evening (PT) and continue into the early hours of Thursday.

While Mozilla has already added experimental support for AVIF image file format to the Firefox browser, Google is bringing support for the same to Chrome 85 which is currently in beta and arrives on August 25.

Chrome Password Manager for Android saves the passwords to your Google account. Like Chrome on the desktop, you can able to find the breached passwords that are saved to the Chrome browser by running an on-demand scan, in a couple of ways.