You may occasionally see an error with the Chromium browser that informs updater is currently running, refresh in a minute to complete the update.

Recent versions of Chrome and Edge aren’t opening to some users. OfficeScan agent in Trend Micro security Product s blocking these apps and preventing them from running. This has been acknowledged by the Security vendor and promised they’ll release a fix soon.

New Microsoft Edge based on Chromium supports Chrome extensions. You can install extensions in Edge from Chrome Web Store or Edge Add-ons Store. As of now, the latter contains a limited number of extensions. Contrary to Edge Add-ons Store, Chrome Web Store contains thousands of extensions.

To protect users’ privacy, beginning with Chrome v65, Google has taken away the ability to take screenshots in Incognito mode on Android. Now the company is looking at its decision again and is working to make it possible again.

Recently Google has released Chrome 87 with new features and performance and memory improvements. “Chrome Actions” is one such new feature that lets you do things right from the address bar without the need to visit the Privacy and Security Settings.

Google has released Web Vitals Chrome extension that shows Web Performance metrics for a page in Heads Up Display such as largest contentful paint, First Input Delay, and Cumulative Layout Shift. In addition to these, Chrome may natively display Smoothness metric as well on Android and other platforms.

Chrome will no longer use Windows Segment Heap going forward. Google has decided to end the experiment after Microsoft informed it won’t offer control over the heap type. Chrome is switching to PartitionAlloc for Chrome as the company felt it” seems to offers the desired memory savings “.

After adding a new interface to the Profile Picker, the Chromium team is now updating Chrome’s manage profile page by bringing the custom theme generator available on the new tab page in the customize menu.

To address Tab overflow issue in Chrome, Google added Grouping Tabs and Scrollable tab bar features. Chrome lets you scroll through extraneous tabs that no longer fit in the tab strip through Scroll buttons.

Google Chrome comes with Software Reporter Tool and it reports potentially unwanted programs found on your computer to Google. Chrome has this functionality baked and offers the Cleanup tool in Settings to perform an on-demand scan for adware.

Media Hub in Google Chrome is getting better and better to control music. Till now, in addition to offering playback controls, the redesigned Global Media Controls allows us to enter the playing video in Picture-in-Pcture mode and select audio devices connected to play the music.

Chrome for Android has recently received a Safety check feature, after rolling out Enhanced protection to desktop, Google is planning to bring the same to Android as well. But the feature can be already enabled in Chrome for Android, here is how you can do that.

Both Chrome and Edge support running PWAs when you log in to your computer. But the option to control the web apps from running on startup hasn’t been offered in these Chromium browsers.

Google is working on a new feature for Chrome’s New Tab Page that shows advertisements on shopping based on your browsing activity on Google services. Currently, the feature is behind flags in Canary and you can here see a glimpse of what coming to the new tab in Chrome.

For the last 10 days or so, Chrome and Edge users including Brave started reporting they’re seeing debug.log file on the desktop. According to reports, it is created when they open PDF files in Chrome or Edge, or another Chromium browser.

Google is bringing a slew of new features to address the tab overflow problems in the Chrome browser. Till now it has shipped grouping tabs feature with collapsing support to organize tabs. Chrome’s upcoming Tab Scrolling and “Tab Search” features may actually solve the issue for most users.

Recently we reported Chrome is getting a new Profile Picker interface and Ephemeral profiles. Google is now looking to make sure resources are freed up when a profile’s last window is closed. Generally, this happens when Chrome is closed completely.

After upgrading to Windows 10 May 2020 Update, version 2004, Chrome users reported that they’re noticing Sync pause and cookies got deleted after every restart. Then Google, with help of Microsoft tried to figure out the root cause, but they were not able to.

Google Drive storage is very useful and, in the days of G Suite, business owners had the ability to get unlimited Google Drive storage. Unfortunately, though, unlimited Google Drive storage going away with Workspace.

Google rebrands G Suite, Apple announces its next event date and John McAfee is arrested. This is your Daily Crunch for October 6, 2020. The big story: G Suite becomes Google Workspace To a large extent, Google Workspace is just a rebranding of G Suite, complete with a new set of (less distinctive) logos for…

Based on a comment from Chrome employee Peter Kasting on Reddit, we’ve reported Google Chrome will get a scrollable tab bar to address the tab UI overflow problem, guess what! A new flag “Scrollable tabstrip” landed in Chrome Canary and is available for Windows, Linux, and Chrome OS.

We’ve recently reported Chrome to get a New Profile Picker, Google is working on another feature related to Profiles, this time for Guests.

Google is rebranding G Suite, its set of online productivity and collaboration tools for businesses that include the likes of Gmail, Drive, Docs and Meet. The new name is Google Workspace, a name the company already hinted at when it first introduced a set of new collaboration tools and Google Meet integrations for the service…

The past few months have brought a flurry of changes to Google’s productivity apps. Some of the revamps were brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, while others have long been in the works. The culmination of those changes is “Google Workspace.” It’s both the new name of G Suite and a complete modernization of the…

Chrome now allows to natively link to a particular text or word on a page without the need to install  Link to Text fragment extension.

Google is working on a feature that allows users to assign a name to each Chrome browser window so that, they can easily distinguish which window is what from the taskbar/alt +Tab UI and switch to a particular window when multiple windows are open irrespective of tab in focus.

Due to the pandemic, people using Video conferencing tools such as Zoom, Google Meet to connect and they may share their screen in a video call. The website notifications may appear during screen sharing and can cause a problem. Google now wants to fix this annoyance in the Chrome browser.

While the Read later feature is already available for Chrome on iOS, we reported Google is bringing it to desktop and Android as well.

Recently we reported Chrome for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome OS is getting the ‘Read later’ feature after iOS, Google now wants the feature to available for Chrome on Android as well. The Chromium team has begun the work to implement it on Android.

Google wants to take the pain out of manually creating tab groups from the users, for that, the Chromium team is currently testing a feature called “Tab groups Auto Create”, which when enabled, groups will be created automatically.

Shared — previously team — drives are how organizations using Google Drive distribute and  collaborate on files. Google is now testing the ability to share folders within a shared drive.

Online file storage solutions started out as being modeled after their local, non-cloud counterparts. Next month, Google Drive will automatically delete files and folders placed in the trash after 30 days.

Google Chrome lets you manage audio/video playing the browser right from the toolbar through Global Media Controls UI or also known as, media hub. Currently, Google is redesigning the feature UI to make it look more modern.

The day has come, the latest Chrome stable version 85.0.4183.102 has Tab Groups available by default and they’re collapsible too when you create groups of tabs. Once, Tab Groups was a popular feature in Firefox, Mozilla removed it citing of low usage.

You’ll also find an easier settings search and easier video controls.