The Year of Linux is Finally Upon Us: Make Welcome Chrome OS Flex, The Best Valentine Gift No One is Talking About I Took the Plunge and installed Chrome OS Flex on a MSI Stealth 15M with RTX 3060 GPU, 16GB DDR4 RAM, and Intel Core i7-11375H for the Team […]

We kick the tires on Flex and install it on some old hardware for good measure.

We kick the tires on Flex and install it on some old hardware for good measure.

Google’s Privacy Sandbox initiative for its Chrome browser hasn’t exactly been an unmitigated success, but it has definitely kicked off a healthy discussion about online privacy — and the company’s own role in the advertising ecosystem. Now, with many of the initiatives around Chrome still in flux, Google also plans to expand many of these…

Google launched Privacy Sandbox in 2019. The company announced it will phase out support for third-party cookies towards the end of 2023. Clearly, it is far ahead and the company seeks more time for testing and running origin trials.

Google has revealed Chrome OS Flex, a new version of Chrome OS based on CloudReady OS that can be installed on traditional PCs.

Google today announced Chrome OS Flex, an early preview of a new initiative that aims to bring Chrome OS to virtually any PC (and older Intel-based Macs). Built on top of CloudReady, which Google acquired in 2020, Chrome OS Flex is aimed at enterprises and educational users who want to prolong the lifetime of their…

You can try out Chrome OS Flex with just a USB stick, or replace your current operating system.

Google acquisition results in free, downloadable Chrome OS.

Google acquisition results in free, downloadable Chrome OS.

Google’s Chrome OS platform has come a ridiculously long way in an incredibly short time.Back when it launched in 2010, Chrome OS truly was just a browser in a box — a dead-simple operating system designed to act as a portal to the web and not much more. The software had no desktop, no task…

A new report shows off how Pixel phones will be able to mirror their screens to Chromebooks, and it might come to Windows, Mac, and Linux.

Google Chrome browser pre-loading content of websites or webpages before your visit in the background is not new, this is called prerendering. Google is working on a new Prerender, Prerender2 in Chrome to load websites almost instantaneously.

There may be a use case or two, where you don’t want the Chrome browser to warn or show breach alert for certain passwords.

Don’t be ashamed, sometimes the buttons are in unusual places.

There’s a built-in screen recorder plus third-party options for your recording needs.

If you’ve done it on Windows before, you’ll feel right at home.

Google is redesigning the Extensions menu in the Chrome browser. To make it easier for users to control extension site access, the company is adding a new Permissions tab to the Extensions menu. Google Chrome Extensions Menu Before, Google Chrome used to display installed extensions in the 3-dot menu.

Chrome OS 98 has started now rolling out on the stable channel and it brings tons of improvements and features.

Google announced a new initative on Thursday that aims to help schools set up their own student-run Chromebook repair programs.

Could a detachable serve you better than a regular Chromebook?

Chromebook Repair Program Ever since our first installation of our device catalog, one of the things we thought was sorely missing was a way to determine the repairability of devices. This has always been on my mind as an addition to our database and eventually, our groups area (when it […]

Microsoft believes the current default Chromium Scrollbars still use the traditional win32 scrollbars while Windows OS has been received WinUI and native fluent controls. The company is now proposing default scrollbars should be updated with a Fluent design and be like overlay scrollbars always thinner, have insets and rounded edges.

Earlier this month, Google announced that it would kill free Google Workspace accounts that were using the G Suite legacy free edition. As spotted by Ars Technica and following customer backlash, Google has updated its support page and says that it plans to offer more options to existing users. Google Workspace as it exists today…

How many times you have lost tabs when you accidentally close them in the browser? That can be annoying for sure, on any platform. Unlike Firefox, Google Chrome, the most used browser lacks this basic warning.

The title of this post series is inspired by the David and Goliath dynamic … The new kid on the block and the bully, or they reflect the generational shift in approach to “operating systems” … A necessary evolution many would argue. From the days of MS-DOS and variants within […]

The migration from “G Suite legacy free edition” continues today with Google quietly noting that it will offer the ability to transfer “your non-Google Workspace paid content and most of your data to a no-cost option.”

Who would have thought Google revisits the changes they made to Chrome years back and restores them, especially if it was a flag? That’s a surprise, happened this time about the Tab Muting flag which the company removed 3 years back.

OEMs and chipmakers are reportedly gearing up to bring a new class of Chromebooks aimed specifically at gamers.

Last week, Google announced that all G Suite legacy free edition users will have to transition and start paying for Workspace starting in July. This has upset non-business users that signed up for G Suite 16 years ago with their domain, and Google is now reaching out to these legacy personal users.

Chrome OS is set to gain a new Adaptive Charging feature that will help Chromebook owners extend their laptop’s battery life.

Till now Chrome hasn’t offered an option to manually save passwords to Google Password Manager, soon it’s coming, where you can enter your Site address, Username, and Password and ask Chrome to store it whenever you want. Here is how you can add Passwords manually in Chrome.

Why the Alleged Pixel NotePad May be the Perfect Companion to the Pixelbook Nerds out There

Google has updated the Calculator application on Chrome OS to work as a Progressive Web App, so it now works on other platforms.

In 2020, G Suite became Google Workspace as part of a mass reorganization of the company’s apps for the “future of work.” Various plans were migrated over, and Google is now finally getting rid of the G Suite legacy free edition.