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With the internet serving more and more functions for you, it becomes necessary to add extensions to your web browser that can make your life easier. The trouble is, mischief makers target many of these add-ons to gain entry into your system. Chrome has recently added a feature to its latest stable version that guards you from these malicious extensions.

What it does is to block the silent installation of extensions in the Chrome browser. This prevents automatic installation of third-party plug-ins like security applications or other programs running on the system. From this week, Chrome will also scan all the extensions that are downloaded to the local drive and inform users whether or not the programs are potentially harmful. While trying to install an add-on, you would be notified like this:

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In the past, many users encountered the misfortune of having malware infecting their system in the form of third-party extensions that were silently installed by the Chrome browser. The present security fix seeks to address this important issue and make add-on installation safer for Chrome users.

In recent months, developers have tried to address many security holes in the Chrome browser and the latest stable versions have come with plenty of bug fixes. Alongside its browser, Google is also constantly striving to make the Chrome OS more secure for users which it hopes would increase the sales of the program.

With their makers being the same, Chrome and Android are heading in a direction where they may be called cousins. This is no joke – as far as the design is concerned. The latest improvements in the design of the Chrome OS are testimony to the fact.

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It is official now. Chrome – the famous browser from Google Inc., has officially severed ties with Webkit – the popular open source rendering engine of Apple. The rendering engine for Chrome Canary now shows ‘Blink’ instead of ‘Webkit’.

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The speculation is over. 72andSunny has done it again and its four new ads for Google Chrome have managed to win over one and all – even skeptics. Its commercials, particularly the one featuring the 1 year-old intellectual wonder, have topped the video charts.

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Google played a cool, nay – blue “April Fool” joke on as many as three million of its users who woke up to watch the Blue Gmail video of Google and doubted whether the developers had really lost their aesthetics.

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A new experiment by Google developers has turned websites into a fun marble maze game. Launched on Thursday last week, this innovative venture transforms websites into a 3-D landscape maze. The game can be played by using smartphones.

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Google has released the latest version of its Chrome operating system. And guess what? Chrome OS 25.0.1364.173 comes with fixes for the security holes detected at the Pwnium contest this year.

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Google has removed its own RSS Subscription Reader extension for Chrome browser from the official Chrome web store. Although the exact time is not known, the removal appears to have occurred only recently.

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Google is reportedly trying to show an audio animation in cases where any of the tabs of its Chrome browser is recording or broadcasting sound. With this feature, Chrome users can clearly see when a tab is playing audio. The audio indicator is supposed to work in each tab.

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