Hacker News with Generative AI: Chrome

DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome (bloomberg.com)
Top Justice Department antitrust officials have decided to ask a judge to force Alphabet Inc.’s Google to sell off its Chrome browser in what would be a historic crackdown on one of the biggest tech companies in the world.

Antitrust, Technology, Google, Law, Chrome

1181 points by redm 3 days ago | 1385 comments

Microsoft Edge is trying to forcefully get your Chrome tabs again (theverge.com)
Earlier this year Microsoft’s Edge browser automatically started up on my PC and imported my Chrome tabs without consent.

Microsoft Edge, Web Browsers, Chrome, Technology, Privacy

6 points by croes 9 days ago | 0 comments

Direct Sockets API in Chrome 131 (chromestatus.com)

Web Development, Chrome, APIs

200 points by michaelkrem 19 days ago | 159 comments

Google preps 'Jarvis' AI agent that works in Chrome (9to5google.com)
Google is “developing artificial intelligence that takes over a person’s web browser to complete tasks such as gathering research, purchasing a product or booking a flight.”

Google, AI, Chrome, Web Browsers, Artificial Intelligence

53 points by elsewhen 25 days ago | 37 comments

Ask HN: Why does Chrome Android not support extensions/plugins? (ycombinator.com)
Chrome on Android certainly has its own code paths but it's also got shared DNA with Chrome for windows/osx both of which support plugins.

Chrome, Android, Web Browsers, Extensions, Plugins

11 points by ggm 27 days ago | 14 comments

Escaping the Chrome Sandbox Through DevTools (ading.dev)
This blog post details how I found CVE-2024-6778 and CVE-2024-5836, which are vulnerabilities within the Chromium web browser which allowed for a sandbox escape from a browser extension (with a tiny bit of user interaction). Eventually, Google paid me $20,000 for this bug report.

Security, Web Browsers, Chrome, Vulnerability Research, Software Bugs

407 points by vk6 35 days ago | 77 comments

Chrome Canary just killed uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2 extensions (androidpolice.com)

Web Browsing, Chrome, Extensions, Privacy

119 points by abixb 46 days ago | 60 comments

Show HN: Open-source Docker image to run Chrome browsers in your cloud (docker.com)

Open Source, Docker, Cloud Computing, Web Browsing, Chrome

20 points by ayanb9440 55 days ago | 1 comments

A new path for Kyber on the web for Chrome (googleblog.com)
Chrome will switch from supporting Kyber to ML-KEM

Chrome, Security, Encryption, Web

10 points by throw0101c 65 days ago | 1 comments

Everyone says Chrome devastates Mac battery life, but does it? 36 hour test (birchtree.me)
Long time Birchtree readers know I love data, and love data even more when I can throw it into a graph. I’m also a fan of testing things that everyone generally agrees are true, but no one seems to have any data to back up.

Battery Life, Chrome, Mac, Testing, Data Analysis

87 points by havaloc 68 days ago | 105 comments

How Chrome Accessibility Works (googlesource.com)

Accessibility, Web Development, Chrome

59 points by lelandfe 86 days ago | 20 comments

Google tags a tenth Chrome zero-day as exploited this year (bleepingcomputer.com)

Security, Chrome, Google, Zero-day Exploits

6 points by akyuu 86 days ago | 0 comments

Fixing a bug in Google Chrome as a first-time contributor (cprimozic.net)

Open Source, Programming, Chrome, Bug Fixing

645 points by Ameo 87 days ago | 165 comments

Chrome update fixes 38 security issues, including active vulnerability (ghacks.net)