Security News

A Mozilla Foundation update to the Firefox web browser, released Tuesday, tackles one critical vulnerability and a handful of high-severity bugs. The specific critical bug in Firefox was also highlighted earlier this month in Google's Chrome browser security update, where it was rated as a high-severity flaw.

Some ad networks are known for ruining Google Chrome's web browsing experience with videos or large images. In September, Google announced that it will start disbanding ad iframes using too many system resources.

Google, which makes most of its money from online ads, insists it wants ad blockers to continue working under the latest, more locked-down iteration of its Chrome browser extension platform, known as Manifest v3. As a way to measure the problem, Alexandre Blondin, Chrome product manager, pointed out in a blog post on Wednesday that when Google integrated the Chrome Web Store with its Google Safe Browsing infrastructure, "The number of malicious extensions that Chrome disabled to protect people grew by 81 percent."

Google Chrome is getting a new browser heads-up display that displays performance metrics about the web pages you are visiting. To help users analyze these metrics on web pages, Google released a Chrome extension named Web Vitals that displays an on-screen HUD with performance metrics for web pages you are visiting.

To make sure Chrome users aren't utilizing weak passwords, Google Chrome's Safety check feature will alert you if your passwords were found in data breaches. Google is now working on a new feature that will automatically detect and highlight weak passwords when performing a Safety check, as shown below.

Google Chrome will soon let you search through your open web pages to find that missing page lost among a sea of tabs. To help with this mess, Google is testing a new 'Tab Search' feature in the Chrome Canary builds that allows you to search your open tabs for a particular keyword.

Google is slowly rolling out a new feature to Google Chrome 87 that allows you to type commands in the address bar that perform specific browser actions. This new feature is called 'Chrome Actions' and allows you to type in a command, causing an action to be displayed in the address bar search results.

Hidden behind a flag is a much-anticipated PDF reader that users can enable right now. The PDF reader or viewer within Google Chrome has always been relatively simple, especially compared to other browsers, like Microsoft Edge.

Google has released patches for several high-severity vulnerabilities in its Chrome browser with the rollout of Chrome 87 for Windows, Mac and Linux users. At a high level, an attacker could remotely exploit the flaw by persuading a victim to visit a specially crafted website.

Google is currently working on fixing a known issue causing a Google Chrome web browser version launched earlier today for Apple processors to suddenly crash. "Earlier today we updated our Chrome download page to include a new version of Chrome optimized for new macOS devices featuring an Apple processor," Chrome Support Manager Craig Tumblison said.