Chromium

Perplexity Offers to Buy Chrome from Google for $34.5 Billion

AI startup Perplexity formally offered Google $34.5 billion today to acquire its Chrome web browser…

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Google, Mozilla, and the Future of the Web (Premium)

With the remedy hearings in U.S. v. Google behind us, a thought occurred about Mozilla,…

Edge-made Chromium text rendering

Microsoft’s Improved Text Rendering Comes to All Chromium Browsers

Microsoft said today that the text rendering improvements it created for Edge are now available…

Linux Foundation

Linux Foundation Launches Chromium Browsers Initiative

The Linux Foundation today announced the Supporters of Chromium-Based Browser initiative, and Microsoft is on…

Google Chrome

Google Chrome to Get Microsoft Text Rendering on Windows

The Chromium project has accepted a Microsoft commit that will make text rendering dramatically better…

Edge Memory Usage Improvements are Coming to Chrome Too

Yesterday, Microsoft revealed that the new Edge uses up to 27 percent less RAM when…

Microsoft Enables Windows Spellcheck API for All Chromium Browsers

Microsoft is integrating the built-in Windows Spellcheck API into Microsoft Edge, and it's also enabling…

Microsoft Details Improved Scrolling for Edge, Chromium

Microsoft says that it has made several “personality improvements” to scrolling in Edge and that…

Google Resumes Chrome, Chrome OS Updates

After pausing previously-planned Chrome and Chrome OS updates because of the Coronavirus, Google today revealed…

Google is Up to Its Old Tricks With the New Edge

Google starts warning users of "security" issues when downloading extensions from the Chrome Web Store…

Microsoft Proposes a Dual-Screen Future for Web Apps

Microsoft details its plans to allow developers to build web apps for dual-screen devices, proposes…

Chrome’s Ad Blocker is About to Get Useful

Google Chrome includes an integrated ad blocker, but it doesn’t do much of anything. That’s…

Microsoft Enables Support for More Languages on Edge DevTools

Microsoft is enabling support for 10 new languages on the Edge developer tools and plans…

Microsoft Is Bringing One of Edge’s Tab Management Features to Chrome

Microsoft's engineers are working to bring one of Edge's tab management features to Chromium, contributing…

Microsoft Has First Major Impact on Chrome

Thanks to the open-source nature of Chromium, Microsoft has had its first major and positive…

Microsoft and Google Are Working to Let You Uninstall PWAs Like Any Other Regular App

Microsoft and Google are working on a new feature for Chromium that will allow you…

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