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Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Check how much memory a Chrome tab is using with this one easy trick.

Well, if it’s rolled out to you. With Chrome 119, Google has been slowly rolling out the ability to check how much memory that tab is using just by hovering over the tab, 9to5Google reports. 9to5Google also has details on the flag to enable if you want to switch the feature on for yourself. Handy!

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Chrome says it saved users over 10,000 years of waiting for webpages to load this year.

That’s all thanks to Chrome’s Core Web Vitals feature, which allows website owners and developers to evaluate how well their site performs. According to a blog post shared by Google, Core Web Vitals and other small tweaks also made the average page load in Chrome 166ms faster.

Image: Google
Jon Porter
Jon Porter
Mozilla is testing an AI chatbot to help you shop.

After acquiring FakeSpot earlier this year, Mozilla is putting its product review smarts to work in a new AI chatbot that’s designed to answer your questions about products you’re considering buying. Fakespot Chat is Mozilla’s first LLM, and can respond to questions on a product’s “quality, customer feedback, and return policy.” Click here to try it yourself.

Screenshot of Fakespot’s AI chatbot.
Example questions being asked about Apple’s third-gen AirPods.
Screenshot by Jon Porter / The Verge
Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Google is rolling out new deal-finding tools for the holidays.

With Black Friday just around the corner, Google Search is launching a new hub that surfaces relevant deals on a single page. Searching for “shop deals” will reveal a whole bunch of products on sale across different categories, but you can narrow your search by typing, “shop headphones deals” or “shop sneaker deals.”

Google is also rolling out some shopping features for Chrome, including a new price insights feature that was previously available on Search, as well as an easier way to check for discounts by clicking the tag icon in the address bar.

GIF: Google
Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Firefox accounts are now called Mozilla accounts.

It’s just a name change, so that means you don’t actually have to do anything with your account. This has been in the works for some time now as Mozilla looks to drive “higher awareness” to all its services. Mozilla started migrating Pocket users to Firefox (er... Mozilla) accounts in August, putting all its services under one umbrella.