Chrome

If you find yourself with a hankering for retro gaming and only have access to a macOS computer running Google Chrome, developer Nolen Royalty has created a painful way to play Pong, as spotted by Tom’s Hardware.

Good news for Joe Joyce and other assistive technologists who help students and computer users around the world: ChromeOS now supports Bounce keys, which ignore repeated keystrokes if you accidentally tap them too much within your specified amount of time. It’s part of the ChromeOS M133 update.

Following the Gulf’s name change in Google Maps last week, Developer Bryce Bostwick created the Restore the Gulf of Mexico extension to revert it back, which he says in a YouTube video is “the world’s smallest form of protest.”

Is there a website you can’t stop visiting that’s killing your productivity? A new Chrome extension called TabBoo’s solution is to randomly trigger full screen jump scares and use aversive conditioning to deter you from returning.

My little article about the increasing phenomenon of people saying, “I asked ChatGPT” inspired Rob Dubbin to create a Chrome extension. It replaces references to ChatGPT with “my stupid friend.”

A recent Chromium build suggests Chrome could get support for linking directly to highlighted text in PDFs just like you can on a normal webpage, writes code sleuth Leopeva64 in a post that Bleeping Computer spotted.

The Samsung Internet extension, which allows users to sync bookmarks between their phones and computers, currently redirects to a webpage that says the domain is up for sale.

The company now offers up to $250,000 to people who find, detail, and demonstrate remote code execution vulnerabilities in Chrome. That more than doubles Chrome’s previous top payout, which sat at $100,115.

As reported by Bleeping Computer, Google is testing a new experimental flag that can hide sensitive content while “screen sharing, screen recording and similar actions” in regular tabs — redacting the user’s entire screen if things like credit card details or passwords are detected.

A new option spotted in the Chrome 128 beta lets you search with Google Lens by clicking and dragging a box around the area of a website you want more information about. Google will then pull up search results based on the image or text you’ve highlighted — sort of like Circle to Search.

A new Canary test build of the Chrome browser (I see it in version 128.0.6611.0 in macOS) has a new performance alert to tell you when a tab is hogging resources, Windows Report spotted.