A Chrome browser extension for Netflix boosts your viewing experience

If you want a better browser experience with Netflix, the Netflix Extended extension for Google Chrome is something you’d need to check out. Not only does it let you skip intros and recaps, but it also offers some useful keyboard shortcuts to let you skip to and from episodes, increase or decrease volume, and even start random videos from the search screen. Aside from that, it can mute trailers by default, disable play/pause with a touchscreen, and the ability to pause a video if you switch tabs. You can check out or install the extension from this link.

Source: The Next Web

Chrome will soon get support for hardware media keys on Windows

Chrome on Windows is getting a feature Edge doesn’t currently support: the use of its hardware media keys. Google Chrome Engineer Becca Hughes announced on chromium.org that Chrome 73 will be adding support for Media Session API in Windows and Chrome OS. In theory, this means you can control sites like YouTube using the hardware keys available on some keyboards as well as possibly Windows 10 pop-up media bar. This feature isn’t currently available to Edge, but Microsoft’s browser should get it too once it switches its rendering engine to Chromium.

Source: MSPowerUser

Microsoft, Google are working together to bring Chrome to Windows on ARM

Hoping to give Windows on ARM machines a bit more support, Microsoft is working with Google to make the Chrome browser a native Windows on ARM app. Microsoft is trying its luck again by creating Windows 10 on ARM, a line of PCs that run on ARM processors. It didn’t succeed the first time around with Windows RT and how limiting the system is. But this time it can run on x86 programs in an emulator, expanding the range of software the machine can run. But this will, of course, affect performance, so it’s better to develop native ARM apps.

That’s where this new collaboration comes in. Technically, Chrome works on ARM systems, but it doesn’t currently compile properly as a Windows-on-ARM application. 9to5Google spotted various commits by Microsoft engineers helping develop Chrome for Windows 10 on ARM. With the help of Microsoft developers and addressing issues, this can change that. Qualcomm is supposedly helping out as an executive last month said they are working to bring a native ARM port to Windows.

Source: Ars Technica

Malware disguises as Google Chrome download link on Microsoft Edge

We already know about the running joke of Microsoft Edge existing so you can download Google Chrome. But apparently Bing is causing a bit of trouble as it is supposedly returning search results that have malware and adware. Twitter user Gabriel Landau discovered this when he was searched “download chrome” on Bing, using the Microsoft Edge browser. He clicked on the first link that was marked as being from “google.com” and leads to a page that looks like the legitimate Google Chrome download page. But upon closer inspection, the URL of the page says “googleonline2018.com.” And if you don’t pay attention, you would think you were downloading the browser’s installer from the legitimate site. It even says you’re downloading “ChromeSetup.exe” when you press on the Download Chrome button. But when checking the file’s properties, it shows that it’s digitally signed by a company named Alpha Criteria, which isn’t Google.

How To Geek investigated the matter and found that the site is marked as a “deceptive site” by Chrome but it isn’t flagged as such by Microsoft Edge and Bing. The big problem here is it seems Bing isn’t checking the URL off the search result, which could make this deception easier to pull off. And it seems an issue like this has happened earlier in the year. Microsoft told How To Geek the fake ad has been taken down and accounts associated with the malicious content have been banned. However, they didn’t give an explanation on why the ad was marked as from “google.com” or that there will be an assurance that this won’t happen again.

Source: Digital Trends