Chrome on Android to let you pin websites to your app drawer soon

For a while now you’ve been able to pin websites to the home screen of your Android device. In the “next few weeks,” Google plans to let you pin certain sites to your app drawer, like you would with a normal app. However, this won’t work with all apps as they need to qualify as Progressive Web Apps for this. Once this takes into effect, though, these sites will be given access to Android’s notification settings, too. It’s coming first to the beta version of the app so you might have to wait a bit for it to come to your device—if you aren’t on beta.

Source: The Next Web

Chrome on Android takes advantage of multi-window feature for better multi-tasking

A lot of the newer Android smartphones carry with it multi-window options. However, multi-window usually only works with two different apps. Now, if you to have to separate Google Chrome windows, you can actually do so. A quick tip from Android Central says all you need to is open Chrome and then long press the recent apps key to activate multi-window. If your phone supports Chrome to be opened this way, you then tap the overflow menu (the three dots on the top right corner) and then select Move to other window. This then gives you two Chrome tabs open at the same time.

Now, if you want to open a new link in the second window, simply long press on the link and tap on Open in other window. You don’t have to be selecting from the upper window to do this. You can be using the lower one and it’ll still work and just open it in the opposite window.

Look for archived copies of broken links with Wayback Machine for Chrome

Hit a 404 dead end and hope to see an archived version of an old site? A new Chrome extension makes it easier for you. Aptly named the Wayback Machine for Chrome, this extension checks to see if an archived version of a site is available once you hit that familiar error code. The great thing is you don’t have to head to the Wayback Machine site to do just that. Now, you have a Chrome tool to do that for you.

Source: Lifehacker

Exploit shows autofill makes it easy to expose your credit card info on Chrome and Safari

Autofill on browsers are convenient. You input things once and then you’re all set every time. But the price you pay for that convenience could be that you’re giving away important personal data—like your credit card information. Viljami Kuosmanen, a hacker at Futurice, shared on Github and Twitter a simple exploit that makes it easy for malicious websites to rip you off based on the information you allowed to be saved as autofill on both Chrome and Safari.

Browsers will determine what type of information the site is looking for and then it’ll keep the rest. But hackers have a way to obscure certain text boxes and users wouldn’t even notice they’re being autofilled, especially when what’s being filled out is sensitive personal data (e.g. credit card info). A quick way to avoid this is to disable autofill on both browsers, you can head to chrome://settings and find it under Show Advanced Settings tab on Chrome or heading to Preferences on Safari and unchecking the boxes in the Autofill tab.

This is why I don't like autofill in web forms. #phishing #security #infosec pic.twitter.com/mVIZD2RpJ3

— Viljami Kuosmanen ⭐ (@anttiviljami) January 4, 2017

Source: Gizmodo