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Chrome Blog
chrome.googleblog.com · Company blog · on HN since 2016
Google's official blog for Chrome and Chromebook announcements, covering browser releases, security features, and Android apps on Chromebooks.
What HN saysHN commenters cite it as a source for security history: PDF sandboxing, Chromebook hardware security, and download checks, plus a Chrome April Fools joke.
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Most-shared posts
- 1Flash and Chrome4 people · 287 points · first shared 2016 · 174 comments on HN
- 2Chrome: Faster and more battery-friendly4 people · 5 points · first shared 2016 · 2 comments on HN
- 3Play Store and Android Apps Coming to Chromebooks2 people · 380 points · first shared 2016 · 202 comments on HN
- 4Chromebook security browsing more2 people · first shared 2017
- 5Google Cast is now built-in to Chrome1 people · 240 points · first shared 2016 · 148 comments on HN
- 6The Google Play store, coming to a Chromebook near you1 people · 22 points · first shared 2016 · 12 comments on HN
- 7Chrome: 50 releases and counting1 people · 18 points · first shared 2016 · 8 comments on HN
- 8Google Music Lab1 people · 2 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 9Pdf goodness in chrome1 people · first shared 2021
- 10First set of android apps coming to1 people · first shared 2017
- 11Flash and chrome1 people · first shared 2016
- 12Faster browsing safer downloading1 people · first shared 2017
- 13Introducing vizio p series display with1 people · first shared 2016
- 14A faster mobiler web with emoji1 people · first shared 2021
What HN people wrote when they linked it
Jyaif · 2021-12-05
Reminds me of Chrome's "Translate to emoji" April fools ( https://chrome.googleblog.com/2014/04/a-faster-mobiler-web-with-emoji.… )
NavinF · 2021-09-05
PDF parsing and rendering has been sandboxed for over a decade: https://chrome.googleblog.com/2010/11/pdf-goodness-in-chrome.html
The idea of depending on your government to protect you from exploits is insane. Anyone in the world can upload a shady PDF to a website hosted in any country and suffer zero consequences.
saltysallys · 2021-06-24
Maybe to better pin a license to a device? Or because google: https://chrome.googleblog.com/2011/07/chromebook-security-browsing-mor…
21 · 2017-05-06
Information is scarce on this (a little bit of security through obscurity).
Here is theirs blog post introducing the feature in 2012:
https://chrome.googleblog.com/2012/02/faster-browsing-safer-downloadin…
> Chrome also does checks on executable files (like ".exe" and ".msi" files). If the executable doesn't match a whitelist, Chrome checks with Google for more information, such as whether the website you're accessing hosts a high number of malicious downloads.
At the time I looked at the implementation in the Chrome source code, but I remember that it took me a while to locate it.
kyrra · 2017-01-16
Google has been doing custom security hardware for 5 years in Chromebooks[0].
[0] https://chrome.googleblog.com/2011/07/chromebook-security-browsing-mor…
JosephRedfern · 2017-01-05
You've been able to run some Android apps inside chrome for a couple of years now: https://chrome.googleblog.com/2014/09/first-set-of-android-apps-coming… Perhaps this is based on that?
debacle · 2016-10-21
The most important advice you need to hear: your Flash tool is never going to get the adoption it might deserve because it's in Flash. Your potential user base is shrinking, not growing, and it is only going to shrink faster.
https://chrome.googleblog.com/2016/08/flash-and-chrome.html
mccr8 · 2016-09-30
Flash is not entirely dead yet, so support can't be completely dropped. However, both Chrome [1] and Firefox [2] have announced long-term schedules for removing support for Flash, bit by bit.
As for PDF, the PDF viewers shipped in browsers seem to be much more hardened against attack than the stand alone ones people use, so as a practical matter, including a PDF viewer helps keep users safe.
[1] https://chrome.googleblog.com/2016/08/flash-and-chrome.html
[2] https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2016/07/20/reducing-adobe-flas…
acdha · 2016-09-17
Google “doesn't care” so much that they spent the last year working on battery life:
https://chrome.googleblog.com/2016/09/chrome-faster-and-more-battery-f…
Andrex · 2016-09-15
The latest release uses 33% less power on Mac compared to a version from 2015: https://chrome.googleblog.com/2016/09/chrome-faster-and-more-battery-f…
mrrsm · 2016-08-29
This happened back in March of this year (2016)[0] They changed the name of the app in the various app stores a while back as well.
[0] - https://chrome.googleblog.com/2016/03/introducing-vizio-p-series-displ…
semenko · 2016-08-28
0xmohit · 2016-08-10
https://chrome.googleblog.com/2016/08/flash-and-chrome.html?google_com… also echoes what you say:
I don't know what you guys changed under the hood, but I'm
experiencing the exact opposite of your first paragraph claims:
most videos don't work, and it's draining my macbook's battery
at an unprecedented rate. I can live with my flash videos not
working, but the reduced battery life is making chrome
unusable.