Chrome Story

Direct link to source: https://www.chromestory.com/2022/03/google-projector-app/

To be clear: I'm referring to text/background in the Navbar / Unibar on Chrome. In Incognito it's an ever-so-slightly-lighter-shade-of-pale against a nearly white background. Again, for doing its job, of showing, you know, text, it's an absolute fail. I can't even screenshot the brokenness because Chrome thinks the content is DRM'd. Even in a new tab not opened to any page. (I've just tested this.) See: https://www.chromestory.com/2020/10/incognito-screenshot/ https://www.mobigyaan.com/take-screenshot-chrome-incognito-mode

Original source of story with link to the commit: https://www.chromestory.com/2019/02/google-is-testing-a-never-slow-mod…

I agree about the performance on OS X. I still find myself trying to figure out which tab is pegging the CPU and about:performance is not helpful. Another nice feature Safari has that I rely on is "show all tabs". Yes there are various "works in progress" trying to replicate the old tab groups / panorama functionality but I find them lacking or incomplete. Mozilla really hasn't done anything to improve the many tabs UX. Even Chrome might get something like tab groups: https://www.chromestory.com/2018/11/how-to-enable-tab-groups-in-chrome…

I thought this to, turns out you can enable it in chrome:flags https://www.chromestory.com/2013/02/how-to-add-locally-managed-users-i…

They both work for Mozilla, no? I do remember Mozilla acquiring them. Some major contributor to Firebug did leave for Chrome IIRC[1]. It's more like Mozilla cannibalizing itself, than anything else. [1]http://www.chromestory.com/2011/07/firebug-guru-joins-chrome-team-leav…

The first link in the article is formed incorrectly. It should point to http://www.chromestory.com/2012/05/two-chromeboxes-second-49999-intel-…

There is a second version (XE300M22-A02US) with Core i5 processor and 499$ pricetag: http://www.chromestory.com/2012/05/two-chromeboxes-second-49999-intel-…

It seems to use Intel HD 3000 [1] and runs WebGL surprisingly well [2][3] (actually better than Macbook Pro with the same GPU [4]). [1] http://www.chromestory.com/2012/05/samsung-chromebox-price/ [2] http://twitter.com/Tojiro/status/207604697073324032 [3] http://twitter.com/Tojiro/status/207607126716198914 [4] http://twitter.com/thespite/status/207618510443134977

It doesn't seem like you'll be able to embed XUL elements with this form of customization. Does it mean you'll have to implement your own tree control, toolbar control, etc [1]? Also, will this work with existing browser plugins? If users are unable to use their plugins, would they actually switch to use a customized browser with no plugin support? Is this project intended to let developers create installable web apps (like Google Chrome's installable web apps with the manifest's "container" field set to "panel" [2])? If so, probably it'll better to just market it like so. I think people are far more interested in building monetizable web applications than customized browser layouts. [1] XUL elements: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XUL_Reference [2] Chrome Web App's "panel" option: http://chromestory.com/2010/07/panel-tab-and-window-styles-coming-soon…

> - so what happens if you don't have your phone at time of login? Depends on if they allow you to turn off password+2FA login entirely, which I only see being possible with something like Advanced Protection Program[0] which can already be used to enforce "Only allow authentication with my password+security keys; there is no way for Google Support to remove 2fa; if I lose the keys, the account's lost". > - if I enroll on iPhone, is my identity forever tied to Apple or can it be migrated to Android if I ever wanted to change platforms? I imagine they'll say "login to each website" (which you can do via iOS if you use qr android login[1]) then "re-enroll with your new provider", but I hope there will be an actual export/import or migration experience. > - Can Apple/Google/Microsoft ever block/ban my account, preventing me from logging into my bank, etc that use FIDO login? Assuming they don't change how Chrome and iCloud keychain currently works, everything synced should stay on your already signed-in devices, so hopefully you can continue to use your devices as authenticators until you can log into each service and register a regular, hardware key for sign-in. 0: https://landing.google.com/advancedprotection/ 1: https://www.chromestory.com/2021/12/qr-code-2fa/#:~:text=Here%20is%20t… I personally tried this with my iPhone, and my phone prompted me to use an iCloud Passkey. I was able to confirm that, by enrolling…

Note that IE does support ActiveX, but Reader still not only tries to bundle Google Chrome, but the Google Toolbar as well. You're creating an incredible work of fiction to avoid a long-standing well-known truth: That Google pays Adobe to bundle Chrome in their installer when the user is coming from a Microsoft browser. (If I come from Firefox, it offers McAfee's Security Scan Plus, which also pays Adobe for the privilege.) This isn't a technical or compatibility issue, and it never has been. This is where Adobe makes money on Adobe Reader downloads. This started in 2011, long before Microsoft Edge existed: http://www.chromestory.com/2011/09/google-chrome-is-now-bundled-with-a… We don't know the dollar amount of the deal, as Google keeps those sorts of things confidential. But it is very similar to the figure an Oracle lawyer dropped, that Google paid Apple a billion dollars to keep Google as the iPhone's default search: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-22/google-paid-apple-1… Note that until recently, Google also paid to be default on Firefox, also rumored in the one billion dollar range: http://money.cnn.com/2014/11/20/technology/firefox-mozilla-google-yaho… Some additional reading on this strategy, is that Chrome came about as a fear that Microsoft might disable or cripple the Google Toolbar, which was used to push people over to Google Search and collect their browsing data. (And was also…

Isn't this exactly what Chromebooks do? Please correct me if I'm wrong, but they don't run X-Windows or Wayland, do they? And if they did, then what possible benefit would there be over just running the browser directly on the hardware, with the thinnest possible window management and graphics driver layer? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrome_OS#New_window_manager_and_graphic… https://www.chromium.org/developers/mus-ash https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/aura https://www.chromestory.com/2012/04/aura-and-ash-in-chrome-os-what-are… http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/aura/aura-and-shel…