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Google Chrome is Google’s browser.  It is a free browser, launching in 2008.  It has the most market share of all browsers, with an estimated 60% of all desktop browsers.  On mobile, it has about 45% of the market share for mobile users.

Google Chrome can be downloaded from the Chrome website.

Google Search Console Warns Site Owners Collecting Unsecured Passwords

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Google began sending out warnings to many website owners for collecting passwords on sites that are unsecured.  The warnings are related to Google Chrome’s upcoming change that will show some types of non-https webpages as being not secure beginning this month. Many webmasters reported receiving the emails, Glenn Gabe shared one he received: Google also […]

Google Chrome: One Billion Monthly Active Users on Mobile

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If you still aren’t convinced that it is important to make a site mobile friendly, Google has released a new and pretty impressive stat. Avinash Kaushik, a Digital Marketing Evangelist with Google, tweeted that Google Chrome passed one billion monthly active users this month… for mobile alone. Impressive milestone: Google Chrome passed one billion Monthly […]

Test Driving Google’s Accessibility Apps & Tools for Android

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Google Blog recently announced updates for several of its tools and apps for Android and accessibility. Roughly 1 billion people have some type of disability in the world. Development towards making products usable for everyone has long been a Google mission. It’s been one year since Google began expecting web pages to pass its mobile […]

Google Chrome Will Display HTTPS Sites With Non-HTTPS Content as HTTP

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Google Chrome is making some changes with how HTTPS sites will display in the browser, when those pages also have some non-HTTPS elements or content present (also referred to as serving mixed content).  Now, those pages will show as they do for HTTP / unsecure pages. Here is a chart showing the new change. The […]

HTTPS Navigations in Chrome Increased 5% in Last Year

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Google has been pushing hard on the value of switching to HTTPS.  With the announcement of the HTTPS ranking boost – which was really more of a tie breaker – it convinced many webmasters to make the switch from HTTP to HTTPS. Ilya Grigorik, a web performance engineer at Google made the announcement on Google+ […]

Google Chrome Restricting Autoplay Video to Current Tab Only

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Google Chrome will no longer automatically play video in tabs that are running in the background.  Autoplay videos will now be restricted to the active or current tab only. For users who love to open multiple tabs, it can sometimes be a game of hide and seek to try and determine which tab has an […]

Google Chrome to Begin Blocking All Flash Ads by Default

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If you are still using Flash advertisements, either on your site as an advertiser, or on other sites as an advertiser, be aware that Google is making a new change that will disable Flash ads to everyone using the Chrome browser. The change will go live on September 1st. While this change is supposed to […]