The web is littered with sites that show pop-up notifications asking if you’d like to sign up for alerts — and Mozilla says according to its research, 99-percent of them are either ignored or actively denied by Firefox users. So Mozilla has announced that the latest version of Firefox will make these pop-ups less annoying. […]
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Lilbits 372: Raspberry Pi 4 charging issues (and USB-C confusion)
Raspberry Pi’s latest small and cheap single-board computer is the most powerful to date. The recently launched Raspberry Pi 4 features a quad-core ARM Cortex-A72 processor, an upgraded GPU, faster Ethernet, and for the first time it comes with three memory configuration choices: 1GB, 2GB, or 4GB. The new model is also the first to […]
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Lilbits 362: Is a new NVIDIA Shield 2-in-1 on the way?
NVIDIA is best known for making chips, but the company has also dabbled in first-party hardware over the years including the NVIDIA Shield TV and the now-discontinued NVIDIA Shield portable and Shield Tablet K1. So what’s next? I don’t know… but it sure looks like the company is at least preparing for the possibility of […]
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Windows on ARM to support Chrome, Opera, and Brave browsers
Microsoft is developing a new version of its Edge web browser based on Google’s open source Chromium project. That means it uses the Blink rendering engine instead of EdgeHTML, has a user interface that’s more than a little reminiscent of Google Chrome, and should be able to render any web pages that work in Chrome. […]
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Google Chrome to lazy load images by default (speeding up page load times)
A while back I enabled lazy loading for images on Liliputing in an attempt to help reduce the amount of time it takes to load the website. What that means is that when you first visit a website, your browser doesn’t need to render all the content on the site at once — images that aren’t […]
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Microsoft launches Edge Insider program (Edge web browser based on Google Chromium)
Microsoft hasn’t exactly killed off Internet Explorer yet, but when the company launched Windows 10, it came with a brand new web browser called Edge, based on a new web rendering engine called EdgeHTML. A few months ago the company announced it was going to drop that rendering engine and start using Chromium, the open […]
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Lilbits 354: What do you call these foldable smartphone designs?
The first foldable smartphones with flexible displays should begin shipping in the next few months. But they won’t all fold the same way. Samsung’s Galaxy Fold closes up like a book, with the screen on the inside, which means the company had to slap a secondary display on the outside that would let you use […]
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3 Comments on Google’s Password Checkup lets you know if your login data has been compromised (Chrome extension)
Google’s Password Checkup lets you know if your login data has been compromised (Chrome extension)
3 Comments on Google’s Password Checkup lets you know if your login data has been compromised (Chrome extension)Odds are that an online service you’ve used has suffered a data breach sometime in the past few years. Sometimes they’ll send you a message letting you know to change your password once the data breach is discovered. Sometimes they don’t. And sometimes they may not even know. There’s little you can do to protect […]
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Chrome OS updates to bring Linux apps to MediaTek Chromebooks, Android 9 to most Chromebooks
4 Comments on Chrome OS updates to bring Linux apps to MediaTek Chromebooks, Android 9 to most ChromebooksI’m in the camp that believes Google’s browser-based Chrome OS was always a “real” operating system and not just a glorified web browser. But the addition of support for Android apps and Linux apps in recent years has certainly gone a long way toward making the operating system more versatile. Now it looks like there […]
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Android phone makers may have to start paying for the Play Store, other Google apps (in Europe)
8 Comments on Android phone makers may have to start paying for the Play Store, other Google apps (in Europe)After the European Union slapped Google with a $5 billion fine in an antitrust case this summer, Google appealed the ruling. But while waiting for the outcome of that appeal, Google has come up with a plan B: the company is changing the way it licenses its apps and services for Android phones and tablets […]
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Google’s Project Stream will let you play AAA games in the Chrome web browser (starting with Assassin’s Creed Odyssey)
5 Comments on Google’s Project Stream will let you play AAA games in the Chrome web browser (starting with Assassin’s Creed Odyssey)Google wants to let make it possible for you to play the latest PC games in a web browser. Rather than load a game on a PC with powerful hardware, the game would actually be running on a remote server — which means all you need to play is a halfway decent computer and a […]
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Google makes auto-login optional in Chrome 70 in response to privacy feedback
Starting with Chrome 69, Google’s web browser will automatically sign you into your Google account if you sign in on any Google web service (such as Gmail). The move prompted some public outcry, and some folks working at Google were quick to point out that simply logging into Chrome would not cause your data to be […]