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Google Chrome will start detecting URL typos and suggest websites
Google Chrome now detects typos in your URLs
Google Chrome will now check for typos in your URLs and display suggested websites based on what it thinks you meant. The company announced the change as part of a larger accessibility update and says the feature will come to desktop first before arriving on mobile in the “coming months.”
I’m not seeing the feature on Chrome on macOS just yet, but it seems like a handy tool to make sure you’re getting to the right websites (and not those questionable ones you often land on when you misspell the name of a popular site).
Additionally, Google revealed a few updates to its Live Caption feature that transcribes what…
How to Recover Deleted Bookmarks in Chrome & Firefox
Both Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox can restore bookmarks you’ve accidentally deleted. It’s easy to get bookmarks back, too—you just need a quick keyboard shortcut, and the same shortcut works in Microsoft Edge. Mozilla Firefox makes regular bookmark backups you can restore, too.
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Google Chrome Brings Better AI Brains to the Web – CNET
Microsoft Edge is better than Google Chrome, but I can’t bring myself to switch
Google Chrome Is Ditching the Lock Icon for Websites
The lock icon in the address bar has led to plenty of confusion in modern web browsers, as it can give the impression that a site is safe even when it isn’t. Google has a plan to fix that problem: get rid of the icon entirely.
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Quick fixes: use Google Chrome to link text inside any webpage
The Issue
It’s probably happened to all of us: you want to link to a really interesting factoid in a really long article — but you can’t be sure that the people reading your social network or blog entry will be able to find the factoid in all that text. You could simply take a screenshot of the factoid, but then you’re not linking to the original article, which is both bad internet etiquette and not as effective in showing your source material. Or you can take the screenshot and throw in the link, which is better but awkward. Or…
Quick Fix
Use the Chrome browser’s Copy Link to Highlight feature.
The full story
When you’re a writer or…
Google disrupts malware that steals sensitive data from Chrome users
Google has disrupted infrastructure linked to the notorious CryptBot malware, which the company claims has stolen data from hundreds of thousands of browser users in the past year alone. CryptBot is malicious information-stealing malware first discovered in 2019. The infostealer malware is typically distributed by spoofed websites masquerading as legitimate software sites that offer free […]
Google disrupts malware that steals sensitive data from Chrome users by Carly Page originally published on TechCrunch