News & Reviews:   Google Chrome

Last year, we reported that Google Chrome’s Incognito tabs can be put behind biometric authentication to protect your privacy, though it was only available as a full feature on iOS. Now, Google has finally expanded the feature’s availability to Android without the need to activate it via a flag.

Privacy is one of the major reasons people use Incognito tabs. The good news is that Google is now making Chrome's Incognito tab even more secure, as users can now set fingerprint lock to protect the tabs from someone else using their phone.

The iOS 16 lock screen has created a buzz after launching. Many took the chance to customize it with their styles, not to mention the lock screen widgets that help get you to be more productive in some ways. With that said, Google has also announced a series of lock screen widgets for iPhone users.

Google has announced a few updates regarding its work on emojis on Android as well as other Google products. These include Unicode 15 emoji additions, animated versions of Android’s emojis and more!

Google might be working on letting Android users restore multiple tabs with one tap on Chrome. The feature is currently only available on the desktop version, so it would come as handy if it's there for the mobile users with the said operating system.

Google Chrome is without a doubt the most popular internet browser in the world and has been so for more than a decade now. However, do you know what’s the second most popular internet browser?

Surprisingly, the answer is actually Microsoft Edge! Edging out Safari, Firefox, Opera and other random internet browsers out there, it seems that Microsoft has finally recovered from the days of having one of the most loathed browsers, the now defunct Internet Explorer.

You may now perform basic edits on PDF files without leaving Google Chrome. Thanks to Adobe's new Acrobat PDF Reader Extension for Chrome, users can easily add comments, highlights or drawings to PDF files in the browser window using a dropdown pane.

Google is the most used search engine globally, and it's been a fact for some time. However, the company was recently tangled up with a $5 billion antitrust fine from the EU, claiming that Google needs to stop forcing Android smartphone makers to pre-install Chrome and Google search. To fight against it, Google showed some statistics that prove people use Google by choice, not by force.

For those who don't know, Google Lens is a feature that is available on some Android smartphones. Thought to be an exclusive tech for Android phones, Google just announced that this technology is coming soon to the Google Chrome web browser.

The next big Android update is coming to us with a new design, which Google has given us sneak peeks, and some exciting features. As a default browser on most Android phones, Google Chrome is said to bring something that we never know we needed along with the Android 12 update. According to the latest report, the browser could support multiple windows on smartphones in the future.