31
Improving privacy and security on the web
In 2008, we launched Chrome with the goal of building a speedy, simple, secure and stable web for everyone, everywhere. Ten years later, use...
Chromium Blog
The latest updates and news from Chromium.
- Popular posts
- 67
- Total points
- 14,214
- HN comments
- 7,716
- Rank
- #59 company
Visit blog.chromium.org → On Hacker News Jun 2009 – Mar 2026
Web & Frontend 47History & Retro Computing 23Security & Privacy 17Software Engineering 17Systems & Performance 13Networking & Internet 6
32
Web Sockets Now Available In Google Chrome
Starting in the Google Chrome developer channel release 4.0.249.0, Web Sockets are available and enabled by default. Web Sockets are "TCP f...
33
Chrome Now Available for Mac or Linux : Hackers Only
In order to get more feedback from developers, we have early developer channel versions of Google Chrome for Mac OS X and Linux , but what...
34
Google Chrome 4 now natively supports Greasemonkey user scripts
One thing that got lost in the commotion of the extensions launch is a feature that is near and dear to my heart: Google Chrome 4 now native...
35
Chrome 56 Beta: “Not Secure” Warning, Web Bluetooth, and CSS Position: Sticky
Unless otherwise noted, changes described below apply to the newest Chrome Beta channel release for Android, Chrome OS, Linux, Mac, and Wi...
36
Chrome is faster in M91
Since the launch of Chrome in 2008, speed has been one of the 4 core principles that shape the work we do to deliver a highly performant br...
37
A new compression algorithm to make Google Chrome updates small
We have just started using a new compression algorithm called Courgette to make Google Chrome updates small. We have built Google Chrome to ...
38
Chrome 60 Beta
Unless otherwise noted, changes described below apply to the newest Chrome Beta channel release for Android, Chrome OS, Linux, Mac, and Wi...
39
Chrome 78 Beta: a new Houdini API, native file system access and more
Unless otherwise noted, changes described below apply to the newest Chrome Beta channel release for Android, Chrome OS, Linux, macOS, and Wi...
40
Temporarily rolling back SameSite Cookie Changes
UPDATE 5/28: We are going to resume the rollout with the stable release of Chrome M84. More details . With the stable release of Chrome 8...
41
Evolving Chrome's security indicators
Previously, we posted a proposal to mark all HTTP pages as definitively “not secure” and remove secure indicators for HTTPS pages. HTTPS us...
42
Native Client: Getting Ready for Takeoff
Over the last few months we have been hard at work getting Native Client ready to support the new Pepper plug-in interface. Native Client ...
43
Chrome will use gpu to render pages
For some time now, there’s been a lot of work going on to overhaul Chromium’s graphics system. New APIs and markup like WebGL and 3D CSS tr...
44
Chrome Dev build comes with Flash 10.1 beta "integrated"
Adobe Flash Player is the most widely used web browser plug-in. It enables a wide range of applications and content on the Internet, from g...
45
Bringing improved PDF support to Google Chrome
Millions of web users rely on PDF files every day to consume a wide variety of text and media content. To enable this, a number of plug-ins ...
46
Technically speaking, what makes Google Chrome fast?
Earlier this year, we heard from many of you on how important speed is to your daily activities on the web. We kicked off a series of disc...
47
Web Request and Declarative Net Request: Explaining the impact on Extensions
The Story So Far As part of an effort to increase user security and privacy, Chrome is planning a number of changes to the extensions pla...