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ChromeOS, sometimes styled as chromeOS and formerly styled as Chrome OS, is a Linux distribution developed and designed by Google. [8] It is derived from the open-source ChromiumOS operating system and uses the Google Chrome web browser as its principal user interface.
Android Runtime for Chrome (ARC) is a compatibility layer and sandboxing technology for running Android applications on desktop and laptop computers in an isolated environment. It allows applications to be safely run from a web browser , independent of user operating system, at near-native speeds.
Google offers an extension for the Google Chrome web browser called Office editing for Docs, Sheets and Slides that enables users to view and edit Microsoft Excel documents on Google Chrome, via the Google Sheets app. The extension can be used for opening Excel files stored on the computer using Chrome, as well as for opening files encountered ...
Similar controls over web storage are also available through 3rd party browser extensions. Each browser stores Web storage objects differently: Firefox saves Web storage objects in a SQLite file called webappsstore.sqlite in the user's profile folder. [17] Google Chrome records Web storage data in a SQLite file in the user's
[12] [16] In February 2021, Google blocked "The Great Suspender", a popular extension with 2,000,000 users after it was reported that malicious code was added to it. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] [ 19 ] Chrome used to allow extensions hosted on Chrome Web Store to also be installed at the developer's website for the sake of convenience. [ 20 ]
Decentraleyes is a free and open-source browser extension used for local content delivery network (CDN) emulation. Its primary task is to block connections to major CDNs such as Cloudflare and Google (for privacy and anti-tracking purposes) and serve popular web libraries (such as JQuery and AngularJS) locally on the user's machine. [3]
Chrome Remote Desktop is a remote desktop software tool, developed by Google, that allows a user to remotely control another computer's desktop through a proprietary protocol also developed by Google, internally called Chromoting.
In October 2018, Google announced a major future update to Chrome's extension API, known as "Manifest V3" (in reference to the manifest file contained within extensions). Manifest V3 is intended to modernize the extension architecture and improve the security and performance of the browser; it adopts declarative APIs to "decrease the need for ...