Chromium Blog: Towards HTTPS by default
For the past several years, more than 90% of Chrome users' navigations have been to HTTPS sites, across all major platforms. Thankfully, th...| Chromium Blog
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Today's The Fast and the Curious post covers the launch of Skia's new rasterization backend, Graphite, in Chrome on Apple Silicon Macs. Graphite is instrumental in helping Chrome achieve exceptional scores on Motionmark 1.3 and is key to unlocking a ton of future improvements in Chrome Graphics.| Chromium Blog
Update (6/10/2025): This blog was updated to reflect that testing was done using the Speedometer 3.1 benchmark, and resulted in a 22% performance improvement. The previous version incorrectly noted that the performance improvement was 10% and that the benchmark was Speedometer 3. | Chromium Blog
Notifications in Chrome are a useful feature to keep up with updates from your favorite sites. However, we know that some notifications may be spammy or even deceptive. We’ve received reports of notifications diverting you to download suspicious software, tricking you into sharing personal information or asking you to make purchases on potentially fraudulent online store fronts. | Chromium Blog
In October 2020, Chrome enabled HTTP/3 by default. HTTP/3 (RFC 9114) runs over IETF QUIC (RFC9000). Default-enabling HTTP/3 in Chrome resulted in improved performance compared not only HTTP/1 and HTTP/2, but also Google QUIC. Benefits included reduced Google search latency and fewer rebuffers for YouTube.| Chromium Blog
Today’s The Fast and the Curious post covers how Chrome achieved best-in-class Speedometer scores on mobile devices, resulting in faster and smoother web experiences for Android users.| Chromium Blog
Last October, we introduced a new identity model on iOS (Chrome 118) and are excited to bring it to Android devices and Desktop soon. This model aligns closely with how you already use other Google apps and services.| Chromium Blog
Today’s The Fast and the Curious post explores how Chrome achieved the highest score on the new Speedometer 3.0, an upgraded browser benchmarking tool to optimize the performance of Web applications. Try out Chrome today! | Chromium Blog
On the Chrome team, we believe it’s not sufficient to be fast most of the time, we have to be fast all of the time. Today’s The Fast and the Curious post explores how we contributed to Core Web Vitals by surveying the field data of Chrome responding to user interactions across all websites, ultimately improving performance of the web. | Chromium Blog
In the latest release of Chrome, we're introducing Minimized Custom Tabs, a feature that allows users to effortlessly transition between native app and web content. With a simple tap on the down button in the Chrome Custom Tabs toolbar, users can minimize a Custom Tab into a compact, floating picture-in-picture window. This seamless integration enables multi-tasking across surfaces, enhancing the in-app web browsing experience. By tapping on the floating window, users can easily maximize the ...| Chromium Blog
Google and many other organizations, such as NIST, IETF, and NSA, believe that migrating to post-quantum cryptography is important due to the large risk posed by a cryptographically-relevant quantum computer (CRQC). In August, we posted about how Chrome Security is working to protect users from the risk of future quantum computers by leveraging a new form of hybrid post-quantum cryptographic key exchange, Kyber (ML-KEM)1. We’re happy to announce that we have enabled the latest Kyber draft s...| Chromium Blog
Used billions of times each day, the Chrome address bar (which we call the “omnibox”) is a powerful tool to make searching the web easier, whether you’re trying to quickly find your tabs or bookmarks, return to a web page you previously visited, or find information.| Chromium Blog
Today’s The Fast and the Curious post covers the release of Speedometer 3.0 an upgraded browser benchmarking tool to optimize the performance of Web applications. | Chromium Blog
Balancing security and usability is always top of mind for us as we strive to stay on top of the constantly evolving threat landscape while building products that are delightful to use. To that end, we'd like to announce a few recent changes to how Chrome works with Google Safe Browsing to keep you safe online while optimizing for smooth and uninterrupted web browsing.| Chromium Blog
We are thrilled to share that Chromium issue tracking has migrated!Access the Issue Tracker, and supporting documentation. | Chromium Blog
As we shared last year, Chromium is moving to a different issue tracker to provide a well-supported user experience for the long term. Migration is beginning today (February 2, 2024) at 5pm PST. We expect migration will be completed by the end of day (PST) February 4, 2024.| Chromium Blog
Whether you’re browsing the web on your PC at home or on the go with your phone, we designed Chrome to be simple to use and work great on all platforms. For example, tools like Chrome sync have made it possible for you to access your bookmarks and passwords when switching between all your devices. | Chromium Blog
Today’s The Fast and the Curious post explores how Core Web Vitals saved Chrome users more than 10,000 Years of waiting for web pages to load in 2023 (across Chrome desktop and Android) by quantifying the experience of sites and identifying opportunities to make improvements.| Chromium Blog
Update: Migration is on track for early February 2024 instead of January 2024.| Chromium Blog
TL;DR: Automated certificate issuance and management strengthens the underlying security assurances provided by Transport Layer Security (TLS) by increasing agility and resilience. This post describes the benefits of automation and upcoming changes to the Chrome Root Program policy that represent Chrome Security’s ongoing commitment to improving web security. | Chromium Blog
In celebration of Chrome’s 15th birthday, we’re thrilled to introduce the redesigned Chrome Web Store. With a user-centric focus, we’ve made it easier for you to search and find fun themes and helpful extensions to stay productive at home or at work. Let's go behind the scenes and learn more about this redesign from Chrome Product Manager Hafsah Ismail and UX Designer Crystal Wang.| Chromium Blog
For the past several years, more than 90% of Chrome users' navigations have been to HTTPS sites, across all major platforms. Thankfully, th...| Chromium Blog
News and developments from the open source browser project| Chromium Blog
News and developments from the open source browser project| Chromium Blog
QUIC is a new networking transport protocol that combines the features of TCP, TLS, and more. HTTP/3 is the latest version of HTTP, the prot...| Chromium Blog
News and developments from the open source browser project| Chromium Blog
In Chrome 76, we introduced native lazy-loading for images and iframes via the `loading` attribute - a developer opt-in. In Chrome 77, Chr...| Chromium Blog
Notifications on the web help users receive important updates for a wide range of applications including messaging, calendars, email client...| Chromium Blog
News and developments from the open source browser project| Chromium Blog
Since Google announced the Chromium project in 2008, we have been excited to build on the great foundations of open-source web browsers an...| Chromium Blog
ChromeOS will soon be developed on large portions of the Android stack to bring Google AI, innovations, and features faster to users. Ov...| Chromium Blog
In November 2023, we shared a timeline for the phasing out of Manifest V2 extensions in Chrome. Based on the progress and feedback we...| Chromium Blog
Unless otherwise noted, changes described below apply to the newest Chrome Beta channel release for Android, Chrome OS, Linux, macOS, and Wi...| Chromium Blog
Cookies – small files created by sites you visit – are fundamental to the modern web. They make your online experience easier by saving bro...| Chromium Blog
WebKit is a lightweight yet powerful rendering engine that emerged out of KHTML in 2001. Its flexibility, performance and thoughtful desig...| Chromium Blog
Web Vitals is an initiative by Google to help business owners, marketers and developers alike identify opportunities to improve user exp...| Chromium Blog
News and developments from the open source browser project| Chromium Blog
News and developments from the open source browser project| Chromium Blog
News and developments from the open source browser project| Chromium Blog
News and developments from the open source browser project| Chromium Blog
News and developments from the open source browser project| Chromium Blog
News and developments from the open source browser project| Chromium Blog
When a browser connects to websites over HTTPS (vs. HTTP), eavesdroppers and attackers on the network can't intercept or alter the data that...| Chromium Blog
News and developments from the open source browser project| Chromium Blog
Update (April 6, 2020): Mixed image autoupgrading was originally scheduled for Chrome 81, but will be delayed until at least Chrome 84. Chec...| Chromium Blog
In August, we announced a new initiative (known as Privacy Sandbox) to develop a set of open standards to fundamentally enhance privacy on...| Chromium Blog
News and developments from the open source browser project| Chromium Blog
News and developments from the open source browser project| Chromium Blog
News and developments from the open source browser project| Chromium Blog
News and developments from the open source browser project| Chromium Blog
News and developments from the open source browser project| Chromium Blog
Speed has been one of Chrome’s core principles since the beginning - we’re constantly working to give users an experience that is instant a...| Chromium Blog
Today, people have many ways to keep up with their favorite websites, including subscribing to mailing lists, notifications and RSS. It’s a ...| Chromium Blog
News and developments from the open source browser project| Chromium Blog
News and developments from the open source browser project| Chromium Blog
News and developments from the open source browser project| Chromium Blog
News and developments from the open source browser project| Chromium Blog
News and developments from the open source browser project| Chromium Blog
For the past several years, we’ve moved toward a more secure web by strongly advocating that sites adopt HTTPS encryption. And within the la...| Chromium Blog
Optimizing for quality of user experience is key to the long-term success of any site on the web. Through our ongoing engagement and coll...| Chromium Blog
[Update on April 15, 2022] Today, we've started an origin trial for the Privacy Sandbox ads relevance and measurement proposals (Topics, FL...| Chromium Blog
Teams across Google are working hard to prepare the web for the migration to quantum-resistant cryptography. Continuing with our strategy f...| Chromium Blog
Everyday, billions of people around the world turn to Chrome to get things done quickly on their devices, whether shopping for a new pair o...| Chromium Blog
