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Google is trialing a new tab strip in Chrome Canary that lets users scroll horizontally through open tabs using a mouse wheel or dedicated arrow buttons, while pinned tabs stay fixed to the left. The feature is enabled via an experimental flag and has no confirmed stable release date.
A user found Google displaying standard search results without AI Mode while browsing in Chrome's Incognito mode, a result other outlets including Android Authority could not reproduce. The sighting comes after Alphabet lost $500 million in market value last week, which executives linked to underperforming ad revenue tied to AI Mode.
Mozilla has introduced a beta feature called Mini Window in Firefox Nightly that lets users detach a tab, or part of one, into a small floating window resembling a standalone web app. The Mini Window hides the usual browser interface until the cursor hovers over it, revealing only the address bar and basic navigation controls, and it stays on top of other Firefox windows. The feature is currently available only in the Firefox Nightly build.
Google is developing two upgrades to Chrome's Find in Page tool, spotted in Chrome Canary by X user @Leopeva64. One adds a Match case button so searches can distinguish capitalization, while the other adds Previous and Next outside view buttons that skip matches already visible on screen and jump to results elsewhere on the page.
A developer published 'dontallow', a small Swift utility that automatically clicks 'Don't Allow' on macOS's recurring 'find devices on local networks' prompt. The tool runs with no CPU usage while idle and persists across reboots, requiring a single Swift file and no external dependencies. According to the creator, the prompt resurfaces repeatedly because Chromium-based browsers like Chrome, Brave, Edge and Arc relaunch from randomized temp paths each time, causing macOS to treat them as new apps needing a fresh permission decision.
Mozilla released Firefox 159 for Windows, MacOS, Linux and Android, fixing 167 security bugs, 108 of them rated high severity, many involving use-after-free memory flaws and sandbox escapes. Google separately issued a Chrome update patching 52 vulnerabilities, including four critical ones. Firefox 159 also adds new features such as a MacOS share picker and sidebar access to saved passwords.
Security researcher John Tuckner of Socket documented 319 Chrome extensions, collectively installed 13.4 million times, that silently override users' default search engine and reroute queries through proxy servers before landing on Bing or Yahoo. This builds on his April 2025 finding of 57 such extensions with 6 million users, adding 264 newly identified ones covering another 8.7 million installs. The extensions masquerade as PDF converters, search tools, and similar utilities, and are unlisted on the Chrome Web Store, spreading instead through ads on other websites.
A security analysis outlines three methods by which AI agents currently operate within employees' browsers: remote debugging via the Chrome DevTools Protocol, browser extensions like Claude in Chrome, and agentic browsers, plus emerging standards such as WebMCP. Each method grants agents different levels of access to authenticated sessions, often indistinguishable from normal human browser activity.
Google has launched a stable version of an enhanced autofill feature in Chrome that uses Gemini and Personal Intelligence to pull relevant details from a user's Gmail account, such as order numbers, tracking information, and flight bookings. The feature is now available to eligible Gemini Personal Intelligence users in the US across desktop, Android, and iOS, after previously being tested only in Chrome Canary.
Google announced an update to Chrome's autofill feature that uses AI to scan users' Gmail for information like flight confirmation numbers, membership IDs, tracking numbers, addresses and phone numbers to fill out online forms. The feature, part of Google's Personal Intelligence suite that also powers Gemini, is opt-in and rolling out to U.S. desktop users and the iOS and Android Gemini-in-Chrome apps, with Google saying sensitive data is encrypted.
Google is rolling out an update to Chrome's enhanced autofill that uses Gemini with Personal Intelligence to pull details from a user's Gmail, such as tracking numbers, flight or hotel bookings, and order numbers. The feature begins rolling out today in the US on desktop, Android, and iOS, building on last year's addition of autofill data from Google Accounts and Google Wallet.
Google has rolled out Chrome M156 for Chromebooks, addressing crashes tied to extensions like 1Password and Teleparty, as well as issues with dragging tabs between windows. The update also restores proper fullscreen keyboard shortcuts, fixes clipboard errors in Google Docs, resolves stuck Facebook Live buffering, and corrects missing website icons in the address bar. It follows the M155 release from two weeks prior, which added standalone app installs and better extension support.