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A lot has changed in the security realm since 2008 — remember Alicia Keys’ recent attempt to convince us her Twitter account was hacked, when we all know she still uses an iPhone even as BlackBerry’s Creative Director? Pranks aside, the consumer world alone has been overrun with mass data hackings — everyone from Evernote to Microsoft to Sony to RSA has felt the wrath. To combat all of this, Google is revamping its five-year security plan, which calls for a complex authentication code replacing the conventional password in due time; in other words, Google is going to make it harder to access your accounts when initially setting up a device, but hopes you’ll deal. Eric Sachs, group product manager for identity at Google, put it as such: “We will change sign-in to a once-per-device action and make it higher friction, not lower friction, for all users. We don’t mind making it painful for users to sign into their device if they only have to do it once.”

The documents also suggest that two-step verification may soon become less of an option, and more of a mandate. Sachs straight-up confesses that Google didn’t predict the current level of smartphone adoption back in 2008, but now realizes that utilizing mobile hardware and apps as friction points for logging in makes a lot more sense. A huge swath of Google users are already carrying around a product that could be used as a verification token, so the obvious solution is to make use of that. We’re also told that learnings from Android will be carried over to Chrome, and further into the world of web apps. No specific ETAs are given, but trust us — half a decade goes by quickly when you’re having fun.

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If you’re an iPhone user and you use the Google Chrome browser as your main browser on your iPhone, chances are you get a bit frustrated at times when links within apps or messages are automatically opened in Safari instead. Granted it’s not that big of deal, but we guess it would be akin to clicking a link within your desktop browser and having it being opened in another browser. This stems from iOS’ inability to set a default browser. Well it looks like Google is hoping to change that by helping third-party iOS app developers to create their apps that will allow links to be opened in Chrome instead of Safari.

This follows the iOS update to Gmail in which there is an option that allows the user to select if they wish links to be opened within Chrome, and not Safari. Of course this really depends on developers getting behind this method, and if there are that many iOS users who care that much about it in the first place, but as a Chrome user on iOS, this would be a welcome update I would love to see my apps get on board with! What say you?

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This is why we can’t have nice things. Spotify’s web player has been rolling out to more users since its closed beta launch late last year, but today an extension popped up in the Google Chrome store (it’s already been pulled) allowing users to download songs as MP3 files. According to the notes left by its author, the company wasn’t using any encryption on its HTML5 player, making it a pretty simple project to put together. We’re waiting to hear back from Spotify about the breach, and while Google appears to have been quick on the ball to remove the extension — in a similar manner to how it’s treated YouTube download tools in the Chrome Web Store — hopefully this won’t give others pause on distributing premium content using HTML5.

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Google has rolled out an update for Chrome Beta for Android, which is its snazzy Chrome browser for your favorite Android-based mobile device. As with past updates, this one brings along a couple of improvements to fix some common complaints users have, making the overall experience more pleasant and less frustrating. This time around, the update improves fullscreen and link redirects.

There aren’t any new features in the update, but it does bring some fixes that frequent users will find pleasant – perhaps essential, depending on how frustating you consider the link redirect bug to be. If you’re not familiar with the problem, just fire up an app and open a link from it with Chrome Beta – you’ll probably discover it doesn’t load, forcing you to refresh, at which point it may then load correctly.

That problem has finally been fixed with this update, to the relief of many if online complaints are anything to go by. Another issue fixed with this update is fullscreen mode, specifically with the “tab cropped in the tab switcher.” It’s a very minor change, so you’re not likely to notice too much either way with this one, but it is worth mentioning. Also worth mentioning is a bux fix that concerned NBCnews.

Back on April 11, Chrome Beta for Android was updated so that it would automatically switch into fullscreen mode upon scrolling. In addition, a change was made to how Omnibox works, improving searches by eliminating the need to completely retype a query, a problem that was beyond frustrating and time consuming at times. With that update, searches can now be edited in the search bar.

[via Android Community]

Chrome Beta updates with improved fullscreen and fixed link redirects is written by Brittany Hillen & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Google’s new note taking service, Google Keep, was announced back in March. Keep stores notes, which may also include photos and checklists, in Google Drive from where they are synced to all devices associated with that particular account. While the service can be accessed through the web as well, today the company has launched Google Keep Chrome app, which makes it even easier for users to access their notes and make additions straight from the browser itself.

Once installed, the Google Keep Chrome app will launch in its own windows. From there, users can keep themselves up to date with their to-do lists, create or edit notes and even attach photos to tasks. This app will even work when the computer is not connected to the internet. It works just as well offline, though for obvious reasons, it needs an internet connection to sync up with Google Drive. Google Keep app for Chrome is now live and available for download. You won’t be able to find it in search at Chrome Web Store, its much easier to use this link if you want to install the app on Chrome.

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