Google's Chrome faces new competition from OpenAI's browser, but with a 68% market share and support from YouTube & Waymo, Google's growth story

A new plugin for Chrome users eliminates ads that pop up unexpectedly and also gives users control over reading difficulty and how text looks—all features that make content on the internet more accessible for neurodivergent readers and people with dyslexia.

This latest incident marks the fourth actively exploited zero-day vulnerability fixed in Chrome this year. It follows three other security flaws: CVE-2025-2783 disclosed in March, CVE-2025-4664 patched in May, and CVE-2025-5419 addressed in June. Each of these vulnerabilities were considered critical and patched through emergency updates.

The timing isn’t subtle. Perplexity recently unveiled Comet, an AI-first browser built to make search feel conversational and context-aware.

With Topps Chrome coming out later in July, Cal Raleigh's absence from the product could be an issue for Topps' MVP Buyback programs

The Geco extension has more than 800 reviews on the Chrome Web Store, 4.2 stars (out of 5), and "featured" placement. Microsoft's Edge Add-ons shows similarly glowing write-ups from its 1,000-plus users, and it looks like a perfectly safe extension.

A new tool turns otherwise legitimate extensions for Chrome, Edge, and Firefox into bots that make your browser someone else's tool, and gets them paid in the process.