Last month, Google Stadia expanded its feature set on the web by enabling support for 5.1 surround sound, but unlike Windows and Mac, this support was not available on Google’s own Chrome OS. Now it ...

Google's crusade to make the internet slightly less annoying continues in the next update for the Chrome browser as autoplay videos with sound will be blocked by default. Once you update to Chrome ...

Perhaps one of the most irksome things about browsing the web today is encountering pesky autoplaying videos. Not only are they often annoying and intrusive, they also consume a lot of data, which isn ...

It's not a secret that nowadays our browsing experience can be extremely frustrating due to those autoplay videos which suddenly pop up on the page and don't want to go away, even if you try to scroll ...

Pages with audio or video content, where the user is clearly accessing the page to listen and view that content, will not be affected. Google says it will mute all sites by default where the audio ...

There’s good news for Google Chrome users — the latest version of the world’s most popular web browser has arrived with a new feature that prevents websites from automatically playing sound. That ...

Google’s latest version of Chrome for desktop will disable most videos with sound from playing automatically. That means users will no longer be bombarded with unwanted audio from videos when browsing ...

Google said this week that Chrome 66 now blocks "about half" of the videos that feature auto-playing sound. Engineers added this feature in Chrome 66, released in mid-April. The browser maker says ...

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Google started rolling out a new version of Chrome last month that further ...

The final Chrome update of the year 2020 was released this week. Google claims that this new Chrome 87 release includes significant improvements to both speed and memory utilization – both of which ...

Next year, you may never again have to hunt through your Chrome tabs in search of the one that's producing sound. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window) Share on ...

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Google is finally getting serious about blocking annoying autoplay videos that ...