With Google's recent flagging of the popular Save as Image Type Chrome extension, now is a good time to take stock of all ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

Now's the time to start trying to build Chrome extensions, Google says. But some sophisticated Web page features coming with HTML 5 will have to wait longer. Stephen Shankland Former Principal Writer ...

Yesterday, I reported on a Chrome extension, which I’d personally been using for years, that (presumably) got sold off and started hijacking my web traffic. I lamented that Google seems particularly ...

As someone who works with images for almost every part of my job, I really don’t like Google’s WebP format. It’s fine for ...

Firefox lets developers create keyboard shortcuts for their extension's functions, which are hard coded or possibly configurable depending on the extension. In Firefox 66, Mozila is making extension ...

Many Chrome extensions start as small developer projects, and once they gain users, are sold on. But what if the new owner turns out to be a bad actor who gains the ability to update software running ...