Google makes it easy to tell when background apps are active: just look for the Google Chrome icon in the system tray (bottom right corner of your desktop screen). Click on this emblem to view a ...

Chrome 68 is rolling out today to the beta ... With the Page Lifecycle API developers can suspend background tabs when demanded by the system. On the web, sites have long been able to run ...

The extensions have over 4 million installs collectively, and ten even have the "Featured" designation on the Chrome Web Store—a badge reserved ... configured in their background services.

This week, Google added two badges to the Chrome Web Store. In a blog post on Wednesday, Chrome design manager Debbie Kim announced the Featured badge and the Established Publisher badge for the ...

As of yesterday, the Chrome Web Store now includes two new indicators to show an extension’s bona fides. The “Established Publisher” badge shows that the extension developer has been ...

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Tom Warren is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Google is experimenting with a badge of shame for websites that ...