Browsers

Google updated Chrome to automatically connect someone's Google account, which is required to enable a tab-syncing feature, when they sign in to its services.

Chrome 70 will make it easier to use biometric security on the web and for developers to access devices' ability to identify faces, barcodes and text.

Google outfitted Chrome 69 with a new design, expanded password manager and other features that should make the browser the best it's been since its 2008 debut.

Mozilla plans to release a series of features to Firefox to prevent trackers from slowing down website load times, following people across sites and more.

Imperva revealed a flaw in Google Chrome's Blink engine that let hackers play "20 Questions" to learn details about your private data.

Microsoft has joined Google and Mozilla in supporting the efforts to let people use biometric security, FIDO2 devices and PINs instead of passwords.

Google Chrome will now tell people that sites using HTTP are insecure, and in October, that warning will be made even more prominent.

Google is putting its Material Design aesthetic into its Canary channel for developers and early adopters.

Microsoft's latest Patch Tuesday comes with 53 bug fixes, 17 of which are critical, with the "star" of this patch bundle being Internet Explorer.