Plug-ins can open vulnerabilities in even relatively secure browsers like Chrome. Even coders, like Jeff Atwood, can fall victim. Here's how to reign in plug-ins like Java, or disable them entirely, ...

From time to time, you must make a habit of looking at your browser add-ons, extensions, and plugins. The reason this is recommended is because, over some time you may have installed browser add-ons ...

Java is regularly in the news, and not for reasons it would want to be. Every other day, some zero-day Java vulnerability or the other is found, a security advisory is released, and within a few days, ...

You can disable Google Chrome Helper to try and offset browser speed issues you're having with Chrome.

The unpatched Java vulnerability reported last week could be exploited by malware to infect your system, although no such infections have been discovered to date. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about ...

Changing Web usage is hard. Google has granted a few extra months of leeway to those who rely on a handful of popular plug-ins, such as Silverlight, to extend what their browser can do. Stephen ...

While Safari is the go-to browser over Chrome for many Mac users, some prefer Google Chrome, especially if they regularly use Google products like Gmail and Google Docs. After all, they're all ...

Google has made a few changes to recent Chrome versions that most users are bound to disagree with since it takes away some of their control over the browser. The biggest of these changes is the ...

Starting in January 2015, Google’s Chrome browser will block all old-school Netscape Plug-In API (NPAPI) plugins. This doesn’t come as a huge surprise, given that Google started its efforts to remove ...