Google Chrome and Browser Security

Google Chrome includes features to help protect you and your computer from malicious websites as you browse the web. Chrome uses technologies such as Safe Browsing, sandboxing and auto-updates to help protect you against phishing and malware attacks.

Safe Browsing

Chrome will show you a warning message before you visit a site that is suspected of containing malware or phishing.

A phishing attack takes place when someone masquerades as someone else to trick you into sharing personal or other sensitive information with them, usually through a fake website. Malware, on the other hand, is software installed on your machine, often without your knowledge, and is designed to harm your computer or potentially steal information from your computer.

With Safe Browsing technology enabled in Chrome, if you encounter a website suspected of containing phishing or malware as you browse the web, you will see a warning page like the one below. Learn more about how Safe Browsing works.

Sandboxing

Sandboxing helps prevent malware from installing itself on your computer or using what happens in one browser tab to affect what happens in another. The sandbox adds an additional layer of protection to your browser by protecting against malicious web pages that try to leave programmes on your computer, monitor your web activities or steal private information from your hard drive.

Auto-updates

To make sure that you are protected by the latest security updates, Chrome checks for updates regularly to make sure that it's always kept up to date. The update check ensures that your version of Chrome is updated automatically with the latest security features and fixes without any action required on your part.

To learn more about how you can make full use of Chrome's security features, take a look at the following articles:

• Gathering website security information with Google Chrome
• Tweaking Google Chrome's security settings

Interested in the technical details? Read our blog posts on sandboxing, Safe Browsing and new security features to protect users against threats such as XSS and click-jacking. You can also learn more about security, sandboxing and Safe Browsing in the Chrome comic book.

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Browsers, Google Chrome, Privacy and You

We've built Chrome not only to be faster, but also to put you in control of your private information, while helping protect the information that you share when you're online.

Managing your privacy in Chrome

1. Incognito mode

When you don't want your website visits or downloads to be recorded in your browsing and download histories, you can browse in Incognito mode. In addition, any cookies created while in Incognito mode are deleted after you close the Incognito window.

When you're browsing in Incognito mode, you'll see the Incognito icon  in the corner.

Incognito mode is particularly handy, since it's an easy way to browse the web in a private way without needing to change your privacy settings back and forth between browsing sessions. For example, you can have one normal session, as well as one incognito session, in separate windows at the same time.

2. Privacy preferences

You can control all your privacy preferences for Chrome from the Options dialogue, under the Privacy section, located at the top of the Under the Hood tab.

Learn more about managing your privacy preferences for:

• Suggestions in the Omnibox
• Phishing and malware protection
• Suggestions for navigation errors
• Usage statistics and crash reports

3. Clearing your browsing data

With Chrome, you can clear your browsing data at any time, so that this information is not stored in your browser. You have full control over the types of browsing data that you'd like to erase from your browser, including browsing and download histories, cookies, saved passwords and saved form data. Learn more

4. Controlling privacy preferences for cookies, images, JavaScript and plug-ins

Under Chrome's content settings, you can control your privacy preferences for cookies, images, JavaScript and plug-ins on a site-by-site basis. For example, you can set up cookie rules to automatically allow cookies only for a specified list of sites that you trust and then manually manage cookie blocking and setting for all other sites. Learn more

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5. Opting out of ad personalisation

Advertisers use cookies to personalise your ads and improve your experience, so that you see ads that interest you. Advertising companies that are members of the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) and other self-regulatory effortsallow you to opt out of this personalisation. In Chrome, you can maintain your opt-out status for the browser permanently, even when you clear all cookies by installing the “Keep My Opt-Outs” Chrome extension.

6. Understanding other data sent by the browser

We've taken great care to make sure that Chrome is designed with your privacy in mind. It only communicates with Google services where absolutely necessary to deliver features and functionality. You can disable features that require this kind of communication in Chrome's options, so that you are in control of what is sent to Google when you use Chrome.

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Google Chrome and Speed

There are many aspects to speed in the browser, and Chrome is designed to be fast and responsive in every possible way. To get a sense of Chrome's speed, watch these browser speed test videos:

1. Fast to start up

Chrome launches from your desktop within seconds when you double-click the Chrome icon.

2. Fast to load web pages

Chrome is powered by the WebKit open source rendering engine, and loads web pages in a snap.

3. Fast to run web applications

Under the hood, Chrome is fitted with V8, a more powerful JavaScript engine that we built to run complex web applications with lightning speed. With every new release, Chrome continues to improve in JavaScript performance. You can test JavaScript speed in the browser with the V8 and SunSpider benchmarks.

Chrome users will also enjoy fast, hardware-accelerated 3D graphics. To test this out in the latest version of Chrome, check out chromeexperiments.com/webgl

As web applications we use every day become more dynamic, browsers need to be able to construct and change elements on web pages as quickly as possible. This ability is measured by Mozilla's Dromeao DOM Core Tests. Just like JavaScript performance, Chrome continues to improve DOM Core performance scores with every new release.

4. Fast to search and navigate

You can type in both searches and web addresses in Chrome's combined search and address bar, known as the Omnibox.
The Omnibox provides suggestions for searches and web addresses as you type, as well as auto-completion functionality to help you get to what you're looking for with just a few keystrokes.

You can also enable Chrome’s Instant feature, which helps you search and browse faster on the web. Chrome’s Instant feature shows search results and webpages in the browser window as you type in the Omnibox, even before you press Enter. If you don't see the results you want, you can just keep typing and the results dynamically update. 

Curious about the technical details of what makes Chrome fast?

Read more about WebKit, V8 JavaScript engine, and browser speed in the Chrome comic book.
Watch technical videos on what makes Chrome fast, namely on DNS pre-resolution, V8 JavaScript engine, and DOM bindings.

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Google world Advices Chrome Web Store

Chrome Web Store

The Chrome Web Store is an online marketplace where you can discover thousands of apps, extensions andthemes for Google Chrome. To start exploring the store, visit chrome.google.com/webstore or click the store icon in Chrome’s New Tab page.

Explore what’s in the store

Apps

Web apps are advanced interactive websites. They may provide a wide-ranging set of features or focus on a single task like photo-editing or shopping. You can easily access the web apps you install from the Chrome Web Store through shortcuts in Chrome’s New Tab page. Learn more about installing apps in Chrome.

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* Apps are currently not available in all countries. We are working hard on launching apps everywhere in the world. Stay tuned!

Extensions

Extensions let you add new features to your browser. For example, an email notifier extension can show an email alert in your browser toolbar so you don’t have to log in to your email in a separate window to check if you have new messages. There are also extensions that work silently in the background, such as an extension that automatically formats and displays web pages in your preferred style. Learn more about installing extensions in Chrome.

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Themes

Themes allow you to you customize the look and feel of your browser, including themes from leading artists and designers around the world. Learn more about adding a theme to the browser.

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