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On touchscreen handsets, browsers often come with a slight delay in processing a touch input. This is to confirm whether you are single-clicking or double-clicking on the screen. Google has now removed this tap delay from Chrome Beta 32.

Although Internet Explorer (IE) is currently the most used desktop browser, it was losing ground until a while ago. Between October and November though, IE11 gained market share, bumping up IE's overall use.

Google has recently focused on enabling voice-based search and other functionality on mobile devices. Now, the company is apparently preparing a similar funtionality for Chromebooks. The latest Chrome OS developer release comes with the ability to make a few rudimentary voice commands.

A number of companies keep holding hackathons so that they can find vulnerabilities in popularly used software and hardware. Recently, in such a hacking contest, a hacker by the nick of 'Pinkie Pie' was able to hack into Chrome browser for Nexus 4 and Samsung Galaxy S4.

It has often happened to many of us that right in the middle of some intensive online work, one of the countless Chrome tabs suddenly goes audio and we have a really hard time trying to find it. Google has finally resolved the issue by pushing out indicators for audio, web-cam using and TV-casting tabs in Chrome 32 Beta.

Malware are one of the most widespread security threat to modern computing machines and devices. Several browsers have tried to build functionality to warn users when they try to download a malicious file. Google, too, has now added automatic malware blocking to the latest build of Chrome browser.

Google team is working on a new feature for Chrome, namely the 'supervised user' account. This new feature offers an excellent set of parental controls for such users who wish to share their Chromebook machines with their kids.

Parental controls on web browsers have been one of the key concerns of parents who want to have their kids get a protected internet experience. To this end, Google is readying parental controls which will be part of the upcoming Chrome browser release.

We've been waiting for Google to dish out a Chrome app launcher for Windows users. While the search giant hasn't made any formal announcement to that end yet, it seems that the Chrome launcher for Windows has finally been released.

We have been hearing about an update coming to Chrome for iOS app. Now, Google has finally lived up to that promise and delivered a refresh for the iOS app of its browser. The update brings a whole host of new features to Chrome, primary among which is the very useful feature of voice search.