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Google Integrates Cast Into Chrome, No Extension Required (venturebeat.com)
An anonymous reader writes from a report via VentureBeat: On Monday, Google announced Google Cast is now built right into Chrome, allowing anyone using the company's browser to cast content to supported devices without having to install or configure anything. The Google Cast extension for Chrome, which launched in July 2013, is no longer required for casting. The report adds: "Here's how it works. When you browse websites that are integrated with Cast, Chrome will now show you a Cast icon as long as you're on the same network as a Cast device. With a couple of clicks, you can view the website content on your TV, listen to music on your speakers, and so on. In fact, Google today also integrated Hangouts with Google Cast: Signed-in users on Chrome 52 or higher can now use the 'Cast...' menu item from Chrome to share the contents of a browser tab or their entire desktop into a Hangout." The support document details all the ways you you can use Google Cast with Chrome.
(And "What does God need with a starship?")
Brave is trying to make a profitable business with certain things relating to security, but who in their right mind thinks that this is somehow an improvement upon or necessary for secure web browsing? 26,000 engineers? Grandma? Millennials? Who?
No one's thinking of security, or they'd have kiboshed this and a dozen other features, and put the enablement or access of them in a different binary that the OS mediates access to as needed.
Is there seriously not enough interest in a basic, capable web browser that doesn't implement this stuff that an OSS project can't be started up to focus on it?
Hire a Linux system administrator, systems engineer,
Fine, go ahead and use Lynx all you want. Everything else is spying on you (including /.)
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
...worse than Firefox in every imaginable way.
"The browser extends profits. The browser expands marketshare. The browser is vital to web traffic."
Sundar Pichai: Remedy this situation, restore browser production, or you will live out your life in a pain amplifier!
"The Web is the Browser! The Browser is the Web! "
Browser Worker: Sire, we can't leave all these browser plugins.
CEO Lars Boilesen: Damn the Browser!
Andreessen: He cares more about his men than the Browser. I have to admit, against my better judgement, I like this CEO.
"He who controls the browser, controls the universe!"
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
To me this is something that should have stayed as an extension. I'd say only a minority of people will use this feature (I have a Chromecast and I can't see it getting much use). Why do we need this built in to what is meant to be a fast and lightweight web browser?