TL;DR: A sophisticated malware campaign infected 2.3 million Chrome and Edge users. It worked because a bunch of browser extensions were on the market for a long time, gaining a trusted reputation, ...

Microsoft has swiftly addressed an unexplained bug in Chromium-based Edge that has been causing the browser to crash when typing in the address bar when Google was set as the default search engine.

Google Chrome remains the king of the web browsers, with around 65% share of the desktop browser market as of December 2024. Microsoft’s Edge browser, which uses the Chromium open-source engine, is in ...