Google's onboarding process for Chrome tries out a new approach of both offering to be your default browser and being pinned to your taskbar.

Chrome is testing a new “Google recommended browser settings” pop-up in Windows that prompts users to set Chrome as the default browser.

For better or worse, Google has a stranglehold over much of our tech lives. The Chrome browser is so ubiquitous that you might expect most people to use it by default, but a poll we ran on the matter ...

I tweaked eight Chrome settings, and the difference was immediate—faster tabs, smoother browsing.