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  • Google Chrome will not launch with admin rights anymore, to reduce security risks

    05/16/2025 6:41:36 AM PDT · by Openurmind · 19 replies
    GHACKS ^ | May 16, 2025 | Agencies Ghacks
    Google is making an important change to Chrome on Windows. The browser will no longer run with administrator privileges by default. This change is designed with the intent to protect users from potentially malicious threats. As Bleeping Computer explains, when Chrome runs with administrator rights, any file that you download can pose a security risk. What that means is a malicious file that a user downloads could run with full system access, and in turn jeopardize the operating system. Microsoft Edge has a feature which was introduced in 2019 that prevents it from launching with elevated privileges. Edge displays a...