Microsoft’s Edge browser is coming out soon with a Google Chromium-powered revamp and an online leak showed all the features.
The Verge reported the leak Sunday on various online forums and sharing sites. A public preview is expected soon, but so far…
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Firefox now automatically blocks autoplaying audio and video
Mozilla today released version 66 of its Firefox browser. It features all of the usual tech updates and bug fixes, but there’s also a clear theme here: reducing online annoyances. With this update, Firefox can now automatically block autoplaying audio and video — the scourge of the modern web. The way Mozilla has implemented this […]
View More Firefox now automatically blocks autoplaying audio and videoFirefox will soon mute all autoplaying videos
There are many things worse than autoplaying video and audio on the web. The world is a messy place, after all. But it sure is distracting when you surf to a website and suddenly some video starts playing at full volume. Google’s Chrome browser and Microsoft Edge both offer tools to disable these annoyances and, […]
View More Firefox will soon mute all autoplaying videosMade a typo? Google Chrome tests warning for lookalike URLs
Google Chrome has another solution to help users turn back from dodgy websites.
As spotted by ZDNet, it’s testing a way to spot lookalike URLs and help redirect users to go to the right place with the Chrome Canary browser, which is used to experimen…
Microsoft’s next browser might be based on Chromium
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Remember the browser wars? In 1995, Microsoft launched Internet Explorer and started bundling it with Windows in order to snatch away market share from the then-dominant browser, Netscape. It worked — in the early naughts, all everyone ever used for browsing was Internet Explorer.
But then came the alternatives: Firefox in 2004 and Google’s Chrome 2008. These browsers were faster and more advanced than Internet Explorer and they slowly chipped away at Microsoft’s browser market share, prompting Microsoft to essentially kill IE in 2015 and replace it with Edge.
Now, however, we may be near the point in which Microsoft throws in the towel and switches to a browser based on Chromium, Google’s open-source browser project upon which Chrome (and several other browser, like Brave or Opera) is built. Read more…
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Firefox’s newest Test Pilot experiments help you track prices and email links
Test Pilot is Mozilla’s program for experimenting with some of its more outlandish ideas for Firefox and beyond. Some of those experiments make it into the browser itself, some become stand-alone extensions and others get unceremoniously canned. Today, the organization is announcing two new Test Pilot projects: Price Wise, which lets you track the price […]
View More Firefox’s newest Test Pilot experiments help you track prices and email linksChrome adds new security features to stop mobile subscription scams
Google today announced that Chrome will soon get a new feature that aims to stop mobile subscription scams. Those are the kind of sites that ask you for your phone number and that then, unbeknownst to you, sign you up for a mobile subscription that’s billed through your carrier. Starting with the launch of Chrome […]
View More Chrome adds new security features to stop mobile subscription scamsChrome gets a new look for its 10th birthday
It’s been ten years since Google first launched Chrome. At the time, Google’s browser was a revelation. Firefox had gotten slow, Internet Explorer was Internet Explorer and none of the smaller challengers, maybe with the exception of Opera, every got any significant traction. But here was Google, with a fast browser that was built for […]
View More Chrome gets a new look for its 10th birthdayFirefox will soon start blocking trackers by default
Mozilla today announced that its Firefox browser will soon by default automatically block all attempts at cross-site tracking. There are three parts to this strategy. Starting with version 63, which is currently in testing in the browser’s nightly release channel, Firefox will block all slow-loading trackers (with ads being the biggest offender here). Those are […]
View More Firefox will soon start blocking trackers by defaultFirefox gets speedier tab switching, a new accessibility tool for developers and more
Mozilla today released version 61 of its Firefox browser. By now, it’s no secret that Firefox is back in contention as a serious competitor to Google’s Chrome browser and while the new release doesn’t offer any groundbreaking new features, all of the new improvements and tools in Firefox 61 are good examples for why Firefox […]
View More Firefox gets speedier tab switching, a new accessibility tool for developers and moreGoogle puts an end to Chrome extension installs from third-party sites
Google today announced a major change to its Chrome Web Store policy that aims to shield users from websites that try to fool them into installing their Chome extensions. Until now, developers who publish their apps in the Web Store, could also initiate app and extension installs from their own websites. Too often, though, developers […]
View More Google puts an end to Chrome extension installs from third-party sitesFirefox launches side-by-side browsing and a theme editor as Test Pilot experiments
Mozilla’s Firefox is back in the browser game, thanks to its recent updates which now allow it to once again challenge the likes of Google’s Chrome browser. One thing that always made Firefox stand out was its willingness to experiment. In recent years, the organization channeled many of these experiments through its Test Pilot program […]
View More Firefox launches side-by-side browsing and a theme editor as Test Pilot experiments