Web browsers

Microsoft Edge Gets Vertical Tabs, More

Among the new features coming to Microsoft Edge on desktop this month is vertical tabs,…

Google Unleashes Flutter 2 And a New Era of Apps

In its initial releases, Flutter allowed developers to create apps that run on both Android…

Brave Acquires a Privacy-Focus Search Engine

Brave announced today that it has acquired the open search engine Tailcat and will integrate…

Google Says It Wants a “Privacy-First” Web

Google today acknowledged that the proliferation of advertising-based tracking on the web has eroded the…

Firefox 86 Adds Total Cookie Protection, More

Mozilla released Firefox 86 today, adding Total Cookie Protection, improved picture-in-picture capabilities, and a new…

Opera Launches E-Commerce System in Europe

Opera announced today that it is launching in-browser ecommerce functionality with a cashback and payments…

Microsoft Edge Now Uses Adaptive Notifications

After quieting all website notifications by default in Edge, Microsoft discovered that many users couldn’t…

The Free Version of LastPass is About to Get Less Useful

LastPass has long offered both free and paid versions of its password manager, but the…

Microsoft to Remove Legacy Edge from Windows 10 in April

We’ve known since last year that Legacy Edge will exit support on March 9, 2021.…

Google Patches Chrome, Removes Suspect Extension

With the shift to web-based computing, it is perhaps not surprising that hackers are increasingly…

Vivaldi Makes It Easier to Manage Many Tabs

The Vivaldi web browser is taking a unique approach to management lots of tabs: It’s…

Microsoft Revamps Its Edge Feature Roadmap

Microsoft has maintained a feature roadmap for Edge since shortly after its public release last…

Firefox 85 is Here, But Mozilla is Killing PWA Features

Mozilla released Firefox 85 this week, adding protections against so-called supercookies. But it’s also taking…

PWAs Now Support Profiles in Microsoft Edge

Microsoft announced today that it has added support for user profiles Progressive Web Apps (PWAs)…

Microsoft Celebrates the One-Year Anniversary of Edge with New Themes, More

One year ago, Microsoft launched a very incomplete new Edge for the masses. Today, Edge…

Google Calendar for Web Gets Basic Offline Support

Though it still doesn’t identify itself as a Progressive Web App (PWA), Google Calendar for…

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