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Tip: Switch to Microsoft for Password Management and Autofill

Last month, Microsoft announced the availability of Microsoft account-based password autofill capabilities across platforms.

Microsoft Edge to Adopt New Chrome Release Cycle Too

With Google Chrome moving to a new four-week release cadence, Microsoft says it will offer…

Microsoft Edge on Mac is Getting a New Update Experience

Microsoft announced today that it will move its Edge web browser on Mac off Microsoft…

Support Ends for Microsoft Edge Legacy

Microsoft announced today that support for Microsoft Edge Legacy is over and that the product…

Microsoft to Move to a Single Edge codebase

One of the more interesting tidbits that came out of Ignite this week is that…

Google is Speeding Up the Chrome Release Schedule

Google announced today that it will shorten the Chrome release schedule from every six weeks…

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…

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