Servers can identify various technical information about a connecting web browser and computer system including the screen resolution, user agent that includes the operating system, web browser version, plugins that are installed or the user’s timezone.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has published an interesting theory that it is possible to track web browsers based on their [...]
How Unique Is Your Web Browser’s Fingerprint?
Google Chrome 5 Debuts
The stable version of Google Chrome 4 was released to the public a short time ago and we mentioned in the review that Google was now targeting both Internet Explorer and Opera version-wise with the possibility that Google Chrome would outpace both browsers in the next 18 months. Today the first developer version of Google [...]
Hide Extension Buttons In Google Chrome
Now that a stable version of Google Chrome with extension support has been released to the public it is time to concentrate on some of the usability issues in the web browser. One of these usability issues is that most extensions add buttons to the Google Chrome toolbar. This toolbar can fill pretty quickly with [...]
Google Chrome 4 Stable Released
Google today released Google Chrome 4 stable which is another milestone release for the Google browser. The developer’s have managed to overtake the Firefox web browser – at least when versioning is the measurement – which recently has been released as version 3.6. It is also closing in on Opera and Internet Explorer with a [...]
Opera Releases Third Opera 10.5 Snapshot [Web Browser]
The Opera developers have released a new snapshot release of the upcoming Opera 10.5 web browser. The last snapshot caused troubles for many users who experienced crashes among other things. One could say that it is not seldom that pre-alpha releases show that behavior.
One reason why the developers might have decided to release the [...]
Quix Customizable Command Driven Bookmarklet [Internet]
Quix is a customizable command driven bookmarklet that can be used in most of today’s web browsers including Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, Mozilla’s Firefox, Opera, Google Chrome or Safari. It is basically a mixture of Mozilla’s Ubiquity and an extended search add-on like Cybersearch for Firefox in the form of a bookmarklet. The bookmarklet needs to [...]
Mozilla Firefox Collection Offers Access To Multiple Firefox Versions [Firefox]
You might remember the Internet Explorer Collection which we reviewed some time ago. The web browser collection solved the problem of many web developer’s who had to test websites in different versions of the Internet Explorer. This was a problem as Microsoft only allowed one version of the browser to be installed at the same [...]