Web Storage, also known as HTML5 Storage, Local Storage or DOM Storage, offers a way for web applications and pages to store data locally in web browsers. The data that is stored […]
The company behind WhatsApp released WhatsApp Web recently, a web-based service that allows you to use WhatsApp in Google Chrome without phone. It introduces most of the functionality of the mobile application […]
Unless you run software that logs all local and remote connection attempts, you don't really see what is going on when you connect to a website or run a program on the […]
Whenever you connect to sites on the Internet information about the connection and the underlying system are available to the site automatically. Information include the web browser and version used to connect, […]
The technical preview of Vivaldi, a Chromium/Blink based web browser by Opera co-founder and former CEO John von Tetzchner is now available. The Opera browser is best known for innovations that Opera […]
For the past couple of days I have received notifications about Adobe Flash Player on sites that I visited in Chromium. The message read Adobe Flash Player is required to display some […]
Google pushed out an update today for its Chrome web browser that brings the version to the version of the web browser to 40 on the stable channel. Most Chrome users should […]
Whenever you click on a link on a web page to open another one in the same browser, referrer information are sent to the linked site. You can verify this for yourself […]
Developers and companies that offer free version of products have different options at their disposal to monetize their work. From pro and business editions over donations to third-party offers. Third-party offers in […]
When I start my Windows PC in the morning, I load the browsers Firefox and Chromium, the email client Thunderbird and the RSS reader Quite RSS right away. While I could add […]
You can configure the Google Chrome web browser to open the last session, meaning all tabs and windows open the last time you used it, or to open a blank page or […]
Phew, that took a long time. When Opera Software announced the switch from its own browsing engine to Chromium users noticed immediately that many things were not as they were before. The […]
One of the reasons why Mozilla is working on a multi-process architecture for Firefox is that it paves the way for a browser sandbox. The sandbox that the team plans to implement […]
Whenever I speak to someone who used NoScript for a day or two I'm told that the add-on is complicated and a nuisance. NoScript, for those of you who do not know […]
Minimalism seems to be the trend of the hour, or more precisely, of the past two or three years in the browser world. It started with the release of Google Chrome and […]
Depending on your web browser of choice, you may have encountered webp images before or not at all. The main reason for this is that the format is not supported by all […]
Several browsers based on Chromium came out shortly after Google released its Chrome web browser. Most had in common that they modified or removed privacy related information or modules. Comodo Dragon was […]
Web browser plugins are being used by many Internet users even though their use is in decline. Most companies that produce browsers try to get away from the plugin architecture, or at […]
Performance or more precisely JavaScript performance has been a thing in the browser world ever since Google launched its Chrome browser to the public. Back then Chrome was without doubt the most […]
Frames per seconds and resolution are a big deal in the gaming world and it is usually the case that the more you get the better for the gaming experience. While screen […]
The native bookmark manager of the Chrome browser is as basic as it gets. All it enables you to do is to search bookmarks, move them to and from folders, and to […]
A security vulnerability in SSL 3.0 has been uncovered by Bodo Möller and two other Google employees that attackers can exploit to calculate the plaintext of secure connections. SSL 3.0 is an […]
I have always used the middle mouse button in browsers to open links in a new tab. It is a comfortable option and way better in my opinion than having to right-click […]
Most modern browsers ship with a private browsing mode that can be started independently from the main browsing session. It prevents the recording of history information in the browser so that information […]
If you are serious about browser games you may have the Unity plugin installed in your browser of choice. This plugin is currently required to play games that use Unity, a cross-platform […]
ZenMate, the popular virtual private network extension for Chrome and app for Android, is now also available as an add-on for the Mozilla Firefox web browser. VPNs are used for a variety […]
RSSGuard did not make the best desktop RSS feed reader for Windows listing because I did not even know it existed back then. It would have made the list as it offers […]
I recently started to collect retro video games, mostly classic 16-bit stuff. One of the issues here, after you have made up your mind about the console systems you want to collect […]
Companies like Google or Microsoft have a hard time getting users to upgrade to the latest version of their operating systems. On Android for instance, a quarter is using Android version 4.4, […]
While it is difficult to come by statistics to find out how many Internet users are affected by software that is manipulating browser settings or installing add-ons and other potentially unwanted tools […]
You know probably that Google Chrome is supporting extensions just like Firefox or the Opera browser. Extensions add functionality to the browser or modify the default behavior which can be quite useful […]
If you are using Google Chrome's -- or any Chromium-based browser actually -- bookmarks toolbar you may have noticed that it does not provide you with many options. You can add folders […]
Google has released Chrome Stable 37 yesterday and with it came a new feature to improve font rendering on Windows. The text rendering was switched from Graphics Device Interface (GDI) to DirectWrite […]
Zenmate was rated one of the best Chrome VPN recently by us. While it is used by many to access geo-restricted contents, it is adding other VPN-specific features to it as well that […]
As a webmaster, you not only have to make sure that the right contents are displayed to desktop users but also that mobile users are served correctly. This can be a big […]
When Opera Software switched from the company's own Presto rendering engine to Chromium/Blink, part of the browser's userbase criticized the company for it. Among the points the community made was that the […]
Most developers use a local development environment that replicates the live website. They use it to test any change made to the website before it is pushed to the live server. This […]
When you visit a website in a modern web browser for the first time, contents get loaded from a web server to the local computer. While some resources may be loaded from […]
New technologies are more often than not a double-edged sword. While they add or improve functionality on the one hand, they may also introduce undesirable features. This is for instance the case […]
Firefox users have access to a selection of VPN add-ons for the browser which they can install from Mozilla's official add-ons repository. Whenever a connection to a virtual private network is established, […]
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