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, […]
Web browsers such as Internet Explorer, Chrome or Firefox use the browsing history in a number of ways. Besides making available a list of sites that users have visited in the past, […]
Most Internet services don't prevent you from pasting information into password fields or other form fields on websites. Some on the other hand restrict pasting to select fields or none at all, […]
If you copy data from a private browsing window in Firefox 32 or earlier to the clipboard and close the private browsing window afterwards, you will notice that the data is not […]
Browser fingerprinting refers to methods to profile a browser based on information transferred automatically when connections are made to websites or services, or generated with the help of scripts and technologies. It […]
Google Chrome, Chromium, and probably the majority of web browsers based on it, come with a security module that scans file downloads automatically. The feature, called Safe Browsing by Google, displays a […]
Electrolysis (e10s) is one of the core improvements for Firefox that Mozilla is currently working on. The feature adds so-called multi-process support to Firefox in a way similar to how Chromium-based browsers […]
Google Chrome, Chromium and other Chromium-based browsers have supported an offline cache mode for a while now. The feature, hidden behind an experimental flag on the browser's chrome://flags page, made resources available […]
The Chromium web browser and browsers based on it such as Google Chrome are not very flexible when it comes to placing extension icons in the interface. Extension icons are always displayed […]
One of the things that you need to take care of as a webmaster is to make sure that links are working properly on your site. Broken links cause bad user experience […]
Sometimes, you have to make hard decisions in life. Decisions that are not always optimal at that time but are influenced by other factors that are important to you. When Google started […]
Animated PNG files work in many regards just like gif files displayed on Internet sites. They offer several advantages over gif files on the other hand including support for 24-bit and 8-bit […]
Adblockers have become essential tools for many users on the Internet. As a user, I can understand the necessity of blocking distracting or heavy advertisement on the Internet as it can be […]
When Opera Software announced that it would switch from its old trusted Presto engine to Chromium, it became clear quickly afterwards that many popular features of the old client would not be […]
Google's Chromecast is a $35 device that provides you with the means to stream media contents to supported devices such as televisions or audio receivers. While Google makes available a lot of […]
Support for 64-bit versions of web browsers on Windows is severely lacking. Firefox, Opera and Google Chrome are not offered as 64-bit versions on Windows yet, at least not when it comes […]
When Opera Software released the first Chromium-based version of the Opera browser back in July 2013, it was clear immediately that it would take a long time before the browser would offer […]
Google knows what is best for you, that's why Chrome Stable and Chrome Beta on Windows block extensions that have not been installed from the Chrome Web Store as of today. You […]
The last couple of months have not really be that exciting for Opera browser users. While Opera Software released new versions of the browser regularly, most releases were rather uneventful in terms […]
When Norwegian company Opera Software announced that it would switch its trusted Presto engine to Chromium, it caused quite the stir among users. Some congratulated Opera Software for the move as it […]
Chrome extensions ship in a state that it is possible to view the source code of them. That's interesting for a number of reasons even though it may not be something that […]
At least two popular browser extensions for the Google Chrome web browser have been turned into paid subscription-based services this month, and at least one company, Web of Trust, is experimenting with […]
Depending on which web browser you use, which operating system you run, and which video card your computer uses, font rendering may either be totally awesome, quite ok, or not tolerable. There […]
Small changes that you make to a product can have a big impact on its perception. Google removed scroll arrows in Chrome 32 on Windows, and that change infuriated part of the […]
Google Chrome has powerful extension support that is second only to Firefox's in the browsing world. Up until now, Chrome users were allowed to install extensions from the official Chrome Web Store, […]
Opera Software introduced Opera Turbo as a new feature in Opera 10 back in 2009. The feature enabled you to compress web traffic to speed up web browsing. You can check out […]
Google started to implement features into the Chrome web browser that improve the security for users of the browser. From basic things that do not change how you use Chrome, like the […]
Chrome's content settings define how different types of contents are handled by the web browser. You can configure the handling of cookies and images here for example, but also for location look-ups, […]
Some call extensions the bread and butter of a browser. While I'd say that other factors play a role here as well, it is undeniable that extensions can improve the usability of […]
Opera Software has released Opera 19 Stable today, or more precisely, Opera 19.0.1326.56. The company maintains three different versions of the Chromium-based version of Opera currently, with Next and Dev the other […]
When Opera Software announced that it would change the Opera browser significantly by using Chromium as its core, it was not really clear to many what this meant. It meant that Opera […]
Sometimes it is small changes that have a huge impact. Google rolled out an update to the stable version of Chrome recently which brought it to version 32. Along with the excellent […]
I do not use the built-in password manager of web browsers that I use or online password managers that are added via browser extensions. There are several reasons for that: First, I […]
There are three major ways to scroll web pages in web browsers. You can use the mouse-wheel for that, the keyboard, or, if you have a touch monitor, your hand to scroll […]
When Opera Software announced that it would switch from the company's own -- developed and controlled -- Presto engine to Webkit / Blink, many Opera users felt as if a world had […]
Those with a Chromebook know that updates are fairly regular, and spotting the improvement can sometimes be tricky. Unless it's a major change to the web browser, chances are you're going to […]
All web browsers store cookies in plain text, or in databases, that can be read with the right tools. That requires local access to the system, which means that the chance of […]
I bench marked the memory use of popular web browsers such as Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer and Opera back in 2012, and a lot happened since then. Back then, […]
If you look at desktop computers, you will notice that there are three core Internet browsers left for those systems. There are also forks of two of those browsers available that increase […]
