Slashdot Items Tagged "browsers"

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Friday April 12, 2024 @04:47PM 96% of US Hospital Websites Share Visitor Info With Meta, Google, Data Brokers
Wednesday April 10, 2024 @03:25PM EU's New Tech Laws Are Working; Small Browsers Gain Market Share
Tuesday September 26, 2023 @04:31PM GPUs From All Major Suppliers Are Vulnerable To New Pixel-Stealing Attack
Thursday August 24, 2023 @06:33PM Firefox Users May Import Chrome Extensions Now
Monday August 07, 2023 @04:48PM Microsoft's AI-Powered Bing Chat Is Coming To Mobile Browsers
Tuesday November 01, 2022 @06:22PM The Browser Company's Darin Fisher Thinks It's Time To Reinvent the Browser
Thursday September 22, 2022 @02:41PM Mozilla Urges Action To Unpick Platform Browser Lock-ins
Tuesday November 02, 2021 @12:27PM Microsoft's Edge Browser for Linux is Now Available for All Users
Wednesday October 20, 2021 @04:06PM Google Removes Support for FTP and Old-gen U2F Security Keys in Chrome 95
Thursday August 05, 2021 @02:45PM Microsoft Announces 'Super Duper Secure Mode' for Edge
Tuesday February 09, 2021 @03:20PM Browser 'Favicons' Can Be Used as Undeletable 'Supercookies' To Track You Online
Friday January 15, 2021 @04:29PM Google Removing Inadvertent Ability for Chromium Browsers To Access Chrome Bookmarks, Sync
Monday December 28, 2020 @07:53PM Internet Explorer 0-day Attacks On US Nuke Workers Hit 9 Other Sites
Tuesday November 17, 2020 @01:25PM Firefox 83 Arrives With HTTPS-Only Mode and Faster Performance
Monday October 26, 2020 @10:22AM Microsoft Will Forcibly Stop Loading Some URLs in Internet Explorer To Move Users To Edge
Thursday October 22, 2020 @01:17PM Firefox 'Site Isolation' Feature Enters User Testing, Expected Next Year
Thursday October 08, 2020 @02:43PM Microsoft Edge Gets Free 24-Hour Video Calls, Screenshot Tool, and Shopping Features
Tuesday September 22, 2020 @03:24PM Microsoft Is Bringing Edge To Linux
Friday September 04, 2020 @10:44AM Firefox Will Add a New Drive-by-Download Protection
Tuesday August 25, 2020 @11:11AM Firefox Daylight For Android Arrives With Enhanced Tracking Protection, New UI
Thursday July 02, 2020 @04:31PM Microsoft is Force-Feeding Edge To Windows Users With a Spyware-like Install
Wednesday June 03, 2020 @12:45PM Microsoft's New Edge Browser Now Rolling Out via Windows Update
Friday May 29, 2020 @04:10PM Google To Enable the Chrome Anti-Notification Spam System in July 2020
Tuesday May 19, 2020 @02:05PM Chrome 83 Released With Enhanced Privacy Controls, Tab Groups Feature
Thursday May 14, 2020 @12:37PM Chrome Will Start Blocking Resource-Heavy Ads in August
Wednesday May 13, 2020 @02:30PM Google Chrome Will Finally Help You Organize Your Tabs
Tuesday May 05, 2020 @12:00PM Firefox 76 Arrives With Password Management and Zoom Improvements
Tuesday April 07, 2020 @12:02PM Firefox 75 Arrives With Revamped Address Bar; Mozilla To Stick With 2020 Schedule
Monday February 17, 2020 @04:14PM Microsoft Shares Roadmap For New Microsoft Edge
Tuesday February 11, 2020 @03:53PM Firefox 73 Arrives With Default Zoom Level and Readability Backplate
Wednesday January 15, 2020 @02:07PM Microsoft Launches Chromium Edge for Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, and macOS
Monday January 13, 2020 @11:44AM Microsoft To Replace Edge With Its Chromium Browser This Wednesday
Tuesday December 03, 2019 @11:59AM Mozilla Removes Avast and AVG Extensions From Add-on Portal Over Snooping Claims
Tuesday December 03, 2019 @10:28AM Firefox 71 Arrives With Better Lockwise and Tracker Blocking, Picture-in-Picture on Windows
Friday November 08, 2019 @12:02PM Firefox Turns 15
Tuesday October 22, 2019 @01:12PM Firefox To Get Page Translation Feature, Like Chrome
Tuesday July 09, 2019 @03:59PM Firefox 68 Arrives With Darker Reader View, Recommended Extensions, and IT Customizations
Tuesday July 02, 2019 @03:20PM Google Earth Ported To Browsers With WebAssembly
Friday June 14, 2019 @10:02AM Microsoft Edge Might Come To Linux
Monday June 10, 2019 @12:51PM Opera, Brave, Vivaldi To Ignore Chrome's Anti-Ad-Blocker Changes, Despite Shared Codebase
Wednesday June 05, 2019 @09:57AM Chrome 75 Released With Web Share API File Support, Numeric Separators and Secret Reader Mode
Friday May 24, 2019 @12:38PM Mobile Chrome, Safari and Firefox Failed To Show Phishing Warnings For More Than a Year
Tuesday May 21, 2019 @12:36PM Firefox 67 Arrives With New Performance and Privacy Features, Voice Search Widget on Android
Wednesday May 08, 2019 @03:45PM Google Chrome To Support Same-Site Cookies, Get Anti-Fingerprinting Protection
Tuesday May 07, 2019 @04:35PM Microsoft's Edge Browser for Mac Leaks, Available Now From Microsoft's Official Download Servers
Monday May 06, 2019 @12:54PM Microsoft is Building Internet Explorer Into its New Chromium Edge, Adding New Features
Tuesday April 23, 2019 @08:30AM The New Microsoft Edge Sometimes Impersonates Other Browsers
Wednesday April 17, 2019 @07:32PM Mozilla To Bring Python To Browsers
Wednesday April 10, 2019 @10:28AM Chrome, Safari and Opera Criticised For Removing Privacy Setting
Tuesday April 09, 2019 @09:56AM Opera Adds Crypto Wallet To Its Desktop Browser, Launches Anti-Chrome Campaign in Europe
Monday April 08, 2019 @01:20PM Microsoft Launches First Chromium Edge Builds
Friday April 05, 2019 @03:46PM 12 Years After It Was Notified, Firefox To Add Full Protection Against 'Login Prompt' Spam
Tuesday April 02, 2019 @03:41PM Mozilla Will Run Two Experiments This Month With Firefox To Explore Ways To Fight Push Notification Permission Spam
Thursday February 14, 2019 @06:12PM Opera Shows Off Its Smart New Redesign That's Just Like All the Other Browsers
Monday February 04, 2019 @03:45PM Firefox To Block Auto-Playing Audio Starting March 2019
Wednesday January 30, 2019 @03:08PM Chrome 72 Arrives With Code Injection Blocking, New Developer Features
Monday December 31, 2018 @06:19PM Mozilla Says Ad on Firefox's New Tab Page Was Just Another Experiment
Tuesday October 23, 2018 @10:09AM Firefox 63 Arrives With Enhanced Tracking Protection, Search Shortcuts, and Picture-in-Picture on Android
Friday October 12, 2018 @08:37AM Firefox Removes Core Product Support For RSS/Atom Feeds
Friday October 05, 2018 @01:55PM Firefox To Support Google's WebP Image Format For a Faster Web
Monday September 24, 2018 @09:51AM Google Secretly Logs Users Into Chrome Whenever They Log Into a Google Site
Wednesday September 05, 2018 @10:23AM Firefox 62 Arrives With Variable Fonts, Automatic Dark Theme on macOS, and Better Scrolling on Android
Tuesday September 04, 2018 @01:11PM Chrome 69 Arrives With Revamped Design, More Powerful Omnibox, and Better Password Manager
Wednesday August 22, 2018 @10:00AM Chrome 69 is Coming: Not Just a New Look But Flash's Life is About To Get Even Harder
Tuesday August 21, 2018 @03:06PM Mozilla to Remove Legacy Firefox Add-Ons From Add-On Portal in Early October
Tuesday August 07, 2018 @12:33PM Mozilla Debuts Firefox Extension that Recommends Content Based on Your Browsing Activity
Tuesday August 07, 2018 @09:57AM Let's Encrypt Is Now Officially Trusted by All Major Root Certificates
Thursday July 26, 2018 @10:51AM Mozilla to Remove Support for Built-In Feed Reader From Firefox
Tuesday July 24, 2018 @01:07PM In Encryption Push, Chrome Flags HTTP Sites as 'Not Secure'
Sunday June 24, 2018 @12:57PM Changes in WebAssembly Could Render Meltdown and Spectre Browser Patches Useless
Friday May 25, 2018 @03:43PM Edge Beats Chrome in Battery Test, Says Microsoft
Monday February 26, 2018 @02:53PM Mozilla Removes Individual Cookie Management in Firefox 60
Thursday January 04, 2018 @12:45PM Opinion: Chrome is Turning Into the New Internet Explorer 6
Wednesday January 03, 2018 @01:20PM Windows 10's Edge vs Chrome: We're Faster and Win in Battery Face-off, Says Microsoft
Monday November 13, 2017 @07:38PM All Major Browsers Now Support WebAssembly
Monday November 06, 2017 @04:26PM Popular Firefox Bookmark Syncing Add-On Starts Losing... Bookmarks
Friday October 06, 2017 @07:30PM Browsers Will Store Credit Card Details Similar To How They Save Passwords
Friday September 08, 2017 @07:30PM Firefox 57 Will Hide Search Bar and Use a Uni-Bar Approach, Like Chrome
Wednesday May 03, 2017 @01:30AM Google To Auto-Migrate Some Users To 64-bit Chrome
Monday April 17, 2017 @02:31PM Mozilla Kills Firefox Aurora Channel, Builds Will Move Directly From Nightly To Beta
Wednesday April 12, 2017 @01:50PM Microsoft Edge Beats Chrome By Over Three Hours In New Battery Usage Test
Friday March 10, 2017 @09:21AM Chrome 57 Arrives With CSS Grid Layout and API Improvements
Friday October 07, 2016 @05:16PM A French Company is Suing Apple To Open the iPhone To Rival Browsing Engines
Sunday July 31, 2016 @09:57AM New Site Checks Your Browser's Fingerprint
Saturday June 25, 2016 @05:33PM ECMAScript 2016: New Version of JavaScript Language Released
Sunday June 19, 2016 @06:49PM New 'Hardened' Tor Browser Protects Users From FBI Hacking
Friday March 25, 2016 @10:01AM Chromium Being Ported To VC++, Scrubbed of Compiler Bugs
Tuesday March 22, 2016 @07:26PM Google Will Kill Its Chrome App Launcher For Windows, Mac, and Linux In July
Thursday March 17, 2016 @09:27AM Pwn2Own Day 1: Hackers Earn $280k For Hacking Chrome, Flash, Safari
Tuesday March 15, 2016 @09:42AM Mozilla's New Servo Browser Will Hit Alpha In June 2016
Thursday March 10, 2016 @11:36AM MIT Creates Algorithm That Speeds Up Page Load Time By 34%
Thursday March 10, 2016 @10:24AM Opera Introduces Native Adblocking, 45% Faster Than Chrome With Adblock Plus
Tuesday March 08, 2016 @10:46AM Firefox 45 Will Remove Tab Groups Today, Get This Add-on To Replace It
Wednesday March 02, 2016 @08:58PM Windows' Built-In PDF Reader Exposes Edge Browser To Hacking
Wednesday February 24, 2016 @11:38AM Baidu Browser Acts Like a Mildly Tempered Infostealer Virus
Thursday February 11, 2016 @11:04PM Pwn2Own 2016 Won't Attack Firefox (Because It's Too Easy)
Wednesday February 10, 2016 @10:15AM Chinese Tech Group Offers To Buy Opera; Board Endorses
Tuesday February 09, 2016 @11:45PM French Gov't Gives Facebook 3 Months To Stop Tracking Non-User Browsers
Sunday February 07, 2016 @12:38PM Firefox Adopts a 6-8 Week Variable Release Schedule
Thursday February 04, 2016 @06:21PM Firefox 44 Deletes Fine-Grained Cookie Management
Thursday February 04, 2016 @11:06AM Google Targets Fake "Download" and "Play" Buttons
Wednesday February 03, 2016 @10:16AM Chromodo Browser Disables Key Web Security
Sunday January 31, 2016 @07:59PM Microsoft Edge's Private Browsing Mode Isn't Actually Private
Friday January 29, 2016 @04:15PM Google Will Soon Let You Know By Default When Websites Are Unencrypted
Thursday January 28, 2016 @09:35AM Oracle To Drop Java Browser Plugin In JDK 9
Tuesday January 26, 2016 @01:23PM Online Ad Czar Berates Adblockers As Freedom-Hating 'Mafia'
Thursday January 21, 2016 @09:19AM Former Mozilla CEO Launches Security-Centric Browser Brave
Tuesday December 29, 2015 @09:47AM Can Web Standards Make Mobile Apps Obsolete?
Thursday December 24, 2015 @02:00PM Mozilla Document Shows Firefox OS Tablet, TV Stick, Router, Keyboard Computer
Friday December 18, 2015 @08:13PM EFF Launches Panopticlick 2.0
Friday December 18, 2015 @08:11PM Microsoft Extends SmartScreen To Foil Malvertising and Exploit Kits
Thursday December 17, 2015 @12:48PM Unity Benchmarks Browser WebGL Performance
Friday December 04, 2015 @08:11PM Mozilla Ends the Advertisements In Firefox's New Tab Tiles
Tuesday December 01, 2015 @01:52PM Google To Drop Chrome Support For 32-bit Linux
Friday November 27, 2015 @08:53PM Ask Slashdot: Is There a Bookmark Manager That Actually Manages Bookmarks?
Friday November 13, 2015 @06:58PM Mozilla Has 'No Plans' To Offer Firefox Without Pocket
Thursday November 12, 2015 @04:15PM Mozilla Plans To Remove Support For Firefox Complete Themes
Thursday November 12, 2015 @11:16AM Mozilla Launches Firefox For IOS
Tuesday November 10, 2015 @02:06PM Open Source Anniversaries: 6 Years of Go, 11 of Firefox
Tuesday November 03, 2015 @01:27PM Firefox 42 Arrives With Tracking Protection, Tab Audio Indicators
Tuesday November 03, 2015 @10:10AM Vivaldi Hits Its First Beta
Tuesday October 20, 2015 @12:36PM eFast Malware Hijacks Browser With Chrome Clone
Sunday October 18, 2015 @12:44AM Google Drops Desktop Voice Search In Chrome
Saturday October 17, 2015 @05:09PM Browser Tests Show Edge Fastest, But Weak On Standards
Friday October 09, 2015 @07:24AM Mozilla Sets Out Its Proposed Principles For Content Blocking
Tuesday September 29, 2015 @11:35AM Retro Roundup: Old Computers Emulated Right In Your Browser
Thursday September 24, 2015 @04:05PM Modern Browsers Are Undefended Against Cookie-based MITM Attacks Over HTTPS
Sunday September 20, 2015 @04:25PM Skype For Microsoft Edge Will Work From the Browser, No Plug-Ins Required
Saturday September 19, 2015 @01:31PM Crash Chrome With 16 Characters
Tuesday September 15, 2015 @08:28AM Benchmark Battle, September 2015: Chrome Vs. Firefox Vs. Edge
Friday September 11, 2015 @09:53AM Microsoft Announces VP9 Support For Edge
Thursday September 10, 2015 @08:25AM Browser Makers To End RC4 Support In Early 2016
Saturday August 22, 2015 @03:29PM Big Changes From Mozilla Mean Firefox Will Get Chrome Extensions
Tuesday August 18, 2015 @12:08PM Multiple Vulnerabilities Exposed In Pocket
Friday August 14, 2015 @07:21PM How to Quash Firefox's Silent Requests
Tuesday August 11, 2015 @12:12PM Firefox 40 Arrives With Windows 10 Support, Expanded Malware Protection
Wednesday July 22, 2015 @09:48AM Microsoft Edge Performance Evaluated
Tuesday July 14, 2015 @12:45PM New Default: Mozilla Temporarily Disables Flash In Firefox
Sunday June 28, 2015 @12:46PM Google Will Reduce Accidental Mobile Ad Clicks, With Mandatory Borders and More
Friday June 05, 2015 @06:24PM Chrome Beta Now Automatically Pauses Less Important Flash Content
Friday June 05, 2015 @06:10PM Ask Slashdot: Options After Google Chrome Discontinues NPAPI Support?
Friday June 05, 2015 @07:39AM US Prosecutors Say Clearing Browser Data Can Be Obstruction of Justice
Saturday May 30, 2015 @11:39AM Google Chrome Tops 1 Billion Users
Thursday May 28, 2015 @03:54PM Android M Arrives In Q3: Native Fingerprint Support, Android Pay, 'Doze' Mode
Wednesday May 27, 2015 @06:07PM Microsoft Edge To Support Dolby Audio
Friday May 22, 2015 @11:05PM Chrome For Android Is Now Almost Entirely Open Source
Wednesday May 20, 2015 @02:11PM Adblock Plus Launches Adblock Browser: a Fork of Firefox For Android
Tuesday May 19, 2015 @09:59AM Editor-in-Chief of the Next Web: Adblockers Are Immoral
Tuesday May 12, 2015 @01:05PM Firefox 38 Arrives With DRM Required To Watch Netflix
Tuesday May 12, 2015 @12:24PM Microsoft Is Confident In Security of Edge Browser
Sunday May 03, 2015 @10:48AM Chrome Passes 25% Market Share, IE and Firefox Slip
Saturday May 02, 2015 @03:47PM Researcher Bypasses Google Password Alert For Second Time
Thursday April 30, 2015 @08:27AM Internet Explorer's Successor, Project Spartan, Is Called Microsoft Edge
Friday April 24, 2015 @11:17PM Microsoft Opens Vulnerability Bounty Program For Spartan Browser
Sunday April 19, 2015 @04:28PM Chrome 43 Should Help Batten Down HTTPS Sites
Friday April 17, 2015 @01:57PM Chrome 42 Launches With Push Notifications
Friday April 10, 2015 @10:48PM BitTorrent Launches Beta of Torrent-Based Browser Project Maelstrom
Thursday April 09, 2015 @04:43PM Google Is Too Slow At Clearing Junkware From the Chrome Extension Store
Thursday April 02, 2015 @08:33AM Firefox 37 Released
Tuesday March 31, 2015 @09:23AM SuperMario 64 Coming To a Browser Near You!
Saturday March 28, 2015 @01:36AM New Screenshots Detail Spartan Web Browser For Windows 10 Smartphones
Friday March 27, 2015 @08:14PM UK Licensing Site Requires MSIE Emulation, But Won't Work With MSIE
Saturday March 21, 2015 @02:25PM OS X Users: 13 Characters of Assyrian Can Crash Your Chrome Tab
Sunday March 08, 2015 @11:59PM Google Chrome Requires TSYNC Support Under Linux
Friday March 06, 2015 @10:14PM Mozilla: Following In Sun's Faltering Footsteps?
Thursday March 05, 2015 @09:58AM Firefox 37 To Check Security Certificates Via Blocklist
Tuesday February 10, 2015 @02:06AM Google Chrome Will Adopt HTTP/2 In the Coming Weeks, Drop SPDY Support
Friday February 06, 2015 @06:34PM Firefox Succeeded In Its Goal -- But What's Next?
Tuesday January 27, 2015 @01:33PM Opera Founder Is Back, WIth a Feature-Heavy, Chromium-Based Browser
Saturday January 24, 2015 @08:21PM In Addition To Project Spartan, Windows 10 Will Include Internet Explorer
Thursday January 22, 2015 @01:50PM Adobe Patches One Flash Zero Day, Another Still Unfixed
Sunday January 18, 2015 @10:51PM With Community Help, Chrome Could Support Side Tabs Extension
Tuesday January 13, 2015 @05:59PM Firefox 35 Arrives With MP4 Playback On Mac, Android Download Manager Support
Monday January 12, 2015 @01:10AM Chrome For OS X Catches Up With Safari's Emoji Support
Friday January 09, 2015 @11:44AM Inside North Korea's Naenara Browser
Tuesday December 23, 2014 @11:29AM BT, Sky, and Virgin Enforce UK Porn Blocks By Hijacking Browsers
Tuesday December 09, 2014 @09:47AM AdNauseam Browser Extension Quietly Clicks On Blocked Ads
Thursday December 04, 2014 @08:59AM Google Confirms That It's Designing Kid-Friendly Versions of Its Services
Friday November 21, 2014 @07:46PM Mozilla's 2013 Report: Revenue Up 1% To $314M; 90% From Google
Thursday November 20, 2014 @09:28AM Firefox Signs Five-Year Deal With Yahoo, Drops Google as Default Search Engine
Friday November 14, 2014 @03:10PM Mozilla Updates Firefox With Forget Button, DuckDuckGo Search, and Ads
Tuesday November 11, 2014 @01:49PM Multi-Process Comes To Firefox Nightly, 64-bit Firefox For Windows 'Soon'
Monday October 27, 2014 @01:45PM Building All the Major Open-Source Web Browsers
Thursday October 16, 2014 @07:37AM Mozilla Teams Up With Humble Bundle To Offer Eight Plugin-Free Games
Thursday October 09, 2014 @08:31AM Chrome 38 Released: New APIs and 159 Security Fixes
Friday September 19, 2014 @10:50PM Android Apps Now Unofficially Able To Run On Any Major Desktop OS
Wednesday September 03, 2014 @07:52AM Firefox 32 Arrives With New HTTP Cache, Public Key Pinning Support
Thursday August 28, 2014 @11:14AM Mozilla Rolls Out Sponsored Tiles To Firefox Nightly's New Tab Page
Wednesday August 27, 2014 @12:48PM Chromium 37 Launches With Major Security Fixes, 64-bit Windows Support
Friday August 15, 2014 @06:52PM Google Brings Chrome OS User Management To Chrome
Saturday August 09, 2014 @02:54PM Netflix Now Works On Linux With HTML5 DRM Video Support In Chrome
Tuesday June 24, 2014 @08:40AM Mozilla Introduces Browser-Based WebIDE
Monday June 16, 2014 @09:00PM Microsoft Releases Early IE12 Preview As Part of Its New Developer Channel
Thursday June 12, 2014 @08:11AM Firefox 30 Available, Firebug 2.0 Released
Thursday May 29, 2014 @10:29AM Next IE Version Will Feature Web Audio, Media Capture, ES6 Promises, and HTTP/2
Friday May 02, 2014 @08:07PM Could Google's Test of Hiding Complete URLs In Chrome Become a Standard?
Thursday April 10, 2014 @05:12PM Google Chrome Flaw Sets Your PC's Mic Live
Saturday April 05, 2014 @10:00AM Was Eich a Threat To Mozilla's $1B Google "Trust Fund"?
Saturday March 22, 2014 @01:43PM Firefox 28 Arrives With VP9 Video Decoding, HTML5 Volume Controls
Friday March 14, 2014 @06:25PM Mozilla Scraps Firefox For Windows 8, Citing Low Adoption of Metro