Web Browsers
I’ve always been interested in web browsers — the most important piece of software on your computer — and what makes them tick. I worked for the browser vendor Opera Software from 2008–2015.
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Mitigate “tabnabbing” without breaking
How quickly do Firefox derived browsers receive security updates
Safari’s Beacon API problems
My thoughts on Firefox blocking tracking/ad cookies by default
4 Firefox-derived browsers you can use to stave off the looming Chromium monoculture
Your web browsers are slowing down your Time Machine backups
WebP image file sizes compared to equivalent Guetzli and Zopfli
Safari’s default media controls get blocked when CSP is applied
WebP images won’t load in Microsoft Edge with Application Guard
Changes to how Mozilla Readability extracts article metadata in Firefox 63
Web Reading Mode: A bad reading experience
Web Reading Mode: Title, author, and date metadata extraction
Web Reading Mode: Determining the main page content
Web Reading Mode: The non-standard rendering mode
Firefox, Security Keys, U2F, and Google Advanced Protection
Brave should have its own User-Agent, but here’s how you detect it anyway
New AdSense APIs for gathering user-consent
Google Chrome finally includes a Reader Mode but only on Android
What is First-Party Isolation in Firefox and what breaks if you enabled it
How to limit tracking in software downloads
Unique tracking identifiers are embedded into your software downloads
Firefox to reintroduce OpenSearch discovery and install in Firefox 61
Should web browsers adopt Google’s new selective ad blocking tech?
Here’s how Chrome’s new ad blocker works
Firefox 57 with a new and more distracting New Tab experience
Native content blocking in Firefox without installing any extensions
Reduce the max cookie lifetime from decades to days in Firefox
How to report a false-positive in Microsoft SmartScreen
Mozilla celebrates 1M new non-Gecko users
EdgeDeflector 1.1.1.0 updated for Windows 10
How to get Firefox to check for extension updates more often
Navigate around dead links with the Wayback Machine browser extension
Open links force-opened in Microsoft Edge in your default browser
Brave micro-payments still not a hit with publishers yet
Brave browser may incentivize publishers to finally fix their bloated and slow websites
Strip out the ads and pay websites directly with Brave browser
BriskBard engine: A new web layout engine for Windows
Most of the alternate web browsers don’t have fraud and malware protection
Provide great icons for web apps in GNOME Web (Epiphany)
Netcraft anti-phishing toolbar breaks on IPv6 enabled networks
Web browsers bringing personalized news to their New Tab pages
Sleipnir browser focuses on news with Site Updates on New Tab page
All about icons for Microsoft Edge
The many URI schemas used by the browsers’ “Reader Views”
Integrate your website as a search provider in Microsoft Edge
Get rid of aggressive Safari promotions in macOS
New default browser setting protection in macOS
IE11 Preloading-feature sends browsing history to Microsoft
Integrate your website as a search provider in Safari Quick Website Search
Apple pushes to decentralize search engines in Safari
Opera returns to Linux desktops
Mac’s weird little “Default Browser Helper” plug-in injected into all web browsers
Location sharing policies and private browsing
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