Web Browsers
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My thoughts on Firefox blocking tracking/ad cookies by default
Firefox extensions APIs fail to completely clear browsing data
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 applying a Content-Security-Policy
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 is how you detect it anyway
A look at the new AdSense APIs for GDPR and ePrivacy consent screens
Google Chrome finally includes a Reading 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
Tracking beyond the web browser: Unique identifiers being embedded into 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 Google 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 build 16241 onwards
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
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 proprietary web layout engine for Windows
Most of the alternate web browsers don’t have fraud and malware protection
Providing great icons for web apps in GNOME Web (Epiphany)
Netcraft anti-phishing toolbar information misleading in 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”
Integrating your website as a suggested search provider in Microsoft Edge
Getting rid of aggressive Safari promotions in OS X 10.10
New default browser setting protection in OS X 10.10
Preloading in Internet Explorer 11 sends complete browsing history to Microsoft
Integrating your website as a search provider in Safari’s new Quick Website Search feature
Safari pushes to decentralize the search engine
Opera returns to Linux desktops
Mac’s weird little “Default Browser Helper” plug-in injected into all web browsers
