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Microsoft Confirms Internet Explorer Will Die Next Year
I think it’s pretty safe to say that very few people still actively use Internet Explorer 11. In fact, it’s been pretty much redundant since the initial launch of Edge back in 2015. And by the time that did release as the semi-replacement, Google Chrome already had sewn up the…
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Windows 10 Fall Update Makes the New Edge Browser the Default Option
Since it’s release earlier this year, the new Chromium-based version of the Microsoft Edge browser was surprisingly good. So good, in fact, that it has already leaped to the 2nd-most widely used out there. Albeit, it’s still quite a way behind Google Chrome. With it even managing to make a…
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Microsoft is Adding New Useful Features to its Edge Browser
It’s coming up to 3 months now since Microsoft launched its new (and vastly improved) version of its Edge browser. While I won’t bore you with many of the ins and outs of the new version, let’s just say that the migration to a Chromium-based browser (as well as added…
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Microsoft Says the Latest Edge Preview Build is Massively Faster
Around a month ago, Microsoft finally launched its latest version of their Edge internet browser which transitioned itself to a Chromium-based design. While there is, of course, a lot of apathy for the browser, we must admit that (so far) it seems really good. So good, in fact, that it…
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Google Warns Users of Two Zero-Day Vulnerabilities in Chrome
Update Strongly Encouraged Google‘s Threat Analysis team has discovered two Zero-day vulnerabilities last week affecting the Chrome browser. They have now issued an update fix with the latest version 72.0.3626.121. Normally, some users have auto-update enabled. However, in case you are unsure, simply go to Settings > About Chrome then…
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Nintendo Also Seeks to Shutdown Browser-Based Emulators
Nintendo Wages War Against Piracy Not content with sending a message to ROM sites with legal action, Nintendo is also moving to shut down browser-based emulators. In a separate effort, the company also removed a repository from GitHub offering access to Game Boy Advance games. Nintendo is also considering legal…
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Firefox 61 Tries To Be Faster By Guessing What You Want To Do
Firefox 61 Launches With Smart Features Attempting To Improve Speed I think it’s reasonably fair to say that most of us, at one point or another might have tried Firefox as an alternative web-browser. I think it’s also reasonably safe to say that the majority of us no longer are.…
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Opera VPN App for iOS and Android Shuts Down Permanently
Bad News for iOS and Android Users Unfortunately for users of Opera‘s free mobile VPN app, the service has now ended. The app is essentially a mobile extension of their fondness for virtual private networks, as exhibited in their desktop browser. The web browser company acquired SurfEasy in 2015 to…
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Upcoming Microsoft Edge Will Allow You To Mute Webpages
New Microsoft Edge To Introduce Webpage Mute Option There’s nothing quite as aggravating when searching the web than hearing unexpected noise or music. Often, when you have multiple tabs open it can be something of a task to actually identify which one it is. Particularly those pesky websites that have auto-play…
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Vivaldi Web Browser Adds DuckDuckGo Search Engine
Vivaldi Adds DuckDuckGo As far as web browsers go, Vivaldi is not particularly mainstream. Similar to others such as Opera though, it does have a small, but growing fanbase. Given the way in which Internet Explorer (or Edge, it’s the same thing) or Chrome can gobble your resources people have…
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Chrome’s Native Ad Blocker Goes Live for Mobile
News of Google implementing a native ad blocker for Chrome surfaced several months ago with divided response. Now it appears that it is finally live in Chrome’s Canary and Dev builds on Android. It sounds weird that Google, a company that makes money from advertising is implementing an ad blocker.…
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Google Has Retired the Octane JavaScript Benchmark Suite
Google’s Octane JavaScript benchmark has been put out to pasture due to developers focusing on optimizing for higher benchmark scores despite detrimental effects to actual real-world performance. The Octane web browser benchmark is a popular tool introduced in 2012 that tests software capabilities via cut-down versions of semi-realistic workloads but…
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Microsoft Browsers Lose Users At Record Rate
Just a month after Google’s Chrome stole the top browser crown from Microsoft, IE and Edge have continued their downward spiral of popularity according to data released yesterday. As, Internet Explorer and Edge combined occupy 38.7% of the global user share, which is to say the percentage of all desktop…
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First Final Version of Vivaldi Web Browser Released
The Vivaldi Web Browser is considered by many to be the true successor to the popular Opera browser of yesteryear, before, in many people’s eyes, it lost its way. After months in development, ex-Opera CEO Jon von Tetzchner has finally released the first full version of Vivaldi to the general public,…
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Microsoft Shows How Easily Chrome Extensions Can Be Added to Edge
Last month, Microsoft revealed that they had been working on the ability for their struggling Edge web browser to support the vast array of extensions that are available for Google’s Chrome. At an Edge developer summit earlier this week, Microsoft showed off just how far this technology had come already,…
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