Browsers

Starting from December 14, Firefox extensions that are marked as compatible with Android will be available to all Android users. Mozilla announced this in a blog post. In the official browser extension store, the company has also created a separate page for those that will be available on Android. “We’ve ... Read more

Google pays Apple 36% of its search advertising revenue in the Safari browser. This was reported by Kevin Murphy, a professor at the University of Chicago and chief economic expert at Alphabet, according to Bloomberg. He voiced this figure while testifying during the US Department of Justice’s trial against the ... Read more

The desktop version of the Chrome browser has started receiving interface updates based on a design language called Material You. Google announced such intentions back in September. [gallery ids=”162568,162570,162572,162574″] The update offers several visual changes, such as, as expected, more rounded corners and updated icons with a focus on readability. ... Read more

Apple has stated that Safari for iOS, iPadOS, and MacOS are three different browsers. The company made the announcement to avoid regulations in the European Union, writes The Register. In addition to three “different” browsers, the company also claims to have five different app stores and operating systems. In early ... Read more

The Canary version of the Microsoft Edge browser on Android now supports Copilot artificial intelligence, reports Windows Latest. Access to artificial intelligence will be in place of the new tab button, and Copilot itself will offer a similar set of functions to those available in a PC browser. Users will ... Read more

It’s no secret that Microsoft is trying to promote their browser, Microsoft Edge, in every possible way and discourage you from downloading Chrome with various prompts. Now, as The Verge has noted, there will be even more of it. If you try to download Chrome from Microsoft Edge via Bing, ... Read more

Google is preparing to test a new feature in the Chrome browser. This is IP Protection, which is designed to enhance user privacy by hiding their IP addresses, writes BleepingComputer. While IP addresses are potential vectors for tracking, they are also indispensable for important web functions such as traffic routing, ... Read more

Google is preparing to unveil a new look for its browser with the Chrome Refresh 2023 (CR23) update. In this guide, you’ll learn how to enable some of the expected visual changes in the latest stable version of Google Chrome. For a long time, Google Chrome has had a simple ... Read more

Google, Mozilla, Microsoft, and Brave have released critical security patches. This is reported by Stack Diary. The fixes address the CVE-2023-4863 vulnerability, which could be exploited by remote attackers to gain access to or run malicious code on users’ computers. The vulnerability was found in the libwebpm library, which is ... Read more

This month, Chrome celebrates its anniversary: Google’s browser turns 15. In honor of this event, the developer promises to update the desktop version of Chrome and introduce several additional updates. Thus, in the coming weeks, the browser will receive a Material You “material design”: it will include updated icons with ... Read more

Microsoft is sending pop-ups to some users suggesting that they replace Google’s default search engine with Microsoft Bing in the Chrome browser, writes The Verge. According to the author of the publication, he became one of these users. His main computer is running Windows 11. A pop-up window appeared after ... Read more

Microsoft is preparing to reduce the number of features in the new version of its Edge web browser, according to The Verge. These include the Math Problem Solver, Picture Dictionary, Quotes, Grammar Tools, and Kids Mode. Recently, Microsoft has already announced that these features are outdated. They intend to remove ... Read more

In the upcoming release of Chrome 117, Google is introducing a new feature that will actively notify users when an extension is not available in the Chrome Web Store, writes повідомляє The Verge. Oliver Dunk, Chrome Extension Developer Relations Engineer, told about this update. This feature is designed to help ... Read more

Mozilla has announced the upcoming launch of an open extension platform at addons.mozilla.org for the Android version of Firefox. As you know, only a small number of select extensions are officially available for the mobile version of the browser. Mozilla is now building the infrastructure to support an open ecosystem ... Read more

Google has announced Chrome updates for mobile and desktop that focus on integration and efficiency, writes Engadget. New mobile features aim to improve the search process, while Chrome for desktop computers makes it easier to download and access files from the Internet. On Chrome mobile, the new web page has ... Read more

The leadership among chatbots remains with ChatGPT from OpenAI, which is also the “heart” of Bing Chat. The latter only works in the “native” Microsoft Edge browser, while Google Bard has no such limitation. But now Microsoft is expanding access to its chatbot, which is already starting to work in ... Read more

Mozilla released another, the 115th version of the Firefox browser — and the main news of the official announcement is not a list of innovations, but the announcement that this will be the last version of the browser that supports Windows 7 and 8 operating systems. This decision was made ... Read more

As reported by Google, the Chrome browser in the coming months will receive the function of recognizing documents in the form of images and converting them to text. This is part of a larger initiative to make web content accessible to people with visual impairments or reading difficulties (which also ... Read more

DuckDuckGo, the search engine known for its focus on privacy, has launched a public beta version of the browser for Windows. By default, the program offers a range of privacy protections, as well as DuckDuckGo’s suite of web browsing tools, reports ArsTechnica. A year after testing closed beta versions of ... Read more

Google continues to add new features to iOS – Chrome browser version. So, among other things, Chrome on iOS will finally get support for Google Lens, which will allow iPhone owners to search the Internet for objects using the camera. Currently, you have to use a separate app for this, ... Read more

The buzz about Edge had not yet died down when it became known that the browser transmits data to Bing about the sites visited by users, but a new one is started. Another controversial Edge feature turns out to send all the images you view to Microsoft. This is done ... Read more

Microsoft is going to make Edge more attractive to gamers and plans to add a gaming mode to its browser — Edge for Gamers. As the company explains, it will offer a whole selection of improvements and new functionality: for example, a gaming-oriented homepage, gaming themes, new apps for gamers ... Read more

Safari, the default browser on all Apple Macs, was ousted by Microsoft Edge last year and lost its second place as the world’s most popular browser. However, new data shows that Apple’s browser was once again able to overtake Edge, despite Microsoft’s efforts to expand the program’s functionality with artificial ... Read more

As Reddit user found out, Microsoft browser Edge sends almost all URLs that its users visit to the Bing API website. There is currently no official information on why Edge does this, but Rafael Rivera, one of the developers of the EarTrumpet system utility, who was addressed by The Verge ... Read more

Opera Software presented Opera One — full redesigned browser, which is going to replace the current desktop Opera for Windows, MacOS and Linux. Opera One features an updated interface, integration with AI chatbots, and tab management features. The developer claims that Opera One is the first Chromium browser to use ... Read more