The browser is part of a bigger project to keep internet browsing anonymous: Use Tor and you use the Tor Project network, a complex, encrypted relay system managed by the Tor community, making it much harder for anyone else to follow your activities online. As well as this additional layer of anonymity, Tor Browser is … Read more
It’s time to check your software updates. March has seen the release of important patches for Apple’s iOS, Google’s Chrome, and its privacy-conscious competitor Firefox. Bugs have also been squashed by enterprise software giants including Cisco, VMware, and SAP. Here’s what you need to know about the security updates issued in March. Apple iOS Apple … Read more
slpu9945/Getty Images When the Netscape browser suite source code was open-sourced in 1998, it was a desperate move. Although Netscape and the Department of Justice had been successful in the courts at battling Microsoft’s Windows and Internet Explorer (IE) illegal monopoly, it didn’t matter. Netscape, once the most popular web browser of all, was doomed. … Read more
A lot of us now spend much of our work and leisure time peering at the web through a browser—and for that time to be spent as productively as possible, the browser in question needs to run swiftly and smoothly. There’s actually an integrated browser setting to help with this, too: Hardware acceleration. Zillow Says … Read more
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Users on Reddit and Hacker News are complaining that YouTube seems to have inserted an intentional five-second delay before video pages will load in Mozilla’s Firefox and occasionally some other browsers. YouTube tells The Verge that these users are right about the delay, but the browser has nothing to do with it — it’s part … Read more
We live in a multilingual world, which is represented in the billions of pages published on the web—but just because a website isn’t written in your native tongue doesn’t mean that you can’t read it. All of the most popular browsers come with translation tools built-in on desktop and mobile, so you don’t have to … Read more
Image: LEON NEAL / Staff (Getty Images) According to a recent story by MSPowerUser, Mozilla Firefox has recently been testing an experimental feature called Review Checker. This feature is powered by Fakespot, which Firefox acquired earlier this year. Google’s Pixel 8 and 8 Pro are New, and Somewhat Improved Fakespot is an online service that … Read more
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Mozilla is testing a new built-in “Review Checker” feature for its Firefox browser that rates how reliable a product’s customer reviews are. The experimental feature was initially spotted by MSPowerUser, and Firefox’s senior director of product management Byron Jourdan confirmed that the company is testing the functionality “with a limited audience in the United States,” … Read more
When you use Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Firefox or Courageous to browse the web, you must replace your browser now to repair a safety difficulty the Nationwide Institute of Requirements and Expertise known as “vital.” The entire browsers talked about have issued updates to deal with the problem. If the vulnerability will not be addressed, a … Read more
Digital Non-public Networks, higher generally known as VPNs, are companies that route your visitors by means of a kind of encrypted tunnel, hiding your on-line actions out of your web service supplier and anybody else who manages your community. That makes VPNs a software you need to positively not think about using if you land … Read more