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Firefox 65 to feature upgraded Task Manager

6 months

Web browsers are well-known resource hogs, but it is often poorly coded websites and plugins which are the main culprits. Unfortunately, with tens of pages open it can sometimes be difficult to see which site is causing the slow-d...

Firefox 65 gets WebP support

by Surur

7 months

WebP is an image format introduced by Google in 2010 which combined lossy and lossless compression to deliver images up to 45% smaller than PNGs for similar quality, and of course, fully supported by Google Chrome. It is also su...

Mozilla to offer VPN service for Firefox but its not as good as it seems

by Surur

7 months

One of the best features of Opera is that it offers a free VPN built right into the browser, allowing users to browse safely no matter which network, connection or country they happen to be in or on. Soeren-hentzschel reports tha...

Firefox adds support for the native Windows 10 Share dialogue

by Surur

7 months

A welcome development in recent months has been the increasing adoption of native Windows 10 features by major 3rd party developers. This includes support for native Windows 10 notifications for example by Chrome and Firefox, and ...

Convicted serial monopoly abuser Google found to slow down Edge and Firefox on YouTube

by Surur

10 months

Clearly having to pay more than $7 billion in fines to the EU for anti-trust violations has done nothing to change the culture at Google. The company has just released a new design for YouTube which is up to 5 times slower on Edge...

Firefox Nightly gets support for automatically muting sites

by Surur

10 months

The fight against auto-playing media has become increasingly popular as a competitive point amongst browser makers, with Edge being one of the leaders with the ability to block both sound and video by default. Now Firefox has adde...

Microsoft draws flak for claiming Edge is 22% faster than Chrome

by Surur

11 months

Microsoft’s Edge browser is far from the most popular Internet navigator available to Windows users, but if you ask Microsoft, internet users are missing out on a safe, speedy and battery sipping experience by using the now...

Googles Chrome new autoplay system is causing some online games to break

by Gabriel Stephens

1 year

Google this month instituted a new auto-play policy which prevented media players from playing videos on web-sites without user interaction, or manual request. While this change was clearly for the best (Stares at CNN’s webs...

Google’s Chome browser may soon integrate with Windows Notifications/ Action Centre

by Surur

1 year

Google’s Chrome browser has developed into somewhat of an operating in itself, and that’s on Windows, not Chromebooks, and this includes having its own notification system for web apps and websites. That has made Chrom...

Firefox will get even faster with version 58

by Michael Allison

1 year

Mozilla’s Firefox has been praised for its dramatic speed increase with Firefox Quantum. The firm is aiming to make its browser app even better with Firefox 58 (via Neowin). The firm will be adding a new 2-tiered compiler to...

How to use Google Chrome’s new redirect blocker right now

by Michael Allison

2 years

Google introduced a new redirect blocker for Google Chrome in a blog post on the Chromium site today. This is part of an ongoing strategy by Google to make browsing the web safer for users. This endeavour, in brief, blocks a malic...

Opera adds Chromecast support to its developer branch

by Surur

2 years

On their blog Opera has announced a new upgrade to the developer version of their browser. The headline feature is support for Google’s Chromecast, meaning you do not have to use Chrome to send a YouTube video to your TV. T...