Here you will find all the articles with the tag: browser.
Google has removed a method that allows websites to detect visitors who have used Chrome's Incognito Mode. From the end of July onwards, websites will no longer be able to see whether or not a visitor has this mode enabled. Detecting the Incognito Mode was possible via the FileSystem API, writes ZDN... Read more
5 years ago
A trading group of British internet service providers (ISPs) has nominated Mozilla for Internet villain of 2019. The reason is that the company proposes to introduce DNS over HTTPS (DoH). It bypasses content blockers. The trading group, ISPA, consists of more than two hundred members, including BT, ... Read more
5 years ago
Facebook has made several new technologies open source, which it hopes the web browsers will adopt. With the technologies, the company wants to improve the performance of web-based applications. Vlad Djeric of Facebook's browser engineering team said during a presentation that the poor performance o... Read more
5 years ago
Microsoft has published a first preview of its browser Edge for macOS. The new browser is slightly different from that for Windows 10, to match conventions on Apple's operating system. Edge was only suitable for Windows 10 at its launch. This meant that on platforms like Windows 7 and macOS, web de... Read more
5 years ago
Google has announced new privacy updates for its browser Google Chrome. The update will make significant changes to how Chrome handles cookies and users' privacy on the Internet, reports TechCrunch. The update should give users more control over how their data is processed. Cookies are very useful,... Read more
5 years ago
Mozilla has announced that it will no longer accept Firefox extensions that contain hidden code. The measure is part of the renewed add-on policy, which will take effect on 10 June. That's what The Next Web says. Caitlin Neiman, Add-ons Community Manager at Mozilla, informs you that Mozilla will con... Read more
5 years ago
István Kurucsai, security researcher for Exodus Intelligence, has published proof-of-concept code for a vulnerability in Google Chrome that has not yet been plugged. The researcher wants to show that there are problems with Google's patch process. The vulnerability - a remote code execution error... Read more
5 years ago
A month and a half ago Opera announced that it wanted to build a free unlimited VPN into its Android browser. Today, this function has actually been added to the browser. Version 51 of the mobile web browser allows users to make full use of it. The VPN enables users to protect their online identity ... Read more
5 years ago
Google has announced that a patch that it rolled out to web browser Chrome on March 1 solves a zero-day exploit that has been actively exploited. Updating your browser immediately is therefore very important. There are not many details about the update and the exploit. A zero-day is a vulnerability ... Read more
5 years ago
Web browser Microsoft Edge appears to contain a secret whitelist. It allows Facebook to run Adobe Flash code without the user's knowledge or consent. The whitelist enables Facebook to circumvent certain security requirements that apply to Flash. Normally it is mandatory for a website to ask for the... Read more
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