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Chrome on desktop now mutes annoying autoplays by learning from your behavior
There’s little that’s more annoying on the web than videos that start playing automatically and with their volume up. Over the course of the last few years, Chrome and other browser vendor
Amazon launches a ‘lite’ Android web browser app in India
Amazon has quietly launched an Android web browser app for emerging markets, where access to mobile data and high-speed connectivity is more limited. The browser has the rather generic name of: “
Repl.it lets you program in your browser
No matter whether you are a seasoned programmer or you simply want to take your first steps in writing code, Repl.it wants to help you get from idea to result as fast as possible — without comp
Google’s Song Maker experiment makes making songs easy
Google has added a new instrument to its Chrome Music Lab: Song Maker. As the name implies, Song Maker is all about making songs. It’s essentially an easy to use sequencer that lets you draw mel
Cake raises $5 million for a swipeable mobile browser
A startup called Cake has an ambitious plan to take on incumbents like Chrome and Safari to build a better browser for mobile devices. The company announced this morning it has raised $5 million for t
Opera now protects you from cryptojacking attacks
Opera today launched version 50 of its desktop browser. Sadly, this release doesn't come with a cake to celebrate this milestone (not even a tiny cupcake), but the newest release does include a new fe
Amazon adds its Silk web browser to Fire TV
With little fanfare, Amazon launched its Silk web browser for Fire TV, allowing users with Fire TV, Fire TV Stick, and Fire TV Edition televisions to surf the web from their big screen. The app offers
Mozilla terminates its deal with Yahoo and makes Google the default in Firefox again
With the launch of Firefox Quantum, Mozilla released what's probably the most important update to its browser in recent years. It's faster, lighter and you should give it a try. And as you do so, you'
Firefox aims to win back Chrome users with its souped up Quantum browser
The last half-decade hasn’t been great for Firefox marketshare. Chrome first overtook Mozilla’s browser back in late-2011 and now hovers above 60-percent, according to StatCounter numbers. But aft
Chrome will soon make browsing sketchy sites less frustrating
There's little that's more annoying than clicking on what you think is a video and finding out it was actually an image with a link to a dubious site. Or what about those links that take you to your d
Microsoft is bringing its Edge browser to Android and iOS
While Microsoft is still officially working on the mobile version of Windows 10, it’s no secret that the company has all but given up on building its own mobile ecosystem. That only leaves Micro
It’s time to give Firefox another chance
If you're like me, you switched your default browser over to Chrome years ago and never looked back. Chances are, before you made the switch, you used Firefox or Internet Explorer. What made Chrome st
Upcoming versions of Google Chrome will let you permanently mute sites, block autoplaying videos
One of the most annoying things about surfing today’s web – besides all those ads, of course – is landing on a site and getting blasted by a video that starts playing automatically.
Opera’s desktop browser now features quick access to Messenger, WhatsApp and Telegram
Opera has been working on a complete redesign of its desktop browser for a few months. Codenamed “Reborn”, the browser is now available as a stable release. All Opera users are going to receive th
Opera launches Neon, a new experimental desktop browser
Browsers have gotten boring. After a flurry of innovation, especially around the time Google launched Chrome, things slowed down over the last few years. We’ve seen a few interesting experiments
Google says there are now 2 billion active Chrome installs
Google is hosting its Chrome Dev Summit today. There hasn’t been a lot of news out of the event, but one number that stood out in today’s keynote by Chrome Engineering VP Darin Fisher was
Brave, the browser with built-in ad blocking, tries again on Android
Brave, the new web browser company co-founded by former Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich, has launched a do-over on Android. The earlier version of the ad-blocking browser utilized an odd user interface inv
Opera says its service for syncing web browser data was hacked
Opera, which recently agreed to sell its browser business in a Chinese consortium, has reset user passwords for one of its services after it servers were breached by hackers.
Brave, the ad-blocking browser from former Mozilla CEO, grabs $4.5 million
Brave Software, the new web browser company co-founded by former Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich, has raised $4.5 million in seed funding for the continued development of its open source browser that blocks
Safari puts yet another nail in Flash’s coffin
Adobe Flash needs to die. And it’s starting to look like 2016 might be Flash’s last year. Starting with macOS Sierra, Apple will <a target="_blank" href="https://webkit.org/blog/6589/next-steps-fo