On April 11th, 2026 with 68 comments
Phoronix staged "a showdown" between Firefox and Chrome, testing them both on an Intel Panther Lake laptop running Ubuntu 26.04.
JetStream 3.0 was announced...
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On November 30th, 2025 with 47 comments
"The internet is being increasingly polluted by AI generated text, images and video," argues the site for a new browser extension called Slop Evader. It...
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On September 20th, 2025 with 65 comments
An anonymous reader shared this article from the Washington Post:
A student taking an online quiz sees a button appear in their Chrome browser: "homework...
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On May 9th, 2025 with 81 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Schools across the US are warning parents about an Internet trend that has students purposefully trying...
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On November 22nd, 2024 with 114 comments
Mozilla has warned that the Justice Department's proposed breakup of Google could harm independent web browsers, pushing back against a key element of the...
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On August 24th, 2023 with 41 comments
Mozilla has implemented the WebExtensions system in its browser, allowing Firefox users to import select extensions from other browsers like Chrome. gHacks...
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On August 15th, 2023 with 40 comments
Michael Larabel writes via Phoronix: Mozilla developers are celebrating that they are now faster than Google Chrome with the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark,...
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On May 6th, 2023 with 49 comments
An anonymous reader shared this report from BGR:
Last year, Microsoft Edge surpassed Safari as the second most popular desktop browser. Now, new data from...
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On January 22nd, 2023 with 92 comments
Phoronix compares the performance of Firefox and Chrome on the Linux desktop. They used recent releases (at default settings) for both browsers on an Intel...
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On January 12th, 2023 with 23 comments
Google announced today that moving forward they will be allowing Rust code into the Chromium code-base, the open-source project that ultimately served as the...
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On September 25th, 2022 with 79 comments
Martin Brinkmann writes via gHacks: From next year onward, extensions for Google Chrome and most other Chromium-based browsers, will have to rely on a new...
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On July 18th, 2022 with 67 comments
Denmark is effectively banning Google's services in schools, after officials in the municipality of Helsingor were last year ordered to carry out a risk...
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On February 17th, 2022 with 92 comments
As both the Chrome and Firefox browsers approach their 100th versions, what should be a reason for the developers to celebrate could turn into a bit of a mess....
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On August 23rd, 2021 with 79 comments
Mozilla developers are putting the finishing touches on a new feature that will block insecure file downloads in Firefox. From a report: Called mixed content...
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On July 10th, 2021 with 85 comments
"New data from Statcounter shows that Edge has now overtaken established rival Firefox in the rankings," reports TechRadar:
In recent months, the pair have...
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On April 3rd, 2021 with 135 comments
This week the lead consumer technology writer for The New York Times urged readers to switch their browser from Chrome, Safari, or Microsoft Edge to a private...
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On December 10th, 2020 with 17 comments
Microsoft has raised the alarm today about a new malware strain that infects users' devices and then proceeds to modify browsers and their settings in order to...
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On September 23rd, 2020 with 18 comments
Google has announced that paid Chrome extensions will no longer be available and will be phased out over the next year. 9to5Google reports: Following a...
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On August 3rd, 2020 with 177 comments
July's statistics from web analytics firm Net Applications showed continuing changes in the most frequently-used web browsers. Softpedia reports:
Last month,...
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On July 12th, 2020 with 253 comments
The Wall Street Journal's senior personal tech columnist just published an article urging readers to "quit Chrome. Safari and Edge are just better browsers." ...
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On July 9th, 2020 with 50 comments
The new lightweight and royalty-free AVIF image format is coming to web browsers. Work is almost complete on adding AVIF support to Google Chrome and Mozilla...
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On June 23rd, 2020 with 48 comments
Some Firefox users have discovered that the new default Windows 10 browser, which is shipped to their devices via Windows Update, sometimes imports the data...
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On April 5th, 2020 with 119 comments
Long-time Slashdot reader AmiMoJo quotes Softpedia:
It was probably just a matter of time, but the thing so many people, including everyone at Microsoft,...
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On February 16th, 2020 with 59 comments
"Lazy Loading" would augment HTML's <img> tag (and <iframe> tag) with two new attributes -- "eager" (to load immediately) and "lazy" (to load only...
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On January 20th, 2020 with 89 comments
The Verge argues that the browser wars "are back, but it's different this time."
The mobile web is broken and unfettered tracking and data sharing have made...
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On January 16th, 2020 with 101 comments
An anonymous reader writes: It's been some 18 months since VentureBeat's last browser benchmark battle. What better time to get the latest results than the...
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On January 11th, 2020 with 254 comments
In 2018 an associate technology editor at Fast Company's Co.Design wrote an article titled "Why I'm switching from Chrome to Firefox and you should too."
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On December 15th, 2019 with 113 comments
Android Authority argues that the new Microsoft Chromium Edge browser "is full of neat tricks" and "packs more features than Firefox":
The final major feature...
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On October 17th, 2019 with 52 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: Firefox is the only browser that received top marks in a recent audit carried out by Germany's cyber-security...
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On October 6th, 2019 with 13 comments
An anonymous reader quotes ZDNet:
A Russian cyber-espionage hacker group has been spotted using a novel technique that involves patching locally installed...
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