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It looks like Microsoft REALLY wants you to use Edge. They have introduced edge specific hyperlinks in website links from various Microsoft applications. Up until now it has been convoluted, but possible to workaround these edge only links, but rumor has it that this is about to be blocked...

Mozilla has announced Firefox Send is now available for use as a free file transfer service with built-in end-to-end encryption. Send allows users to safely and simply share files from any browser without having to worry about their private information existing in the cloud. Send will be...

According to reports, Google Duo is now accessible on the web. By heading to the Google Duo website, users should be able to place video and phone calls within their web browser. There's no tedious setup to get started with Duo on the web--no phone number authentication or QR code scans like...

Mozilla has announced that Firefox 66 will automatically block audible audio and video initiated by autoplay media on websites. As this is the default behavior for Firefox 66, users will have to interact with the website to initiate the audio such as hitting the "Play" button. Firefox users will...

Microsoft has officially adopted the Chromium open source project for the development of Microsoft Edge. This will create better web compatibility for Microsoft customers and less fragmentation of the web for all web developers. This change will occur over the course of the next year. Microsoft...

Popular browser extension "Stylish," used for customizing the appearance of webpages, was recently found to also be stealing all of your internet history. Software engineer Robert Heaton noticed the problem last week when he spotted a large number of requests going to api.userstyles.org. After...

Apparently the self-proclaimed Spam King has gobbled up lots of .cm domains and they love to dish out malware. People around the web are finding this out in a bad way and their computers are getting hit with all sorts of garbage. Furthermore, these sites appear to automatically remove their...

Microsoft has announced today that Microsoft Edge is now available for free on the Apple Store and the Google Play Store. The mobile versions allow you to share favorites, reading lists, and passwords across all your devices, and is available a few languages, including 5 versions of English for...

The Register is reporting that Microsoft is about to test a new feature in Windows 10 that will force users to use the Edge browser in certain circumstances. In the upcoming Insider preview build 17623, people in the "Skip Ahead" ring will be testing a change that makes it where links clicked on...

Everyone knows that the built-in login managers that some people use to speed up login on oft-visited sites is vulnerable to cross-site scripting attacks that can result in username and password being stolen. Now there's a new exploit that's going around and web trackers are using it to track...

Opera has become the first popular browser to offer an integrated cryptomining blocker in its browser. In this day of cryptomining malware a browser with automatic blocking is a welcome thing. Go out and get the new beta if you're worried about mining crypto for unscrupulous hackers. Opera's...

Brave Software, creators of the Brave ad-blocking browser, is giving away 300,000 free crypto tokens if you use their browser. The only catch is these tokens can't be used anywhere but on their platform. However, the idea behind the browser is pretty cool and it supposedly loads webpages 2 to...

So there you have it. This is presumably why Microsoft has been so worried, and has been so heavy handed in trying to force people into its ecosystem, rather than just trying to rely on a traditional operating system model. If current trends continue Q1 -Q2 some time of 2017 will be when...

I try alternate browsers from time to time, but I keep returning to Firefox. But this one might be sticking. I have been using Firefox for ages, and before that I used Opera almost since it's beginning. Vivaldi CEO is an ex Opera CEO. It's built from the Chrome Source. It has some built in...