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Tag: browsers

How to Browse the Web in Your Linux Terminal With Lynx

2024-08-202024-08-20 Danie
A Terminal window showing how a website renders in plain text. There are various links in green font, and the text of post excerpts is shown below the links.

There is no shortage of feature-rich browsers available today, but most offer largely the same experience. Lynx is a web browser that only displays text, offering a unique and ad-free way to browse the Internet […]

Blogbrowsers, Lynx, retro, technology

Cross-Industry Giants Unite for Speedometer 3.0 browser benchmark

2024-03-132024-03-13 Danie
A benchmark result showing a speedometer with a reading underneath of 5.83

Since its inception in 2014 by the WebKit team, Speedometer has served as an essential barometer for browser engines, propelling performance enhancements to meet the escalating demands for more dynamic and seamless online experiences. Its […]

Blogbenchmark, browsers, technology

The Sad Reality: Firefox 123 is out with broken site reporting tool

2024-02-202024-02-20 Danie
Rough textured surface with a chain of paperclips linked together. One link is broken with a piece of the paperclip lying loose.

Users of the Firefox web browser may report broken sites to Mozilla. The main idea behind the feature is to help Mozilla address compatibility issues in Firefox. Firefox has a much smaller userbase than the […]

Blogbrowsers, interoperability, technology

Thorium Browser claims to be the fastest browser on Earth

2023-10-182023-10-18 Danie
Thorium logo looks like the Chrome logo but is in shades of blue

They claim an 8-38% improvement over vanilla Chrome. It is not a completely de-Googled browser, but their focus has been on improving performance as well as a number of patches to restrict what is passed […]

Blogbrowsers, opensource, technology

Researchers show how Chrome extensions can steal plaintext passwords for popular sites such as Gmail, Cloudflare, Facebook, etc

2023-09-072023-09-08 Danie
Google Chrome logo with what looks like a red sunset and darkish bottom third, in the background

In case one thinks this is just for three or four websites, the research measurements showed that from the top 10k websites (as per Tranco), roughly 1,100 are storing user passwords in plain text form […]

Blogbrowsers, security, technology

Which Browser Offers the Best Privacy Protection? No, Google Chrome is not on the List

2023-06-012023-06-01 Danie
browsers

Each website visit yields valuable data, sold to marketers so targeted ads can follow us around the web — unless you’re using the right browser. But what’s the best browser for privacy? There are myriad […]

Blogbrowsers, privacy, technology

Mullvad browser : Mullvad and Tor Project’s new privacy-focused browser doesn’t use the Tor network, but VPNs instead

2023-04-032023-04-05 Danie
Mullvad Browser

The Mullvad browser’s main goal is to make it harder for advertisers and other companies to track you across the internet. It does this by working to reduce your browser’s “fingerprint,” a term that describes […]

Blogbrowsers, Mullvadbrowser, privacy, technology, tor

We need browser profile primary password logins to help prevent session hijacking

2023-03-242023-06-29 Danie
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Seeing what happened this week to the Linus Tech Tips YouTube channel made me realise how well we have secured in transit data, password managers, etc (LastPass was also hacked via an end user session) […]

Blogbrowsers, security, sessionhijacking, technology

Enable High-Efficiency-Mode Setting to Stop Chromium Based Browsers From Hogging So Much Memory

2022-12-102022-12-10 Danie
Screenshot of a desktop with a Chrome browser icon

Chrome/Chromium derivatives are popular browsers for a reason: They’re fast, powerful, and compatible with popular apps, services, and extensions. All that power, though, comes from somewhere, and ends up putting a strain on your RAM. […]

Blog#chromium, browsers, technology

Extensity is an open source extension for Chromium browsers to quickly enable/disable extensions to save RAM and speed up the browser

2022-11-252022-11-25 Danie
Screenshot of the drop down menu that the Extensity extension shows on a browser toolbar

One reason for browsers getting sluggish is having too many extensions open, which just consumes extra RAM. Sometimes, too, they can interfere with each other. Even though my computer has 32GB of RAM, using a […]

Blog#extensity, browsers, opensource, technology

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