Mozilla tightens belt, folds two Firefox services
A year and a half after launching the free file-sharing service Firefox Send, Mozilla canned the concept, part of a retrenchment that began this summer...
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Apple upgrades Safari on Catalina and Mojave in annual exercise
Apple on Wednesday upgraded Safari for Mac owners running macOS Catalina or macOS Mojave, giving those users a new browser before releasing the Big Sur...
Google’s Chrome OS pivot matters more than you think
Don’t look now, but Chrome OS is about to undergo the biggest and most transformative change in the platform’s history. It’s something we’ve actually been...
Top web browsers 2020: Firefox, IE, Chrome all fall
Mozilla’s Firefox slumped, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) crashed, and even Google’s Chrome dropped last month in the global struggle for market share. August was as...
What’s in the latest Chrome update? 10% faster page loads, more tab tweaks
Google last week released Chrome 85, boasting of several enhancements to the browser’s tab-based user interface and a 10% reduction in page load times. The...
What’s in the latest Firefox upgrade? Nothing notable (again)
For a company whose future depends on attracting more users to its primary product, Mozilla has taken a lackadaisical approach to boosting Firefox’s features and...
Is it EOL for IE11? (Not yet.)
Microsoft last week began a process that will, eventually if not immediately, result in it canning Internet Explorer (IE), the browser it’s built since 1994....
Google to trial drastically truncated URLs in Chrome in anti-phishing move
Google will run a trial with Chrome 86, the browser set to release in October, that will hide much of a site’s URL as a...
Microsoft sets new support deadlines for IE11 and Edge
Microsoft on Monday set dates for nudging Internet Explorer (IE) toward the grave and for ending security support of the original circa-2015 Edge browser. Neither...
Microsoft offers Office 365-loaded browser homepage to enterprises that use Bing
[ Related: FAQ: What the new Edge offers the enterprise ] After tying Edge’s new tab page to its Microsoft and Office 365 cloud-based services,...