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Opera GX is a web browser aimed at gamers

06/11/2019 at 2:53 PM by Brad Linder 3 Comments

The makers of the Opera web browser have a new version designed specifically for gamers… although it has a few features that I imagine could appeal to folks who just don’t like it when their browser eats up all of their system’s resources. For example, Opera GX includes a GX Control panel that lets you […]

Mozilla releases Firefox 67 with speed, privacy enhancements

05/21/2019 at 10:37 AM by Brad Linder Leave a Comment

Microsoft may have taken the if-you-can’t-beat-them-join-them approach to web browsing by basing its new Edge web browser on Google’s Chromium. But Mozilla continues to be lead the charge of browser independence. Mozilla’s Firefox web browser is compliant with modern web standards, but it uses a different rendering engine and overall design than Chrome, Edge, or […]

Microsoft Edge roadmap includes IE11 mode, macOS version, and new privacy tools

05/06/2019 at 12:54 PM by Brad Linder 1 Comment

The new version of Microsoft Edge web browser may be built on Google’s Chromium, but Microsoft is bringing a bunch of new features that will help set it apart from Google’s Chrome browser. Early builds of the browser already include Microsoft’s own customized user interface and replacements for a number of Google’s core features and […]

Kiwi web browser for Android supports Google Chrome extensions

04/15/2019 at 6:12 PM by Brad Linder 5 Comments

Kiwi Browser is an Android web browser that launched about a year ago. It’s based on Google’s open source Chromium project, but includes a built-in ad blocker, a notification blocker, a night mode option, and support for background playback for YouTube and other websites, among other things. And the latest version of Kiwi brings support […]

Mozilla released Firefox beta for Windows 10 on ARM

04/11/2019 at 10:57 AM by Brad Linder Leave a Comment

Microsoft recently announced that it was working with Google to port Chromium to run natively on ARM64 architecture, which means that in addition to the Microsoft Edge web browser, we could see Google Chrome and other related browsers running on Windows 10 Chromebooks with Qualcomm Snapdragon processors. But it looks like Mozilla got there first […]

Windows on ARM to support Chrome, Opera, and Brave browsers

04/09/2019 at 3:30 PM by Brad Linder Leave a Comment

Microsoft is developing a new version of its Edge web browser based on Google’s open source Chromium project. That means it uses the Blink rendering engine instead of EdgeHTML, has a user interface that’s more than a little reminiscent of Google Chrome, and should be able to render any web pages that work in Chrome. […]

Google Chrome to lazy load images by default (speeding up page load times)

04/08/2019 at 4:04 PM by Brad Linder 7 Comments

A while back I enabled lazy loading for images on Liliputing in an attempt to help reduce the amount of time it takes to load the website. What that means is that when you first visit a website, your browser doesn’t need to render all the content on the site at once — images that aren’t […]

Microsoft launches Edge Insider program (Edge web browser based on Google Chromium)

04/08/2019 at 1:00 PM by Brad Linder 12 Comments

Microsoft hasn’t exactly killed off Internet Explorer yet, but when the company launched Windows 10, it came with a brand new web browser called Edge, based on a new web rendering engine called EdgeHTML. A few months ago the company announced it was going to drop that rendering engine and start using Chromium, the open […]

Firefox 65 adds WebP image, AV1 video support

01/25/2019 at 11:34 AM by Brad Linder 2 Comments

Mozilla is set to release Firefox 65 on January 29th, but it’s been in beta since last early December, and it looks like the stable version of Firefox 65 for Android is already starting to roll out a few days early. The latest version of the web browser should be available for Windows, Mac, and Linux […]

Firefox 64 gets new features for tabs, context menus, and more

12/11/2018 at 2:33 PM by Brad Linder 10 Comments

Now that Microsoft has announced that future versions of Edge web browser will be based on Google’s Chromium, Firefox is pretty much the only major browser to use a dramatically different web rendering engine. Opera used to use its own Presto engine before switching to Chromium and Blink. Edge currently uses EdgeHTML, but Microsoft is […]

Future versions of Microsoft Edge web browser will be based on Google Chromium

12/06/2018 at 2:00 PM by Brad Linder 5 Comments

There was a time when government regulators took action against Microsoft for bundling its Internet Explorer web browser with Windows, giving the browser an unfair advantage over the competition. These days Microsoft has a hard time convincing users to use its web browser to do anything more than download Firefox or Chrome. So after switching […]

Mozilla brings new features to Firefox Focus privacy-focused browser

10/02/2018 at 6:00 PM by Brad Linder 2 Comments

Firefox Focus is a mobile web browser designed first and foremost for private browsing. It deletes your cookies every time you exit the browser and never tracks your history. Basically it’s a mobile web browser that only has an incognito/private browsing mode. It also blocks ads that use any data tracking. When Mozilla first launched Firefox […]