Millions of us have discovered browser extensions like AdBlock Plus and uBlock Origin can declutter web pages. Now, judging by new data released by Mozilla, it seems we’re also discovering we can block website software that tracks us on the internet, too. With the November release of Firefox 57, the first Firefox Quantum version, Mozilla …
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The encryption that protects your browser’s connection to websites is getting a notch faster and a notch safer to use. That’s because the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) on Friday finished a years-long process of modernizing the technology used to secure website communications. You may never have heard of Transport Layer Security — TLS for short — but version 1.3 …
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Mozilla began testing a Firefox extension Tuesday that shows you its best guesses for what you want to see on the web. So far it’s an experiment distributed through Mozilla’s Test Pilot program to let interested people try new features and help Mozilla refine them before release. But Advance is a serious part of how Mozilla hopes to make Firefox …
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Get ready for a new look for Firefox’s icon — again. Less than a year after launching a simplified, brighter icon for its Quantum-branded versions of Firefox, Mozilla has begun another effort to modernize the icon. This time the plan isn’t just to create a new Firefox icon but to craft a family of icons to accommodate what the nonprofit …
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Good news: Mozilla’s Firefox and Google’s Chrome are working to reduce the amount of memory and other resources their browsers use. You might have noticed that browsers impose an increasingly onerous burden on your phone or laptop. Websites are getting bigger and browsers are getting features that make them more like full-fledged operating systems than mere document viewers. One example, …
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If you don’t use Chrome and you feel YouTube loads slower than it used to or should, you’re not crazy. Your internet connection (probably) isn’t the problem. And neither is your browser. Instead, the culprit is YouTube itself. Last year, Google rolled out a brand-new design for YouTube. This redesign not only brought a dark mode but was part of brand consolidation across …
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A Mozilla engineer says Google’s redesign has made YouTube slower on Firefox and Edge. Chris Peterson, the software community’s technical program manager, tweeted on Tuesday that the video sharing site loads at a fifth of the speed on non-Chrome browsers due to its architecture, as first reported by Sofpedia. YouTube page load is 5x slower in Firefox and Edge than …
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Google is trying out a new Chrome interface that for the first time in a decade presents a very different look for the tabs and address bar at the top of the widely used web browser. Since its public debut in 2008, Chrome has featured a trapezoidal tab for each website you have open. But tabs now look very different …
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Firefox is getting smarter about using your computer’s memory for a bit of a speed boost. The changes come in Firefox 61, released Tuesday, the latest version to sport the Quantum brand that for the last half year has embodied Mozilla’s effort to restore its browser’s reputation and reclaim ground lost to Google’s dominant Chrome. One change, called retained display …
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