Tag: web browser

Firefox maker torches Google for building Prompt API into browser

Mozilla fears wiring an AI API into Chrome will make the web less open

Thunderbird in hand worth 2 Outlooks as fresh FOSS fave and Firefox arrive

Still here, still changing, still relevant, still your best choice

Generic shot of Anthrophic's Claude AI app

Claude Desktop changes app access settings for browsers you don't even have installed yet

Installation and pre-approval without consent looks dubious under EU law

Google Chrome lacks protection against one of the most basic and common ways to track users online

Browser fingerprinting is everywhere

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You can finally control serial devices from Firefox

Long languishing API gets love from Mozilla

I vibe coded a feed reading web app. It was enlightening and uncomfortable

AI-assisted software development is transforming the industry, but you already knew that

Firefox 149 with a vertical tab bar showing the announcement and the Reg article on the beta

Firefox 149 adds a free VPN and finally plays nice with Linux dialogs

In other browser news, Opera now caters to penguinista gamers

Vivaldi browser showing content without window cruft

Hide and sleek: Latest Vivaldi release can tuck its UI away until summoned

New toggle strips away browser chrome if you want

Obviousman element from periodic table of idiots generated by Claude

Claude charts a new course with charts, of course

Conversations with Anthropic's models may now be accompanied by interactive apps

After years of being stood up, ARM64 Linux users finally get Chrome date

Someone, somewhere, ticked a box on a build farm. The wait is over

Google feels the need for security speed, so will ship Chrome updates every two weeks

Retains eight-weekly Extended Stable releases but warns fortnightly updates are the best way to stay safe

Chat at your own risk! Data brokers are selling deeply personal bot transcripts

AI conversations for sale include sensitive health and legal details

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Until last month, attackers could've stolen info from Perplexity Comet users just by sending a calendar invite

AI browsing agent left local files open for the taking

Firefox 149 beta develops a split personality

A handy feature you can already try in recent versions

Firefox 148 adds master switch for browser bot bother

While Thunderbird 148 improves MS Exchange support and sign-on security

Indie web browser Ladybird flutters toward Rust with a little help from AI

Project ditches Swift and translates C++ with LLM assistance

Legal

SerpApi says Google is the pot calling the kettle black when it comes to scraping

'The DMCA was not designed to create walled gardens for tech giants'

Cloudflare turns websites into faster food for AI agents

Why serve up tough HTML when you can offer tasty Markdown?

Firefox makes AI optional, like it probably should have been all along

Users can disable every generative feature in one click – not everyone wants a chatbot bolted to their tabs

Latest Vivaldi release surfs a wave of anti-AI sentiment

'What we are finding is that people hate AI'

Agentic AI

A cursor hovers over a Run/Save/Cancel dialog menu.

When AI 'builds a browser,' check the repo before believing the hype

Autonomous agents may generate millions of lines of code, but shipping software is another matter

Just the Browser is just the beginning: Why breaking free means building small

Privacy tools are a start, but real freedom lives in the digital outskirts of the web

Cursor used agents to write a browser, proving AI can write shoddy code at scale

Project kind-of worked but left a lot of messes for humans to clean up

Just the Browser claims to tame the bloat without forking

Strips the slop and snoopery from Chrome, Edge, and Firefox

Firefox 147 brings GPU boost, tidier tabs, and video that follows you around

Latest update focuses on hardware acceleration, security tightening, and a handful of quality-of-life tweaks

Finally - a terminal solution to the browser wars

A full-featured, Sixel-capable terminal browser for those who’d rather skip AI assistants

Your car’s web browser may be on the road to cyber ruin

Study finds built-in browsers across gadgets often ship years out of date

Really Simple Licensing spec lets web publishers demand their due from AI scrapers

Publishers now have more comprehensive tools for managing automated content harvesting

Publishers say no to AI scrapers, block bots at server level

The open web is closing down for unwanted automated traffic

Block all AI browsers for the foreseeable future: Gartner

Analysts worry lazy users could have agents complete mandatory infosec training, and attackers could do far nastier things

Man with umbrella shielding himself from binary digits

Novel clickjacking attack relies on CSS and SVG

Who needs JavaScript?

Cyber-crime

Stealthy browser extensions waited years before infecting 4.3M Chrome, Edge users with backdoors and spyware

And some are still active in the Microsoft Edge store

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HashJack attack shows AI browsers can be fooled with a simple ‘#’

Hashtag-do-whatever-I-tell-you

Boffins build 'AI Kill Switch' to thwart unwanted agents

AutoGuard uses injection text for good

Palo Alto CEO tips nation-states to weaponize quantum computing by 2029

Company thinks you’ll contemplate replacing most security kit in the next few years to stay safe

Servo-shell can do tabs, too, complete with favicons.

Latest Servo release hints at a real Rust alternative to Chromium

As Mozilla stumbles into 'AI everywhere,' you might be glad of a non-Google browser engine

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Mozilla's Firefox 145 is heeeeeere: Buffs up privacy, bloats AI

Improves tracking prevention, profile management, PDF editing, and Perplexity creeps into your address bar

Samsung picks fights with Google and Qualcomm

Brings its largely unloved browser to PCs and promises to make its Exynos SoCs more competitive

Cybersecurity Month

Atlas vuln lets crims inject malicious prompts ChatGPT won't forget between sessions

It can do a lot more than just play 'Eye of the Tiger' daily

Researchers exploit OpenAI's Atlas by disguising prompts as URLs

NeuralTrust shows how agentic browser can interpret bogus links as trusted user commands

Cybersecurity Month

OpenAI's Atlas shrugs off inevitability of prompt injection, releases AI browser anyway

'Trust no AI' says one researcher

OpenAI releases bot-tom feeding browser with ChatGPT built in

Why experience the web for yourself when there's so much privacy to surrender?

Ruby Central tries to make peace after 'hostile takeover'

Taps Ruby core to oversee RubyGems, Bundler

Firefox 144 on macOS, with vertical tab bar and all available LLM features disabled.

Firefox 144 brings fixes, features, and farewells for 32-bit Linux die-hards

Mozilla hardens its browser and toys with AI search while closing the door on legacy systems

Google stuffs Chrome full of AI features whether you like it or not

Why browse the web yourself when an AI sidekick can spoon-feed it to you?

New Really Simple Licensing spec wants AI crawlers to show a license - or a credit card

For whom the bill tolls

Atlassian acquisition drives dream of AI-powered ChromeOS challenger

'A cross-platform browser as an OS is now closer than ever,' claims $610M richer cofounders of The Browser Company

AI web crawlers are destroying websites in their never-ending hunger for any and all content

But the cure may ruin the web....

Not in my browser! Vivaldi capo doubles down on generative AI ban

Web browsing belongs to the people, not the bots

AmiBrowser brings 21st century web to 20th century Amigas

Also, not one but two new models of the classic 1200

Bike jumper, image Christian Bertrand courtesy Shutterstock

Anthropic teases Claude for Chrome: Don't try this at home

AI am inevitable, AI firm argues

Saved you a click: Firefox 142 offers AI summaries of links

CRLite, link previews, and a llama-shaped surprise for devs

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Perplexity's Comet browser naively processed pages with evil instructions

Rival Brave flags prompt injection vulnerability, now patched

Browser wars are back, predicts Palo Alto, thanks to AI

CEO says if you buy all your infosec stuff from him, life under assault from bots will be less painful

Nabiha Syed, executive director of the Mozilla Foundation

Nabiha Syed remakes Mozilla Foundation in the era of Trump and AI

The non-profit has a new look but still stands up for the open web

Perplexity takes a shine to Chrome, offers Google $34.5 billion

Could the most popular browser change hands?

Perplexity vexed by Cloudflare's claims its bots are bad

AI search biz insists its content capture and summarization is okay because someone asked for it

Perplexity AI accused of scraping content against websites’ will with unlisted IP ranges

Cloudflare finds AI search biz ignoring crawl prohibitions and trying to hide its spiders

Edge case: Opera claims Microsoft still playing dirty with defaults

Brazil is the latest browser battlefield

A phone showing 'third party cookies?' on screen next to a cookie

Publishers cry foul over W3C crusade to rid web of third-party cookies

Advocacy group tells UK competition watchdog proposal favors Google

Microsoft bolts Copilot Mode onto Edge to chase AI-browser crowd

'Edge, order two tons of creamed corn...'

Nothing to see here: Brave browser blocks privacy-busting Microsoft Recall

No screenshots for you!

Arch Linux users told to purge Firefox forks after AUR malware scare

The distro's greatest asset is arguably also its greatest weakness

Perplexity rips another page from the Google playbook with its own browser, Comet

Built on Chromium, ironically

Edge and Chrome logos next to each other

Massive browser hijacking campaign infects 2.3M Chrome, Edge users

These extensions weren't malware-laced from the start, researcher says

Your browser has ad tech's fingerprints all over it, but there's a clean-up squad in town

Like being hard to spot? They’d much rather you didn’t

Mozilla rolls out Firefox 140 with ESR status and fresh features

Say hello to a year's support, but bid goodbye to Pocket

Illustration of an eye looking at you through binary numbers

Psylo browser tries to obscure digital fingerprints by giving every tab its own IP address

Gotta keep 'em separated so the marketers and snoops can't come out and play

Google's unloved plan to fix web permissions gathers support

Mozilla, at least, has warmed to the Chocolate Factory's attempt to improve mic, camera, and location permissions

Meta pauses mobile port tracking tech on Android after researchers cry foul

Zuckercorp and Yandex used localhost loophole to tie browser data to app users, say boffins

Firefox 139 arrives for non-Chromium browser fans

Project shutdowns at Mozilla are not encouraging, though

Arc put on ice as The Browser Company bets big on AI-powered Dia

No more features for the design darling - now it’s all about chatting with your tabs like they’re sentient

Illustration of an overly friendly AI agent coming out of a screen

AI agents don't care about your pretty website or tempting ads

'Your well-honed customer experience is noise to an agent'

If Google is forced to give up Chrome, what happens next?

It's going to be very, very interesting in a 'May you live in interesting times' way

You'll never guess which mobile browser is the worst for data collection

We were shocked – SHOCKED – by the answer

flow on the raspberry Pi-400 (running Raspberry Pi OS)

Alt-browser Flow breezes through web tests, but still far from a daily driver

Snappy surfer eyes Apple's EU engine requirements

Hey Google, if Chrome is going to be single soon, OpenAI is interested

ChatGPT maker to join line of suitors if Chocolate Factory forced to offload browser

Mozilla takes pity on Firefox extension developers

Plan to standardize consent dialogs aims to lighten burden on devs, users, reviewers

Someone looking at Wikipedia on a laptop

Wikipedia's overlords bemoan AI bot bandwidth burden

Crawlers snarfing long-tail content for training and whatnot cost us a fortune

Vivaldi 7.2 browser wants to topple tech's feudal lords

Tall order for tiny market share techies but 'this is the moment to decide what kind of internet we want,' says CEO

AI crawlers haven't learned to play nice with websites

SourceHut says it's getting DDoSed by LLM bots

We did not have Brave clashing with Rupert Murdoch on our 2025 bingo card, but there it is

Indie browser maker asks judge for legal shield against copyright threats over AI summaries

Mozilla pleads with Uncle Sam to not turn off that sweet, sweet Google search money

Firefox maker: Looming antitrust inferno could burn us, too

Firefox 136 finally brings the features that fans wanted

Vertical tabs, native Arm64 Linux version, and AMD GPU-accelerated video playback

Cloudflare's bot bouncer blocks weirdo browsers

Not on Firefox or a Chrome derivative? You shall not pass

Phantom of the Opera: AI agent now lurks within browser, for the lazy

Too shiftless to even click on a few things while online shopping, hm? Just ask this built-in assistant

Google's 7-year slog to improve Chrome extensions still hasn't satisfied developers

Makers of content blockers, privacy add-ons say promises weren't kept

SLAP, Apple, and FLOP: Safari, Chrome at risk of data theft on iPhone, Mac, iPad Silicon

It's another cousin of Spectre, here to read your email, browsing history, and more

Ads on Times Square. Photo by Allen G via Shutterstock editorial use only

Honey co-founder's Pie Adblock called out for copying GPL'd uBlock Origin files

And, magically, a repo appears on GitHub with attribution

Can 4G feature phones rise again on the back of QVGA, thin clients, and remote browsers?

The developer of the Puffin Browser thinks so – and has a million users to show for it

Microsoft Edge takes a victory lap with some high-looking usage stats for 2024

Lots of big numbers, but market share wasn't one of them

Kill Oracle's 'JavaScript' trademark, Deno asks USPTO

Petition claims database titan maintained its mark by making a fraudulent claim

Mozilla Foundation crumbles as third of staff cast off

Rival browsers cry foul after Microsoft Edge slips through EU gatekeeper cracks

Networks

Inventor and founder of World Wide Web Sir Tim Berners-Lee delivers an address to IBM Lotusphere 2012

World Wide Web Foundation closes so Tim Berners-Lee can spend more time with his protocol

Google Chrome gets a mind of its own for some security fixes

As major web browser makers snuggle up to AI, these skeptical holdouts remain

Legal

Google insists the ad tech business ain't broke, urges Washington not to fix it

Close up of the Safari icon on an Apple iPhone

Apple accused of hoodwinking UK antitrust cops

Firefox 130 lands with a yawn, but 131 beta teases a long-awaited feature

Zen Browser is a no-Google zone that offers tiling nirvana

Combination of the EU flag and someone taking a bite out of an apple

Under pressure from Europe, Apple makes iOS browser options bit more reasonable

Apple-flavored Opera One brings its browser AI show to iOS

Black Hat and DEF CON

Secure Web Gateways are anything but as infosec hounds spot dozens of bypasses

Chrome Web Store warns end is nigh for uBlock Origin

Public Sector

Michigan probes Musk-backed PAC website that weirdly tried and failed to help register people to vote

CSO

Firefox's Mozilla follows Google in losing trust in Entrust's TLS certificates

Apple Maps escapes orchard into web browser wilds

Google can totally explain why Chromium browsers quietly tell only its websites about your CPU, GPU usage

Firefox 128 bumps system requirements for old boxes

Illustration of Chrome logos surrounded by money

Google festoons Chrome Enterprise browser with more controls

Privacy features lose their way in latest Firefox update

Mozilla defies Kremlin, restores banned Firefox add-ons in Russia

Google to push ahead with Chrome's ad-blocker extension overhaul in earnest

Google’s in-house docs about search ranking leak online, sparking SEO frenzy

Apple says if you want to ship your own iOS browser engine in EU, you need to be there

Screenshot showing Windows on Arm version with Task Manager showing Opera Arm64 processes

Opera sings sweetly with native version for Windows on Arm

Hey, Reddit. Quick question. All those clicks on my ads. Were they actually real?

Dillo 3.1 – it works, it's tiny. it's very fast, but a lot of modern sites will look weird or broken.

Lightweight Dillo browser springs back to life, still doesn't care about JavaScript

Prof asks court to protect his Unfollow Everything 2.0 extension from Facebook's ire

Vivaldi composes Split View sonata for browser on iPadOS

Enterprise browser maker Island says it's now worth $3B

Chrome Enterprise Premium promises extra security – for a fee

Offbeat

404 Day celebrates the internet's most infamous no-show

Opera browser dev branch rolls out support for running LLMs locally

Google bakes new cookie strategy that will leave crooks with a bad taste

Meet clickjacking's slicker cousin, 'gesture jacking,' aka 'cross window forgery'

Google will delete data collected from 'private' browsing

Majority of Americans now use ad blockers

In-app browsers are still a privacy, security, and choice problem

Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite promises competitive performance and efficiency compared to Apple, AMD, and Intel's latest offerings

Chrome for Windows-Arm laptops officially lands in time for Snapdragon X Elite kit

Microsoft faces bipartisan criticism for alleged censorship on Bing in China

Firefox 124 brings more slick moves for Mac and Android

Cop shop rapped for 'completely avoidable' web form blunder

Combination of EU flag, and Brave and Firefox logos

Oh look, cracking down on Big Tech works. Brave, Firefox, Vivaldi surge on iOS

An illustration of a speedometer as a performance gauge

Now you can compare your Chromium browser with that other Chromium browser using Speedometer 3.0

Please don't try this at home. But, if you need evidence, here's Chrome 121 on Windows XP, more or less.

Supermium drags Google Chrome back in time to Windows XP, Vista, and 7

EU-turn! Now Apple says it won't banish Home Screen web apps in Europe

Illustration of someone looking shocked at their iPhone between European landmarks

Apple makes it official: No Home Screen web apps in European Union

Offbeat

www.register.com rendered in grey with rain, thanks to heartblock extension in opera gx

Roses are red, violets are blue, Opera GX gives Valentine's a gray, rainy hue

Chrome engine devs experiment with automatic browser micropayments

Mitchell Baker logs off for good as CEO of Firefox maker Mozilla

In its tantrum with Europe, Apple broke web apps in iOS 17 beta, still hasn't fixed them

Still no love for JPEG XL: Browser maker love-in snubs next-gen image format

Chrome, Edge, Safari, and Firefox on a mobile phone

Web devs fear Apple's iOS shakeup for Europe will be a nightmare for support

Microsoft Edge ignores user wishes, slurps tabs from Chrome without permission

Firefox 122 gets even more competitive with Chrome on translation

Wait, hold on, everyone – Mozilla thinks Apple, Google, Microsoft should play fair

YouTube video lag wrongly blamed on its ad-blocking animus

Google updates Chrome's Incognito Mode data slurp disclaimer in early browser build

Mozilla decides Trusted Types is a worthy security feature

Google pencils in limited third-party cookie purge for January

Firefox slow to load YouTube? Just another front in Google's war on ad blockers

What's really going on with Chrome's June crackdown on extensions – and why your ad blocker may or may not work

Bad eIDAS: Europe ready to intercept, spy on your encrypted HTTPS connections

Mozilla tells extension developers to get ready to finally go mobile

Microsoft seeks EU Digital Market Acts exemption for underdog apps like Edge

Legal

13-year Google privacy settlement pays litigants the equivalent of a Big Mac meal

When is a privacy button not a privacy button? When Google runs it, claims lawsuit

Image of woman holding mask of her own face

Google - yes, that Google - testing proxy scheme to hide IP addresses for privacy

Malware crooks find an in with fake browser updates, in case real ones weren't bad enough

rusty gears - conceptual illustration for Rust

Rusty revenant Servo returns to render once more

No joke: Cloudflare takes aim at Google Fonts with ROFL

Outside the Mozilla building in San Francisco

Europe wants easy default browser selection screens. Mozilla is already sounding the alarm on dirty tricks

Microsoft Edge still forcing itself on users in Europe

Google Chrome Privacy Sandbox open to all: Now websites can tap into your habits directly for ads

Person holding smartphone during whiteboard web design session

So you want to save energy? Ditch web apps and go native, boffins say

With version 117, Firefox finally speaks Chrome's translation language

secret agent eavesdrops using headphones plugged into an audio centre mounted with tape reels (illustration)

Google 'wiretapped' tax websites with visitor traffic trackers, lawsuit claims

Google opens up Chrome 117 Developer Tools box, drops in a few spanners

Honey, can you shrink the plugin? Mozilla allows desktop extensions on Firefox for Android

A phone showing the Chrome app icon buried in dollar bills

Maker of Chrome extension with 300,000+ users tells of constant pressure to sell out

India launches contest to build homegrown web browser

Brave cuts ties with Bing to offer its own image and video search results

Google's browser security plan slammed as dangerous, terrible, DRM for websites

Google's next big idea for browser security looks like another freedom grab to some

Firefox 115 browser breathes life into old operating systems

Browser extension developers targeted with schemes and scams

Spooky ghost like IE icons over a misty graveyard

Microsoft to let Internet Explorer 11 haunt Windows some more

Apple warns of three WebKit vulns under active exploitation, dozens more CVEs across its range

YouTube's 'Ad blockers not allowed' pop-up scares the bejesus out of netizens

Zoho creates browser with 'Open Season Mode' for when you don't care about privacy

Shopify sees $1.5B loss turn into $68M profit, celebrates by firing 20% of staff

Chrome's HTTPS padlock heads to Google Graveyard

Microsoft pushes users to the Edge in Outlook, Teams

Open source Socket Runtime arrives, with aim to drop cloud as a dependency

Why UK watchdog abandoned its Apple monopoly probe

Google halts purge of legacy ad blockers and other Chrome Extensions, again

Microsoft to give more than microsecond's thought about your Windows 11 needs

My God, it's full of tabs: Vivaldi's coolest new features shine on phones and cars

Google Chrome fights the power drain (again)

Microsoft begs you not to ditch Edge on Google's own Chrome download page

Chrome on a mobile phone amid $100 bills

What Brit watchdog redacted: Google gives Apple cut of Chrome iOS search revenue

Google lets a few Android devices into its Privacy Sandbox

Microsoft switches Edge’s PDF reader to pay-to-play Adobe Acrobat

An iPhone showing a row of web browser icons: Chrome, Edge, Safari and Firefox

Google works on Blink-based iOS browser contrary to Apple's WebKit rule

Meta, which pays for web scraping, sues to stop web scraping

Storage

Chrome bug bedevils file storage in the cloud

Google, Mozilla to collaborate with Apple on fresh Webkit browser benchmark

You can hook your MIDI keyboard up to a website with Firefox 108

Google once again stalls Chrome content-blocker shakeup

TOR Browser 12 released with support for Albanian, Ukrainian

Mozilla Foundation launches ethical venture capital fund

Google kills forthcoming JPEG XL image format in Chromium

Columnists

Firefox points the way to eradicating one of the rudest words online: PDF

How I made a Chrome extension for converting Reg articles to UK spelling

Google delays execution of doomed Chrome extensions

Serious surfer? How to browse like a pro on Firefox

Mozilla drags Microsoft, Google, Apple for obliterating any form of browser choice

'I Don't Care About Cookies' extension sold to Avast

Firefox sign outside the Mozilla offices in San Francisco

Firefox 105 is here, and it's faster and more memory-frugal