Microsoft Edge is now the world’s second most popular web browser
Microsoft’s Edge browser has just edged past Firefox to become the second most popular web browser at least for the month of March 2020. According to NetMarketShare, Microsoft Edge had a market share of 7.59% in the past month. That’s just a smidge more than Firefox’s share of 7.19%. What’s more interesting, however, is that…
Microsoft’s new Edge Chromium browser launches on Windows and macOS
Microsoft is officially launching its new Edge Chromium browser today across both Windows and macOS. A stable version of the browser is now available for everyone to download, just over a year after the software maker revealed its plans to switch to Chromium. Microsoft is initially targeting Edge at enterprise users of Windows and macOS,…
Opera is killing its VPN app for iOS and Android
Opera has announced that it’s discontinuing its Opera VPN for both iOS and Android later this month, April 30 2018. This news came barely two years after the company first launched the app for iOS. To “make sure your privacy is still looked after”, Opera says that its Opera Gold users have the option to redeem a free 1-year…
Google removes access to Chrome’s apps for Windows and Mac
Last year in August, Google stated that the apps in the Chrome Web Store would be removed. Google has kept its word and now users are not able to access or install apps that were once available on the Chrome Web Store. Chrome Apps that were installed will no longer work starting early next year.…
The Pirate Bay is mining cryptocurrency with visitor’s CPU
It has been discovered that torrent site The Pirate Bay has been operating a cryptocurrency miner. The site’s visitors learned that The Pirate Bay exploits a user’s CPU to mine Monero digital coins, through JavaScript code found on the torrent site. When users browsed specific pages on The Pirate Bay, they found a significant increase…
Google Chrome will come with an integrated ad-blocker in 2018
One of the first things you would do upon performing a clean install of Google Chrome on your PC is to download an ad-blocker extension of some sort, right? Well, you will no longer have to do so come 2018, as Google has confirmed that it will indeed be releasing…
The iOS version of Chrome is about to get a lot better
Google’s Chrome browser has always been open source on Android and PC, but never available on iOS. This is because Apple demands that browsers use its own WebKit platform instead of their own rendering engines, so Google can’t just use its typical code base for iOS Chrome. However, that’s all…
Google will significantly reduce the memory consumption of Chrome
Google’s Chrome is the world’s most popular web browser, and for good reason. Chrome is mostly quick, and it features lots of extensions and add-ons that users can download to customize their browser and web browsing experience. However, Chrome also has a nasty reputation for being a resource hog. This…