Browsers

Google announced that its next few releases of Chrome will add new protections that will prevent websites from redirecting users to third-party content in unexpected ways.

The next phase of "Project Quamtum" will bring a GPU-accelerated rendering engine, "WebRender," to Firefox, which will make the browser silky-smooth.

Mozilla launched Common Voice, a crowdsourced project aiming to democratizing voice recognition technology so that small companies can use it to compete against bigger technology players.

Mozilla launched Firefox 54, which brings brings a more advanced multi-process architecture compared to the one introduced in Firefox 48, while claiming to use the least memory out of all browsers.

Mozilla announced that the latest version of Firefox (53) supports the "WebExtensions" cross-browser system for extensions.

A same origin policy bypass in Microsoft's Edge browser could allow attackers to steal passwords and impersonate Twitter users.

Security researchers have discovered that ambient light sensors used in smartphones, laptops, and tablets can be used to steal browser data.