Web Browser Articles | Tom's Hardware

Tim Berners-Lee at the Science Museum for the Web@30 event, March 2019.

Web Inventor Auctions Source Code as NFT

By Ian Evenden last updated 17 June 21

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, is to auction his browser source code as an NFT.

Microsoft's Chromium-Based Edge Arrives on January 15

By Nathaniel Mott published 4 November 19

Microsoft announced that its new Edge browser, which is based on Chromium, will debut on January 15.

Google Adds Drive-By Download Protection to Chrome

By Zak Storey published 28 January 19

Google adds drive-by download protection to Chrome 73 in a bid to prevent malware and other malicious covert software downloads.

Firefox To See A 'Quantum Leap' Improvement In Performance, Security By The End Of 2017

By Lucian Armasu published 27 October 16

China Reforms Advertisement Policy, Banning Ad Blocking

By Michael Justin Allen Sexton published 20 July 16

China prepares a new Internet policy that bans ad-blocking software and hardware, but the policy also comes with strict government regulation of advertisements.

Firefox 50 Nightly Brings Contextual Identity Containers To Isolate Personal, Work Browsing

By Lucian Armasu published 16 June 16

Tor Browser 6.0 Released With DuckDuckGo Search Engine Support Enabled By Default

By Lucian Armasu published 31 May 16

Tor Browser 6.0 is now available for all the major desktop operating systems with DuckDuckGo search engine support by default and other new Firefox-related improvements.

Opera Now First Major Browser To Support Free Built-In VPN Service

By Lucian Armasu published 21 April 16

The developer version of Opera added support for the SurfEasy VPN service that the company acquired last year. The service is unlimited and free to all Opera users.

Vivaldi 1.0 Targets Browser Power Users With Advanced Features, Chrome Extensions

By Lucian Armasu published 6 April 16

Vivaldi, a new desktop browser created by Opera co-founder Jon von Tetzchner, launched its first stable version with many advanced features out of the box, targeting power users.

Firefox 43 Launches With 64-Bit Windows Version And 'Strict' Tracking Protection

By Lucian Armasu published 15 December 15

Mozilla announced Firefox 43, which comes with a 64-bit version for Windows and strict protection option for the Tracking Protection feature, but it lacks the promised initial Electrolysis support.

Mozilla Deprecating HTTP For A More Secure Web (Update: Mozilla Responds)

By Lucian Armasu published 4 May 15

Mozilla announced that it's going to deprecate browser features for non-secure HTTP content and will build new features only for HTTPS connections.

BitTorrent's P2P Browser For Decentralized Websites Now In Beta

By Lucian Armasu published 10 April 15

BitTorrent announced its Maelstrom browser, a P2P browser based on Chromium that can load torrent-based websites.

Bittorrent's 'Project Maelstrom' Aims To Deliver All Websites Through Torrents

By Lucian Armasu published 10 December 14

Bittorrent announces a browser that can deliver websites P2P through the torrent protocol.

COWL Puts A Firewall Between Your Data And Untrusted Web Code

By Lucian Armasu published 6 October 14

COWL or "Confinement with Origin Web Labels" is a new type of sandbox for web applications that protects user data from being leaked by untrusted 3rd party code.