Free Browser Utilities — 10 Private Tools

Converters, formatters and debuggers that never upload your files.

Browsing tools and Ad blockers: A guide to cleaner web experiences

Five browser-based ad blockers compared: Open Adblocker, uBlock Origin Lite, AdGuard, Ghostery, and Adblock Plus, each suited to a different browsing preference.

The 49MB Web Page

A look at modern news websites. How programmatic ad-tech, huge payloads and hostile architecture destroyed the reading experience.

Browser Ad Bidding Process

ChatGPT helps you get answers, find inspiration, and be more productive.

How the DOM affects crawling, rendering, and indexing

Learn how the DOM structures your page, how JavaScript can change it during rendering, and how to verify what Google actually sees.

Getting Started With The Popover API

What happens if you rebuild a single tooltip using the browser’s native model without the aid of a library? The Popover API turns tooltips from something you simulate into something the browser actually understands. Opening and closing, keyboard interaction, Escape handling, and…

Google Brings Quantum-Hardened HTTPS To Chrome In Major Security Upgrade

The changes are aimed at improving the resilience of web security against quantum attacks without burdening performance.

Merkle Tree Certificates

Certification Authority signs a single "Tree Head"

How I block all online ads

A couple of years ago, I decided I'd had enough of ads. Not just the occasional banner or a quick pre-roll video — I mean all of them. They have to go.

The DoorDash problem and the great AI browser fight

Amazon sued Perplexity this month over its Comet browser, which uses AI agents to do online shopping on your behalf. This is the first major front in the war over who gets to browse the web.

ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Masonry: Watching a CSS Feature Evolve | CSS-Tricks

Looking at the CSS Masonry discussions and what they can teach us about the development of new CSS features. What is the CSSWG’s role? What influence do browsers have? What can learn from the way past features evolved?

WTF is headless browsing, and how are AI agents fueling it?

AI agents are putting headless browsing back in the spotlight. That raises questions for publishers: How much traffic is real vs. automated?

A Few Things About the Anchor Element’s href You Might Not Have Known

Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

How One 1990s Browser Decision Created Big Tech’s Data Monopolies (And How We Might Finally Fix It)

There’s a fundamental architectural flaw in how the internet works that most people have never heard of, but it explains nearly every frustration you have with modern technology. Why your pho…

Meet Comet: Perplexity's Ambitious New AI-powered Browser - Dataconomy

Perplexity launched Comet, its first AI-powered web browser, on Wednesday, aiming to challenge Google Search's dominance in online information retrieval.

Arc creator Josh Miller on why you need a better browser than Chrome

The creator of Arc on browser competition, the future of the web, and where AI search fits in.

Top 10 browser automation tools to try in 2023—Free and paid

These top browser automation tools can automate your repetitive & tedious tasks on the web, including form filling, data scraping, website testing & more. Try them out in 2023 to skyrocket your productivity.

Thorium: The Fastest Open Source Chromium-based Browser?

Arc is a browser…

Experience a calmer, more personal internet in this browser designed for you. Let go of the clicks, the clutter, the distractions.

Privacy Tactics Complicate Ecommerce Marketing

Eliminating URL tracking parameters forces marketers to find other attribution methods.

The Best Reason to Use Firefox Is Sync That Actually Works

Firefox's continuity features work better than any browser I've tried.

High Performance Browser Networking (O'Reilly)

What every web developer must know about mobile networks, protocols, and APIs provided by browser to deliver the best user experience.

Chapter 16: Reusing Previous Computations

Chapter 16, Reusing Previous Computations, is now finished!

The Power of Browser Fingerprinting: Personalized UX, Fraud Detection, and

Discover the power of browser fingerprinting: personalize user experience, enhance fraud detection, and optimize login security.

Free the internet from mass surveillance. With the Mullvad Browser.

The Mullvad Browser is a privacy-focused web browser developed in collaboration between Mullvad VPN and the Tor Project. It’s produced to minimize tracking and fingerprinting. You could say it’s a Tor Browser to use without the Tor Network.

Chrome 112 Released With WASM Garbage Collection Trial, CSS Nesting

Google today promoted the Chrome 112 web browser to their stable channel on all supported platforms. Phoronix reports: Starting as an origin trial with Chrome 112 is WebAssembly (WASM) Garbage Collection support. Yes, garbage collection to allow for efficient support for…

9 Useful Chrome Extensions for Web Developers / Web Development

Hi there! Today I'm going to share with you 9 useful Google Chrome extensions that I use in my daily...

Articles — Smashing Magazine

Smashing Magazine — front-end, UX and design for front-end engineers and designers

What Is a Headless Browser and Where Is It Used?

Headless browsers are mostly used for page testing, automation, and data extraction. Find out what the most popular headless browsers are and their features.

New headless Chrome has been released and has a near-perfect browser fingerprint

This post presents the new headless Chrome version and shows the main browser fingerprint differences that exist compare to the old headless Chrome.

Usage · ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox Wiki · GitHub

🗃 Open source self-hosted web archiving. Takes URLs/browser history/bookmarks/Pocket/Pinboard/etc., saves HTML, JS, PDFs, media, and more... - ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox

Privacy-focused Brave Search grew by 5,000% in a year

Brave Search, the browser developer's privacy-centric Internet search engine, is celebrating its first anniversary after surpassing 2.5 billion queries and seeing almost 5,000% growth in a year.

This browser you've never heard of is now worth a billion dollars

Island is among the fastest companies to reach unicorn status

Scheduling Tasks and Threads | Web Browser Engineering

CSS Object Model (CSSOM) - Web APIs | MDN

The CSS Object Model is a set of APIs allowing the manipulation of CSS from JavaScript. It is much like the DOM, but for the CSS rather than the HTML. It allows users to read and modify CSS style dynamically.

Chrome DevTools | Chrome for Developers

Debug and optimize your web applications with Chrome DevTools.

Responsive images - Learn web development | MDN

That's a wrap for responsive images — we hope you enjoyed playing with these new techniques. As a recap, there are two distinct problems we've been discussing here:

Drawing to the Screen | Web Browser Engineering

DOM Enlightenment - Exploring the relationship between JavaScript and the modern HTML DOM

Exploring the relationship between JavaScript and the modern HTML DOM

The Web Platform: Browser technologies

Get Firefox browser — Mozilla (US)

Choose from Desktop, iOS, Android, or let us email you a mobile download link.

Web Browser Engineering

The most underused browser feature | Frank's blog

A great feature that is available in almost every browser allows you to reject the cookie consent popup.

Firefox 87 trims HTTP Referrers by default to protect user privacy – Mozilla Security Blog

We are pleased to announce that Firefox 87 will introduce a stricter, more privacy-preserving default Referrer Policy. From now on, by default, Firefox will trim path and query string ...

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Building an Advanced Fingerprinting Detector AI

Here is how you can build an advanced AI fingerprinter detector by refining it to take the dynamic behavior of JavaScript files into account.

TabFS

A browser extension that mounts your browser tabs as a filesystem on your computer.

Fingerprinting - MozillaWiki

2020 Chrome Extension Performance Report | DebugBear

A look at how Chrome extensions affect CPU usage, page rendering, and browser memory consumption.

Google’s new treatment of nofollow links

Here’s what you need to be aware of as Google begins viewing nofollow links as a hint for crawling and indexing.