Articles tagged Browsers

A browser setting called designMode lets you edit the text on any web page. The edit only shows up in your own browser, not on the real site.

A link can open a page scrolled to one sentence, already highlighted. Chrome and Firefox both let you copy one of these links with a right click.

Zen Browser cannot play Netflix on a Windows PC or a Mac. Same for Spotify, Disney+, HBO Max, Prime Video, and Apple Music.

Maxthon, a Chromium-based browser, got caught doing the exact thing you would fear a browser might do.

You have seen the box. The little one that says "verify you're human" and makes you wait before a site lets you in.

Pull a late-1990s iMac out of the closet today and it's basically a paperweight on the modern web. Most sites just won't load.

Open one web page and it can start guessing what else you're doing on your computer. Which sites you're loading.

A website can recognize you and follow you around even after you block every cookie and switch to private mode.