Today Google-Chrome Overtook Firefox

For anecdotal evidence, after Firefox staying above 42% for a long time and Chrome/ium in the 20s, over the recent two weeks this gap has na...Read more »

Essential Apps for eBooks / eInk Reading Devices

There are many, many app lists out there for Andorid, but there are hardly any focussing on Android eink readers, such as the rooted Nooks. ...Read more »

Building Chromium for Slackware64

Chromium, the browser, can sometimes seem a bit evasive on the Slackware64 platform. For a start, the binaries more commonly distributed are...Read more »

Bye-Bye, Firefox

It's been a long time coming. In October last year I wrote a post wondering what browser to switch to or whether to stick with Mozilla...Read more »

Enabling the Integrated Flash and Plugin Blocker in Google Chrome

If this is not available for you out of the box in the settings page (details, content, plug-ins), you can enable it in about:flags , "...Read more »

Vimprobable - A new webkit browser

It's amazing how much offspring the konqueror-derived webkit browser engine has created. I think it's a good hint to see how high th...Read more »

Google Chrome married to Flash

For a single version during beta, 10.1.102.64ubuntu0.9.10.1m, Chrome beta supported a nice, elegantly working plugin blocker. In the content...Read more »

What's the matter with Firefox these days?

Not long ago I was still defending Firefox as a good browser that never, or only very rarely like every few months, crashed on me. That may ...Read more »

Iceweasel & Icecat - what's the difference?

Spurred on by looking at Kongoni GNU/Linux I found myself curious and decided to investigate what, if indeed there is any, the difference is...Read more »

Increase Speed and Save Traffic with Opera Turbo

If you have a traffic limitation I have some great advice: Install Opera. Starting with Opera 10, there is the integrated "Opera Turbo...Read more »

Switching my Main Browser: Opera 10.51 Review

Well, Opera doesn't seem to have convinced everybody, but it certainly convinced me to switch over again with version 10.51. Also in my ...Read more »

Lessons not Learned - Continuing Latency Issues in Linux

We still have wonderful fsync offenders. Look at Kopete for example, or at Chrome. You don't want to be running that on battery or in a ...Read more »

Chrome for Linux without the Spyware

When you get Chrome for Linux beta from Google or Chromium from the Ubuntu repository, there is some tracking code in there. Some say that...Read more »

Circumventing Censorship - Evading the "20th Century's Berlin Wall"

The New York Times presents the status quo in censorship evasion with examples of Iran and China. A quite interesting read. Don't expec...Read more »

Browser Privacy Package: Disabling Flash Cookies, Google Analytics and Google Ads tracking

Flash cookies are a way to identify you even if you disabled your browsers identification and even all your cookies. Here's a guide how ...Read more »

Porting Chrome back to KDE

Greg just had a great idea . Port the browser (Chrome) based on the browser (safari) that is based on the browser of KDE(konqueror) back to ...Read more »

Google Really is Going Towards the Browser OS

Google just released the native client , a browser plugin that helps to efficiently use the CPU of a machine accessing a web page. Availabl...Read more »

Opera 10 alpha

I'm right now trying out the newest browser (update) out there: Opera 10 alpha . This is Opera coming back into the league with a speedi...Read more »

Apple's Lock-In Syndrome

Apple is locking iPhone users into their rigid software framework through the App Store: They would not let people develop interfaces to Gma...Read more »

I've got Sun Java Working in my Browser in 64-Bit Linux!

I've been trying to get java to work in the browser for me for a long time now. And I've got two final results for you: First, it...Read more »