Enlarge / A special 100th-version splash page appears on the first launch of a new Firefox installation. (credit: Samuel Axon) Firefox released its 100th update, and some fanfare accompanied the release on Mozilla’s blog about the web browser. Firefox 100 is available this week for both desktop and mobile versions. To celebrate, Mozilla says it […]
Enlarge (credit: Microsoft) A couple of years ago, Microsoft reformulated its Edge web browser with a backend based on Google’s Chromium codebase. Since then, the company} has tried to make Advantage stand out primarily by adding on extra features, mostly related to privacy, security, and online shopping. One interesting new experimental feature that could be […]
Cookieyes.com—a site devoted to providing GDPR/CCPA consent solutions—unsurprisingly has an excellent, minimally-invasive cookie banner. [credit: Jim Salter ] The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), passed in 2018, requires websites to ask visitors for consent prior to placing cookies. As any Internet user is now aware, this means an extra step required when visiting […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) When you visit an HTTPS-protected website, your browser doesn’t exchange data with the webserver until it has ensured that the site’s digital certificate is valid. That prevents hackers with the ability to monitor or modify data passing between you and the site from obtaining authentication cookies or executing malicious code on […]