News

Proton might be quietly working on a browser to rival Chrome

It looks like Proton, the Swiss company most people know for its encrypted email, is getting ready to enter the browser market too. The tip-off comes from a job...
Aug 05, 2026 2 Min Read
Bugs and Issues

Firefox just fixed a PDF printing issue that’s bugged users for years

If you have ever tried to print a small PDF in Firefox and watched it come out shrunken in the top corner of the page, you are not imagining things...
Aug 05, 2026 2 Min Read
Brave

Brave hits 51 million daily users, bucking the browser “summer slump”

Summer is usually a slow season for browsers. People are on vacation, kids are out of school, and web usage tends to dip across the board. But it looks like...
Aug 05, 2026 2 Min Read
AI

ChatGPT Atlas is shutting down this week, here's what users need to know

If you have been using OpenAI’s Atlas browser, you have a few days left with it. The company is pulling the plug on August 9, 2026, which means Atlas...
Aug 05, 2026 2 Min Read
Mozilla Firefox

Firefox 153.0.3 update rolling out with a smarter Smart Window and six bug fixes

Mozilla is pushing out a small but handy update to Firefox this week. Version 153.0.3 is rolling out now, and while it won’t turn heads the way...
Aug 05, 2026 2 Min Read
AI

Tabbit’s newest update turns simple prompts into fully published webpages

Building a website used to require knowing how to code or wrestling with complex site builders. Tabbit wants to make that process as easy as typing a single message. With...
Aug 04, 2026 1 Min Read
New features

Zen’s newest test build polishes compact mode and window dragging, and teases what’s next for Spaces

Zen browser developers have been quietly working behind the scenes to polish the browser. The newest Twilight build, which is out as version 1.22t, adds two small changes that...
Aug 04, 2026 2 Min Read
Bugs and Issues

Fix for Firefox Linux sleep bug is live, but you'll have to wait to get it

Firefox has finally fixed a Linux bug that could keep your PC awake long after you were done using the browser. The issue has already landed in Firefox Nightly and...
Aug 04, 2026 2 Min Read
Google

Your Google passkeys all share one secret, and hackers just learned to steal it

Passkeys were supposed to be the thing that finally kills passwords. No more phishing, no more reused logins, no more sticky notes on the monitor. But researchers at Palo Alto...
Aug 04, 2026 2 Min Read
Google Chrome

Brave Search joins Google, Bing, Yahoo, and DuckDuckGo in Chrome’s default search engine picker

If you open up Chrome’s settings and go looking for a new default search engine, you might notice a name that wasn’t there before. Brave Search is now...
Aug 04, 2026 2 Min Read
Bugs and Issues

Google and Microsoft team up to fix the biggest pain point in browser screen sharing

When your Wi-Fi drops mid-presentation, and the spreadsheet you’re sharing dissolves into a blur, that’s the encoder throwing away detail to keep up. A change just...
Aug 03, 2026 1 Min Read
Mozilla Firefox

Firefox Nightly adds support for a faster, more modern web connection

Firefox Nightly 154 has picked up support for QUIC version 2, giving the browser another networking upgrade that’s mostly invisible to users, but still matters every time a...
Aug 03, 2026 2 Min Read
Brave

Brave opens waitlist for its BAT Rewards Card, in virtual and physical forms

Brave has started taking signups for its upcoming Brave Rewards Card, a product the company first revealed as part of its BAT Roadmap 4.0 last month. We wrote about...
Aug 03, 2026 1 Min Read
Microsoft

Your Edge browser has 200+ ways in — Microsoft just closed them

Somewhere north of 200 separate security flaws just got patched in a single Microsoft Edge update, and if you use the browser, this is your cue to check the version...
Aug 03, 2026 1 Min Read
Google

Chrome will soon block the malware trick that locks your New Tab page hostage

Google is working on a fix for one of Chrome’s oldest malware headaches. A series of Chromium commits, first spotted by BleepingComputer, shows the company building protections against...
Aug 03, 2026 1 Min Read
Bugs and Issues

Microsoft Edge keeps turning this privacy setting back on

A Microsoft Edge privacy setting appears to be ignoring user preferences by turning itself back on even after being disabled. I first came across reports of the issue in a...
Aug 01, 2026 1 Min Read
DuckDuckGo

DuckDuckGo built the anti-Meta glasses, and they’re gloriously dumb

While Meta, Apple, and every other big tech company are busy convincing us that we need cameras and AI shoved directly onto our faces, DuckDuckGo decided to join the smart...
Jul 31, 2026 1 Min Read
Google

Chrome 152 enters beta across desktop, Android, and iOS

Google has officially pushed Chrome 152 into the beta channel for desktop, Android, and iOS platforms. Build version 152.0.7977.8 is rolling out to Windows, Mac, Linux, and...
Jul 31, 2026 1 Min Read
AI

ChatGPT's Chrome extension gets YouTube video and tab reading support

OpenAI is making its Chrome extension more useful for people who want ChatGPT to work with the web pages they already have open. The latest update adds support for YouTube...
Jul 31, 2026 2 Min Read
AI

Google is making Gemini Spark more useful with a deeper Chrome connection

Google is giving Gemini Spark another upgrade, this time by letting it work more closely with Chrome.  Until now, Spark handled web tasks using a remote browser managed by...
Jul 31, 2026 2 Min Read
Android

Chrome for Android now lets you customize your new tab page

Chrome on Android is finally catching up with its iOS counterpart. After bringing homepage customization to Chrome on iOS late last year, Google has now started rolling out the same...
Jul 31, 2026 1 Min Read
AI

Aside teases Windows launch in August, ahead of Dia’s fall debut

Earlier today, we reported that Dia is finally bringing its browser to Windows this fall. Well, not much later, it looks like the folks at Aside also wanted to show...
Jul 30, 2026 2 Min Read
Apple

Apple’s Safari Technology Preview 249 adds new CSS tools and fixes dozens of bugs

Apple just pushed out Safari Technology Preview 249, and this one is a bigger deal than the last few. Where recent builds mostly cleaned up bugs, this release actually hands...
Jul 30, 2026 1 Min Read
AI

I spent a day with Polar AI Browser and came away with mixed feelings

Another AI browser showed up this week, but Polar isn’t chasing the same pitch we’ve been hearing over and over. Instead of promising a smarter search...
Jul 30, 2026 4 Min Read