Google defends search business in biggest US antitrust case of the century so far - The largest antitrust action since the turn-of-the-century Microsoft case is headed to... - https://www.computerworld.com/article/3706512/google-defends-search-business-in-biggest-us-antitrust-case-of-the-century-so-far.html#tk.rss_all #technologyindustry #browsers #legal

A thin candy shell of surveillance #chrome #browsers

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Mozilla on controversial #WebEnvironmentIntegrity

https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/852

citing https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/webvision/full/#openness

Standards "aim to avoid assumptions about the underlying hardware or software that might restrict where they can be deployed"

"no single party decides which form-factors, devices, #OperatingSystems, and #browsers may access the #Web"

This helps people "to overcome personal obstacles to access"

"Mechanisms that attempt to restrict these choices are harmful to the openness of the Web"

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Mozilla discussion on controversial #WebEnvironmentIntegrity

https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/852

"#Standards [...] aim to avoid assumptions about the underlying hardware or software that might restrict where they can be deployed"

"no single party decides which form-factors, devices, #OperatingSystems, and #browsers may access the #Web"

This helps people "to overcome personal obstacles to access"

"Mechanisms that attempt to restrict these choices are harmful to the openness of the Web"

@moznews

made a number of improvements to the auto extension manager for #chromium / #chrome #browsers: https://github.com/davidshq/auto-extension-manager

works more like it actually should. 😂 any #feedback is appreciated.

@Vivaldi I'm curious: what do you think is the future sustainability model for #browsers, as we want to get away from the ad-based web? Is it donations? A monthly fee? I don't feel search engine and bookmark partnerships is the best, but I'm not sure ahah

@malwaretech
So we should tell people so #UninstallChrome as soon as possible, switching to other #browsers. I mainly suggest #Firefox.
Can we really suggest #chromiumbased #browsers?
@quinta

EU lists ‘gatekeepers’ to be regulated, opens iMessage and Bing investigations - The European Commission has published a list of so-called gatekeeper companies that wi... - https://www.computerworld.com/article/3705935/eu-lists-gatekeepers-to-be-regulated-opens-imessage-and-bing-investigations.html#tk.rss_all #socialnetworkingapps #technologyindustry #regulation #browsers

Browsers each provide built-in video players for the <video> element. How accessible are they? @aardrian takes a look.

#Accessibility #Video #Browsers

https://adrianroselli.com/2023/09/browser-video-players-review.html

When #MicrosoftEdge introduces a feature that starts opening Teams tabs in another profile, while you explicitly try to keep 20+ customer tenant identities as isolated as possible. #Browsers, a hard computing problem to solve - at least for #Microsoft.

I've not been using the browser's bookmark toolbar for well over a week now and, to be honest, I don't really miss it. Sites I frequently visit appear as I type their URL and the less frequent ones are in #Raindrop. 🙂

#WebBrowser #browsers

Don't miss Mikw Rapa presenting a pair of cool sessions for developers at #techbash this fall.

Learn more and join us at the Kalahari Resort in the #poconos: https://techbash.com

#dotnet #python #devtools #webdev #developers #techevent #nepa #dotnetconf #devconference #browsers

People in #Selenium project follow what goes on around different #Browsers, work to drive forward automating browsers with #Standards, provide #Webdriver in multiple languages, and enable #SeleniumEcosystemProjects. Real browsers, the ones end users use. Become a contributor in any of these?

@Brendanjones @alexhammy @kev @dragonmantank @ppatel
I'd like to add that in most cases you can circumvent most of the issues in websites requiring chrome by utilising a chrome user-agent. you can even have a dedicated profile for websites that are broken by more restrictive policies.
if nothing works, you can use a degoogled chromium browser. yes it's still chromium but using Firefox 95% of the time is much better than using it 0% of the time.
#privacy #browsers #Foss #Firefox

Mozilla Firefox updated to v117.

Download (Linux, Mac, Windows):
https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/117.0/
#Web #Browsers

Firefox vs. Google Chrome | User PRIVACY BENCHMARK: :firefox: 100 :omya_google: 0

Source: the source code availability.

Yes: Google seem to have plans to turn web browsers into DRM software - completely restricting AD blocking.

How would you feel about that?

If one continues supporting Chrome / Opera / Microsoft Edge (without even a requirement for it) it can happen faster.

Spoiler: it's planned => https://stackdiary.com/web-environment-integrity

#Firefox #Google #Chrome #WEI #adblocking #DRM #benchmark #browsers

This is so unacceptable in 2023. (Or any date after the early naughties)

We need a #standards based, #accessible web that can be accessed by standards compliant browsers of all types. We're sliding back into monopolies controlled by #google and #apple who are untrustworthy shepherds of an open web.

#webDev #browsers #accessibility #webStandards #compliance #webDesign

testing out some #browsers and right now i think I'm set with #Waterfox. It's the same Firefox experience but faster.

Tried #opera too, but first of all it's just a Chromium thing now, and I always found Opera's kitchen sink approach a bit overwhelming. It doesn't even come with a built-in P2P file sharing system anymore so it's not as fun.

"Welcome to Edge for Business! We're excited to announce we have solved NONE of the browser profile clutter issues mentioned above. However, we did move the profile picker to the other side the screen, and we think you're gonna love it."

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/features/edge-for-business

#MicrosoftEdge #browsers #Microsoft

When creating a new #MicrosoftEdge profile it takes 13 steps to get to this point:

1. Start without your data
2. Allow MS to save your browsing activity
3. Pick a theme (Next)
4. Get to the sites you love (Finish)
5. Accept cookies from MS
6. Auto-hide sidebar
7. Change language to English(US)
8. Layout: focused
9. Show sponsored links: off
10. Quick links: off
11. Show greeting: off
12. Content: off
13. Import favorites: delete

Thoughts on #browsers & #Microsoft: https://ff.tips/EdgeProfile