Sleipnir browser focuses on news with Site Updates on New Tab page
Sleipnir auto-discovers news feeds (‘RSS’) from your most visited websites and curates a personal news feed on its New Tab Page (NTP).
Web Browsers
All about icons for Microsoft Edge
How Microsoft Edge (legacy) detects and uses favicons, colors, and other website assets for use on its New Tab Page (NTP).
The many URI schemas used by the browsers’ “Reader Views”
The reading mode in your web browser is an alternate rendering mode not based on any standards. Web browser vendors can’t even agree on what URI schema to use.
Integrate your website as a search provider in Microsoft Edge
How to make your website appear as a suggested search engine in Microsoft Edge using the OpenSearch auto-discovery protocol.
Get rid of the annoying Safari notification ads in MacOS
Apple wants you to use Safari real bad and send aggressive marketing notifications if you’re using a third-party web browser.
New default browser setting protection in MacOS
Apple knows malicious software will try to change your default web browser. However, do the new settings-preserving protections go too far?
IE11 Preloading-feature sends browsing history to Microsoft
The new Preloading feature in Internet Explorer 11 is designed to speed up your web browsing. It also transmits a lot of information to Microsoft.
Become a search provider in Safari Quick Website Search
Here’s how to make your website appear as a suggested search provider in Safari’s new Quick Website Search feature.
Apple pushes to decentralize search engines in Safari
Safari 8 wants you to use more than one search engine. Its address field auto-discovers and installs OpenSearch providers to get you where you’re going quicker.
Opera returns to Linux desktops
Opera re-releases new builds for Linux desktop users after dropping support for one year during the Presto–Chromium transition.
Mac’s “Default Browser Helper” plug-in is injected into web browsers
MacOS has a weird default browser plug-in that loads itself into all web browsers. Apple uses the plugin to monitor what web browsers people are using.
Location sharing policies and private browsing
I investigated how web browsers treat your configures location sharing permissions and policies in private browsing mode.