/Web Browser

Improving Firefox Stability With This One Weird Trick

- Gabriele Svelto tl;dr: "In some cases, Firefox could handle the failed allocation, but in most cases, there is no sensible or safe way to handle the error and it would need to crash in a controlled way… but what if we could recover from this situation instead? Windows automatically resizes the swap file when it’s almost full, increasing the amount of commit space available. Could we use this to our advantage?"

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Open-source Tests Of Web Browser Privacy

- Arthur Edelstein tl;dr: "An open-source initiative that subjects popular web browsers to a suite of automated tests. These tests are designed to audit web browsers' privacy properties in an unbiased manner. The results of the tests are made public to help users make an informed choice about which browser to use, and to encourage browser makers to fix leaks of private user data."

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The Web Browser As A Tool Of Thought

- Linus Lee tl;dr: "The vision of the web browser that excites me the most is one where the browser is a medium for creativity, learning, and thinking deeply that spans personal and public spheres of knowledge." Linus illustrates his vision in this post.

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Breaking The Web Forward

- Peter-Paul Koch tl;dr: "Safari is holding back the web. It is the new IE, after all. In contrast, Chrome is pushing the web forward so hard that it’s starting to break. Meanwhile web developers do nothing except moan and complain. The only thing left to do is to pick our poison."

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Web Browsers Need To Stop

- Drew DeVault tl;dr: "At some point" browsers need to "stop adding scope and start focusing on performance, efficiency, reliability, and security at the scope" that already exists.

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Things You Can Do With A Browser In 2020

- Luigi De Rosa tl;dr: A 'non-exhaustive list of less-known features implemented in browsers today. This list isn't intended for a technical audience; instead it wants to be a "I didn't know we could do that in a browser!" list.'

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Demystifying Browsers

- Eric Lawrence tl;dr: Eric has been building browsers for 16 years and is often asked "Where do I learn about browsers?" The aim of this post is to answer that very question.

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Microsoft Opens Edge Addons Store for Submissions

- Luke Jones tl;dr: Microsoft Edge Addons store is now open and developers can submit their addons. Applications built on Google's Chromium will be functional on Edge with no additional code required.

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Before Netscape: The Forgotten Web Browsers Of The Early 1990s

- Matthew Lasar tl;dr: Old browsers screenshots, including Tim Berner Lee's original WorldWideWeb browser CERN that ran on the NeXTStep operating system.

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A Conspiracy To Kill IE6

- Chris Zacharias tl;dr: Just after Google's acquisition of YouTube, a YouTube engineer recounts his team's stealth effort to push a fifth of the site's users off of IE6 without informing the organization 🤫.

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