A new and mysterious flag has shown up on Microsoft Edge Canary. Called Project Robin, its description is cryptic, to say the least. The entry notes that the Project Robin flag enables Project Robin features, which is rather unhelpful. Thankfully one of the changes it enables is not that difficult to spot. Project Robin adds […]
Microsoft is working on increasing the discovery of the new features they are constantly adding to their new Edge browser with a new feature called Assistance Hub. Assistance Hub offers a feed informing users of the features the Edge browser as to offer as can be seen in this gif below: I suspect most of […]
Microsoft is upgrading the web capture tool in Edge with a great new capability. The tool already lets you capture a web page longer than the screen by scrolling, but some times web pages have multiple scrollable regions and on such pages, it is not possible to scroll those regions. Microsoft has now added a […]
Immersive Reader, a feature of Microsoft Edge that strips down extraneous content on web pages, makes the web more accessible and less distracting. Today Microsoft announced that the feature now supports Wikipedia, greatly simplifying the presentation of the web pages. You can now open all Wikipedia webpages in Immersive Reader by clicking Immersive Reader (book […]
In a policy document, the Chromium development team has announced that they are dropping support for all x86 CPUs which do not have a minimum of SSE3 (Supplemental Streaming SIMD Extensions 3) support, starting in Chrome 89. This generally means pre-Intel Core 2 Duo processors (e.g. Intel Atom and Celeron M processors) with most post-2005 […]
To be able to manage tabs is a bit tricky, especially if you have a gazillion of tabs open in your browser. Though for Chrome users, managing tabs is easy, thanks to Tab Groups and Tab Groups Auto-Correct features — the former lets you label and group your tabs, which you’ll be able to collapse […]
While Microsoft is trying hard to convince Internet Explorer users to switch to Edge by introducing features like IE Mode in its new Chromium-based browser, there are businesses that still prefer Internet Explorer over Chromium Edge for performing certain work. However, for a regular user, Internet Explorer isn’t the one that is ideal as many […]
Most of us use our browser as our password manager, and fortunately, the features of these built-in services has continued to improve over time. On occasion, however, your browser may not recognize the need to save an updated password, meaning you are sometimes stuck having to enter in the correct password manually each time despite […]
To be able to save articles so that you can read them later is something that everybody will appreciate, but for some unknown reasons, Google Chrome, which claims the highest usage share, was quite late to get the feature. Google recently made the feature available for Chrome for Windows, macOS, ChromeOS, Linux, and iOS. And […]
Some of you may not think about your web browser all that much. These days, however, it could be worth considering why you use what you use — and how you could benefit if you switch. One of the central features that you should consider is privacy. Most browsers offer at least some level of […]
We recently noted that one of the best features of the Opera browser, besides the free VPN, was its sophisticated Picture in Picture video pop-up, which worked on all video, was intuitive and easy to activate, and offered a large number of user controls. Not long after, it appears Opera disabled this feature, and reverted […]
One of the distinctive features of the EdgeHTML rendering engine was butter-smooth scrolling, both with your fingers and with the mouse scroll wheel. The move to the Chromium rendering engine has meant switching to a much more abrupt type of scrolling, but Microsoft’s engineers are trying to fix it. A new commit by Microsoft to […]
It’s almost 2020, and browsers can do amazing stuff. This repo contains 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 don’t know we could that in a browser” list. In many cases, listed features aren’t yet part of […]
You’ve seen it everywhere – that little thumbnail preview of a website mentioned in a tweet, the expanded description in a Slack channel, or in WhatsApp group chat. Figure 1: The preview shown in a group chat provides a hint of what the real webpage looks like These link previews are so commonplace that we […]
Google has added a new Sharing hub in Chrome Canary for Android. The Sharing hub contains three options — “Send to your Devices,” “QR Code,” “Copy link,” and “More”. Currently, these options are available on the share sheet in Chrome stable. In order to be able to see the Share hub, you’ll have to enable […]
Back in April, Microsoft removed the Edge Insider Extension from the Microsoft Store as the company made the switch to Chromium to re-work on the Edge browser. Microsoft has since then been working on a new Edge Insider Extension for the Chromium-based Edge and it now looks like the company is very close to release […]