Tag: web browsers
Why I don’t trust the Brave browser
This will be a rather controversial technology take, especially from someone who has been working on privacy and security for so long, but I do not trust the Brave browser or their search engine.
Surfing Upstream
In an era when hundreds of free web browsers exist, Orion Browser has a novel idea: It wants to charge money. Why’s that? Simple: It wants to fix the paradigm.
Tab It Your Way
How the power-user web browser Vivaldi has managed to maintain a flexible design philosophy in an era when so much is decided for you online.
Browse Minimally
Perhaps the problem with the modern web browser is that there’s just too much stuff. What if we cut things down to the bare minimum?
Internet Synthesis Protocol
How the professional-minded MIDI format, for an incredibly short but memorable period of time, became the primary way music was shared on the internet.
Close Your Open Tabs
A case in favor of browser tab minimalism, or closing the tabs you’re not using. Sometimes, information overload has its limits.
The Other Browser War
Why a new “feature” Opera added to its browser this week really makes me wish they’d ask me to pay them money for the right to use their browser.
Microsoft Web Applications 2010 bring the cloud to the enterprise
In advance of the announcement later today, I Started Something have uncovered videos about the new Microsoft Office suite. Microsoft Office turns to the web As anticipated, Office 2010 includes web-based versions of applications contained in the suite. These don’t have the complete feature set, but are designed so that company employees can create and make changes to documents (including Word documents, Excel spreadsheets and Powerpoint presentations) on the road. Web applications: now runni
Opera Unite: a great idea, wrong center
Opera just released Opera Unite, a version of their web browser that also contains a built-in web server. As Harry McCracken explains over at Technologizer: While it’s impossible to judge at this early date whether it’ll “forever change the fundamental fabric of the Web” as Opera promised, it’s a very big idea. Web browsers have always been about bringing information from the Web onto a PC. With Unite, Opera 10 still does that–but it can also fling information from the PC up to the Internet. [.