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I know a number of folks use The Great Suspender to automatically suspend inactive browser tabs in Chrome. Apparently recent versions of this extension have been taken over by a shady anonymous entity and is now flagged by Microsoft as malware . Notably the most recent version of the extension (v7.1.8) has added…
A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.
This will be short, ranty and to the point: these warnings are getting ridiculous: I know, tell you something you don't know! The whole ugly issue reared its head again on the weekend courtesy of the story in this tweet: > I’m not sure if this makes it better
The new Chinese owner of the popular Polyfill JS project injects malware into more than 100 thousand sites.
We're open sourcing postgres-wasm, a PostgresQL server that runs inside a browser, with our friends at Snaplet.
Guide to using HTTP headers for a better web. Learn about HTTPS, HSTS, CSP, Cacheable, immutable resources, serving WebP images, Feature-Policy and more.
Today, we’re introducing a way for Quick Share to work with AirDrop.
Easy to follow guide to building SPAs using Rust, WebAssembly and Yew
Hello! This is my personal web site. It’s not much, but it’s mine. After nearly a decade of just barely existing, I’ve spent quite a bit of time in 2019 trying to breathe new life into it. At this point, I think just about everyone–but especially folks in the software...
A new generation of collaborative software that allows users to retain ownership of their data.
A great feature that is available in almost every browser allows you to reject the cookie consent popup.
A look into my favorite Adwaita button and why I'm not happy it's going away
I learned how to build websites the old fashioned way: looking at website source code and trying to replicate the things I saw. I threw in the odd book for the stuff I couldn’t _see_ (like PHP/MySQL),…
Updated Aug. 28, 2024. Take back your privacy Firefox is rolling out Total Cookie Protection by default to more Firefox users worldwide, making Firefox the
In the release notes for macOS 26.3 RC, Apple stated that the window-resizing issue I demonstrated in my recent blog post had been resolved.
Text is a universal medium. And yet we try to prevent users of our UIs from using it. Let’s not.
A couple of weeks ago I went to the local shopping centre looking for a thermometer. After entering one store upon leaving without buying anything a tracker was assigned to me. I didn’t think much of it at first, but he followed me dutifully around the shopping centre, took careful note of how I walked. Whenever I…
Node.js has undergone a remarkable transformation since its early days. If you’ve been writing Node.js for several years, you’ve likely witnessed this evolution firsthand—from the callback-heavy, CommonJS-dominated landscape to today’s clean, standards-based development experience.
The Kelly Rowland/Nelly song Dilemma features an infamous scene amongst nerds where Kelly Rowland tries to send a message to Nelly using a ...
I extracted the certificate from the SuperFish adware and cracked the password (" komodia ") that encrypted it. I discuss how down below. T...
With iOS and iPadOS 16.4 beta 1 comes support for Web Push for Home Screen web apps, Badging API, Manifest ID, and more.
In the near future, Firefox will -- by default -- protect users by blocking tracking while also offering a clear set of controls to give our users more choice over what information they share with sites.
In the coming months Mozilla will launch support for an open ecosystem of extensions on Firefox for Android on addons.mozilla.org (AMO). We’ll announce a definite launch date in early September, ...
A look at modern news websites. How programmatic ad-tech, huge payloads and hostile architecture destroyed the reading experience.
Our Multi-Account Containers extension has been a game changer for many users, letting them manage various parts of their online life without intermingling
