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I stopped using Google Maps offline and switched to an app that actually works without service
Google Maps offline has limitations, but this free app keeps me navigating without data.
3 reasons why I'll never fully switch to Brave and still have Chrome on my phone
Brave is great at what it does, but I still need Chrome in my life
Meridian — an experimental web browser built on Servo and GPUI
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I replaced Chrome, Firefox, and Zen with a browser that doesn’t want to keep me browsing, and it makes more sense than I expected
The browser that wants me to close it
GitHub Inbox unread count is missing digits
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I thought my battery was failing until I adjusted these memory settings in Chrome
Two settings for two extra hours of battery life
Quoting Paul Ford
The web browser is very, very, very powerful software for applications, and the cost of accessing that power is going down seemingly every day . — Paul Ford , The Web Is More Than Enough Tags: browsers , paul-ford , web-development
Dark Mode in Firefox: How It Works, What It Covers, and How to Force It Everywhere
Dark mode has become a standard browser feature, but how it actually works, what sites support it, and how to get consistent dark experience across the whole web isn't well understood. Here's a practical guide. How Dark Mode Propagates from Browser to Websites The browser doesn't just "dark mode"…
A Counter Assistant Signed the Branch Browser Into Her Own Account and Took Our Saved Passwords Home
In July a trade counter assistant at one of our branches left to work for a competitor. A month later the branch manager noticed that somebody had signed in to a supplier's ordering portal with the branch's shared login and looked at our buying prices three days running. The sign in came from a…
Home Screen launch on iOS 18.6.2
Reproduce how manifest, display mode, icons, storage, and status-bar settings affected Home Screen launch in one iOS 18.6.2 device test.
Notifications in iOS Home Screen apps
Reproduce permission, push-manager exposure, and notificationclick handling measured in one iOS 18.6.2 Home Screen app test.
Firefox Windows 7 Support Ends: Last Update March 23, 2027
Firefox ESR 115 support ends for Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and macOS 10.12-10.14; the last scheduled update is March 23, 2027, and branch EOL is April 6, 2027.
webframe: evaluated as a scraper and a sandbox
Research: webframe: evaluated as a scraper and a sandbox webframe is a neat little project from Jeff Lindsay which lets you "run a web page like a program" - you point it at a URL or file and it executes it in a hidden headless web view and outputs console.log() to standard output and any…
Ranking proposals for Interop 2027
The Firefox team are asking us to weigh in on proposals for Interop 2027—what features should browsers be concentrating on implementing or improving. Here are my top five : Web app installation via and navigator.install() . Prompts the user to install a progressive web app. Speculation Rules API…
“WebMCP is Agentic WebPerf”
Yoav Weiss makes a good point: “WebMCP is Agentic WebPerf”. I’ve seen both pushback to WebMCP in the form of “websites should just be better, or agents should be smarter, there shouldn’t be alternative paths to using them built.” And I’ve seen plenty of excitement for WebMCP in the form of “ooooo…
Web Native Game Development
The web has quietly become one of the most capable platforms for game development. Advances in WebAssembly, WebGL, and WebGPU have given developers tools that rival native desktop performance, while game engines like Unity and Godot have added robust web export pipelines. However, building games…
WebAssembly 3.0 with Andreas Rossberg
WebAssembly, or WASM, has grown from a low-level compilation target for C and C++ into one of the most influential technologies in modern computing. It now powers browser applications, edge compute platforms, embedded systems, and a growing ecosystem of languages targeting a portable and secure…
