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• How to change your default browser in iOS 14

  Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. For years, if you owned an iPhone, you had to use Safari as your default browser. You could install and use Chrome, Firefox, or any other browser, ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• 20 best JavaScript charting libraries

  With the advent of big-data, good old spreadsheets just don’t cut it anymore. If you're looking for better ways to visualize ...

  • Vaibhav Singhal

• 4 years later, Google finally explains the origins of its Chrome dinosaur game

  Rawr.

  • Matthew Hughes

• The story of how web browsers changed us forever

  This article was originally published by Matthew Guay on Capiche, a secret society for SaaS power users, building a new ...

  • Capiche

• Web scraping with Python: common roadblocks and solutions

  Web scraping has been used to extract data from websites almost from the time the World Wide Web was born. In the early days, ...

  • Neal Barnett

• Microsoft brings Edge's hidden Surf Game to everyone

  Back in February, Microsoft hid a nifty little surfing game into its Edge browser, which started out as an easter egg to ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Chrome is testing dark mode for Google Search

  You might soon be able to rummage through the internet... but in dark mode. Chrome is testing a dark theme for Google Search. ...

  • Mix

• Google Chrome's grouped tabs feature is now rolling out — here’s how to use it

  Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Chrome will soon block ads that unnecessarily tax your CPU and battery

  Google is making some changes so Chrome users won't have to endure annoying ads that tax their CPU and drain their battery ...

  • Mix

• Google Chrome will let you group and label tabs starting next week

  "There are two types of people in the world: tab minimalists who have just a few tabs open at a time and tab collectors who ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Xiaomi is collecting browser data even in incognito mode, researchers say

  You might want to stay away from Xiaomi's browsers if you care about your privacy, or so suggest a couple of concerned researchers. ...

  • Mix

• How browser fingerprints identify you even when you have cookies turned off

  Web tracking is the practice by which websites and third-party companies collect information about users’ online activity. ...

  • Gabor Takacs

• Instagram just rolled out DMs on web -- here's where to find them

  Instagram just rolled out its DMs to everyone on the web version of its platform. Here's where you can find them on the site. ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Microsoft Edge overtakes Firefox — but good luck dethroning Chrome

  Mozilla Firefox has lost its spot as the second most popular browser to Microsoft Edge — but Google's Chrome still lords ...

  • Mix

• This handy tool lets you record GIFs straight from your browser

  Are you tired of installing software to capture GIFs? Then GIFcap might just be the thing for you. All you need is Chrome ...

  • Mix

• Digital fingerprints are the new cookies — and advertisers want yours

  More and more advertisers are using 'fingerprinting', which is when a company creates a profile of your device’s unique ...

  • Peter Dolanjski

• Here are some mobile and browser games you can play online with friends

  Stuck inside with only a phone? Here are some mobile and browser games that you can play with friends online to get you through ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• How to use Chrome's media controls to easily switch between videos and podcasts

  This is how you use Chrome's media control button to switch between YouTube, Netflix, and Spotify content without juggling ...

  • Mix

• How to find the secret surfing game in Microsoft Edge

  Microsoft is putting a secret surf game in its Edge browser. Here's how you can find it, access the different modes, and ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• 3 years later, Google Earth finally works on Firefox, Edge, and Opera

  After nearly three years of waiting, Google Earth finally works on browsers other than Chrome, including Firefox, Opera, ...

  • Mix

• How to clear your computer of distracting clutter

  Did you know TNW Conference has a track fully dedicated to bringing the biggest names in tech to showcase inspiring ...

  • Nir Eyal

• Google Chrome to block insecure downloads starting this spring

  Google today announced that it would soon warn Chrome users about “insecure” downloads, the first move in a plan to block ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Your beginner's guide to Honey, the anti-Amazon shopping extension

  Honey is a popular browser extension that helps you save money with coupons and by basically thumbing its nose at Amazon. ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Bitcoin fans just turned their Tesla car into a full node

  If you've got a Tesla, please don't try this at home. Just live vicariously through these Bitcoin fans, better for your car, ...

  • David Canellis

• Firefox will now let you delete your collected data

  Firefox browser will now let you delete all data it collects in its upcoming version rolling out on January 7. The company ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• AI creativity will bloom in 2020, all thanks to true web machine learning

  TensorFlow.js is a gamechanger for AI. It's an end-to-end open source ML library that is capable of running pre-trained AI ...

  • Maciej Zasada

• Dodgy Google Chrome extension reportedly causes $16K crypto theft

  A malicious Google Chrome extension has reportedly cost one user Ledger user around $16,000 worth of the cryptocurrency Zcash. ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• The evolution of web design in the 2010s

  Creative web design changed dramatically in the last decade, beginning with the death of the beloved Flash, and then empowered ...

  • Rob Ford

• The pros and cons of how Google Chrome encrypts DNS activity

  Thanks to the expansion of HTTPS, the secure version of the original HTTP protocol, most internet traffic is encrypted today, ...

  • Ben Dickson

• Microsoft wants devs to submit Chromium Edge add-ons ahead of its launch

  Microsoft is now accepting developers' submissions of add-ons for its upcoming Chromium-based Edge browser, so as to extend ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Don’t trust Google Chrome’s incognito mode

  Privacy is fast becoming a hard-to-earn luxury. As you browse through websites, it’s hard to shake off the creepy ...

  • Ben Dickson

• Safari gets support for hardware security keys with iOS 13.3

  Apple's iOS 13.3 update comes with a new nifty feature that allows Safari users to use hardware security keys for two-factor ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Google and Facebook are gonna hate Apple's new privacy-preserving online ads

  Apple has outlined a new Safari feature, called Privacy Preserving Ad Click Attribution, that aims to stop online ads from ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• PSA: Scammers are exploiting a Firefox bug to lock users out of the browser

  Firefox users are being targeted by malicious websites that display a fake warning message and then completely lock them ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• New technology will make your web browser more private - but it might help criminals avoid justice

  A new technology promises to make your web browser more private than ever, keeping your internet activity from prying eyes. ...

  • The Conversation

• Major Chinese browser ‘Maxthon’ has a bug that allows anyone admin access

  One of China's most popular browsers, Maxthon, has a bug in its Windows version that can allow a hacker to take admin control ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Chrome and Firefox will now alert you about data breaches involving your accounts

  Mozilla and Google add password breach notification tools natively into Firefox and Chrome browsers respectively in the latest ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Apple under scrutiny for sending Safari browsing data to China's Tencent (Updated)

  Apple attracts scrutiny for using Chinese internet conglomerate Tencent as a Safe Browsing provider to verify if websites ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Fake Russian Tor browser purloins $40,000 in Bitcoin from dark web shoppers

  There's a malicious version of the Tor browser going round – the program used to access the dark web – and it's stealing ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Zen is an elegant browser-based text editor for minimalists

  Zen is a minimalist browser-based text editor. And it means business — there's no clutter, it only stores data locally, ...

  • Mix

• Google follows Apple with its own anti-tracking policy for Chromium-based browsers

  Google has announced a new Privacy Sandbox initiative that aims to fundamentally enhance privacy on the web while serving ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Opera 64 now protects users against tracking scripts

  Opera keeps getting better

  • Matthew Hughes

• Google is integrating its password checkup feature into Chrome — here's how to use it

  Google is building its Password Checkup Chrome extension, which it launched earlier this year, right into Google account ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Google accused of 'privacy gaslighting' over its anti-tracking policy

  Google's watered-down anti-tracking policy for the web has invited fresh criticism from privacy experts who say the search ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Adware campaign exploits Chrome and Safari bugs to serve over 1B malicious ads

  eGobbler exploits "obscure" bugs in WebKit and Chrome browsers to serve over 1 billion malicious ads in less than two months, ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Here’s how you mute individual tabs on Chrome

  Chrome already has a mute feature in the tab menu, but unfortunately it works for websites (and not individual tabs). Here's ...

  • Mix

• How to change the default translation language on Chrome

  Here's how how to change the default translation language on Chrome to whichever tongue you prefer — so you never have ...

  • Mix

• Chrome finally introduces a visual tab switcher that's easy to use on mobile

  We all have been in the situation where we've lost count the number of browser tabs we’ve opened on our phones. To help ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• LastPass fixes flaw that leaked your previously used credentials

  Popular password manager LastPass has fixed a serious flaw in its latest update that could allow a malicious website to access ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Mozilla begins charging for services — starting with Firefox premium support for enterprises

  The Firefox maker is rolling out a new offer for organizations that run the browser in enterprise environments with a premium ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Brave browser catches Google tracking users with hidden web pages

  Brave, the budding browser with its own native cryptocurrency, is going after Google for allegedly tracking users using secret ...

  • David Canellis

• How to try Microsoft's Chromium-powered Edge Beta

  Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Apple will soon treat online web tracking the same as a security vulnerability

  Apple ups its privacy batte with a new "WebKit Tracking Prevention Policy" that aims to prevent all forms covert tracking ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Google, Apple, and Mozilla won't budge on Kazakhstan's sneaky plot to spy on citizens

  Google and Mozilla are deploying a technical solution to block the use of Kazakhstan root CA certificate Qaznet Trust Network ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• The Club, an 'MMO' from one of the Stanley Parable devs, is bonkers

  Sometimes I come into work and my European colleagues have had a relatively quiet day. Other days I come in and someone tells ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Microsoft Edge can now read aloud websites with human-like voices

  Microsoft's Edge browser has a neat feature you might not have been aware of: it can read websites out loud for you. Handy ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Over 50% of Google searches result in no clicks, data shows

  Google is hungry for your clicks. But it turns out that more than half of all Google Search queries now result in no clicks. ...

  • Mix

• Moonday Mornings: IBM wants to put your browser history on the blockchain, forever

  Welcome to another Moonday Mornings. Let's waste no time and take a look at the weekend's cryptocurrency and blockchain headlines ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Web advertising 5 times more profitable than crypto-jacking, research says

  New academic research has found that crypto-jacking is way less efficient at generating website revenue when compared to ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• How to make Twitter’s new design suck less

  I know, I know – lots of people hate Twitter's new design. But you should try these tricks before you give up on it. You ...

  • Mix

• Chrome 76 is out, making it easy to get past paywalls

  A few weeks ago, we reported Chrome 76 would make it harder to run Flash - because Flash just won't die - as well as potentially ...

  • Napier Lopez

• MyDashWallet was compromised for 2 MONTHS — users, move your cryptocurrency

  Hackers have targeted DASH cryptocurrency users, after web wallet MyDashWallet was found compromised for two whole months. ...

  • David Canellis

• Firefox Quantum now comes with curated extensions and a Reader dark mode

  Firefox Quantum gets better and better

  • Matthew Hughes

• How to reset Chrome to its default settings

  Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Moonday Mornings: Facebook scammers target UAE investors with fake Bitcoin ads

  Welcome to another week and another Moonday Mornings. It's Hard Fork's wrap-up of the weekend's top Bitcoin, cryptocurrency ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• You can now test Mozilla's new fast and secure Android browser

  Mozilla has announced the first preview of a redesigned version of Firefox browser for Android that will replace the current ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Opera officially launches its blockchain-ready browser for the iPhone

  Opera already launched its cryptocurrency and blockchain-ready browser for Android and PC users. Today it launches its iPhone ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Mozilla fixes second Firefox zero-day bug used in Coinbase hack attempts

  This is the second 'zero-day' exploit patched by Mozilla in a week week, as reports indicate spearphishers have been targeting ...

  • David Canellis

• Hackers exploit Mozilla Firefox bug reportedly affecting Coinbase users

  Mozilla has urged Firefox users to update their browsers immediately, after its team patched a critical security flaw appearing ...

  • David Canellis

• Google Chrome 76 will make it easier to bypass paywalls

  Google disables Flash by default, and makes it easy to bypass pawalls in the beta version of Chrome 76 browser that was released ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Mozilla will launch a paid version of Firefox this fall (Updated)

  Firefox premium will launch by October that'll have features like VPN (Virtual Private Network) and secure cloud storage.  ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• You can now try out Microsoft's Edge browser for macOS

  Microsoft has officially announced a preview of its Microsoft Edge browser for the macOS, the first web browser since Internet ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Brave now lets you tip people on Twitter with cryptocurrency

  You can now tip your favorite Twitter users directly with cryptocurrency with the latest build of the Chromium-based open ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Opera will support ‘multiple blockchains’ in its browser, starting with TRON

  Opera will soon be adding support for the TRON blockchain in its cryptocurrency-focused browser. Up until now, the browser ...

  • Mix

• Opera: Self-sovereign identity is the next target for dapps

  Margarita Khartanovic took to the Hard Fork stage at TNW2019 this morning to talk with Charles Hamel, Opera's crypto product ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Mozilla rolls out new automated crypto-jacking filtering in Firefox

  Mozilla's Firefox beta has new automated protections against illicit, in-browser cryptocurrency mining (cryptojacking) and ...

  • David Canellis

• You can now try Microsoft's Chromium-powered version of Edge

  Back in December, Microsoft surprised everyone - those who hadn't been following the rumors, anyway - by announcing it was ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Opera releases its browser with built-in cryptocurrency wallet to everyone

  Opera’s long-awaited web-browser, Reborn 3, which features an integrated cryptocurrency wallet is officially launching ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Japan court lets Monero cryptojacker walk away free

  A Japanese web designer is walking free after appearing in court for using his visitor's computers to mine cryptocurrency ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• PSA: MetaMask reveals your Ethereum address to sites you visit, here’s how to hide it

  There's a setting disabled by popular Ethereum service MetaMask by default, and its putting the privacy of cryptocurrency ...

  • David Canellis

• PSA: Update Firefox to block autoplaying videos by default

  Firefox 66 will now block the autoplaying videos automatically. That's great when you're working in a public environment. ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Toby is my new favorite browser extension for wrangling tabs

  This flexible Chrome extension makes it easy to save tabs into collections that you can retrieve and launch from the New ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• New macOS malware steals your cookies to swipe your cryptocurrency

  Security researchers from Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 have uncovered a new cryptocurrency stealing malware that specifically ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Use Apple Music in your browser with this pretty web interface

  I use Apple Music as my primary streaming service, but it bums me out that it doesn’t have a web interface. So I have to ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Celebrities accused of harassment won't be forgotten, thanks to this Chrome extension

  Back in October 2017, Tarana Burke's #MeToo went viral, empowering women and survivors of sexual harassment and abuse all ...

  • Cara Curtis and Georgina Ustik

• These Chrome tab shortcuts will help you handle your tab addiction

  Google's Chrome is arguably the world's most popular desktop browser at the moment, and just like me, there are a lot of ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Brave browser switches to Chromium code base for faster performance

  After Edge, privacy-focused browser Brave announced that it has moved its entire codebase to Chromium with its latest release: ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Opera launches its cryptocurrency-oriented browser for the decentralized web

  Opera is finally rolling out its cryptocurrency-equipped browser specifically designed for surfing and interacting the Ethereum ...

  • Mix

• Firefox 64 offers better tab management and personalized extension recommendations

  Firefox introduced its latest variant – Firefox 64 – last night with features like improved tab management and smart ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• How to stop sites from autoplaying videos on your desktop

  One of the pesky things about surfing the internet is the recent barrage of autoplaying videos on websites. You might ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Mozilla is deeply concerned about Microsoft killing EdgeHTML

  Monopolies are bad.

  • Matthew Hughes

• Please appreciate Mozilla’s security-focused gift guide

  Shout out Mozilla. The not-for-profit company behind the web-browser Firefox has put together a gift guide with a difference. ...

  • Callum Booth

• Tattoodo wants to be the Booking.com of getting inked

  Tattoodo has launched a platform that will allow people from across the world to find and book their next tattoo online.

  • Callum Booth

• Without coaching our privacy, does Google even have a business?

  Google is on a seemingly-ceaseless crusade to turn every one of its users into an open book that it can exploit for valuable ...

  • Gary Eastwood

• Securing web sites with HTTPS made them less accessible

  In the middle of last month — July 2018, I found myself staring at a projector screen, waiting once again to see if Wikipedia ...

  • Eric A. Meyer

• Browser mining is generating over $250K worth of cryptocurrency every month

  Academic research has discovered that embedded cryptocurrecy miner CoinHive is generating $250K worth of Monero every month. ...

  • David Canellis

• Google bans cryptocurrency mining apps from the Play Store

  All cryptocurrency miners are now banned from Google's Play store. The new ruling came with new updates to Google’s Developer ...

  • David Canellis

• Etherscan rushes to plug vulnerabilities following strange hacking attempts overnight

  The most widely used Ethereum blockchain explorer, Etherscan, quickly patched vulnerabilities overnight after a set of strange ...

  • David Canellis

• Opera is expanding its suite of cryptocurrency tools with a built-in wallet

  Opera is preparing to give Android users a built-in Crypto Wallet, the latest in its suite of tools for cryptocurrencies. ...

  • David Canellis

• PSA: MyEtherWallet compromised in hack, urges users to move tokens now

  Popular Ethereum interface and defacto token wallet MyEtherWallet (MEW) has been caught up yet another goddamn hack, this ...

  • David Canellis

• This Chrome extension makes it easy to record your desktop, tabs or webcam for YouTube

  Recording your screen

  • Ben Woods

• Find My iPhone doesn't work on an Android device

  If you've misplaced your iPhone and only have an Android device to track it down with, you're sadly out of luck. Find My ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Google Chrome's developer tools are finally getting a dark theme

  Your eyes won't hurt thanks to Google Chrome's new developer tools theme.

  • Owen Williams

• 9 responsive design mistakes you don't want to make

  As explained in UX Design Trends 2015 & 2016, responsive Web design has become the industry’s recommend approach for ...

  • Jeremy Girard

• JavaScript is incredible: run Windows 98 or Linux entirely in your browser

  I'm a sucker for this: run Windows 98 with no plugins right in your browser, all thanks to JavaScript.

  • Owen Williams

• Sending a single link can cause anyone's smartphone to crash

  There's a link doing the rounds on social media today that can crash almost any smartphone, just by opening it in your browser. The ...

  • Owen Williams