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Eine Runde Internet-Geschichte, frisch von der Gulaschprogrammiernacht: "Kein Quantum Trost: Wie ein Firefox an einer Chromium-Vergiftung zugrunde ging." Darin: ein unterhaltsamer, historischer Abriss der Geschichte des Web-Browsers von @… Enjoy:

WAMI: Compilation to WebAssembly through MLIR without Losing Abstraction
Byeongjee Kang, Harsh Desai, Limin Jia, Brandon Lucia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16048

WAMI: Compilation to WebAssembly through MLIR without Losing Abstraction
WebAssembly (Wasm) is a portable bytecode format that serves as a compilation target for high-level languages, enabling their secure and efficient execution across diverse platforms, including web browsers and embedded systems. To improve support for high-level languages without incurring significant code size or performance overheads, Wasm continuously evolves by integrating high-level features such as Garbage Collection and Stack Switching. However, existing compilation approaches either lack…

I tried DuckDuckDo again these days for no reason in special. To my surprise, the search experienced there is much better than Google's. Not only there is less crap in the page, the results seemed even more relevant. It feels as good as old Google.
DuckDuckGo is now the default search engine in my personal browsers.

Random thought: if browsers are going to implement AI and all the agent stuff, might as well use it to block ads, skip video ads, cookie banners, pop-ups, trackers, and all those annoyances? 🤔

Dia: Neuer KI-Browser der Arc-Macher geht in die Betaphase
Die Macher des Arc-Browsers haben ihren zweiten Browser als Betaversion freigegeben. Bei Dia liegt der Fokus auf KI. 
https://www.

Random thought: if browsers are going to implement AI and all the agent stuff, might as well use it to block ads, skip video ads, cookie banners, pop-ups, trackers, and all those annoyances? 🤔

Ladybird
#browsers

You probably know I get frowny when browser makers lie about support or pretend their late implementation of a feature is somehow new, so I am suffering from a bunch of confirmation bias (and validation) here:
“Safari at WWDC '25: The Ghost of Christmas Past”
https://infrequently.org/2025…

Safari at WWDC '25: The Ghost of Christmas Past
Alex Russell on browsers, standards, and the process of progress.

How to Favicon in 2025: Three files that fit most needs
It’s time to rethink how we cook a set of favicons for modern browsers and stop the icon generator madness. Frontend developers currently have to deal with 20 static PNG files just to display a tiny website logo in a browser tab or on a touchscreen. Read on to see how to take a smarter approach and adopt a minimal set of icons that fits most modern needs.
🖌️

How to Favicon in 2025: Three files that fit most needs—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog
Prefer SVG over PNG, trust browsers to downscale, drop obscure formats—the ultimate, exhaustive guide to favicons for modern web. Includes steps for static HTML and Webpack.

Navigating Cookie Consent Violations Across the Globe
Brian Tang, Duc Bui, Kang G. Shin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08996 https://arxi…

Navigating Cookie Consent Violations Across the Globe
Online services provide users with cookie banners to accept/reject the cookies placed on their web browsers. Despite the increased adoption of cookie banners, little has been done to ensure that cookie consent is compliant with privacy laws around the globe. Prior studies have found that cookies are often placed on browsers even after their explicit rejection by users. These inconsistencies in cookie banner behavior circumvent users' consent preferences and are known as cookie consent violation…

Wow, #Subway. Just wow.
Tried on two browsers.

After having wondered why my browsers all behave differently when navigating websites with a keyboard, I found this helpful article about the various settings the browsers have and the „spatial" navigation feature that f.e. #Vivaldi offers:

Links unreachable with tab key despite having href made me learn about Spatial Navigation
Another issue where I was not able to google a simple solution: I discovered that links on a website...

File Input within a Dialog cause Dialog to close when File Input is cancelled
I'm confused why is this a thing?
#webdev #browsers #firefox

"Browsers Welcome. Old and unusual books bought and sold" Kim's bookshop, Arundel, #WestSussex #bookshop

Researchers detail a technique Meta uses to glean some of its logged-in users' browsing histories from Chromium-based browsers on Android via web identifiers (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/06/headline-to-come/

Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users’ web browsing identifiers
Abuse allows Meta and Yandex to attach persistent identifiers to detailed browsing histories.

@… @… @… still not relevant, even MS Edge has nowadays tracking blockers built-in. All browsers except Chrome.

The logic of hyperlinking in the era of social media:
- sure, you can link outside of our platform, but we'll proxy your link through our shortener so that you aren't exactly sure where you're going,
- everybody is confused where the hell they are going (and browsers amplify that nonsense by making address bars even dumber, showing barely anything except the top-level domain)
- oh, feeling too confused? Gotcha, we'll serve you additional screen showing "you're leaving our site, this is the exact link, are you sure?" so that you never run of mundane things to click at.
Reinventing the wheel for the millionth time, hell yeah.
(I have the same concern about those transition screens on Mastodon, but there's at least a tiny bit of logic behind that, especially with multiple different servers involved and stuff)

If you’re asking yourself … How to Favicon in 2025?!?, this post by @… has you covered:
https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/ho

How to Favicon in 2025: Three files that fit most needs—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog
Prefer SVG over PNG, trust browsers to downscale, drop obscure formats—the ultimate, exhaustive guide to favicons for modern web. Includes steps for static HTML and Webpack.

Researchers found that both #Meta snd #Yandex link(ed) IDs between browsers and their native apps by local communication on #Android devices.
E.g. the

"establish a baseline rhythm" I said. "It's easy I said."
browsers: <fieldset>
<ruby>
<select multiple>

Der Arc Browser war zwei Jahre lang mein Standardbrowser, bis ihr lascher Umgang mit Security-Issues mich zu einem Wechsel führte. Das war wohl ein guter Entscheid …
Letter to Arc members 2025 https://browsercompany.substack.com/p/letter-to-arc-members-2025…

WebChoreArena: Evaluating Web Browsing Agents on Realistic Tedious Web Tasks
Atsuyuki Miyai, Zaiying Zhao, Kazuki Egashira, Atsuki Sato, Tatsumi Sunada, Shota Onohara, Hiromasa Yamanishi, Mashiro Toyooka, Kunato Nishina, Ryoma Maeda, Kiyoharu Aizawa, Toshihiko Yamasaki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01952

WebChoreArena: Evaluating Web Browsing Agents on Realistic Tedious Web Tasks
Powered by a large language model (LLM), a web browsing agent operates web browsers in a human-like manner and offers a highly transparent path toward automating a wide range of everyday tasks. As web agents become increasingly capable and demonstrate proficiency in general browsing tasks, a critical question emerges: Can they go beyond general browsing to robustly handle tasks that are tedious and complex, or chores that humans often avoid doing themselves? In this paper, we introduce WebChore…

Minor cleanup on my #Linux laptop. Removed Chrome from the list of apps installed. Browsers are #vivaldi, #tor and

Drove through the Blackwall Tunnel to Greenwich and back to Islington yesterday.
South of the river it's all 30MPH speed limits and everything feels too fast and scary compared to the sedate and pedestrian-friendly 20MPH limits in the north.
Since I last went through it, it seems the Blackwall tunnel has added a toll.
The TFL website for setting up to pay the tolls is absolutely awful. Failed in Librewolf, Failed in Firefox. Failed because VPN. Took me four attempts in three different browsers to get it to take payment card details.
Demands *no* special characters in the password?!? And doesn't even tell you what the specific problem with the password is, just "doesn't meet the rules above"
Uses awful validation questions like "mothers maiden name". Bad enough practice to use them at all, but the "memorable date" question restricts to ddmmyy format so you can't even put in a date from outside this century.
For some reason asks for a PIN and and Password both!? Pointless. Then actually refuses the login form if you supply both!?

Setting up the auto-payment doesn't seem to have covered the charges added to the registration plate yesterday, so had to do the payment-details entering yet again to deal with yesterday's charges.
Email validation message contains the link only in the HTML of the email, not the text version, so viewed in Mutt it has no link.
And this all seems to be separate from the Dartford Crossing charge, which had a less crappy but still pretty crappy signup.
Good god council programmers suck at web-dev.
#driving #london #tfl #blackwallTunnel #greenwich