@wemic@social.linux.pizza2026-05-26 09:01:10
Another excellent read today, this one found via "Bytes" from #Fireship
Browsers Treat Big Sites Differently — Den Odell
https://denodell.com/blog/browsers-tre
@wemic@social.linux.pizza2026-05-26 09:01:10
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-06-24 21:26:01
Cloudflare partners with Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla on PACT, a protocol to distinguish legitimate human or bot traffic from undesirable network requests (Thomas Claburn/The Register)
https://www.theregister.com/software…
@johl@mastodon.xyz2026-06-28 14:00:07
It‘s been already a month since support for Web Serial came to Firefox and other browsers based on it.
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2026/05/web-serial-support-in-firefox/
It‘s one of these things where you first don’t know when you‘ll need it, but then you‘re g…
@cheeaun@mastodon.social2026-07-28 09:36:42
@frankel@mastodon.top2026-05-16 09:15:28
@aardrian@toot.cafe2026-07-27 16:39:47
RE: https://mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdevs/116992048337520434
I appreciate this both acknowledges the error and credits the resources. Something I’d like to see more of from browsers (looks askance at Chrome).
Key takeaways:
• `aria-labe…
@kubikpixel@chaos.social2026-06-22 20:10:08
«Ladybird-Browser stoppt öffentliche Code-Beiträge:
Wegen KI-generierter Beiträge schließt das Open-Source-Projekt Ladybird seine öffentlichen Pull-Requests, um die Sicherheit des Browsers zu garantieren.»
Da sehen wir wie KI das Gegenteil von sicherer Produktion ist, wenn es blind als unstrukturiertes Pull-Request eingesetzt wird.
🌐
@fanf@mendeddrum.org2026-06-07 11:42:01
from my link log —
Support for IPv6 link local addresses in browsers.
https://ungleich.ch/u/blog/ipv6-link-local-support-in-browsers/
saved 2021-11-18
@rasterweb@mastodon.social2026-05-22 01:41:13
Although I switched to LibreWolf for my primary browser every now and then I get some weird thing where a web site does not work right, and using Firefox solves the issues.
I really prefer LibreWolf since it strips out so much of the crap in Firefox, but I just need to remember that sometimes it does not work.
#browsers
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-07-12 15:33:03
DuckDuckGo-Browser blockiert jetzt YouTube-Werbung
Nervige Unterbrechungen sind mit der neuen Version des Browsers Geschichte, verspricht DuckDuckGo. Das Feature nutzt bekannte Komponenten.
https://www.
@aardrian@toot.cafe2026-06-12 12:22:05
“Web Browsers on Video Game Consoles”
https://vale.rocks/posts/game-console-browsers
There is a *lot* here. Not screen shots of sites, but history of the browser on each platform with interesting nuggets.
@jtk@infosec.exchange2026-07-24 23:24:01
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@dannyjpalmer/116975079605921576
"Disabling web proxy auto-discovery (WPAD) where not required"
Why is wpad even still supported by browsers?!? A 30-year-old mechanism, expired I-D almost as old, and the u…
@zachleat@zachleat.com2026-05-20 13:49:00
@… depends if we’re adding browsers or removing them 🔮
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it2026-07-03 17:03:24
I still don't understand why you'd want an AI web browser. https://thenextweb.com/news/bioshocking-ai-browser-credential-leak-layerx
@kcase@mastodon.social2026-05-20 19:32:16
"Native apps are bad at rendering text" is interesting framing. Web browsers are native apps, after all, and they're great at rendering web text. Native PDF viewers are great at rendering PDF text. And native rich text editors are great at RTF text—with rulers containing tab stops, etc.
(Back in the '90s, I built parsers and renderers for all three of these: OmniWeb on AppKit, OmniPDF on AppKit, and RTF text for Java.)
The very real, hard problem is round-trippi…
@curiouscat@fosstodon.org2026-05-14 17:55:09
"Safari literally ships with a fake Chrome user agent string, ready to deploy when sites refuse to work otherwise. Firefox does the same thing, and many of its about:compat interventions are user agent spoofs telling sites “yes, I’m Chrome” because those sites actively block or break on non-Chrome browsers. The Mozilla wiki explains that some sites “block access completely, display a different design, or provide different functionality” based on browser detection..."
@dankeck@mastodon.sdf.org2026-05-25 13:03:01
In the article "Don't put aria-label on generic elements like divs", @… explains that the ARIA specification prohibits using aria-label this way, and then tests with different web browsers and screen readers.
Conclusion: Because there is no defined behavior, different software handle the aria-label inconsistently. Users may not have the experience you design…
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2026-06-13 01:19:28
Advice to Mozilla, from an outgoing long-time employee:
❝Be boring for a while. There's blood when you live on the cutting edge, but a lot of it is yours. Mozilla has tried building everything from a shopping nexus to a phone's operating system, and kept discovering that they're not great at it. They are, however, really good at building browsers. They should do that.❞ @… https://mindof.jrconlin.com/@jrconlin/statuses/01KTYGJSYT1YJQJTVCQC4VVBC2
@scottmiller42@mstdn.social2026-05-03 01:55:24
A shoutout to the systems engineers that made Microsoft Windows so fragile, that a single file browser (explorer.exe) freezing causes my Edge downloads to pause, and closing the frozen file browser closes all my file browsers.
My ADHD brain needed those open file browsers so I could keep track of all my in-progress tasks. How do I resume now? Yeah, I suppose I could come up with a better system than that.
@theodric@social.linux.pizza2026-05-17 10:59:32
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@frankel@mastodon.top2026-05-20 18:07:18
Bike to work, low-intensity run at lunch, bike from work, and publish the Java Geek Weekly.
What a cool day 😊
https://blog.frankel.ch/java-geek-weekly/137/
@jkmartindale@mastodon.social2026-07-13 04:58:19
it's too bad the major browsers don't support bookmarks or bookmark folders, thank goodness ChatGPT exists
@trezzer@social.linux.pizza2026-07-11 00:15:21
The more I think about it, and the more I compare the new #Commodore phone to the available alternatives, the more I like the majority of the choices they have made. It’s just a shame that the blacklisting of browsers is an absolute and utter dealbreaker. Doing a web search and messaging are two non-negotiable features for my phone.
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe2026-07-05 13:53:04
Why do Bottles application pages (for Flatpak on Linux) appear blank in web browsers on Linux?
An example:
<https://usebottles.com/app#origin>
– linked from the Bottles App Store at <…
@grumpybozo@toad.social2026-05-04 19:41:12
It’s really appalling how much time I waste trying to figure out which antique browsers on which platforms I need to run to talk to all of the antique hardware that I support.
This message brought to you by PDUs with no solution...
#Sysadminnery
@Adam@social.lein.us2026-06-06 02:45:31
I might have to switch browsers on Windows now that the awful rounded corners is forced in Edge. https://www.reddit.com/r/MicrosoftEdge/comments/1tx2vx2/microsoft_edge_rounded_corners_flag_is_gone/
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-05-07 09:52:34
Tom JŸran SŸnstebyseter RŸnning hat in einem Post auf X eine bedenkliche Schwachstelle aufgedeckt: Der Edge-Passwort-Manager lädt sämtliche gespeicherten Passwörter unverschlüsselt in den Speicher und zwar direkt beim Start des Browsers. Die Passwörter liegen dort im Klartext, noch bevor ihr überhaupt die dazugehörigen Webseiten besucht habt. 🤯
Zum Artikel: https://
@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizza2026-06-04 13:26:57
They do it on purpose. I introduce Vivaldi in the Sundries, next day a new version comes out. But I personally like my browsers as fresh as they come, so vivaldi-stable-8.0.4033.42 is up for grabs now!
https://codeberg.org/thesaigoneer/slackosundries
@adamhotep@infosec.exchange2026-05-22 16:29:05
Confirmed, NoScript on Chromium-based browsers blocks this attack (and Firefox is immune)
https://todon.eu/@ma1/116618961071546309
@aardrian@toot.cafe2026-06-11 16:58:08
The WebDX Community Group surveyed 207 MDN users last month asking if “Baseline widely available” meant a thing works with AT.
30% thought yeah, it does:
https://adrianroselli.com/2023/12/baseline-does-not-really-cover-baseline-support.htm…
@Adam@social.lein.us2026-06-06 02:45:31
I might have to switch browsers on Windows now that the awful rounded corners is forced in Edge. https://www.reddit.com/r/MicrosoftEdge/comments/1tx2vx2/microsoft_edge_rounded_corners_flag_is_gone/
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2026-07-02 17:21:47
(SmallTalk legacy cont:) It gave us message passing and late binding, which form the logical backbone of the entire Internet. That idea developed in many places, yes, but SmallTalk was a nexus for it.
The fact the web sites and browsers can be updated independently of each other? that you can visit web sites that didn’t even •exist• when you downloaded your browser? That’s sender-receiver decoupling at work: the Internet is built on messages, and senders and receivers can change independently as long as the message protocol stays intact.
In a far-removed but very real sense, that’s part of SmallTalk’s legacy too!
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