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These left-aligned tabs are sorted into "pinned tabs" and "today tabs." Samuel Axon You can also sort tabs into spaces, which are similar to Safari's tab groups. Samuel Axon Want to use "boosts" to solarize Twitter and remove the newsfeed? Sure, why not. Now you can. Samuel Axon On Tuesday, The Browser Company made its…

It’s a confusing frustration we’ve all encountered: You’re watching a show when suddenly you want to pause it and take a screenshot, maybe to create a meme or share a joke with a friend. But when you hit that screenshot button, all you get is a blank image, maybe with subtitles. This is a common…

One of the biggest advances in web security over the last decade or so is the proliferation of secure, encrypted HTTPS connections. Once the purview of shopping and banking sites, HTTPS connections have become the norm rather than the exception, keeping more of your credentials and data safe from being intercepted even when you're on…

Flash cards are an effective memorization tool, as any test-taker well knows. And if making physical flash cards is useful, why not make them online? The next time you find yourself getting stuck while trying to glean the most important information from a long YouTube video, a dense PDF, or a bunch of articles, you…

Enlarge / When Google, whose Chromium/Chrome-related browsers make up 80% of browser share, says that something has "not enough interest from the entire ecosystem," what does that mean, exactly?Aurich Lawson Chrome developers' decision to remove support for a compressed image format that Google helped develop is just another sign of "the disturbing amount of control"…

Window management has come a long way (especially in Windows 11), but I still don’t like having two browser windows open side-by-side, essentially duplicating the entire browser experience. It’s easy to forget which window you’re in, where you’ve opened a particular tab—it’s just a headache. I’m not the only one suffering here: Many browsers are…

Photo: Inside Creative House (Shutterstock)One day, you boot up your computer to find things are not how you left them. Your search results don’t go to Google, and your homepage is a site you’ve never heard of. Perhaps it’s Privatesearches.org, or a myriad of other scam search websites trying to get you to click on…

Screenshot: SigmaOSA horizontal list of tabs worked a decade ago, when we weren’t all living in our web browsers. These days, however, the browser has turned into its own mini-OS, with most of our work and play coming through this window to the internet. Companies like Google and Microsoft know this, which is they’ve added…

Photo: Evan Lorne (Shutterstock)Many of our parents’ computers are essentially held up with duct tape. How these ancient behemoths manage to power on each day is an eternal mystery. But if your parents are running an old version of Windows, specifically Windows 7, 8, or 8.1, be warned: Google Chrome is about to get rocky.Google…

Photo: Evan Lorne (Shutterstock)Many of our parents’ computers are essentially held up with duct tape. How these ancient behemoths manage to power on each day is an eternal mystery. But if your parents are running an old version of Windows, specifically Windows 7, 8, or 8.1, be warned: Google Chrome is about to get rocky.Google…