It seems that the end is near for Microsoft's web browser as the company is apparently working on a substitute for Microsoft Edge
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Amazon quietly released a new ultra-lightweight ‘Internet’ browser in Google Play
If you need an extra-small, lightning fast, privacy-focused new way to surf the web on your Android device, you could try to give Amazon's new "Internet" app a chance.
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Microsoft is having none of cheeky Google Chrome Windows app
The Google Chrome app on the Windows Store was nothing but a sham in Microsoft's eyes. What's up with the fake browser from the real company?
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Microsoft Edge browser exits beta, widely launches for iOS and Android devices
After a relatively short public beta program, Microsoft Edge is now available as a free App Store and Google Play download for all iOS and Android users.
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Google could launch native Chrome browser adblocker ‘within weeks’, sources say
There may be no more need for third-party adblocking tool installation for Google Chrome soon enough, rumor has it.
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Google makes Chrome web page reloads significantly faster, especially on mobile
Never one to rest on its laurels, Google continues to improve the performance of the widely beloved Chrome web browser, mainly for mobile devices.
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HTC Internet browser heads off Play Store on November 30
HTC has been slimming its app load down to extreme barebones levels ever since it put out the One A9. The company replaced several basic amenities from its pre-load with Google’s own comparable offerings. For example, the rather inadequate Google Photos app takes over from HTC’s Gallery app — immediately reviewing photos after you’ve taken them is kinda painfully slow on the former.
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Link Bubble and TapPath: a better way to open links on Android
Back in April, I covered Link Bubble, Chris Lacy’s third-party Android browser which loads web pages in the background without interrupting whatever it is you were doing when you clicked the link. It’s a chat heads-style floating browser that can be tossed aside. You get to choose when you want to read the pages you load, rather than being jerked around between your Twitter client, a feed reader, and your default browser.But even the developer knows Link Bubble isn’t ideal for every situation, that ...
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Why doesn’t every browser do word wrapping?
Mobile devices used to be primarily portable email boxes with integrated calendar and contacts. In the early days, some of them may have included web browsers, but they were very primitive. Back then the Web was very complex, and designed for screens with resolutions of 800 by 600 and higher. To accommodate phones and PDAs a “new” web was invented, one that used a completely different protocol to address the concerns of much smaller screens, slower processors, and mobile data plans. None of which were anywhere close to what we have today. WAP & WML Continue reading »
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Why mobile browsers artificially add 1/3 second delay to every tap
Last week Stephen Schenck brought us news about some changes coming to the Google Chrome Beta channel, specifically the elimination of an artificial 300 ms lag. Why would anyone deliberately add almost 1/3 second delay to interactions with web pages? Believe it or not, there’s a legitimate reason behind it — but it’s one that Google intends to remove — when applicable. One of the major challenges Apple, Google, Microsoft, and others faced when ...
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