The startup wants to rid the web of privacy-invading trackers, but some people sign up just for speed improvements over Chrome. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

Remember browser bars of the '00's... Going over to grandma's and launching IE only to be met with half a screen of browser bars. Spending a good hour uninstalling them, cleaning up the debris left ...

Rae Hodge was a senior editor at CNET. She led CNET's coverage of privacy and cybersecurity tools from July 2019 to January 2023. As a data-driven investigative journalist on the software and services ...

Vivaldi 4.1 offers something that’s a rarity in the world of browsers: a new macro system that complements the niche browser’s implementation of new “accordion tabs,” too. Both features offer some ...

The web browser from Brave Software relies on an unusual business model: it strips out ads from websites, replaces them with its own ads, then allows users to send money to sites they like. Boutique ...

There is no such thing as the perfect web browser. Each one has pros and cons and some function better than others. But most users tend to stick with the default web browser that ships with whatever ...

Google's Chrome Internet browser was the most popular browser in the world for the first time on Sunday, online metrics firm StatCounter announced Wednesday. Microsoft's Internet Explorer vaulted back ...

Subscribers gain integrated access to advanced large language models (LLMs), including Google's Gemini 3 Pro and OpenAI's GPT ...

Extensions installed on almost 1 million devices have been overriding key security protections to turn browsers into engines that scrape websites on behalf of a paid service, a researcher said. The ...