Browsers

Microsoft revealed plans to use Chromium, the open source project behind Google Chrome, to rebuild its Edge browser on Windows 10.

Microsoft is reportedly planning to abandon its EdgeHTML rendering engine and use Google Chrome Chromium's Blink rendering engine, just as it does with Edge for Android.

All four major browser vendors announced the deprecation of TLS 1.0 and 1.1 by the first half of 2020.

Google revealed a slew of changes that will make Chrome extensions more secure going forward.

Google said it will make some UI changes and let people opt-out of having their Google accounts connected to Chrome when they sign in to its services.

Google updated Chrome to automatically connect someone's Google account, which is required to enable a tab-syncing feature, when they sign in to its services.

Chrome 70 will make it easier to use biometric security on the web and for developers to access devices' ability to identify faces, barcodes and text.

Google outfitted Chrome 69 with a new design, expanded password manager and other features that should make the browser the best it's been since its 2008 debut.

Mozilla plans to release a series of features to Firefox to prevent trackers from slowing down website load times, following people across sites and more.