Chrome

I’ve been experiencing reduced performance with Firefox for a few releases now. This decrease in performance happens even with a clean profile. So, I began testing other browsers. Two of them are Chromium and Brave. They are nice and whatnot, but they have two issues in common: they threaten browser engine diversity (remember the Internet Explorer dominance days and how that negatively impacted the web?) and the Chrome Store hellscape. There are a lot - and I mean a lot - of proprietary extensions on the Chrome Store....

I got the new, event and flex-based, Twitter design a few days ago and decided to try out the night mode. This was also influenced by some tweet a contact of mine published. While not bad, I don’t like what I think is an exaggerated use of blue hues and shades. I find it even worse at night, due to the blue light stuff impacting our sleep. Even with a blue light filter, like the one from Plasma, it’s still too much blue....

Está a circular um rumor que aponta para o fim do Edge, o browser que a Microsoft lançou em 2015 para substituir o Internet Explorer. O mesmo rumo refere que a empresa sediada em Redmond vai criar um novo navegador, agora baseado no Chromium. Sabe mais no meu artigo no Espalha-Factos.

Que raio se passará com o site do Facebook? Cada vez demora mais a carregar, faz a temperatura do processador do meu portátil disparar e está cheio de coisas a tentar roubar constantemente um bocadinho da minha atenção. Na volta é por estar cheio de porcarias como esta. Facebook answered 2,000 questions posed by the Senate Committee. Among these, Facebook explained that it collects information about users’ computers, phones, or other connected devices, including their mouse, reports India Today....