Chrome for MacOS to block rogue ad injections and settings changes

Google has expanded its Safe Browsing service, allowing Google Chrome on macOS to better protect users from programs that locally inject ads into web pages or that change the browser’s home page and search settings. The Safe Browsing service is used by Google’s search engine, as well as Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, to block users from accessing websites that host malicious code or malicious software.

Brendan Eich: Tech giants could botch WebAssembly

WebAssembly is a highly lauded portable code format that holds the promises of making the web run faster while extending the browser to accommodate multiple languages beyond JavaScript. Falling under the jurisdiction of the World Wide Web Consortium, the project has been supported by major browser vendors Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla.

certbot 0.11.1

Certbot is part of EFF’s effort to encrypt the entire Internet. Secure communication over the Web relies on HTTPS, which requires the use of a digital certificate that lets browsers verify the identify of web servers Web servers obtain their certificates from trusted third parties called certificate authorities .

Mozilla mulls end of Firefox support for Windows XP and Vista in 2017

While it has been known for a number of years that Mozilla planned to drop support for Windows XP from its Firefox browser, it made sense for that to occur sometime after Microsoft officially ended support for the aging operating system . Now, almost two years after Microsoft pulled the plug on Windows XP, Mozilla has clarified its intentions for ongoing support.