Zen will soon let you share your Boost customizations with friends

Zen Browser is preparing to rollout a new feature that lets users share their Boosts with friends and the community. It’s currently in development. An official announcement posted in the r/zen_browser subreddit offers a sneak peek of Boost sharing. The post says “Keep an eye out for updates,” implying that it’s not yet live. Boosts were introduced last month as a way to personalize websites. It…

Microsoft Edge brings new on‑device AI models, translation & speech APIs to the browser

Microsoft is baking a new small language model straight into Edge, and it’s not stopping there. The browser is picking up on‑device translation and speech features too, so a lot more AI work can happen on your PC without running everything through the cloud. The new model is called Aion-1.0-Instruct. Microsoft describes it as a smaller and faster successor to the Phi-4-mini model it started…

Upcoming Firefox update makes it easier to spot when sites are using your location

Firefox is introducing a useful privacy update in the latest Nightly build. The browser now turns the location permission icon (located near the beginning of the address bar) bright red whenever a website is actively accessing your location. While it’s a small change, it ensures that users can easily check whether their location is being used at a glance in real time. The official Firefox Nightly…

Chrome now lets you quickly remove the Tab Search icon without messing with flags

Chrome added a straightforward way to remove the Tab Search icon from the tab strip without touching any flags. I came across it while using the browser earlier today. Right-clicking either the search icon itself or the empty space in the tab strip brought up a context menu with a fresh choice. Unpin Tab Search. Selecting it made the button disappear immediately. No restart, no settings change…

Chrome 149 resolves major number input bug, but Firefox dev says the problem isn’t fully gone

Chrome 149 includes a fix for an annoying number input bug that could quietly change values while you scrolled a page, but a Firefox developer says the issue still isn’t completely gone. Jake Archibald, who works on Firefox, posted on X that the patch is in Chrome 149 and is rolling out this week, yet the bug can still show up on pages that use a special kind of scroll handler on a parent…