#BrowserExtensions

2025-07-24

SquareX names Steve Mullett to drive enterprise sales growth

SquareX has appointed Steve Mullett as Vice President of Sales, a move aimed at supporting its enterprise market…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #Browserextensions #cybersecurity #DataLossPrevention(DLP) #EMC #Enterprisesecurity #Fortune500 #Latvia #leadership #LV #Okta #Software-as-a-Service(SaaS) #SquareX #Wiz
newsbeep.com/17288/

2025-07-13

A seriously good resource, regarding Firefox Browser extensions. I stumbled upon it, whilst looking at the issues project viewing board for the Mullvad Browser.

it was useful for me, so hopefully it will be of interest to others

github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wi

#firefox
#mullvadbrowser
#arkenfox
#browserextensions
#uBlockOrigin

2025-07-10

Your innocent bookmark manager: "I'm just here to organize!" Also your bookmark manager: *scrapes Tesla's proprietary data* 🕵️

240+ browser extensions with MellowTel-js turned nearly 1M users into unwitting data collectors. From private photos to tax returns—turns out "free" extensions had a very different business model.

tech.slashdot.org/story/25/07/

#BrowserExtensions #DataPrivacy #Cybersecurity

2025-07-08

Matt Sayar: Simple Wikiclaudia. “It’s a simple Chrome extension that will detect if the page you’re reading has a simple.wikipedia.org version of the article you’re reading. If it does, great! Click the button to open it. If not, it will use Claude or ChatGPT to simplify it for you.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/08/matt-sayar-simple-wikiclaudia/

PPC Landppcland
2025-07-04

Microsoft Clarity live extension receives major visual redesign: Microsoft enhances browser extension interface to simplify website analytics access for marketers and developers. ppc.land/microsoft-clarity-liv

2025-06-27

Lilbits: Microsoft is replacing the Blue Screen of Death with a Black one, extensions are coming to Chrome for Android (kind of), and an NES emulator that lets you play classic games in 3D

Most Windows computers aren’t nearly as crash-prone today as they were a few decades ago. But crashes to happen, and for the past forty years Microsoft has shown some form of a “Blue Screen of Death” when that happens.

After taking a brief detour to show a black screen for Windows 11 a few years ago, Microsoft reverted the BSOD to Blue. But once again the company is looking to update the […]

#3dsen #android #bargains #browserExtensions #bsod #carrierBoard #chrome #emulator #jetsonNano #lilbits #microsoft #nvidiaJetsonOrinNano #nvidiaJetsonOrinNx #recomputerMini #strixPoint #toptonTr9 #windows11

Read more: liliputing.com/lilbits-microso

2025-06-27

Google is working on a desktop version of the Chrome web browser for Android, complete with support for extensions installed from the Chrome Web Store. This is unlikely to come to phones and tablets though, and could be aimed at next-gen Chromebooks powered by Android. androidauthority.com/try-new-c #Android #Chrome #WebBrowsers #BrowserExtensions #Google

2025-06-04

Reuters: Capital One must face social media creators’ lawsuit alleging stolen commissions. “Capital One must face a lawsuit by social media creators who said the bank’s free browser extension stole their sales commissions when consumers bought their products and services. In a Monday night decision, U.S. District Judge Anthony Trenga in Alexandria, Virginia said creators plausibly alleged […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/04/reuters-capital-one-must-face-social-media-creators-lawsuit-alleging-stolen-commissions/

2025-05-31

LayerX: Introducing ExtensionPedia: Your Ultimate Resource to Assess and Mitigate Browser Extension Risks. “Today, LayerX proudly announces the launch of ExtensionPedia, the Browser Extension Risk Database and Knowledge Center, dedicated to analyzing the risks associated with browser extensions across Chrome, Edge, and Firefox.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/31/introducing-extensionpedia-your-ultimate-resource-to-assess-and-mitigate-browser-extension-risks-layerx/

N-gated Hacker Newsngate
2025-05-18

🚀 Another day, another gimmick: a side panel gizmo masquerading as your AI-powered web . Because clearly, what we needed was an emoji-infested GitHub Copilot clone to help us pretend our browser is something more than a tab-hoarding monster. 🙄
github.com/parsaghaffari/brows

2025-05-12

Lifehacker: This Extension Gets Rid of YouTube’s Annoying Clutter. “If you wish YouTube behaved more like a tool and less like a dopamine factory, I recommend Untrap. This browser extension, available for Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari, and Opera, lets you make almost 300 tweaks to the YouTube website, allowing you to remove the distracting features and enable a few useful ones by default.” […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/11/lifehacker-this-extension-gets-rid-of-youtubes-annoying-clutter/

2025-05-10

MakeUseOf: I Instantly Know if a YouTube Video Deserves My Time, Thanks to This Tool. “Let’s cut to the chase: TLDR (Too Long; Didn’t Read) is a Chrome extension that turns any web page or YouTube video into a pithy, bullet-style digest. Click the blue-and-white lightning icon, and a concise summary pops up in a sidebar. It doesn’t dump the full transcript on you, nor does it spoon-feed […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/10/makeuseof-i-instantly-know-if-a-youtube-video-deserves-my-time-thanks-to-this-tool/

2025-05-04

Carnegie Mellon University: Purpose Mode Helps Social Media Users Stay Focused. “Developers of social media applications thrive on user engagement by employing Attention Capture Damaging Patterns (ACDPs) such as infinite scroll, cluttered web pages, video autoplay and saturated colors. ACDPs prey on cognitive vulnerabilities to distract users…. To mitigate these distractions, the CMU […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/04/carnegie-mellon-university-purpose-mode-helps-social-media-users-stay-focused/

Rob Andersonr0b@social.lol
2025-04-14

Firefox approved my tiny extension, all it does is add a keyboard shortcut to copy the current URL. It's Command+Shift+L by default.

addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firef

#Notes #BrowserExtensions

2025-04-13

Ars Technica: Researcher uncovers dozens of sketchy Chrome extensions with 4 million installs. “Google is hosting dozens of extensions in its Chrome Web Store that perform suspicious actions on the more than 4 million devices that have installed them and that their developers have taken pains to carefully conceal.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/13/ars-technica-researcher-uncovers-dozens-of-sketchy-chrome-extensions-with-4-million-installs/

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