Your browser isn’t just another app; it’s your portal to the internet. We take you through the pros and cons of the top web browsers to help you pick between them.

Web browsers are among the most essential pieces of software we use daily, yet we often take them for granted. Most users settle for whatever default ships with their devices -- and that's a mistake.

A Mozilla Foundation employee has lashed out at Opera Software for claiming it won a best-browser award, saying the award was actually won by open-source browser Firefox. Opera sent out a press ...

Opera, as a Web browser on your computer, has been in existence since 1994, back when the desktop browser wars were between Netscape vs. Internet Explorer. Sure, there’s no Netscape today, but the ...

When you talk about major browsers for PCs, you usually mention Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer or Edge. Then most people throw in Opera as an afterthought. While it’s still considered to be ...

Not too long ago the job of a Web browser was simple: Get the text from the Internet and pour it into the window. If a tag like comes along, change the font. Now the challenges are greater because the ...

Browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, and Opera are vulnerable to a new variation of an older attack that allows phishers to register and pass fake domains as the websites of legitimate services, such as ...

These tests are now out of date. As usual, you can see our most recent batch of speed tests at lifehacker.com/browserspeedtests. In the case of cold and warm starts ...

The latest beta release of Opera 11, which was made available this week, offers an intriguing twist on tab management. Opera has introduced a new feature called tab stacking that allows users to ...

Security flaws have long plagued Internet Explorer (IE), the market-dominating web browser from Microsoft. IE won the early browser wars, not only because it was free and bundled with Windows, but ...

A new year, a new chance for browsers to steal users from each other. 2008 ended with IE and Firefox battling toward a climactic clash at the top, with less than 50 percent difference between them, ...