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Proton is hiring for a desktop privacy-focused web browser, and the company’s own job listing leaves little room for the project to be dismissed as rumor. A Software Engineer opening on Proton’s recruitment site says the hire will join a browser product team in Geneva or Zürich to help build a...

Kagi’s Orion browser is headed to Windows with a stated late-2026 target, but there is still no Windows installer, no public test build, and no published support matrix for the app. The immediate consequence for Windows users is simple: Orion is a project to watch, not a browser to deploy or...

OpenAI will shut down the standalone ChatGPT Atlas browser on August 9, 2026, leaving existing users only five calendar days to extract browser data that will not be carried into its replacement products. The key operational fact, confirmed in OpenAI’s Atlas retirement guidance and first...

Perplexity’s Comet is a free Chromium-based browser on Windows, but the “August 2026 launch” framing attached to it is wrong: Comet’s desktop paywall was removed on October 2, 2025, Android arrived in November 2025, and the iPhone version followed on March 18, 2026. The useful news for Windows...

Mozilla’s Over The Edge 2.0 report argues that Microsoft Copilot can bypass a user’s chosen default browser and display web content through Microsoft Edge, extending the long-running Windows browser-default dispute into AI. The practical concern is no longer limited to which application opens an...

Google has marked 25 years of Google Images with a redesigned desktop homepage and a plan to add AI image generation to Search. Per a July 14 post from Brad Kellett, Google’s senior engineering director for Search, the changes will roll out in stages over the coming weeks. The headline feature...

Google published CVE-2026-10883 on June 4, 2026, after fixing a critical ANGLE flaw in Chrome builds before 149.0.7827.53, where a crafted HTML page could trigger heap corruption through a browser graphics component used across desktop platforms. The short version is simple: update Chrome now...

Google’s expansion of AI-heavy search at Google I/O 2026 has pushed users toward workarounds and rival engines, but as of June 2026 the answer is uneven: some search engines offer real AI-off controls, some offer only URL tricks, and some offer no traditional search mode at all. The common...

Samsung’s desktop browser push has moved out of beta, and the timing matters. What began as a limited Windows preview in late October 2025 has now become a stable, globally available release under a slightly new name: Samsung Browser for Windows. The latest build, 30.0.0.95, landed on March 25...

Samsung’s browser strategy just made a quiet but important leap from mobile companion app to serious Windows product. What started as a limited beta in late October 2025 is now a stable Windows release, with Samsung renaming the app and widening access while still keeping some of the most...

Microsoft Edge’s biggest problem is no longer that it lacks features; it’s that it no longer feels focused. Firefox’s latest desktop update sharpens that contrast by adding Split View, a browser-level VPN for public Wi‑Fi, improved PDF performance, and an unusually straightforward AI blocking...