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My New Desktop

After a frustrating morning with my troublesome P1 Gen 7 laptop, I decided it was time to bite the bullet and stop working off laptops full-time, a habit that I inexplicably fell into at the start of the pandemic. I first surveyed the high-end desktop options at various vendors, but after the P1 fiasco andContinue reading “My New Desktop”

Content-Blocking in Manifest v3

I’ve written about selectively blocking content in browsers several times over the last two decades. In this post, I don’t aim to convince you that ad-blocking is good or bad, instead focusing on one narrow topic. Circa 2006, I was responsible for changing IE so that you could simply add an advertising site to theContinue reading “Content-Blocking in Manifest v3”

Mark-of-the-Web: Additional Guidance

I’ve been writing about Windows Security Zones and the Mark-of-the-Web (MotW) security primitive in Windows for decades now, with 2016’s Downloads and MoTW being one of my longer posts that I’ve updated intermittently over the last few years. If you haven’t read that post already, you should start there. Advice for Implementers At this point,Continue reading “Mark-of-the-Web: Additional Guidance”

Simply Making Simple Fixes Simple for Chromium

Google recently introduced a cool web-based editing tool for Chromium source code, a very stripped down version of the Willy Wonka tooling Googlers get to use for non-Chromium projects. I’ve used this tool to submit two trivial change lists (CLs, aka PRs) to Chromium, but I was curious about whether this new feature would workContinue reading “Simply Making Simple Fixes Simple for Chromium”

Web-to-App Communication: The Native Messaging API

Note: This post is part of a series about Web-to-App Communication techniques. One of the most powerful mechanisms for Web-to-App and App-To-Web communication is to use an extension that utilizes the NativeMessaging API. The NativeMessaging API allows an extension running inside the browser to exchange messages with a native-code “Host” executable running outside of the browserContinue reading “Web-to-App Communication: The Native Messaging API”