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Handy little Tool in the Devtools of Google Google Chrome, Firefox, Brave and all the others based on Chromium. I showed it yesterday during the livestream. Press F12 for the Devtools and you can set the Throttle speed under Network. Why is it for? You can see how your page would be loaded under different internet speed assumptions. While it may be getting phased out, last time I looked for studies 1 in 5 mobile users still had an equivalent of 3G as their internet connection. This way, you can test when is what loaded, how does it feel, and so on for your website.  (Thanks as usual to Google for Developers for implementing all these cool little things)

GOOGLE SPLIT TAB BROWSING IS AWESOME FOR BROKERS! This is so cool I had to make a video about it! In the latest Google Chrome browser update, they added a split tab browsing feature. To me, it is an absolute game changer for the client meeting process. Check out this short video to learn more!

Running statistics comparing when a browser extension is reported malicious/suspicious compared to when it is removed from the Chrome Web Store. Here is the breakdown: Still active: 68.8% 91-365 days: 19.1% 31-90 days: 5.8% Same day or 1 day: 2.9% 8-30 days: 2.3% 2-7 days: 1.2%

Your website isn’t fast. It just feels fast. And that’s the whole game. I watched the Network tab on a Next.js app running on Cloudflare. One page “loaded” instantly because the file was fetched before I ever clicked. Another used hover prefetch. Move the cursor, the request fires. Both work. Both cost bandwidth. Then I tried a third approach: predict the next move. A tiny library called "ForesightJS" watches mouse trajectory, scroll, even keyboard hints. It prefetches the most likely target before you hover. When you do click, it feels psychic. No spinner. Just there. What surprised me most? Even with a 65 ms edge, intent beats brute force. You can keep bandwidth sane and still feel instant. Takeaway: speed is a perception problem. Don’t always fetch more. Fetch smarter. Would you trust intent-based prefetch in production?

Firefox tried to compete with Chrome as the go-to browser and even though it gained initial traction, eventually it just died down. No one thought anyone could challenge Google Chrome's monopoly, but that is about to change now. Perplexity's Comet is an AI-powered browser that is about to finally disrupt this market. I managed to get early-access a few weeks back. To test it out, I wanted to look for a particular post by someone on X about an Open Source tool. I only remembered some keywords and approximate dates on which I saw that post. I gave the profile link and the context to Comet, and it found the exact post in less than 5 minutes without any additional search. The best part is that I was able to actually watch Comet browse through the posts, using reasoning to figure out relevance and it gave me the EXACT post I was looking for. Simply surreal technology. Chrome is way behind (check out the screenshot in the comment for Google Chrome for the same prompt/question and look at the first few results). I believe if a product solves a problem or makes it easier to find a solution in the first few tries, you are extremely likely to become a returning customer. Perplexity has nailed it and this will only get better with time. If you want to try Comet, sign up using the link below and let me know in the comments how your experience has been. (You get Perplexity Pro free for the 1st month) https://lnkd.in/dJwqx5zH #Perplexity #Comet

Users should always have control over their online experience. Starting today, Mozilla Firefox users can set Perplexity as their default search engine or choose it for one-time searches for intelligent, accurate, and trustworthy answers.

Google’s monopoly on search just took a big hit. Sure Firefox only has 2.5% browser share, but its a big enough brand to give the world a taste of a vastly superior ai search engine to Chrome/ Gemini.

Users should always have control over their online experience. Starting today, Mozilla Firefox users can set Perplexity as their default search engine or choose it for one-time searches for intelligent, accurate, and trustworthy answers. #IA

most people aren’t using agentic browsers like Atlas or Dia are the browsers better? not really, but you should still use them. here's why 👇 in my opinion, these tools aren’t here to “beat” Chrome, they’re here to train you for what’s next the web is about to become collaborative. you won’t just browse - you’ll prompt, automate, and delegate and the people experimenting now, they’ll be the ones who understand how these browsers think, what’s possible, and how to turn the internet into a personal operating system ➡️ my biggest hack so far? learning how to prompt an agent to perform workflows for you behind the scenes. it's really all comes down to how to maximize your time