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ZDNETHave you ever stopped to look at how many tabs you have across the top of your browser? Is that number so large that you can’t make out the favicons for each of those sites, forcing you to click through them to find the site you need?The frustration described above is more common than you might think. Part of the reason is that many browsers still haven’t figured out how to manage tabs with any level of efficiency.Also: 5 great Chrome-like browsers that put your privacy firstHowever, a handful of browsers make working with an ever-growing list of tabs so much easier that you’ll wonder why you haven’t already made the switch.Trust me — once you’ve experienced real tab management in a web browser, you won’t look back. In fact, after I started using one of these browsers, I couldn’t go back to the old-school method of hunting for tabs in a sea of tiny icons.If that sounds like a frustration you’d prefer to leave behind, read on, my friend, because your tabs are about to get managed.1. OperaI’ll start with the browser that made me leave behind Firefox and never look back. That browser is Opera, and the feature is called Workspaces. With Workspaces, you create categorized spaces (such as Social Media, Shopping, News, and Work) and can open related tabs in those spaces, quickly switching back and forth. You could spend time viewing work-related sites in the Work Workspace and then move to the Shopping Workspace to find a new book to read. Hit the Social Media Workspace and craft a pithy post. Also: 5 great Chrome-like browsers that put your privacy firstWorkspaces can be accessed from the sidebar, and you can create as many as you need. Even better, you can pin specific tabs to specific workspaces. You can also customize keyboard shortcuts to allow you to switch from one workspace to the next without your hands leaving the keyboard. Opera is free to use and can be installed on Linux, MacOS, Windows, Android, and iOS.Best for: Those who want serious tab management, use different operating systems, and don’t mind installing closed-source software. More

Getty Images/da-kuk The best way to get the most out of an AI chatbot is verifying its sources and letting it direct you to more robust and useful content regarding the topic. Therefore, AI search engines are a powerful tool for everyday workflows, and, now, accessing ChatGPT Search just got a whole lot easier.  Also: How […] More

Andriy Onufriyenko/Getty Images ARK Invest’s Big Ideas 2025 highlights the convergences between and among the five technologically enabled innovation platforms evolving today: Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Energy Storage, Public Blockchains, and Multiomic Sequencing. In 2025, ARK features 11 Big Ideas illustrating the massive transformations occurring today.  Also: AI agents will match ‘good mid-level’ engineers this year, says Mark […] More

Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto via Getty Images One of the biggest complaints about ChatGPT is that it provides information that is difficult to check for accuracy. Those complaints exist because ChatGPT doesn’t always provide the sources, footnotes, or links from which it derived the information in its answers. Here’s how ChatGPT describes the approach: “GPT-4o in free […] More

Screenshot by Lance Whitney/ZDNETFirefox users can now tap into their favorite AI directly from the browser. Currently rolling out to all Firefox users with version 135 is a sidebar feature that grants access to several different AI chatbots. The list includes Anthropic’s Claude, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google Gemini, HuggingChat by Hugging Face, and Le Chat Mistral.The AI access has been available in Firefox since last September with version 130 but only on an experimental basis. Now it’s an official feature built into the browser for anyone to use.Also: The best AI chatbots of 2025: ChatGPT, Copilot, and notable alternativesTo try this out, make sure you’re running the latest version of Firefox. To do that, click the three-lined hamburger icon at the top right, click Help, and then select About Firefox. The browser will automatically download and install the new version and then prompt you to restart it.After launching Firefox again, click the Sidebar icon on the top toolbar. At the sidebar on the left, click the drop-down arrow to see a menu of choices, such as Bookmarks, History, Synced Tabs, and AI Chatbot. Select the one for AI Chatbot. You can also access the AI list more quickly without even opening the sidebar by pressing Ctrl+Alt+X. More

Adobe We all have to deal with contracts and agreements as consumers or business professionals. However, as most contracts are written in legalese, understanding them can be challenging. To ease the pain, Adobe has added a new skill to its Acrobat AI that tries to interpret complex contracts for the average person. Automatically detecting when […] More