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C ryptocurrencies are digital or virtual currencies that make use of encryption for security. As they are anonymous and decentralized in nature, one can use them for making payments that can’t be tracked by governments. As crypto-mining has gained popularity, the website owners are now using cryptocurrency mining scripts to use the CPU power of the visitors for earning profits. This has also inspired some developers to come up with methods to block cryptocurrency mining in the web browser via different methods. The Pirate Bay, the world’s most popular torrent website, was recently spotted testing a Monero cryptocurrency miner on their websites. The website confessed that it could be using coin mining in future to keep the website running. This was followed by some other reports of similar nature. This practice isn’t new, but the Pirate Bay was the first popular website that was seen using a cryptocurrency miner. This has also fueled the ethics debate as the website owners a

M ozilla triggered the browser war with the release of Firefox 57 aka Quantum. But comparing the two proved it wasn’t easy to defeat king Chrome. With the release of Opera 51, the Opera browser also finds itself in the battle. Its developers claim that the new version, based Chromium 64, is around 38% faster (Speedometer 2.0 benchmark) than Firefox 58 when tested on an HP Spectre running Windows 10. The reason behind the quickness is Opera 51’s Windows version is compiled with Clang. The new version adds to the browsers feature set which includes a tool to block cryptojacking on people’s computers. A click to scroll feature makes things easier and probably removes the need for a mouse on laptops. A user can click a tab to automatically scroll to the top from the bottom and click it again to return to the bottom of the page. Image: Opera blog Opera 51 makes the reset process easier by including a new ‘Reset browser settings’ button in Settings > Browser. The option del