Custom Search Chrome 71.0.3578.98 Browse fast. One fast, simple, and secure browser for all your devices. License: Freeware. Developer/Publisher: Google. Modification Date: December 11, 2018. Requirements: Mac OS X 10.9 or higher File Size: 76 MB File Size: 107.6 MB Chromium Chromium is an open-source browser project that aims to build a safer, faster, and more stable way for all users to experience the web.

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This site contains design documents, architecture overviews, testing information, and more to help you learn to build and work with the Chromium source code. License: Freeware. Developer/Publisher: The Chromium Authors. Modification Date: Current. Requirements: Mac OS X 10.9 or higher File Size: 94.7 MB - FreeSMUG build 71.0.3578.80 Epichrome 2.2.3 An application (Epichrome.app) and Chrome extension (Epichrome Helper) to create and use Chrome-based SSBs on Mac OSX.

Epichrome is made up of two parts: an AppleScript-based Mac application (Epichrome.app) and a companion Chrome extension (Epichrome Helper). Epichrome.app creates Chrome-based site-specific browsers (SSBs) for Mac OSX (Chrome must be installed in order to run them, but they are full Mac apps, each with its own separate Chrome profile).

Each app automatically installs Epichrome Helper, which uses rules to decide which links the app should handle itself, and which should be sent to the default web browser. This works particularly well for streaming entertainment sites such as Netflix and HBO or social networking sites like Facebook and any Google Specific sites like Google Docs or Gmail. Basically, you can make your own application for Facebook, Netflix, Google Docs etc. All you need is the URL and an appropriate image for the icon.

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Running each of these web apps in a separate tab in your browser can be a real pain. Fluid lets you create a Real Mac App (or 'Fluid App') out of any website or web application, effectively turning your favorite web apps into OS X desktop apps. License: Shareware, $5. Developer/Publisher: Todd Ditchendorf. Modification Date: October 19, 2018. Requirements: macOS 10.12 or higher File Size: 6.3 MB iCab 5.8.6 iCab is an alternative web browser for the Apple Macintosh with numerous useful features not found in other browsers.

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The Question SuperUser reader Vishnu Vivek is curious about MAC addresses and their function: I understand that IP addresses are hierarchical, so that routers throughout the internet know which direction to forward a packet. With MAC addresses, there is no hierarchy, and thus packet forwarding would not be possible. So, MAC addresses are not used for packet transfer. I don’t think it sits there for no reason. So my question is, where exactly does a MAC address come into play during a packet transfer? Where indeed? What is the specific function of the MAC address?

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The Answer SuperUser contributor Werner Henze offers some insight into the function of the MAC address: What are MAC addresses used for? MAC addresses are the low level basics that make your ethernet based network work.

Network cards each have a unique MAC address. Packets that are sent on the ethernet are always coming from a MAC address and sent to a MAC address. If a network adapter is receiving a packet, it is comparing the packet’s destination MAC address to the adapter’s own MAC address. If the addresses match, the packet is processed, otherwise it is discarded.

There are special MAC addresses, one for example is ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff, which is the broadcast address and addresses every network adapter in the network. How do IP addresses and MAC addresses work together? IP is a protocol that is used on a layer above ethernet. Another protocol for example would be IPX. When your computer wants to send a packet to some IP address x.x.x.x, then the first check is if the destination address is in the same IP network as the computer itself. If x.x.x.x is in the same network, then the destination IP can be reached directly, otherwise the packet needs to be sent to the configured router.

Up to now things seem to have gotten worse, because now we have two IP addresses: one is the original IP packet’s target address, the other is the IP of the device to which we should send the packet (the next hop, either the final destination or the router). Since ethernet uses MAC addresses, the sender needs to get the MAC address of the next hop. There is a special protocol ARP (address resolution protocol) that is used for that. Once the sender has retrieved the MAC address of the next hop, he writes that target MAC address into the packet and sends the packet. How does ARP work? ARP itself is a protocol above ethernet, like IP or IPX. When a device wants to know the MAC address for a given IP address, it sends a packet to the broadcast MAC address asking “Who has IP address y.y.y.y?” All devices receive that packet, but only the one with the IP address y.y.y.y will respond with a packet “It’s me.” The asking device receives the answer and now knows that the source MAC address is the right MAC address to use.

Of course the result will be cached, so the device does not need to resolve the MAC address every time. Routing I almost forgot to mention: there is no routing based on MAC addresses.

Low level ethernet and MAC addresses can only reach every device on the same network (cabled or wireless). If you have two networks with a router in between you cannot have a device in network A send a packet to the MAC address of a device in network B. No device in network A has the MAC address of the device in network B, so a packet to this MAC address will be discarded by all devices in the network A (also by the router). Routing is done on IP level. Simply seen the router is just doing what I described above in the section “How do IP addresses and MAC addresses work together?”. The router will receive packets for its own MAC address but for a different IP address.

He will then check if he can directly reach the target IP address. If so, he sends the packet to the target. Otherwise the router itself also has an upstream router configured and will send the packet to that router.

Of course you can have multiple routers configured. Your home router will only have one upstream router configured, but in the internet backbone the big routers have big routing tables so they know the best ways for all packets. Other use cases for MAC addresses. Network switches store a list of MAC addresses seen at every port and only forward packets to the ports that need to see the packet. Wireless access points often use MAC addresses for access control. They only allow access for known devices (MAC address is unique and identifies devices) with the correct passphrase. DHCP servers use the MAC address to identify devices and give some devices fixed IP addresses.

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