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What you do when Firefox disables installed add-ons

There is a lot of buzz surrounding Tuesday's Firefox 43 release, and here specifically the enforcement of add-on signing for the first time in the stable version of the web browser. The […]

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AIMP 4.0 final for Windows is out

The developers of the popular audio player AIMP have released AIMP 4.0 final after pushing out four beta releases and three release candidate builds of the program. AIMP 4.0 is a major […]

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How to restore classic search in Firefox

Mozilla changed the classic search interface in Firefox 34 significantly by implementing a new search bar UI. It felt rushed at that time as it lacked options to re-order search engines, or […]

Microsoft Internet Explorer end of life upgrade notification update

Microsoft announced a while ago that it plans to make fundamental changes to Internet Explorer support on machines running the Windows operating system. The company wants to support only the latest available […]

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Pixels for Reddit lets you browse images in style on Android

Pixels for Reddit is a free application for Android that provides you with an elegant user interface that has been optimized to browse images posted to Reddit by its userbase. Update: The […]

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Firefox 43: Find out what is new

Firefox 43's official release data is December 15, 2015. This overview provides you with information about new features, updates, and changes in the new version of the web browser for the desktop […]

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Firefox Addon Detector identifies installed Firefox add-ons

Firefox Addon Detector is a web service that reveals if Firefox users connecting to the service have specific Firefox add-ons installed. If you are using the Firefox web browser you may know […]

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MultCloud: Manage all Cloud Drives from one location

MultCloud is an online service that provides you with the means to manage all of your cloud hosting accounts, and to transfer data effortlessly between those accounts. If you have access to […]

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Yahoo Video Guide: search for movies and TV shows across streaming services

Yahoo Video Guide is a new application for Android and iOS that provides you with the means to browse and search movies and TV shows across streaming, rental and shopping services in […]

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Install Windows 7 Games on Windows 10

Games that Microsoft shipped with Windows 7 are fundamentally different from those that it included in Windows 8 or 10. Windows 7 games were the last that were shipped as programs for […]

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PatchCleaner: remove orphan Windows installer files to free up disk space

PatchCleaner is a free program for the Windows operating system that can free up huge amounts of disk space by cleaning up the Windows Installer Directory. The Microsoft Windows operating system stores […]

Thunderbird's future: Web App, or LibreOffice?

Mozilla announced last month that it wants to get rid of Thunderbird, the desktop email client that shares code with Firefox. The details were a bit sketchy at the time, but the […]

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Get Windows 10 prompt without "no thanks" option

Microsoft's Get Windows 10 application is deployed on computer systems running Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 to advertise and push the new operating system as a free upgrade on those devices. It […]

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If you are a free OneDrive user and want to keep your storage, do this

Microsoft announced back in November 2015 that it would downgrade storage on its cloud hosting service OneDrive for nearly any customer of the service. Paying customers, those subscribed to Office 365 would […]

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An analysis of local caches that Firefox uses

Back in the early days of the Internet, there was just a single cache for HTML files and static elements such as images but with the rise of HTML5 and modern web […]

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AVG's Android report shames battery, traffic and performance drainers

AVG released the Android App Performance & Trends Report for Q3 2015 recently highlighting applications that impact the user experience on the operating system the most. If your Android device is leaking […]

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Check whether your antivirus is vulnerable to exploitable RWX addresses

AV Vulnerability Checker is a free program for Windows that determines whether antivirus software installed on the computer is vulnerable to exploitable constant Read-Write-Execute (RWX) addresses. Vulnerabilities are bad, regardless whether they […]

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Google changes multi-language spell checking options in Chrome

Google changed the way multi-language spell checking works in Chrome 47. The company removed the option to switch between different spell checking languages in text input fields to enable simultaneous spell checking […]

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Microsoft ends support for .Net Framework 4, 4.5 and 4.5.1

Microsoft announced earlier this year that it would end support for the Microsoft .Net Framework 4, 4.5 and 4.5.1 on January 12, 2016. End of support means that these .Net versions won't […]

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Microsoft publishes Edge extensions page and extensions accidentally

Microsoft Edge is a bare-bones web browser that the company shipped with its Windows 10 operating system, and it seems that previous versions of Windows won't be supported by Edge. Microsoft removed […]

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Thunderbird usage is on the rise

Thunderbird usage is on the rise according to latest usage information published by Mozilla on the official blog. The email client that celebrated its eleventh birthday on December 7 crossed the 10 […]

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Open Live Writer: Windows Live Writer fork that is open source

Windows Live Writer was a desktop publishing software for Windows that Microsoft offered as part of Windows Live. The program supported several popular blogging platforms that authors and webmasters could add to […]

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Mozilla will ship Rust code and Servo components in Firefox in 2016

2016 will be an important year for Mozilla, maker of the Firefox web browser and proponent of an open Web. The organization announced plans this month to shift Firefox OS development away […]

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DuckDuckGo, Startpage and Ixquick search engines are doing well

The search engines DuckDuckGo, Startpage and Ixquick are doing better than ever according to statistics released by DuckDuckgo and Surfboard Holding BV. DuckDuckGo traffic climbed from an average of 7.1 million daily […]

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QuickTextPaste is a tiny text pasting program for Windows

QuickTextPaste is a free portable program for the Windows operating system that enables you to paste pre-defined text quickly using hotkeys, and to run special pre-defined commands on top of that. Automation […]

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Microsoft Security Bulletins For December 2015

Welcome to this month's overview of the Microsoft December 2015 Patch Day. The guide provides you with relevant information about all security and non-security patches that Microsoft released since the November 2015 […]

Mozilla puts the brakes on Firefox OS project

Mozilla announced a moment ago that it made the decision to stop offering "Firefox OS smartphones" to carrier channels. Mozilla, best known for its Firefox web browser, revealed Firefox OS back in […]

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Jukedeck: Create unique music for your videos

Jukedeck is a new online service that provides you with the means to create music for your videos in a near effortless way as you don't need to be a composer or […]

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Firefox Hello is the first system add-on for Firefox

The most recent Nightly versions of the Firefox web browser ship with the first system add-on released for the browser. Firefox Hello, the browser's realtime chat component, has been turned into a […]

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Toggle Data and other settings with Power Toggles for Android

Power Toggles is a free application for Android that provides you with controls to toggle system features and settings, and to add app links and custom links to the Android homescreen or […]

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Firefox Profilemaker: modify Firefox settings on the Web

Firefox Profilemaker is an online tool that enables you to make configuration changes to Firefox by exporting those changes either to a Firefox profile or saving them as a prefs.js file instead […]

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Google Safe Browsing comes to Android and Google Chrome mobile

Google announced today that it has Safe Browsing protection to "hundreds of millions of Chrome users on Android". Safe Browsing is a protective service used by Google in Google Chrome but also […]

Microsoft continues aggressive upgrade strategy for Windows 7 and 8.1 systems

It is quite difficult to block the free upgrade offer to Windows 10 on operating system's running Windows 7 or Windows 8.1. While it should be as easy as clicking on a […]

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Firefox Hello: Contacts to be removed, Tab Sharing on by default

Major changes are coming to Firefox Hello, the built-in video-, audio- and text chat service of the Firefox web browser. Mozilla plans to remove the contacts functionality from Firefox Hello in version […]

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You can delete games from your Steam library now (but should not)

Most Steam users I know have accumulated an impressive number of games over their account's lifespan which can be attributed more often than not to frequent sales and binge buying of games […]

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How to customize the homescreen of Xiaomi devices

I have to say that I'm very happy with my Xiaomi Mi4c Android phone which I bought in October 2015 after using a Motorola Moto G First Generation for two years straight. […]

Mozilla has a revenue share agreement with Pocket

When Mozilla announced the native integration of the "read-it-later" service Pocket in Firefox, rumors that Mozilla must have received money by Pocket for the integration emerged almost immediately. The integration did not […]

Mozilla drops Sponsored Tile advertisement in Firefox

Mozilla's VP of Content Services Darren Herrman announced yesterday on the official Mozilla Blog that the organization made the decision to discontinue Sponsored Tiles in the Firefox web browser. The controversial feature […]

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Download or stream files hosted on Mega with MegaDownloader

MegaDownloader is a third-party client for the file hosting and sharing service Mega that provides you with options to download files from the service and to stream online videos directly to the […]

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Browse the web like you would have done 20 years ago

I'm not sure why anyone would want to go back to the early days of the Internet, but if you do, you can relive that past even more accurately by using an […]