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See allMicrosoft Secure Network is now available as a limited preview in Edge Canary
We reported about Microsoft Secure Network a few weeks ago, when it was spotted on the company's support website. The free VPN has officially entered a limited access preview in Edge Canary. […]
Pale Moon 31 is out now
Pale Moon 31 is the latest version of the desktop web browser. The new version of the browser comes after Pale Moon 29.4.6; this is done to avoid confusion regarding the Pale […]
Tor's Congestion Control feature promises improved performance
Tor Project released a new version of Tor, version 0.4.7.7, on May 4, 2022 to the public. Tor 0.4.7.7 is the first version of the service that supports congestion control, a new […]
Fix Pale Moon browser not passing Cloudflare's "Checking Your Browser" verification
The Pale Moon web browser runs into an infinite "checking your browser" loop on sites that use Cloudflare's browser integrity check feature. I confirmed the issue in the latest release versions of […]
VPNs
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First look at NordVPN's Threat Protection feature
NordVPN is a popular VPN provider. The company releases new features for its VPN clients regularly, and one of the latest features that it introduced is Threat Protection. Threat Protection is a […]
PureVPN Review: not the cheapest VPN, but still worth it?
PureVPN is a commercial VPN product by GZ Systems Limited, which is a British Virgin Islands limited company. The VPN service has applications for all major desktop operating systems and mobile operating […]
Cyberghost vs. NordVPN comparison: which is better?
Cyberghost and NordVPN are virtual private network providers, which we have reviewed previously here on the website. Both providers operate a large fleet of servers, are relatively cheap when you subscribe for […]
Surfshark VPN Review: good performance, good options
Surfshark VPN is a commercial VPN service based in the Netherlands, initially release in 2018. Surfshark is available for MacOS, Windows, and Linux, as well as browser extensions for Chrome, Firefox, and […]
Brave
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Brave 1.38 launches with improved Shields panel and De-AMP privacy feature
Brave Software released Brave 1.38, a new stable version of the company's Chromium-based browser, on April 27, 2022. The new version of Brave introduces De-AMP, a technology to redirect Google AMP pages […]
Brave's De-AMP feature redirects Google-hosted AMP pages to publisher pages
Brave Browser will soon redirect webpages, that use Google's AMP technology, to the publisher website automatically. AMP, which stands for Accelerated Mobile Pages, is a technology by Google that Brave considers to […]
Brave Browser gets language and font fingerprinting privacy protections
The team that is behind the Brave web browser added two more fingerprinting protections to the browser to improve user privacy on the Internet. The first protects against using the preferred languages […]
Brave 1.37: new sidebar, custom new tab backgrounds and privacy improvements
The makers of the Chromium-based Brave web browser have released Brave 1.37 to the public. The new stable version of Brave adds a new optional sidebar to the browser among other new […]
Microsoft Edge
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Microsoft Secure Network is now available as a limited preview in Edge Canary
We reported about Microsoft Secure Network a few weeks ago, when it was spotted on the company's support website. The free VPN has officially entered a limited access preview in Edge Canary. […]
Microsoft Edge beats Safari and Firefox to become second after Chrome on desktop systems
Microsoft's Chromium-based Microsoft Edge web browser surpassed the 10% usage share market on desktop systems in April 2022 according to Statcounter; this means that it is second only to Google Chrome, which […]
Microsoft Edge 101 patches 25 security issues
Microsoft Edge 101 stable is now available. The new version of Microsoft's cross-platform web browser patches 25 security issues and includes several non-security related improvements. Desktop users may select Menu > Help […]
Microsoft Edge Secure Network: browser VPN with 1GB free data
Microsoft is testing a new feature in the Microsoft Edge web browser, that is bringing a browser VPN free of charge to all users who are signed-in with a Microsoft Account. Microsoft […]
Vivaldi
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Vivaldi and Microsoft patch 0-day vulnerability in their browsers
Vivaldi and Microsoft have released updates for their web browsers that address security issues, including one that is exploited actively in the wild. Vivaldi Technologies announced the release of a minor update […]
Vivaldi 5.2 launches for the desktop and Android
Vivaldi Technologies released new versions of the company's Vivaldi web browser on April 6, 2022. Vivaldi 5.2 for desktop systems introduces support for tracker and ad-blocking statistics and a Reading List panel, […]
Vivaldi's Reading List feature is now available in the latest snapshot for Android devices
Remember the Reading List feature that Vivaldi brought to its desktop browser about a month ago? The latest Snapshot build of Vivaldi for Android ships with the same save-it-for-later feature. How to […]
Vivaldi adds a sidebar panel to manage the Reading List with new options
A couple of weeks ago, Vivaldi added a new feature called the Reading List. We have already told you how it works, the latest snapshot release brings another way to manage it, […]
Pale Moon
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Pale Moon 31 is out now
Pale Moon 31 is the latest version of the desktop web browser. The new version of the browser comes after Pale Moon 29.4.6; this is done to avoid confusion regarding the Pale […]
Fix Pale Moon browser not passing Cloudflare's "Checking Your Browser" verification
The Pale Moon web browser runs into an infinite "checking your browser" loop on sites that use Cloudflare's browser integrity check feature. I confirmed the issue in the latest release versions of […]
Pale Moon 30.0 out with important changes
The developers of the Pale Moon web browser have released Pale Moon 30.0 to the public for all supported operating systems. Pale Moon 30.0 is a milestone release that includes several important […]
Pale Moon Project announces change of direction
Pale Moon development will see a course direction in 2022 according to a new post by project owner Moonchild on the official Pale Moon forum. Pale Moon, an open source web browser […]
Internet Explorer
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Microsoft: please stop using Internet Explorer before it runs out of support next month
Microsoft announced in mid 2021 that it will retire the company's Internet Explorer 11 browser in most Windows versions in June 2022. That day is coming nearer, and while many Home users […]
Internet Explorer 11 retires in three months
Last year, Microsoft announced the retiring of its Internet Explorer 11 web browser for most versions of the Windows 10 operating system. Yesterday, Microsoft published a reminder that support for Internet Explorer […]
Can You Remove Internet Explorer 8 From Windows 7?
The topic came up recently on our How To Uninstall Windows Internet Explorer 9 guide: Is it possible to remove or uninstall Internet Explorer 8 from Windows 7? The short answer is […]
Internet Explorer 11 will be retired in June 2022 for most Windows 10 versions
Microsoft's Internet Explorer 11 web browser will be retired by the company in 2022 for most Windows versions. Microsoft announced the end of Internet Explorer today, just a day after the official […]
Search
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Brave Search introduces Discussions to add real-human conversations to search results
Brave Search, a search engine operated by the maker of the Brave Browser, is showing content from user discussions for certain queries now. Brave Software acquired the search engine technology developed by […]
A quick look at the new search engine You.com
You is a relatively new search engine that is currently in beta. The creators describe You as a search engine "that summarizes the best parts of the Internet" for its users. Currently, […]
Microsoft improves Windows 11 search with even more things you may not need
This week, Microsoft introduced the new Search highlights feature in the released Insider build for its Windows 11 operating system. Search highlights extend the operating system's search functionality with "notable and interesting […]
Startpage Search Engine launches Privacy Protection extension
Startpage Privacy Protection is a new browser extension by the privacy-focused search engine Startpage with two main purposes: reveal privacy scores of visited websites and give users more privacy-related controls to reduce […]
Google Maps
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Google Earth's Timelapse feature shows videos of how the planet has changed over 30 years
Google has announced a new feature called Timelapse, for its popular satellite imagery service, Google Earth. These stunning visuals show us how our planet has changed over 37 years, due to natural […]
Bing Maps 3D
Bing Maps, which was formerly known as Virtual Earth, is Microsoft's answer to Google Maps. The maps service is directly available on the Bing homepage and offers a 2D mode by default. […]
Local Search Ads on Google Maps
Google Maps users may soon see a new form of advertising when they use the popular mapping service that displays local search ads when the product is being used. The ads will […]
Play with and understand WiFi Positioning System
A few months ago, Mozilla generated lots of buzz through its Geode extension, which locates users through the WiFi access point they were using. Other popular tools have similar features, such as […]
Opera
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Opera 86 brings URL categories in Address Bar, Text Snapshot and Crop Tool
Opera browser has been updated to version 86 in the stable channel. The patch brings a refined address bar, and a couple of useful additions to the application's built-in screen capture utility. […]
Opera Software launches Opera VPN Pro for Android
Opera Software, best known for its Opera web browser, launched the commercial VPN service Opera VPN Pro for Android this month. Opera Software's browsers include built-in VPN functionality that is free to […]
Opera GX introduces Video Pickup to sync video timestamps, and GX Profiles for muting tabs, deleting data on exit
Opera has added two features, called GX Profiles and Video Pickup, to its gaming-centric browser, Opera GX. The company has been making impressive strides to improve the video experience with Automatic Video […]
Opera 86 dev channel update adds support for horizontal tab scrolling
The latest version in the Dev channel of Opera browser, version 86, adds a new way to navigate through your tabs. This maybe useful for users who are in the habit of […]
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