Pale Moon 24 ships with many new - and old - features
Just like there are several Chromium-based browsers out there, Iron or the recently reviewed privacy-centered Epic Browser, there are several browsers that are
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Deploy honeypot documents to find out about unauthorized access
When it comes to important documents, be they of personal nature, business related or otherwise of importance to you, it is usually best to use encryption to pr
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Mozilla will merge Thunderbird Stable and ESR releases in the near future
Mozilla releases a Thunderbird Stable and ESR version every six weeks just like it does for the Firefox web browser.
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Fix Gmail IMAP slowing down Thunderbird or mails not arriving in a timely fashion
The Thunderbird email client had to take a back seat over at Mozilla when the organization decided to spend resources on other projects instead.
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URL Uncover: display short url destinations directly
Short URL services serve no real purpose on today's Internet.
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Improve Firefox's address bar search with Omnibar
The Firefox web browser offers to its users one of the most versatile search experiences available in today's browser world.
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Anti-Adblock Killer removes website ad-blocking protections
Advertisement blockers are a controversial topic for many webmasters.
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NoPicAds blocks picture overlay, count down page and windows pop up ads
While regular advertisements are the most common form that you encounter on the Internet, for instance as banners on a website like this one, you may also encou
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Surprise! DuckDuckGo is Gnome's new default web search engine
Gnome is a long-standing desktop environment and user interface that is part of the GNU project and available for use in various Nix-like operating systems incl
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Kikin for Chrome: search for anything with the click of the mouse button
If you are running a stock version of Google Chrome you may have encountered the following situation.
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Zeekly: another privacy based search engine
Privacy based search engines like DuckDuckGo or Startpage have doubled or even tripled their daily visits ever since the Prism story broke on the Internet.
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Dropbox Plus adds a tree of folders to Dropbox's sidebar
The file synchronization and hosting service Dropbox recently crushed the 100 million user mark, which is fairly impressive if you consider that all "big" Inter
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Report fake websites and Firefox distributions to Mozilla
When it comes to software downloads, I'm always trying to snag the software from official sources.
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Https on regular Feedly accounts
We have talked about Feedly before here on Ghacks, and what we had to say about it was mostly positive.
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Startpage and Ixquick search engines improve user privacy further
Search engines like DuckDuckGo, Startpage or Ixquick have seen a surge in visitors ever since the PRISM story broke on the Internet.
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Hemlis: encrypted messaging app by Pirate Bay co-founder
One of the effects of the PRISM revelation is that we have seen an increase in "secure" or "private-orientated" applications and services, or at the very least
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Access YouTube video subscriptions faster with a change to grid-layout
So I have started to subscribe to a couple of users on YouTube lately who create great content on the video platform.
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Go back to YouTube's old buffering to skip without rebuffering
Update: The extension has been removed from the Chrome Web Store.
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Kiwix: download Wikipedia to your computer or Android for offline access
Back in the days when the first offline solutions for Wikipedia were introduced, you often did not have enough space on your mobile device to really add a large
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PirateBrowser is a custom Firefox version with Tor and FoxyProxy included
When it comes to censorship on the Internet, The Onion Router (TOR) is one of the better options that you have to bypass it.
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Mozilla Persona gets a boost with Gmail integration
Mozilla Persona on first glance may look like any other single sign-in solution that you find on the Internet, such as those offered by Facebook or Google.
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Hushmail: why you should run the Java version
With Lavabit shut down for the time being and uncertainty whether it will get back up its feet ever again, users of the secure email service may have started to
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How to send voice messages in WhatsApp
If you are using the popular messaging application WhatsApp on your smartphone or tablet, you may have already heard about the new voice messaging functionality
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Outlook.com changes the way message history works
Microsoft has replaced Hotmail, its popular online email app, by migrating users to its Outlook.
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Increase the size of all images on Reddit with one-click
If you like to hang out on Reddit you have probably been exposed to the site's vast image and photo section.
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Dbinbox: Enable anonymous uploads to your Dropbox
Dropbox is one of the most popular file synchronization and cloud hosting services on today's Internet.
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The Old Reader isn't dead yet
It has, perhaps, been enough time for users to get over the death of Google Reader.
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QuiteRSS 0.13.2: revisiting the RSS reader after a year
I prefer to use a desktop reader when it comes to RSS.
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How to configure Adblock Plus' Malware, Social Media Button and Tracking blocking
Adblock Plus is without doubt one of the most popular ad blocking tools on today's Internet.
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Mozilla proposes that browsers may share user interests with websites
The web browser knows a lot about your activities.
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How to paste formatted text as plain text into Thunderbird
When you copy text to the Windows clipboard, the formatting of said text is usually copied alongside the textual bits of information.
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Stream Nation: cloud-powered media storage and streaming service
Many popular file synchronization and hosting services such as Dropbox, Google Drive or SkyDrive ship with media streaming and viewing capabilities.
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Center and enlarge Gmail's new compose window
I'm not a fan of Gmail's new compose window that sits down there in the bottom right corner of the window when you hit the compose button.
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Digg Reader now allows data export
In the wake of the closing of Google Reader at the start of this month, many services beefed up for the onslaught of business, while other new ones suddenly spr
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How to see mature (NSFW) content on Tumblr
Tumblr hides mature content by default.
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How to save offline maps in the new Google Maps application
Google Maps for Android and iOS had a useful offline maps feature up until recently which you could use to save parts of the map for offline use.
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Display Android notifications on the desktop
If you get itchy fingers whenever you do not have your Android phone in your hands to check up on new messages, updates and other things, then you may find it d
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How to opt-out of tailored ads and personalization on Twitter
Twitter, just like many other "free to use" services on the Internet earns most of its revenue from advertisement that is displayed to users of the service.
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Media Sniffer displays video and audio stream urls to you
When you watch videos on the Internet or listen to audio streams on websites or in applications like Spotify, you are not really exposed to what is going on beh
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Secure Gmail adds email encryption to Google Mail
With PRISM news losing momentum and shifting to Snowden's whereabouts almost entirely, it is likely that the majority of the world population will have forgotte
