Google announced yesterday on the official Google Chrome blog that it will end support for various operating system in April 2016. While it comes to no surprise that Windows XP is mentioned […]
I don't really print out web pages ever, but when I visit my parents, I see them print out Wikipedia pages and other informational web pages regularly. If you do print out […]
Norwegian company Opera Software launched new versions of its mobile web browsers for Android today. Opera maintains two different browsers for Android which Android users can download and run on their devices. […]
Vivaldi unveiled the official beta version of the company's web browser a couple of minutes ago marking the next step in the company's plan to win over disgruntled Opera users and Internet […]
What's happening over at Opera Software? Apart from suggestions that the company is up for grabs should a serious bidder emerge, business as usual. Opera Software, which abandoned classic Opera some time […]
Talking to Google while using Chrome on the desktop has become a tad harder in Chrome 46 as the company has removed the native integration of its voice control service Ok, Google […]
Google announced today that it will remove the Notification Center that is part of Google Chrome from the browser in the upcoming release of the web browser. One of the first things […]
ProxMate is a popular browser extension for Firefox and Google Chrome that adds VPN-like capabilities to the browser to access content on the Internet that is geo-restricted. This enables users of the […]
So I have been experiencing a strange issue when using the Google Chrome web browser on Windows 10. Sometimes, and I'm not sure what triggers this, Chrome freezes. What I mean by […]
Mozilla, Google and Microsoft have agreed to remove support for the RC4 cipher in Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge in early 2016. Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in RC4 in […]
It has been a while since we last checked out the Otter Browser project. To be precise, we reviewed the first and third beta of the project back in 2014 which were […]
Google landed a new feature in Chromium and Chrome Dev today that will defer media playback in background tabs until those tabs are selected. Depending on how you use web browsers, you […]
Whenever you download a file in Google Chrome, a toolbar is displayed at the bottom of the screen listing the file. The toolbar displays download speed and progress, and remains visible after […]
Google has added a new discard tab feature to Chromium, the open source version of Google Chrome, that will discard tabs based on an algorithm when physical memory runs low on the […]
Whenever you connect to a secure website using Firefox or any other modern browser, negotiations happen in the background that determine what is being used to encrypt the connection. RC4 is a […]
TaskSchedulerView is a new application by Nirsoft that allows you to manage all Windows tasks in an easy to use interface. Programs may not only start during system start but also on […]
A recent Chromium bug listing indicates that Google is considering removing built-in ftp support in the Chrome web browser. According to the listing, only 0.1% to 0.2% of Chrome users access ftp […]
Ublock is without doubt a popular extension for Firefox and Chrome that blocks network requests and popups, and modifies DOM requests on sites you visit to block advertisement, malicious content and other […]
I monitor disk space closely on my computer using various built-in tools like Windows Explorer but also third-party programs such as WizTree or the recently reviewed GetFoldersize. Whenever I notice a sharp […]
Google some time ago updated the Bookmarks Manager of the company's own Chrome browser. From a basic folder and list view to something that looked well on mobile devices but was highly […]
It is often a good idea to scan downloads using online virus scanners as a first line of defense before the download is canned by local antivirus solutions. Online scanners offer several […]
Websites go overboard sometimes with Flash contents which you may notice as it may stop web browsers dead in their tracks, consume lots of battery if you are on a mobile device, […]
The makers of Vivaldi have released a new development snapshot of the browser that introduces several new customization options. The web browser, which is still only available as a technical preview and […]
Vivaldi is a relatively new web browser based on the Blink engine which Google Chrome and Opera use as well. A stable version of the web browser has not been released yet […]
The brightness of the computer screen can be an unpleasant one especially at night, right after you wake up or maybe even at all times depending on how sensitive you are. I […]
Google announced today that it made the decision to expand its non-Store extension installation policy to all Windows versions of the Chrome browser. The company started to enforce the policy back in […]
Mozilla has added a new feature to Firefox 39 which emulates some -webkit prefixes on select sites to improve compatibility of those sites in the Firefox browser. One issue that you may […]
The first Firefox build of uMatrix has been created by Gorhill on Github. The release is dubbed a "very early preview" and users are asked not to file feature requests currently. The […]
Only Chrome Stable and Beta were available up until recently for the Android operating system. Google changed this recently by adding Chrome Dev as another build to the company's Play Store. Chrome […]
Opera Software's work on the Opera browser continues. One of the recent additions to the browser are so-called sidebar extensions which, as the name suggests, are browser extensions designed specifically for Opera's […]
Google pushed out an update to the stable channel of its browser Chrome yesterday that brought the version of the browser to 42. With it comes the second phase of a major […]
Policies provide system administrators and users with options to configure the behavior of certain features of the Windows operating system or applications available on machines running it. They are used mostly to […]
While there are hundreds of web browsers, there are only a handful of engines all of these browsers run on, especially on the desktop. Chromium alone is the building block for more […]
I'm keeping a close eye on the development of the Vivaldi browser as it shows some promise especially when compared to other Chromium-based browsers. Vivaldi Technologies releases snapshot builds of the technical […]
If you wanted to use the compression proxy that Google introduced in mobile versions of Chrome some time ago on the desktop, you had to use a third-party extension until now to […]
Browser bookmarks have not changed a lot in recent time. The only major feature that most browsers introduced is bookmark syncing to synchronize bookmarks across devices. Firefox Sync or Google Sync require an […]
The browser extension uBlock so far has only been available for desktop devices. The extension was released for Chromium-based browsers first and then later on for Firefox as well. Today, a version […]
The Vivaldi browser, just like many other Chromium/Blink browsers, shares much of its core with Google Chrome and other browsers Chromium based browsers. One positive effect of that is that it supports […]
If you are running an Android device with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and use the Chrome browser on it, you may want to switch to another browser soon as Google just […]
Windows users who wanted to run a 64-bit version of Firefox in the past were limited to the Nightly Channel up until now as it was the only channel that offered 32-bit […]
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