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Microsoft released KB4501375 for Windows 10 version 1903 recently to fix a number of issues. One of the fixed issues affected calibration loaders and applications like the popular F.Lux program that make use of the SetDeviceGammaRamp API. Update: The June 26 update for Windows 10 version 1903 fixed the issue. according to the release notes. The changelog confirms that Microsoft fixed the issue in

When you try to install the Firefox pr Chrome web browser on a recent Windows 10 version 1809 Insider build, you may notice that the installation gets interrupted by the operating system. The intermediary screen that interrupts the installation states that Edge is installed on the device and that it is safer and faster than the browser that the user was about to install on the device. Options prov

Mozilla Firefox 57 will be released today; we have reviewed the new version of the web browser yesterday already. The new version comes with light and shadow; light, because it is faster and more responsive across the board, and shadow, because it dropped the old add-on system which Mozilla now calls legacy extensions. All classic Firefox add-ons that are not WebExtensions at the time when you upd

Custom CSS for Fx is a collection of CSS styles for Firefox 57 and newer by the author of the popular Firefox add-on Classic Theme Restorer. Firefox 57 won't support Classic Theme Restorer or any other interface changing extensions or themes anymore because of the switch to a WebExtensions exclusive system. The new WebExtensions system prevents changes to the browser's user interface by not provid

Some Firefox extensions require access to local storage and/or indexedDB, for instance to store data on the user device Firefox runs on. These extensions may break if cookies are blocked. Extensions like uBlock Origin, uMatrix, or Stylus use the storage and thus require cookie permissions even if they don't set cookies to work correctly. While some come with fallbacks built-in to overcome this lim

Our own memory benchmarks saw Firefox lead the pack in 2012 and 2014 when we compared the browser's memory usage against Chrome, Opera and Internet Explorer on Windows. Mozilla did run tests of its own last year, and ran them again this year with multi-process versions of the browser. Multi-process architecture separates the browser from content processes in Firefox. Mozilla estimated last year th

The following guide walks you through the steps of overriding the add-on signing enforcement in Firefox Stable and Beta. You will be able to install unsigned add-ons in Firefox versions in which this should not be possible. Mozilla implemented the add-on signing security feature in Firefox some time ago, and made it mandatory in Firefox 48 for the Stable and Beta channel. This means that Firefox u

The most recent version of Chrome Dev, and probably other versions of the official Google browser as well, have received updates recently that introduce options to switch the interface to Material Design. The feature is experimental at the time of writing, but it seems likely that Google will make the design the official one for Chrome in the future by switching to it permanently. If you want to k

A stable version of the web browser has not been released yet but is expected to become available later this year. Vivaldi is one of the few Blink/Chromium-based browsers that introduced features that Google Chrome does not support. In fact, it is probably the browser with the largest set of custom features when compared to Chrome. The following guide looks at five core features that Vivaldi suppo

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 run into when browsing sites on the Internet is that web developers may have used vendor specific prefixes for styling. While that is not an issue if alternatives have been implemented, it can cause display issues

File synchronization software comes in many shapes and forms. From cloud storage services that allow you to sync files with the cloud and from there to your other devices to local solutions that you use without third-party involvement. This article concentrates on local solutions only that are offered for free and run on all supported versions of the Windows operating system. While cloud syncing s

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 the majority of extensions published for Google Chrome in the Chrome web store. This is similar for the new Opera web browser which supports the majority of extensions as well. Click here to find ou

The first stable version of Vivaldi, a new web browser by Vivaldi Technologies, was released on April 6, 2016 to the public. The web browser, launched by Opera co-founder John von Tetzchner's new company Vivaldi Technologies back in January 2015, swims against the trend of streamlining modern web browsers by giving users choice, features and customization options. The first stable version of the V

If you look at desktop computers, you will notice that there are three core Internet browsers left for those  systems. There are also forks of two of those browsers available that increase the number of programs that you can download and use, but in the end, it all comes down to those three browsers. There is Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chromium. If you compare Firefox and Google Chrome -- th

Since the announcement of impending doom for Google Reader there has been a lot of activity in the RSS world. Services like Feedly have had to beef up server and bandwidth capacity, and other services like Feedspot have appeared on the scene. Even Digg has announced it is building a Reader replacement. Add to this storm one more alternative -- CommaFeed. The latest app aims to simulate the Googl

Tabs Outliner is a browser extension for Google Chrome that improves tab management by listing all open tabs on a single page. Tabs are an integral part of all modern web browsers. They enable you to open multiple web pages at the same time in the same browser window. While tabs have been there for years, tab management has not really evolved that much ever since it was first introduced in web bro

Okay take this with some skepticism as there is no official confirmation about this yet, and the only source for the article is an unnamed one. According to web magazine Pocket-Lint, Facebook is considering buying the Norwegian company Opera Software, which developers the Opera web browser for various platforms. Opera Software, which had a very strong q1 financially is known for the Opera desktop

TumblThree is an open source program for Windows that you may use to download blogs from the popular blogging platform Tumblr. The application is designed primarily as a backup tool even though it can be used by anyone to download entire blogs, or content posted on blogs from Tumblr. TumblThree supports videos, images, audio files, text content, and pretty much any other content that is posted on

We have talked about Dropbox's new camera import feature previously which allows you to import photos from digital cameras that you connect directly to your PC to your Dropbox storage. This can be useful if you use Dropbox to store your photos anyway. Free users may run into space issues pretty soon though, as individual photos these days take up Megabytes of free space. Dropbox is currently runni

It is usually not necessary to use a software to plan a small home network that consists of a couple of PCs, a router and maybe other peripherals like a NAS or printer. But when it comes to medium sized or even larger networks, especially in a business environment, it pays off to plan before starting to build the network. The free Open Source software PrimeDesktop combines planning with mapping an

Google just announced that it will sunset the company's social networking service Google+ for consumers in the coming 10 month period. Google+ was Google's last attempt at creating a Facebook competitor that would put Google on equal footing with the social networking giant in regards to user data and number of users. Google+ received mixed reviews and ratings when Google launched it in 2011 after

One of the biggest problems with Windows, every version in fact is that there is a different installation DVD for each version. Whether that's Starter, Home Basic, Home Premium, Professional or Ultimate that's nine different discs you need as each of these comes with a separate disc for the 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit (x64) versions of the operating system. Yesterday I wrote on our sister website Win

4chan regulars, who like the site because of its vast pool of images that get uploaded to the website every minute, often utilize software or extensions to download images automatically, or at least semi-automatically from the popular Internet message board. 4chan Downloader is on first glance just another tool for the job. The program takes a single url that points to a 4Chan thread, scans it for

We've known about the closure of Google Reader for some time now, but the deadline is now upon us. The ticking of the clock is getting louder so if you're yet to choose which RSS service you are going to pledge your allegiance to instead, now is the time to make your decision. You might be cutting it a little fine, but there's still time to switch to a service that can import all of your existing