Microsoft Releases An Update that Postpones Windows 8 Developer Preview Expiry Date to January 15, 2013

February 18, 2012
Windows 8 Devleoper Preview expires on jan 15, 2013

Microsoft released Windows 8 Developer preview on Sep 13, in 2012, it will expire on March 11th of this year (doesn’t matter if you installed it recently) and the expired date for Windows 8 Server Preview is set to April  8, 2012. WDP is released mainly for developers to create metro apps, surprise! Microsoft is [...]

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Firefox 10.0.2 Update Fixes Integer Overflow Vulnerability in libpng [CVE-2011-3026]

February 18, 2012

Yesterday Mozilla released Firefox 10.0.2 by fixing a security issue, not disclosed what it was that time. Now more details coming out, Mozilla noted on their security blog that an integer overflow/truncation in Lipbng graphics library used by Firefox has been fixed with yesterday released update, this can allow an attacker to exploit the bug [...]

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Firefox 10.0.2 Released

February 17, 2012
Downloading Firefox 10.0.2 update

We’ve another Firefox release!, Firefox 10.0.2 now available via update.  Two weeks back Mozilla released Firefox 10 after that they followed it with Firefox 10.0.1 to fix startup crashes and Java applet related issues, now another one lands which fixes security issue (still unknown at the time of writing) and some bugs. What’s new in [...]

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McAfee Site Advisor Add-on Raises Firefox Memory Consumption, Disable It Now

February 17, 2012

If you’re using Firefox with McAfee security product installed in your Computer and if you ‘re experiencing slow browsing in Firefox 10.0.1 – blame McAfee Site Advisor add-on installed for Firefox. As Mozilla recommends users to disable this add-on that increases memory consumption of Firefox and they’re planning to block-list current add-on version 3.4.1 and [...]

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Dartium, Chromium with Dart VM Released by Google (Technical Preview)

February 17, 2012
dart-logo

Back in October 2011, Google introduced Dart, structured web programming language as alternate to JavaScript language to develop web applications, today, a technical preview of Chromium with Dart engine has been released and available for download on Mac and Linux platforms (windows:coming soon). Google calling this as Dartium. After thorough testing and feedback from developers [...]

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CCleaner’s Intelligent Scan for Cookies Explained

February 16, 2012
CCleaner Intelligent Cookie Scan dialog box

After installing CCleaner you will be asked by "CCleaner-Intelligent Cookie scan” dialog box to “intelligently scan for cookies to keep”, lot of users do click No as they don’t what this is for? what happens if you do click Yes – Intelligent Cookie scan feature will be enabled. How to Enable Intelligent Cookie Scan feature [...]

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Get Confirmation Dialog from Chrome Before Closing All Tabs

February 16, 2012
select confirm before closing multiple tabs option

Firefox and IE browsers has this feature, warns user when closing multiple tabs, this can be useful if you accidently click the close button on browser window. Chrome lacks this feature and let me tell you- lot of users love to get this feature for Chrome, but it seems Chrome not going to get in [...]

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How to Disable “Switch to Tab” Feature in Firefox

February 16, 2012
Before and after disabling switch to tab

Back in March 2011, Firefox 4 released with “Switch-to-Tab“ feature which saves you from tab duplication by showing switch to tab text on address bar if any words you type in address bar  matches with that page or tab (you can get this feature in Chrome also if you want) so that you can visit [...]

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New Twitter Getting Started Guide

February 16, 2012
New Twitter Homepage when signed-in

Its official now that “New Twitter” is available to all users over the world, you may get surprised with new Twitter homepage that greets you when you visit Twitter.com in your browser, when you sign-in- there are more shocks, design changes everything you need to get used to from now onwards.               What’s new in New [...]

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