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Avast moves Antivirus Advanced Settings to Secret ‘Geek Area’
This is interesting. Avast has kept the most important settings visible and moved the advanced ones in its antivirus into a new section, hidden by default from accessing, they call it as Geek Area. To see the new secret section in action, you need to type a command in the search field on Avast Settings […]
Chrome: Google experiments with showing only query without search URL in address bar

Google is experimenting with a change to how Chrome’s address bar shows Google searches. Normally, when you search from the address bar, Chrome shows … [Read more…]
Twitter desktop site Shows Highlights in Notifications

The Twitter highlights feature, available on Android and iOS apps, now shows up in Notifications on the Web version of the social site. For the uninitiated, Highlights feature shows “most interesting content from Twitter, tailored just for you”. The feature neither announced nor available on Twitter.com for the public, appeared for my twitter handle in …
Mozilla: Benchmarks show Firefox 63 is faster than Firefox 57
After a long time after the release of Firefox Quantum 57, Mozilla has done some benchmarking tests between Firefox 63 (currently on beta) and Firefox 57 that was launched in last year and says former is faster than latter. FYI, the company has put emphasis on speed for Firefox Quantum, but the at the same […]
Finally, Chrome receives Fix for Blurry Fonts Issue
Google has finally released an update -version number 69.0.3497.92 – for Chrome 69.0.3497.81 that includes a fix for blurry fonts on Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms. Many running Chrome on High DPI screens affected with this issue, though it didn’t take Chromium team much time to find the cause for the issue, releasing the build […]
Windows 10 Warns User to open Edge instead of Installing Firefox

Windows 10 insider build 17744, which will be available in next month to the public as Windows 10 2018 October update has warned a user when he tries to install Firefox browser to open and use Microsoft Edge. We know Windows 10 nudges to use Edge as the default browser, but this is definitely different. …
Firefox Multiselect Tabs feature: Everything you need to know
We’ve reported Mozilla is working on multiple tab selection or multiselect tabs feature for Firefox browser, the feature has improved a lot since then and now available for testing in Firefox 63 beta and is likely to ship with Firefox 64. Multiselect Tabs feature in Firefox In latest Firefox beta, the multiselect tabs feature is […]
Avira discontinues Avira Scout browser
Avira Scout browser from Avira has come and gone, no one noticed. It’s not surprising for antivirus vendors to release browsers, examples are: current Avast Secure browser (former Avast SafeZone browser) and already discontinued Avira Scout. For the uninitiated, Avira Scout has been publicly launched in March 2017 by Avira and at that time, it […]




