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Avast: Next CCleaner version will be released Soon with more user control options
After covering post on Avast’s official statement over active monitoring and heartbeat (anonymous analytics) features, a lot of media sites picked up the story and suggested users to uninstall CCleaner, the news has gone viral, which made Avast rethink. They’ve updated an article they posted earlier on their website today and here we’re sharing the […]
Stop Opera from adding new promoted bookmarks and speed dials to Start Page
Don’t like to see sponsored bookmarks & speed dials Opera promotes on start page? You can disable or stop Opera from adding automatically after deleting.
Avast to Separate CCleaner Active Monitoring and heartbeat, promises control to user over these

Avast/Piriform has finally responded to CCleaner 5.45 active monitoring issue and said they’re working to separate Active Monitoring and heartbeat in CCleaner UI in upcoming weeks and control will be given to users in configuring them individually. What happened? Avast Software has released CCleaner 5.45 by integrating heartbeat (anonymous analytics) feature that sends CCleaner usage …
Firefox 63: How to disable new Bookmark Dialog
If you don’t like to see the new bookmark dialog with ‘Show editor when saving’ checkbox for new bookmarks, you can disable it in Firefox 63, here is how.
Mozilla enables Ctrl+Tab Previews in Firefox by default for new profiles

Starting Firefox 63, if you’ve a clean or new profile, pressing Ctrl+Tab displays preview of all open tabs by default. Like Windows, which shows thumbnail previews of open applications when you press Alt+Tab, Mozilla has introduced a preference browser.ctrlTab.previews in about:config in Firefox 4, which when enabled shows thumbnail preview of tabs at center of browser …
Chrome gets Firefox like ‘Switch to this tab’ button

If you’ve too many tabs open in browser, you may open the website which you’ve already opened in the same window, this causes a duplicate tab. To avoid this, Firefox browser offers ‘switch to tab’ button in URL bar dropdown. Google Chrome has now this feature available for testing behind a flag. Enable ‘Switch to …
Firefox 63: Mozilla removes ‘Never check for updates’ option

Starting Firefox 63, you can no longer disable automatic updates in Firefox browser, the ‘Never check for updates’ option has been removed by Mozilla from the about:preferences. Firefox browser by default has set to automatically install updates, but most of the times, users when they know a new Firefox version is available, they manually check …
CCleaner 5.45: How to disable Active Monitoring

After pop up ads shown by CCleaner previous version, we’ve now a new version of CCleaner 5.45 available with changes that may irritate and annoy you even more. Piriform has taken away the data collection opt-out setting from Privacy Settings of CCleaner. And they’ve a new reporting system in place for CCleaner which sends heartbeat …
AVG 2018: Remove File Shredder & ‘Shred using AVG’ Context Menu Option
Learn how to remove file Shredder from AVG Antivirus and also the ‘Shred using AVG’ option from context menu on Windows.


