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News

Latest Vivaldi Snapshot improves Screenshot feature

January 12, 2017 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Previous Vivaldi snapshot allowed to hide extension icons, today released Vivaldi 1.7.721.3 snapshot has improved the browser screenshot feature by offering the option –copy to clipboard– … [Read more…]

Posted in: News, Vivaldi
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Pale Moon browser’s Unstable Versions available

January 12, 2017 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Mozilla already offers unbranded builds and unstable version like Nightly for Firefox browser, Firefox based Pale Moon browser too has unstable channel now. For interested … [Read more…]

Posted in: News
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Adobe Acrobat added notification

Latest Adobe Acrobat Reader DC silently installs its extension in Chrome

January 11, 2017 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Adobe Acrobat added notification

Yesterday, Adobe has released Security update for its PDF Reader app – Adobe Acrobat Reader DC, when you download and install the program online, … [Read more…]

Posted in: News
Freeware
AVG Antivirus Free 2017

Avast releases AVG Free Antivirus 2017

January 11, 2017 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment
AVG Antivirus Free 2017

Avast has acquired AVG few months back, today the company released 2017 editions of  AVG Antivirus Free, AVG Internet Security and AVG TuneUp. As … [Read more…]

Posted in: Freeware, News, Security
News
KB3213986 update

Cumulative Update for Windows 10 KB3213986 released

January 11, 2017 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
KB3213986 update

Microsoft has released January updates for Windows 10 (which also includes the Cumulative Update) —KB3213986 for 1607, KB3210721 for 1511 and KB3210720 for RTM — … [Read more…]

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Vivaldi extensions toggle

Vivaldi 1.7: Hide Extension icons and Take Screenshots of Web Pages

January 5, 2017 by Venkat Eswarlu 1 Comment
Vivaldi extensions toggle

The previous snapshot of Vivaldi 1.7 released in December has got screenshot taking feature. Another and first snapshot for Vivaldi browser released this January … [Read more…]

Posted in: News, Vivaldi
Firefox
Firefox 53 Reader View reading time

Firefox 53 shows reading time in Reader Mode

December 16, 2016 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
Firefox 53 Reader View reading time

Some sites do show estimated reading time for an article on their site, Medium does that. Inspired from Medium, Mozilla wants to show reading … [Read more…]

Posted in: Firefox, News
Freeware

Avira Password Manager Launched

December 15, 2016 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Security vendors offer Password Managers as a separate application or built-in product of antivirus, Avast offers Passwords in its free antivirus product. Today, Avira … [Read more…]

Posted in: Freeware, News
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Vivaldi 1.6 introduces Tab Notifications

December 15, 2016 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Stable version of Vivaldi 1.6 based on Chromium 55 has been released and available for Windows, Mac and Linux platforms with three new features: … [Read more…]

Posted in: News, Vivaldi
Freeware
CCleaner with support for Firefox Web Extensions

CCleaner 5.25 adds support for Firefox Web Extensions

December 14, 2016 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
CCleaner with support for Firefox Web Extensions

Piriform has released a new CCleaner version — CCleaner 5.25 — by adding support for Firefox Web Extensions. What this means is when you launch … [Read more…]

Posted in: Freeware, News
News
AVG antivirus beta from Avast

New AVG beta based on Avast engine is here

December 11, 2016 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment
AVG antivirus beta from Avast

Two months back. Avast has acquired AVG, today they’ve released new AVG antivirus product in beta version by incorporating their engine and some technologies present … [Read more…]

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News

Vivaldi 1.6 : Page Title Tab Notifications

December 7, 2016 by Venkat Eswarlu Leave a Comment

Previous snapshot of Vivaldi has added Named Tab Stacks feature, today, another Vivaldi snapshot — Vivaldi 1.6.687.3 — has been released for Windows, Mac … [Read more…]

Posted in: News, Vivaldi
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