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The latest technology news from Techdows: browser releases, Windows updates, new software versions, and notable changes across the tools you use every day. We focus on practical, verified updates that genuinely affect how you use your PC, without the hype.
Mozilla now blocklisting malicious add-ons aggressively, till now you may’ve heard news about Firefox developer blocklisting Java, Silverlight and other plugins because of vulnerabilities, now they’ve added some Codec add-ons available with different names such as Codec, Codec-C and Codec-M
PDF.js, Mozilla’s project to render PDFs natively and securely inside the browser without any plugins has been finally turned on by default in Firefox 19 beta which is available for Windows, Linux and Mac. PDF.js works even on other browsers
Final version of Opera 12.13 has been released for Windows, Mac and Linux with stability improvements and security enhancements and is available for download from Opera website. Opera highlights two bug fixes as significant ones:one, Opera not able to load
Firefox 20 to offer -long awaited per-window private browsing feature, new panel-based download manager and also UI for the user to end unresponsive plugins and there‘re other improvements on performance wise too and developers will welcome new features such as
Opera software has released first snapshot version 12.13 of browser for the new year 2013 which prevents hijack of its search settings and applies new-auto update method. Opera team has done optimization of preference and web storage file saves” which
Firefox Health Report which we’ve reported back on September has now been part of Firefox 21 nightly build and this feature is enabled by default, under “Data Choices” tab for Advanced tab of Options. This feature “helps you understand your
If you were not able to uninstall Adobe Reader X from the Control Panel then you can remove it by using Cleaner tool released by Adobe. Till now, there is no cleanup or removal tool offered by Adobe to remove
If you’re not able to play rich media content through Flash Player that has been embedded or integrated into Internet Explorer 10 on Windows 8, follow these steps. How to Fix issues with embedded Flash Player in Windows 8 FYI
Piriform has released version 1.20 for their advanced system information tool with addition of detection for three more programs on Windows. Speccy 1.20 now detects and shows version of Java, Internet Explorer and Power Shell installed on your Computer under
Microsoft Fix It tool now available for Internet Explorer 6, 7, and 8 users which has recently affected with Zero-day vulnerability. If you’ve not heard the security news recently zero-day bug has been discovered in Internet Explorer 6, 7 and
VLC Player 2.0.5 and earlier versions are affected with a critical vulnerability, to address this Videolan is likely to release 2.0.6 version any time soon. If you’re using VLC media Player 2.0.5 and earlier versions you’re advised not to open
Adobe Reader 11.0.1 has been released for Windows and Mac and is available for download from Adobe website and via program update if configured accordingly by the user. FYI, Adobe is following Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday of releasing fixes for their