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Recently we reported Chrome 86 has got the Caret Browsing feature integrated and also has new features behind the flags, the ability to create a desktop shortcut for Incognito mode is one of them. The flag is now working in Chrome Canary and adds a “Create shortcut” menu item to the incognito menu when enabled. …
Back in November 2019, Google has announced it will deprecate Cloud Print service in December 2020 and suggested users find an alternative print solution and migrate their print services. While deprecation is still a few months away, Google today made a commit to replace the “chrome://devices” page in Chrome with Cloud Print deprecation message, the […]
Mozilla is saying goodbye to Firefox’s current Print Preview dialog, the company has prepared a new User interface for Print Preview in version 81 (that looks similar to Chrome Print UI) and is enabled by default in Nightly. In Firefox, when you click on the menu and select print option, Print Preview opens from the …
Google has finally integrated Caret browsing into the Chrome browser. Till now users need to install an extension from Web Store, for this. Which no longer required from Chrome 86 or higher versions onwards. Firefox has this feature for ages, after Micorsoft started working on Chromium, Google added made the feature built-in in Chrome. Microsoft …
Microsoft took to Edge support website to confirm that there will be no uninstall option for new Microsoft Edge installed via Windows System update and the legacy version of Edge won’t be available to users once they migrate to the new Edge Microsoft made the new Microsoft Edge based on Chromium available for manual download …
Mozilla has planned to turn on Enhanced Tracking Protection 2.0 for everyone with recent Firefox 79 release but decided otherwise and today, the company announced it will roll out the feature over the next two weeks. But you can enable Redirect tracking Protection today in Firefox before Mozilla, here is how. Mozilla promises it will …
Microsoft Edge team has found the reason for Edge crashes that happened recently, they were able to mitigate the issue after Google rolled back the recent updates they pushed to their Search service. A few days back, Edge started crashing to users (all channels affected) when they started typing the Omnibox. Microsoft team suggested to …
Microsoft has released the ‘Caption Crawler’ extension to Edge Add-ons Store for Microsoft Edge and is available for download. This extension “adds captions to images that don’t have any” to help users with disabilities who rely on Screen Readers to get image descriptions. Screen Readers skip the images that don’t have alt-text included, to address …
Four months back, in a blog post, Microsoft showed off Edge’s new Vertical tabs feature, confirming it will be available to the users in the months to come. The feature is already available to some users via Controlled Feature Rollouts. At the end of March, the Edge team said Collections, Password Monitor, Smart Copy, Vertical …
Last month, we’ve reported Google has decided to install 64-bit Chrome to Program Files folder on Windows. Today, we noticed the change already came into effect and applies to Chrome 85 beta and Chrome 86 dev installations as Chrome executable of these versions now running from Program Files path. Some 64-bit app installers still ignore …
Recently Microsoft Defender has started flagging CCleaner as Potentially Unwanted Application, CCleaner users using Firefox are now facing a new issue. If you run CCleaner, behind the scenes, it is now clearing Firefox extensions Settings data, this is due to the new Storage sync Mozilla implemented in Firefox 79 which CCleaner simply doesn’t aware of …
QR Code Generator in Chrome 86 Canary has gained the ability to create QR code for the images also in addition to pages. Google added a context menu option to images to support this. The feature is live and working in Canary. Last year December, we reported Chrome allows us to share pages to Android …