This may be a coincidence or intentional after row over Google removing some malicious Chrome extensions, there is now an ‘Extensions Checkup’ experiment in Chrome stable, which when enabled, warns users that some extensions can affect users’ privacy and Chrome performance. Despite Google policing extensions on Chrome Web Store, somehow, malicious extensions skip its radar …
Microsoft is bringing back the option to block Media Autoplay on websites in the new Microsoft Edge browser via a flag in the Canary version. Classic Microsoft Edge aka Edge Legacy offers a global and per-site setting to block automatic playback of videos on websites. New Microsoft Edge currently offers ‘Allow’ and ‘Limit’ options in …
Microsoft made Notepad, Paint, and Wordpad as optional features in Windows 10 2004, what this means is you can uninstall them, and reinstall whenever needed without fuss. For the last three decades, Notepad is an integral part of Windows and is the default application to open text files. You can open it by running notepad …
Similar to about: flags in Chrome, Mozilla may soon allow users to try out Firefox new features it is working on by visiting the ‘Firefox Experiments’ section in the about: preferences page. Rather than visiting about config and enabling a feature that is currently under development, Mozilla through ‘Feature Gates’ system to expose some features …
Microsoft has released LinkedIn Extension for new Microsoft Edge to Edge Add-ons Store and is now available for download. Microsoft’s LinkedIn was in the news recently, when Microsoft started notifying LinkedIn users on its website that the networking platform won’t be supported on Internet Explorer 11 from July 01, 2020, onwards. While LinkedIn extension for …
If you’re using Microsoft Editor along with any other Grammar extension such as Grammarly, you’ll receive a notification from the former to disable other extensions for Microsoft Editor to work best. WIth popular Grammarly and other Grammar and spell checking related web services and browser extensions available, recently Microsoft released Microsoft Editor Extension for Chrome …
Google has released Scroll to Text fragment extension for Chrome on Chrome Web Store and is now available for download. Recently Google integrated Scroll to Text Fragment feature into Chrome browser (available in new Microsoft Edge also). The Text fragment makes it easy to generate and share a link to a particular piece of text …
Microsoft today acknowledged that after updating to Windows 10 May 2020 Update users may not able to access certain Storage Spaces configurations. The company without offering any workaround suggested affected users to mark storage spaces as read-only to prevent any data issues. The Software giant noted it is investigating the issue and provides an update …
Firefox and Chrome browsers have a privacy flaw where the user typed search terms are sent to DNS servers of ISPs, even when Private browsing mode or Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo is used or DNS over HTTPS (DoH) is enabled. Mozilla with the upcoming version Firefox 79, offers a preference for users to control and …
PWA developers started to update their Apps to support showing app shortcuts on Android and jump lists or tasks on the Windows taskbar. Progressive Web Apps are the future. You don’t need to create separate apps for multiple platforms such as Windows, Mac, and Android as creating one PWA will serve the purpose and users …
Firefox users report UI and constant crashing issues after updating to Windows 10 May 2020 Update. Yesterday we reported Google is looking into Chrome issues with Windows 10 2004 reported by users. Google Security researcher says new Microsoft Edge will also be plagued by these issues soon. Here is what happened: Users on Chrome help …
Microsoft has quietly updated Windows 10’s support page to inform users that the Fresh Start feature is available only in Windows 10 1909 and earlier versions and says the feature functionality has been moved to Reset this PC in Windows 10 May 2020 Update. Recently its been discovered that the Fresh Start feature in Windows …