Chrome Canary on Android: Preview linked pages and Explore Offline card on New Tab

Google has currently enabled “Preview Page” context menu option (formerly Sneak Peek) in Chrome 79 on Android which allows to view linked page content in an overlay and lets you open it in a new tab, Chromium team could soon show security indicator and URL for preview content as they decided to experiment “Ephemeral Tab” […]

Microsoft Edge Canary Update adds new Profile Pictures and Tab Freezing feature

The previous update to Microsoft Edge Canary has broken its icon and turned the taskbar icon to Chromium’s, we’ve expected the next update to correct that, that’s not happened. The latest update received by Edge Canary 79.0.307.0 hasn’t fixed the icon, but it has added Tab Freezing feature (available behind a flag) and replaced old …

Windows 10 Cumulative Update KB4517389 is causing BSOD to Some

Problems continue with the latest Windows 10 Cumulative Update published by Microsoft as part of Patch Tuesday. Till now Microsoft acknowledged the KB4517389 update has caused issues to Start Menu and Edge browser, another issue in the form of BSOD is affecting some now. According to the affected reported on Microsoft Answers and other support …

Piriform Auto Updates CCleaner v5.62 and Previous versions to v5.63

If you’re using CCleaner 5.62 on Windows, your CCleaner will be automatically updated to the latest v5.63 which was released a few hours back by Piriform, this could be because it contains a security update. The version changelog mentions “this release contains an important security update and some minor bug fixes and UI updates”. “Users […]

Firefox 71 release to get new About:config Page

New about:config page built-on web technologies (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript) is finally coming to Firefox 71 release channel and will replace the XUL based version of the Configuration Editor. About:config, one of the internal pages of Firefox, used by users to troubleshoot and tweak Firefox performance by modifying hidden preferences, to get a complete makeover. […]

Chrome and Chromium Edge can now silence the Website Notification Prompts

Do you hate website notifications? Who doesn’t? Though you can block all of them from Settings in Chrome browser, by doing so, you’ll miss notifications from your favorite sites. An experimental feature “Quieter notification permission prompts” is now available in Chrome and Chromium Edge browsers (Canary channel), which when enabled, without showing the usual dialog, …

Microsoft Acknowledges the Windows 10 Start Menu Critical Error, Promises to release Fix in Late October

We’ve covered Windows 10 Cumulative Update KB4524147 which aims to fix Print issues, hasn’t resolved them but broke the Start Menu by showing Critical Error for some, while the Patch Tuesday Update KB4517389 released on October 8, 2019, has resolved the printer issues but not that of Start Menu for the previously affected. Microsoft employee […]

Chrome Web Store rejects UBlock Origin dev version by citing as Multi-Purpose extension, here is what this means

The popular ad-blocking extension, UBlock Origin is still available on Chrome Web Store, but the upcoming version may not be available or extension won’t be updated in future as RC1 build of same has been rejected by Chrome Web Store team by citing it as “bundling unrelated functionality” which users need to accept, they told […]