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Firefox is now Chromecast ready, thanks to “fx_cast”

7 months

Love for Google services and the use of browsers other than Google Chrome is a dangerous combination. It’s a proven fact. Google Earth, Chromecast are the shining examples. Luckily, we now have a partial solution to the problem...

Google confirms when Media Keys support is coming to Chrome for Windows 10

by Surur

8 months

Two weeks ago we reported that Google was working on adding support to Chrome for the hardware media keys found on many desktop PC keyboards. Now in a blog post, Google confirmed when the feature will be coming to Windows 10 ...

Great news! Microsoft is going to make it a lot easier to test the new Chromium-based Edge browser

by Surur

9 months

In November last year, Microsoft confirmed that they will be swapping the HTML rendering engine in Edge from EdgeHTML to Chromium. The Microsoft said the browser would be available for testing early in 2019, but we are obviously s...

Surprise! Firefox users not happy with Mozilla’s extension ads

by Surur

9 months

Mozilla has finally started rolling out their Firefox extension recommendation experience to US Firefox users and unsurprisingly users are not happy. In reddit thread in the /firefox subreddit users are demanding “Less of t...

Microsoft starting last-minute push to get Windows users to upgrade to IE11

by Surur

9 months

IE10 will soon exit support, leaving many Windows users without any security or non-security updates, free or paid assisted support options, or online technical content. Fortunately, Microsoft is giving Windows users a last chance...

Firefox caves to pressure, to shut down controversial screenshot upload feature

by Surur

9 months

Mozilla has positioned Firefox as the champion of privacy and independence on the internet but appears to be increasingly at risk of losing the trust of users. The latest controversy regarding the company is its implementation of ...

Chrome will soon support this under-used Windows feature

by Surur

9 months

Google has been slowly adding support for native Windows 10 features, making their browser feel more at home on the platform. We have recently seen support for native Windows 10 notifications and support for the Windows 10 Dark Th...

Firefox 64 with native Windows 10 Share dialogue support, more now available to all

by Surur

10 months

In October Mozilla released the first nightly builds of Firefox 64 with native support for the Windows 10 Share Dialogue. Only available on Windows 10, the feature would introduce the Share menu item in the main menu of the browse...

Firefox 65 to feature upgraded Task Manager

by Surur

11 months

Web browsers are well-known resource hogs, but it is often poorly coded websites and plugins which are the main culprits. Unfortunately, with tens of pages open it can sometimes be difficult to see which site is causing the slow-d...

Firefox 65 gets WebP support

by Surur

12 months

WebP is an image format introduced by Google in 2010 which combined lossy and lossless compression to deliver images up to 45% smaller than PNGs for similar quality, and of course, fully supported by Google Chrome. It is also su...

Mozilla to offer VPN service for Firefox but its not as good as it seems

by Surur

12 months

One of the best features of Opera is that it offers a free VPN built right into the browser, allowing users to browse safely no matter which network, connection or country they happen to be in or on. Soeren-hentzschel reports tha...

Firefox adds support for the native Windows 10 Share dialogue

by Surur

1 year

A welcome development in recent months has been the increasing adoption of native Windows 10 features by major 3rd party developers. This includes support for native Windows 10 notifications for example by Chrome and Firefox, and ...