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New Facebook Container Extension for Firefox
Our Multi-Account Containers extension has been a game changer for many users, letting them manage various parts of their online life without intermingling your accounts. To help Firefox users have more control of their data on Facebook, we’ve created the Facebook Container Extension. […]
Microsoft Edge Now Available for iOS and Android
3/26/18, 9AM PT: iPad and Android tablet owners – we’ve got some great news for you! Microsoft Edge is now available as a free download in the Apple Store and Google Play Store. Now, you too, can experience familiar features like your […]
KB4090007 Intel Microcode Cumulative Update for Windows 10 (1709)
Over the last few weeks, Intel has been hard at work to produce fixes for the Intel chips that are vulnerable to the security exploits disclosed by Google Project Zero. This includes the 6th, 7th, and 8th generation Intel core processors. […]
Xbox One Preview Alpha System Update (1804.180314-1900) Now Live
Xbox One Insiders who are signed up for the Xbox One Preview Update Alpha ring are now starting to find an Xbox One system update rolling out their way, namely the 1804.180314-1900. The new 1804 update brings with it some nice new […]
Google Chrome Reducing Power Consumption for Background Tabs
Efficient power usage is an important aspect of speed, one of Chrome’s key pillars. To prolong battery life, Chrome should minimize power impact from things users can’t see. This includes background tabs, which consume a third of Chrome’s power usage on […]
Firefox has Screenshots
A “screenshot” is created when you capture what’s on your computer screen, so you can save it as a reference, put it in a document, or send it as an image file for others to see exactly what you see. […]
How Chrome’s ad filtering works
While most advertising on the web is respectful of user experience, over the years we’ve increasingly heard from our users that some advertising can be particularly intrusive. As we announced last June, Chrome will tackle this issue by removing ads from […]
Google Chrome Native Ad Blocking Starting February 15, 2018
If you’ve been a webmaster over the last five years and continued to be one today and you’re traffic hasn’t risen, you’d probably be doing it pretty tough these days given the number of people choosing to block ads. Google […]
Mozilla Firefox Retrospective: Looking Glass
In December, we launched a tv show tie-in with Mr. Robot, Looking Glass, that alarmed some people because we didn’t think hard enough about the implications of shipping an add on that had the potential to be both confusing and […]
Mozilla Firefox 58.0.1 Fixes Windows Page Load Problems
Firefox 57 aka Quantum has by and large been a successful release with even many geeks claiming to have made the switch from Google Chrome to it after trying first hand its speed and new features. If you have been […]
Windows Update KB4078130 Removes Spectre Patch
If you follow IT security news, you might have heard about the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities over the past few weeks that have caused quite a stir, both for computers and servers. In short, Meltdown applies to only the Intel […]
Google Chrome 64 for Android Released with Abusive Ad Experience Prevention
Google has announced the release of Chrome 64 for Android. The new browser version will be rolling out over the next few weeks on the Google Play Store. Google Chrome 64 for Android now prevents abusive advertisements from overtaking your […]
Google Chrome to Support HDR Videos in Windows 10
Every day, people watch 30,000 years worth of video in Chrome. That’s a lot of video! Watch time grew significantly over the last year—not only because of viral YouTube hits, but also because of the creation of new video experiences around […]
Halo Championship Series (HCS) Invitational Coming to SXSW March 15-17
Today we’re excited to reveal the first official Halo Championship Series (HCS) event of 2019 as the esports stage at the legendary SXSW (South by Southwest) festival in Austin, Texas from March 15-17. SXSW is a yearly cultural touchstone for […]
Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17074 for PC Announced
Dona Sarkar, head of the Windows Insider team at Microsoft, has taken to the Windows blog to announce another software update, this time Windows 10 build 17074. There’s plenty of new features in build 17074, including reimagined Windows internationalization, Microsoft […]
Google Chrome Inline Installation Enforcement
Since 2012, Chrome has enabled extension developers to provide a smooth installation experience on their own pages using inline installation. We have also worked hard to prevent abuse of this feature by disabling inline installation in cases where we detect misleading or deceptive […]
Microsoft Removes Homegroups from Windows 10 in Coming Redstone 4 Update
The Homegroup feature available in all editions of Windows 10, designed to give users better networking capabilities, is now being retired according to Microsoft. The ability to use a Homegroup has been around since Windows 7 and was featured in […]
Windows Hello Can Be ByPassed with Photos in Older Versions of Windows 10
It turns out that Microsoft’s facial recognition feature, available on some selected devices that run Windows 10, isn’t as secure as first thought. If you’ve ever walked away from your Windows 10 computer compatible with facial recognition and felt a […]
We Didn’t Think Hard Enough: Mozilla Apologize for “looking glass”
We didn’t think hard enough about how our actions would affect the community, and we’re sorry for letting you down. How we got here Over the course of the year Firefox has enjoyed a growing relationship with the Mr. Robot […]
GlassWire 2.0 Launched: VirusTotal Support, Detects “Evil Twin” Attacks, and More
GlassWire, the immensely underappreciated network monitoring tool, has just been updated to version 2.0. The new release comes with the inclusion of VirusTotal, high DPI support, can now detect “evil twin” attacks, brings data usage improvements, has firewall improvements as […]
Windows 10 Insider Preview Fast/Skip Build 17046 for PC Announced
Windows Insiders who are signed up to the fast ring on computers now have a new software update available, this time Windows 10 build 17046. The update is part of what is still a test version that is eventually due […]
Early Returns on Firefox Quantum Point to Growth
When we set out to launch Firefox Quantum earlier this year, we knew we had a hugely improved product. It not only felt faster — with a look and feel that tested off the charts — it was measurably faster. […]
Classic Shell For Windows Is No Longer Being Developed
Not everyone has liked the changes that Microsoft has brought about to its Windows operating system over the years; few operating systems adjust as much as Windows has to date, which has meant often getting wholly revamped when a new […]
Introducing Web Media Extension Package for Microsoft Edge
We’ve heard requests from many of our customers to support additional open-source formats in order to access a broader set of content on the web. To address this, ,we recently added supportfor the WebM container format and the VP9 and Opus codecs on […]
Microsoft Edge Now Available for iOS and Android
In October, we introduced Microsoft Edge for iOS and Android in preview, in response to your request to make Microsoft Edge work well with your phones. A special THANK YOU goes out to each of you—hundreds of thousands of you—who downloaded, […]
Google Reducing Chrome Crashes Caused by Third-party Software
Roughly two-thirds of Windows Chrome users have other applications on their machines that interact with Chrome, such as accessibility or antivirus software. In the past, this software needed to inject code in Chrome in order to function properly; unfortunately, users […]
Introducing New Firefox: Firefox Quantum
It’s fast. Really fast. Firefox Quantum is over twice as fast as Firefox from 6 months ago, built on a completely overhauled core engine with brand new technology stolen from our advanced research group, and graced with a beautiful new […]
Google Chrome Expanding User Protections on Web
One of the advantages of the web is that it allows developers to create any type of experience they can imagine, which has led to the rich diversity of content available on the web today. While most content producers are […]
Stay protected with Windows Security
Windows 10 and 11 include Windows Security, which provides the latest antivirus protection. Your device will be actively protected from the moment you start Windows. Windows Security continually scans for malware (malicious software), viruses, and security threats. In addition to this […]