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When Mozilla — finally — introduced support for extensions in Firefox, years to late, but still, it unlocked a whole new world for users of the mobile open source browser. Up until that time, no major browser supported extensions no mobile. While there were some dedicated projects that supported mobile extensions, all major browsers did…
The integration of the Copilot AI in Windows has been lackluster up to this point, if you ask me. It felt rushed and Microsoft is still scrambling to improve its use for users. The same is true for any other AI that is available as an application. While there are plenty of options to use…
One of the new features of Windows 11 was the recommendations section of the start menu. Windows displays recently added programs or opened files in the section. Microsoft likes it that much, that it made it a mandatory feature. You can reduce the number of recommendations or even display none at all, but you can’t…
If you do play games on your computer, you may have tabbed out of the game before to launch a web browser and run a search for clues or information. Steam users can use the integrated browser for that, which has been around for a long time. Game Assist is Microsoft’s universal answer to the…
Internet users have plenty of options when it comes to the downloading of videos. From online services over browser extensions to programs. Problem is: not all of them have the best interest of the user in mind. Some may be riddled with ads, track users, or limit downloads in one way or another. You may…
Microsoft’s Windows 10 operating system does not support the HEIC image format natively. The same is true for Windows 11. You can check out my guide on adding HEIC and HEVC support to Windows 11, if you run that operating system. Microsoft is offering a paid extension to add support, but there is a way…
Nvidia released an unscheduled hotfix driver that it says is fixing black screen issues on older generation GeForce graphics cards. The details: Nvidia fixed black screen issues in the Game Ready driver 572.60 last week, but only for RTX 5000 graphics card. The hotfix fixes the issue for older video cards now as well. The…
There is certainly no shortage of tweaking tools for Microsoft’s Windows 11 operating system. If I had to guess, Windows 11 is probably the Microsoft operating system with the largest number of programs of this kind ever. Serial developer Belim has created a new tool. It is a bit difficult to keep track of all…
After two months of not adding anything new to the list of deprecated features, Microsoft has added another feature to the list of features that will eventually be removed from its Windows 11 operating system. This time, it is the Location History feature that has been put on the list by Microsoft. Microsoft says that…
Microsoft’s Windows 11 operating system displays the Widgets icon on the taskbar by default. It was updated recently to show weather information. If you do not use Widgets, but like the weather information, you can use a third-party alternative. Tray Weather is an open source application for Windows to display weather information in the System…