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Google has been hard at work to establish Manifest V3 as the new and only set of rules for Chrome extensions. Report suggest that Google has shifted the process into a higher gear and is disabling classic extension support for more Chrome users. The effect is the following: any extension that is not compatible with…
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…
Google is apparently testing a new privacy feature in Chrome that blocks third-party cookies by default in the browsers Incognito mode. While that is great that Google is introducing the change, most Internet users may want to take matters into their own hands instead. Why not block third-party cookies altogether? Yes, there is a tiny-tiny…
YouTube users who do not want to see ads have three main options until now: subscribe to YouTube Premium, use a content blocker, or a third-party app that does away with ads as well. Most YouTube users would probably agree that there are too many ads on the site. This hurts the viewing experience and…
Mozilla is working on two highly requested features, tab groups and vertical tabs, for its Firefox web browser. These features are still in active development at the time of writing, but that does not mean that you can give them a go already in stable Firefox. This guide provides you with everything you need to…
Facebook users have plenty of options to communicate with friends, other Facebook users, and the entire world via the platform. One of these options is via live video. These are recorded and shown on Facebook. The recorded videos were stored by Facebook indefinitely, but this changes with the new policy. Here are the details: In…
Ebooks can be a great alternative to traditional books. They do not weight anything, which means that you can carry around hundreds if not thousands of books effortlessly. They also come with extra features, like the ability to search books. If you have bought ebooks in the past, you may know that you do not…
Browser extensions are great. They improve usability and functionality on the Internet. From blocking ads and tracking over creating screenshots to improving password management or games. All extensions come with a manifest file. This file defines rights and permissions. One of these sets the websites the extension is designed to run on. This can be…
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…