Chipp.in Tech News and Reviews
Windows, Security & Privacy, Open Source and more
Mozilla’s original plan was to release Firefox 125.0. Stable today. This did not happen and Mozilla revealed that it had to postpone the release. Now it appears that Firefox 125.0.1 has been released, on the same day. The new version of Firefox is already in distribution. Most Firefox desktop installations get updated automatically eventually. Users…
If you found great helpful content online, you may want to save it for safe keeping. Screenshots are one option to do that. There are others, including saving the entire webpage to the local system or using tools such as SingleFile. All operating systems support the creation of screenshots natively. On Windows, you’d just use…
Mozilla will release another point update for Firefox 124 later today. Firefox 124.0.2 is a bug fix update that addresses four non-security issues in the browser. Apart from a crash on Linux AArch64, it is fixing a video playback issue that is causing video playback on sites such as Netflix to go blank or crash…
It has been just a few days since the release of Firefox 124.0, but here is Firefox 124.0.1 already. Usually, when this happens, it is either a security update or a bug fix update that address major issues. It is a security update in the case of Firefox 124.0.1. The official release notes include just…
Mozilla confirmed this week that its Firefox web browser will continue to support the extensions Manifest V2 next to the new version Manifest V3. Google announced several years ago that it would move Chrome’s extensions manifest to a new version. The manifest defines the capabilities of browser extensions. Google’s initial draft drew the ire from…
Mozilla’s Firefox web browser supports native language translations since Firefox 118 in desktop and Android versions of the browser. This feature, called Firefox Translations, supports additional languages now. One of the main distinguishing factors between Mozilla’s implementation of a translate feature in Firefox and that in other browsers is that Firefox’s runs locally. Translations happen…
More than eight years after Mozilla decided to remove tab groups from Firefox, the organization confirmed today that tab groups will make a comeback. When Mozilla launched Firefox’s Panorama feature, which introduced tab groups in Firefox years before Google implemented the feature in Chrome, it was ahead of its time. Tab groups improve tab manageability…
Flash? Is not that the technology that had so many security holes that it had to be put down? Yes and now. Flash was undoubtedly highly problematic from a security point of view. It was, however, also a technology that was widely used to create incredible applications and games. Flash is dead and there is…
Mozilla is porting the private translations feature of the desktop version of its Firefox web browser to the Android version. The organization introduced translations support in Firefox 118. A core difference between Mozilla’s implementation and that in other browsers is that Mozilla’s runs locally. When you use Google Translate or Bing Translate, data is transferred…
This guide explains how to remove all history entries of a specific websites from the browser’s Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Brave, Vivaldi, Opera, and Mozilla Firefox. It should work in most other browsers as well. All web browsers record the websites that you visit while using them. The browsing history serves two main purposes: to…