December 2015

There is a lot of buzz surrounding Tuesday's Firefox 43 release, and here specifically the enforcement of add-on signing for the first time in the stable version of the web browser.

The change caught many users of the browser unprepared and might have disastrous consequences for Mozilla as users might migrate to another browser supporting their favorite extensions.

The developers of the popular audio player AIMP have released AIMP 4.0 final after pushing out four beta releases and three release candidate builds of the program.

AIMP 4.0 is a major redesign of the player which becomes obvious right away as it ships with a new interface. That's however not that much of a problem for users who prefer the old interface as it is possible to switch to it in the interface.

You can do so with a right-click on the main header bar, and selecting Skins > Pandemic or Pandemic AIO Simple from the context menu.

Mozilla changed the classic search interface in Firefox 34 significantly by implementing a new search bar UI. It felt rushed at that time as it lacked options to re-order search engines, or set or modify keywords for faster searchers.

This changed gradually with new releases and missing options were re-introduced gradually in Firefox.

Microsoft announced a while ago that it plans to make fundamental changes to Internet Explorer support on machines running the Windows operating system.

The company wants to support only the latest available version of Internet Explorer for each version of Windows that it supports which in turn means that it will drop support for all versions but the latest version of Internet Explorer on all Windows systems.

Pixels for Reddit is a free application for Android that provides you with an elegant user interface that has been optimized to browse images posted to Reddit by its userbase.

If there is one thing that is hot on Reddit all the time it is images: from cute animals over the latest trending animated gifs to NSFW content that would many adult sites to shame.

The Reddit "all" frontpage is usually filed with images from all sorts of subreddits, with some more popular than others of course.

Firefox 43's official release data is December 15, 2015. This overview provides you with information about new features, updates, and changes in the new version of the web browser for the desktop and Android.

All Firefox channels are updated on the day. This means that Firefox Beta, Developer Edition and Nightly versions of the browser are updated as well.

To be precise, Firefox Beta is updated to 44, Firefox Developer Edition to 45, Firefox Nightly to 46, and Firefox ESR to 38.5.

Firefox Addon Detector is a web service that reveals if Firefox users connecting to the service have specific Firefox add-ons installed.

If you are using the Firefox web browser you may know that Firefox uses local resources such as images or style sheets. One simple example is about:logo which displays the Firefox logo when used as an image tag on a website but only if the website is visited using the Firefox browser.

MultCloud is an online service that provides you with the means to manage all of your cloud hosting accounts, and to transfer data effortlessly between those accounts.

If you have access to more than one cloud drive, and chance is quite high that you do even if you don't use these storage solutions actively, then you may have noticed that it is quite difficult to manage data on all those accounts.

Cloud drive access is limited to each service, and if you want desktop access to your files, you may have installed multiple programs to ensure that.

Yahoo Video Guide is a new application for Android and iOS that provides you with the means to browse and search movies and TV shows across streaming, rental and shopping services in the US.

Yahoo Video Guide prompts you to pick services that you are subscribed to or have access to on first start.  It supports a wide range of US-based services including Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, HBO, Showtime, YouTube, Fox, NBC or Crackle to name a few.

Once you have made your selection and tapped on the continue button, the main application interface is loaded.

Games that Microsoft shipped with Windows 7 are fundamentally different from those that it included in Windows 8 or 10.

Windows 7 games were the last that were shipped as programs for example, and there were significant differences in the selection of games when compared to Windows 8 or 10.

All Windows games are Modern Apps or Universal Apps in newer versions of Windows, and while that may appeal to some, others may prefer the older games over their newer counterparts.