March 2017

Mozilla Firefox with its multi-process architecture enabled is still the web browser with the best memory performance according to Mozilla.

Our own memory benchmarks saw Firefox lead the pack in 2012 and 2014 when we compared the browser's memory usage against Chrome, Opera and Internet Explorer on Windows.

Mozilla did run tests of its own last year, and ran them again this year with multi-process versions of the browser.

Microsoft plans to end the extended support for its operating system Windows Vista next month so that no further security updates will be released for the OS.

The client Windows lifecycle sheet on Microsoft's website lists April 11, 2017 as the end of support. Microsoft will release security patches for Windows Vista on that day, and stop support for the operating system afterwards.

Windows 10 users may use a native feature of the operating system to list recently opened files of Windows programs.

Windows maintains a list of recently opened files, and the operating system and programs may use the information to list these files for quick access.

SeaMonkey and Thunderbird developers may join forces to ensure continued development after Mozilla cuts the ties to the projects (Firefox Exit, FirExit)

Wallpaper Engine is an early access application on Steam that enables you to create, display, and share customer static and animated wallpapers.

I stumbled upon Wallpaper Engine while browsing the top sellers on Steam. The app was listed there next to games, and that got me interested as it takes quite a bit of sales to be featured there.

First of all, Wallpaper Engine is not free. It is available for $3.99 as an early access title. The application works really well for early access software, and all core functionality is already there.

Nvidia released a new driver for GeForce video cards yesterday that bumps the version to 378.78 and improves DX12 performance significantly.

The new video card driver ships with three core improvements; namely, DirectX 12 optimizations, support for the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, and Game Ready support for Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands.

The driver includes several fixes furthermore that may be of interest as well.

Microsoft revealed the new playable ads advertisement option on the Windows Dev Center blog today that developers can take advantage of.

A preview of the Playable Ads feature launched today in the Windows Dev Center. If you have never heard of the term before, you are probably wondering how the ad format differs from other ad types already available for developers on Windows 10.

So, by now you have probably heard that a major change is coming this year to the Firefox add-on ecosystem.

In a nutshell, Mozilla will scrap all legacy add-ons and move the add-on system exclusively to WebExtensions.

Reports are starting to come in that Microsoft released -- yet another -- mysterious driver for the Windows operating system.

The driver, Microsoft – WPD – 2/22/2016 12:00:00 AM – 5.2.5326.4762, has been released for Windows 7, Windows 8.1, and Windows 10.

At least some users are reporting issues with the drivers, from failed installations to mobile devices no longer being recognized by the Windows machine the update was installed on.

The developers of the popular third-party text editor Notepad++ released version 7.3.3 which fixes a vulnerability found in the leaked Vault 7 files.

Wikileaks started to release so-called Vault 7 files the other day; a cache of confidential documents on the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.

A list of popular software programs was found among the information that the CIA used to target computer systems.

Fine Dining documents, Fine Dining is the codename for the operation, list 24 popular applications that the CIA used to attack computer systems.