November 2017

Firefox Pioneer is a feature of SHIELD, a system that Mozilla implemented in Firefox to test new features and changes on a subset of Firefox users.

Firefox Pioneer is an opt-in feature of SHIELD. It is offered as a browser extension for the Firefox browser that users need to install.

Microsoft released security updates for Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, and other company products on the November 2017 Patch Day.

This guide provides end users and system administrators with information on all security and non-security updates, and security advisories that Microsoft released since the October 2017 Patch Day.

It offers an Excel spreadsheet that lists all security updates released for Microsoft products, information on operating system distribution, download information, and other information related to the updates.

SDelete is a free command line utility by Microsoft's Sysinternals team that you may use to delete files and free disk space securely.

While you can delete any file on a hard drive connected to a machine running Windows using Explorer, the command line or other means, deleting files this way won't remove the data immediately from the drive.

Without going into too many details, what happens is that Windows removes reference to the data on the hard drive, and makes the space the file occupies on the hard drive available again for write operations.

Mozilla Firefox 57 will be released today; we have reviewed the new version of the web browser yesterday already. The new version comes with light and shadow; light, because it is faster and more responsive across the board, and shadow, because it dropped the old add-on system which Mozilla now calls legacy extensions.

Mozilla plans to release Firefox 57.0 to the stable channel on November 14, 2017. The new version of the web browser is a major release as it introduces big changes to the browser's performance, interface, and add-on compatibility.

In short: the new version of Firefox is a lot faster than previous versions, replaces the Australis interface introduced in Firefox 29 with the new Photon interface, and drops support for the legacy add-on system to focus on WebExtensions.

Custom CSS for Fx is a collection of CSS styles for Firefox 57 and newer by the author of the popular Firefox add-on Classic Theme Restorer.

Firefox 57 won't support Classic Theme Restorer or any other interface changing extensions or themes anymore because of the switch to a WebExtensions exclusive system. The new WebExtensions system prevents changes to the browser's user interface by not providing APIs to extensions developers.

DMEX is a free program for Microsoft Windows operating systems that adds a large number of new features and improvements to Windows Explorer.

The application is a rewrite of DMEXMenu and DMEXBar which added similar functionality to Explorer. We reviewed DMEXBar back in 2006, so check this out if you want to know more about it.

DMEX needs to be installed before it can be used, and you may disable some of the functionality the program offers during installation if you don't need it.

Progate is a -- currently free- web service that teaches you various programming, scripting and other computer related skills.

The service was established in 2014 in Tokyo, Japan, and has been made available in English in October 2017.

You need to sign up for an account to start using the service, but the email that you enter is not verified right now, and there are not any costs as well.

EdgeDeflector is a free open source program for Microsoft's Windows 10 operating system that unlocks the option to open hard coded Microsoft Edge links with other browsers.

The initial version of Windows 10 came without browsing restrictions. You could set a default browser, and any link would open in that browser.

YouTube may place age restrictions on content, for instance if the content includes violence or disturbing images, nudity, vulgar language or the portrayal of harmful activities.