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Microsoft to discontinue EMET in July 2018

Microsoft announced yesterday that it has extended the support end data of the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit from January 2017 to July 2018.

Microsoft introduced EMET in 2009 as a standalone security program for Windows designed to block certain exploits from being executed successfully.

EMET was designed as a last line of defense against attacks carried out against Windows devices.

Firefox 51: SocialAPI deprecation

Mozilla plans to deprecate parts of SocialAPI, an interface designed originally to make social interactions faster and easier, in Firefox 51.

Mozilla introduced the SocialAPI in Firefox 17 as a way to make interactions with social network services like Facebook easier and faster.

The API offered access to various browser components, a chat window, sidebar, or share buttons, and allowed social providers to create add-on like extensions that users could install in Firefox.

Speed up Edge by disabling Flash

One of the annoyances of Microsoft Edge that I experience whenever I use the web browser is that it lags at times. This is noticeable for instance when websites are loaded from external sources but also at other occasions.

When a website loads for instance, it lags until all content is loaded. The loading itself seems to take longer than when other browsers are used but I could never put my finger down on the cause for this as it only happens on some sites and not all of them.

Web Storage Viewer for Firefox privacy add-on

Web Storage Viewer is a brand new browser add-on for the Firefox web browser that displays data stored by websites on the local system.

While many Internet users are aware of cookies and the danger to privacy they represent by now, the majority is probably unaware of other tracking means.

Web Storage, also known as DOM storage, HTML5 storage, session storage or local storage is such an option.