January 2021
TitleBarBattery displays your laptop's battery percentage in every window
If there is one thing that laptop users worry about constantly, it's the device's battery life. Many users keep their computer plugged in at all times for work/gaming purposes. But sometimes you may have no choice but to use the system on battery power, like when you're travelling.
First non-final Tabs redesign courtesy of Proton lands in Firefox Nightly
Mozilla is working on a Firefox design refresh under the codename Proton. The project is in its early stages but the general plan appears to be to refresh pretty much any user interface element in the browser.
Mozilla did create several mockups of browser elements, sometimes multiple, to showcase some of the ideas its UI team has for the refresh. It is clear that the project is still in its infancy and that final decisions have not been made yet.
Favicons may be used to track users
Security researchers of the University of Illinois at Chicago have discovered a new method to track Internet users that is persistent across sessions, even if users clear cookies and the browsing cache.
The research paper Tales of F A V I C O N S and Caches: Persistent Tracking in Modern Browsers highlights that favicons may be used in conjunction with fingerprinting techniques to track users.
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Run tasks automatically, monitor your email inbox, and run web searches with TaskRunner
Automating things that you do frequently can aid you in becoming more productive. There are a few good programs that you can choose for this purpose such as RoboIntern or System Scheduler.
Microsoft Edge 88 Stable is a security update that drops FTP and Flash support
Microsoft released a new stable version of its Chromium-based Edge web browser on January 21, 2021. Microsoft Edge 88 is a security and feature update that introduces several new features and changes to the browser.
The company released the first stable version of the new Microsoft Edge in January 2020.
Google improves the password management feature in Chrome 88
Google released a new stable version of the company's Chrome web browser to the public this week. Chrome 88 fixed security issues and removed Adobe Flash among other things.
Google improved the browser's password management capabilities in the release. Chrome users who save passwords in the browser may access two new password management related options in the release.
Firefox 85 supports the import of KeePass and Bitwarden passwords
The next stable version of the Firefox web browser supports the import of passwords from the password managers KeePass and Bitwarden, and password managers that use the same format.
DuckDuckGo Search Engine's rise continues as it hits 100 million search queries for the first time
Privacy-first search engine DuckDuckGo's year was productive in 2020. The search engine managed to increase daily search queries significantly in 2020 and 2021 is already looking to become another record year as the search engine broke the 100 million search queries mark on a single day for the first time on January 11, 2021.
Google Images Restored restores the classic Google Images web interface
Google Images Restored is an extension for Chromium-based and Firefox-based web browsers that restores the classic Google Images web interface and its functionality.
Files is an open source Windows 10 file manager app that supports tabs, dual-pane view
While we wait for Microsoft to deliver a modern Windows Explorer, an alternative app is already available on the official store and on GitHub. The program is called Files, and is an open source application.