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The technical preview of Vivaldi, a Chromium/Blink based web browser by Opera co-founder and former CEO John von Tetzchner is now available.

The Opera browser is best known for innovations that Opera Software introduced to the browser, and while not all of them stuck, many were copied by other browsers in the end.

The browser never managed to get significant market share on the desktop and things changed completely when the company announced that it would move to Blink used by Google Chrome.

WinToUSB is a free program for Windows that allows you to copy Windows installation files to a USB drive to run the installation from that drive.

This can be useful in numerous occasions, for instance when the device you want to install Windows on has no optical drive.

All you have to do is select an ISO image or Windows installation disc, select a connected USB drive and let the program handle the rest.

Mozilla has just released Firefox 35.0.1, a stability update for the web browser that fixes eight issues in total including three that may have caused crashes on user systems.

The new version comes exactly two weeks after the release of Firefox 35 which caused add-on related issues for some users.

Remember Facebook Lite? Facebook experimented with a low-resource version of the website back in 2009 and discontinued the site a year later in 2010 citing that Facebook Lite was not optimized for mobile devices and that apps should be used instead.

The company did release and remove several apps in the meantime for mobile users and while those worked fine on most devices, they were not optimized for low-resource devices.

Whenever a new Windows 10 build gets released, new tricks and tweaks come to light shortly thereafter that reveal additional features that are not available by default.

The most recent build of Windows 10 that Microsoft released a couple of days ago shipped with many changes including the personal assistant Cortana (limited to English) and the new Start Menu that is a design iteration of the previous start menu integrated in the operating system.

For the past couple of days I have received notifications about Adobe Flash Player on sites that I visited in Chromium.

The message read Adobe Flash Player is required to display some elements on this page. It displayed a button next to it to install the missing plug-in and a link to support users if they ran into installation issues.

I checked chrome://plugins first to display all installed plugins and noticed that Flash was not installed.

The only options you had previously to upgrade from an older copy of Windows to a new one was to run the installer either while the installed operating system was running or by booting from an installation disc or Flash drive to initiate it.

Microsoft wants to make things more comfortable and has added an option to upgrade to Windows 10 using Windows Update.

Sandboxing finally comes to the Firefox web browser. After enabling a (currently) non-restrictive content sandbox in Firefox Nightly last month, the organization enabled the upcoming NPAPI plug-in sandbox in Aurora and Nightly versions of the browser as well.

These sandboxes are designed to limit the rights of tabs and plug-ins in the browser to harden and stabilize it.

One of the tools that you can use to visualize web dependencies is to run Mozilla's Lightbeam add-on for the Firefox web browser.

It visualizes all sites that you visit directly and also sites that are loaded during connection automatically by the server you are connecting to.

Are you following the development of windows 10? If so, you know that Microsoft mentioned two days ago that it would release a new preview build of the operating system next week.

In a surprising move, updates and downloads are already available. If you have installed Windows 10 already you can run a check for updates in the PC Settings to download and install the new build.

All installed programs and most modifications are carried over to the new build which means there is nothing to worry about in this regard.