What's New

Mozilla plans to enable the built-in JSON Viewer of the Firefox web browser for all browser channels including Firefox Stable in Firefox 53.

The organization integrated the viewer in version 44 of the web browser, but did not enable it by default for all channels but the Developer Channel.

Firefox's JSON Viewer displays structured JSON data instead of the RAW data dump that one gets when the viewer or a third-party extension is not enabled.

Opera Software revealed a new concept browser called Opera Neon a moment ago both in a life stream and on the official Opera Blogs website.

Opera Neon is a prototype web browser that "envisions the future of web browsers similar to the way concept cars predict the future of automobiles" according to Opera Software.

Steam Customizer is a free service that enables you to create custom Steam skins that you can apply to the Steam client program on your computer.

Steam supports custom skins that you can load, but the process of creating or loading skins is not as comfortable as it could be.

Steam Customizer changes that. It lets you download any skin from its site, or create a new one instead that you can download, in the first step.

Blue Light mode is another new feature that Microsoft will introduce with the Creators Update for Windows 10 that will be out in April 2017.

The feature is very similar to Apple's Night Shift mode that the company introduced in iOS 9.3, and to a degree also to popular applications like F.Lux which have been around for much longer than that.

Dynamic Lock is a new feature of the recent Windows 10 build 15002 Insider Build release designed to lock the PC automatically when you are away.

While you can lock the PC at any time using Windows-L, or configure your PC to lock automatically after a period of idle time, Dynamic Lock attempts to make this easier on the user.

Locking manually gives you the most freedom, but there is a chance that you forget to do it. Configuring the PC to lock itself when it is idle works, but many users may not know how to do it.

When you install the most recent version of Adobe Acrobat Reader DC, Adobe's free PDF reader, you may notice that it installs a Chrome extension along with the update.

Tip: Make sure you disable the offers on the download page to install True Key by Intel Security, and McAfee Security Scan Plus, as they will be installed alongside Adobe Acrobat Reader DC otherwise as well.

Mozilla has published a new test pilot project for the organization's Firefox web browser that brings Cliqz suggestions to Firefox's address bar.

Cliqz, available as a standalone desktop browser, mobile apps, and a Firefox extension, is a service that returns rich suggestions as you type.

WSUS Offline Update 10.9 ships with a new option to download "security only updates" instead of "quality rollups" for Windows 7 and 8.1, and Windows Server 2008 R2, 2012, and 2012 R2.

Microsoft switched to a new update format recently that changes how updates are provided for Windows 7, Windows 8.1, and the server operating systems Windows Server 2008 R2, 2012, and 2012 R2.

Privacy is one of the hot topics when it comes to Microsoft's latest operating system Windows 10. The company has been criticized for making it difficult for users to block or minimize telemetry data collection, and for not being very forthcoming in regards to data that it collects, and how that data is being analyzed and used.

If there are not any last minute changes, the last days of the once-mighty Yahoo company have begun.

Verizon offered $4.8 billion for the Yahoo brand name, core patents, and the bulk of the company's Internet properties, and Yahoo accepted the offer last year.

The only major properties not included in the deal is the stake in Yahoo Japan, and the stake in Chinese company Alibaba.

All other web properties will be part of Verizon once finalized. The following Yahoo properties will fly under the Verizon flag from that moment on:

Windows 10 supports Windows Hello, a biometric authentication feature that allows you to sign in using your face or fingerprint.

The main idea behind Hello is to make the authentication process easier. Users don't have to enter a password anymore when they sign in on a machine running Windows 10, but can sign in using the device's camera or fingerprint reader.

I have set up Windows Hello on the Surface 4 Pro device that I bought some time ago. To be precise, I enabled the face detection authentication option.

Mozilla plans to remove the Adobe Primetime Content Decryption Module in Firefox 52 Stable.

Adobe Primetime is a content decryption module that is only available for Firefox on Windows. It is designed to play back protected media streams. In other words, it is a plugin for DRM.

Microsoft just shipped the first Windows 10 Insider Build of the year 2017, Windows 10 Build 15002, to the Fast Ring Insider channel.

The build is not entirely new, as it leaked earlier and many snagged it to be the first to report on new functionality found in that build.

If you have read the leaked reports, you know that Microsoft has pushed plenty of new features in that build.

KeePass 2.35 has just been released; the latest version of the popular desktop password manager for Windows ships with a new file format and Argon2 support among other things.

KeePass is my password manager of choice, and at least some regulars here on Ghacks are using it as well instead of other password managers.