When you click on a URL in the search results or on some other website, the URL may contain tons of parameters that serve no purpose other then sending some tracking information to the server. For the user, these parameters have no meaning and the URL will still work if these parameter IDs and their Read More …
Twitch is where all the gamers hang out these days. Twitch enhances your online gaming experience by allowing you to interact with other games through voice and video streams. And even the people who are not playing the games, they can watch the gameplay, comment and interact with the gamers through Twitch. If you want Read More …
Mozilla Firefox is a web browser that focuses on the security and the privacy of the end users. This is why you will find a whole set of features that enhance the security of the browser. Some of these features provide protections against cross-site cookies, social media trackers, cryptominers and fingerprinters. Cross-site cookies are used Read More …
In the Nightly builds of Firefox web browser, a new feature has surfaced using which you can export all the saved logins to a CSV data file. In this CSV file, all the passwords are saved without any encryption – in their plain text format that anyone can read. This CSV file can be opened Read More …
Seems like everyone is trying to find a replacement for the good old JPEG image format. First Apple has switched to the new HEIC image format which is a subset of the HEIF format and gives better compression than JPEG. Now Netflix is pushing a new AVIF image format that is supposed to have better Read More …
Version 76.0 of the popular Firefox web browser has a new feature using which you can disable all the non-secure web traffic. It has an “HTTPS Only Mode” which can be enabled to block access to the sites that are still being served over the old insecure HTTP connections. For the same effect (blocking insecure Read More …
During the lock-down when we are all stuck at home, the best way to make use of our time is to finish up on all the reading and watch all the movies that we had been planning to read or watch for years. For example, I still haven’t finished the six books from The Earth’s Read More …
Websites can display notifications to the visitors in the Firefox web browser. These notifications are useful for websites that want to notify you of latest updates, new emails, news events, online chat partners or other similar things. When you visit a website that wants to display such notifications, they ask your permission to display the Read More …
Only a few months ago we could get together with friends or family members to enjoy a movie either at home or at a theater. But then the world came across a serious problem and we all ended up in a city-wide lockdown situation. Because we have to observer social distancing, we cannot watch movies Read More …
Sometimes we have to download multiple files from a website and we keep clicking on one link after another until we start to feel pain in the fingers or the mouse button stops working. Of course, there are download managers that can spider the links from any webpage and help you download but they are Read More …