Sleeping Tabs is a feature in Microsoft Edge, introduced in late 2020, which lets the inactive browser tabs sleep after a specified time to save system resources. This feature is based on Chrome's "freezing" technology, but way better than that. An initial report has shown a 26% reduction in memory usage of the browser.
Now, with Microsoft Edge 100, the company has updated sleeping tabs to enable pages that are sharing a browsing instance with another page.
Windows Fast Startup feature was first introduced in Windows 8 to make your system boot up faster than the normal booting process by saving the current state of the kernel, a few other processes, and drivers into the disk. But that has some adverse issues when you really want to boot up in a clean environment.
If you are in a need to turn off the Fast Startup feature on Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, or Windows 11, here is the step-by-step process to guide you.
Google introduces a new privacy-oriented tool for its Chrome browser that will be called as "Privacy Guide". Once available, a new card for Privacy Guide will appear in the “Privacy and security” settings that will provide a step-by-step guided tour of existing privacy and security controls in Google Chrome.
Microsoft started rolling out a new Windows 11 build to the insiders in the Dev Channel and Beta Channel. The latest update comes as Windows 11 Build 22593.1, and is rolling out from the ni_release branch.
This build includes a few changes and improvements but includes a good set of fixes that will improve the Insider’s overall experience on their device. Want to experience the latest build? Continue reading to know more about the changes.
Windows 11 - the latest version of Microsoft's operating system is being updated with a ton of new features and improvements. As announced on Tuesday at the "Hybrid Work" event, the company is set to add a tabbed design to File Explorer. If you are a Windows Insider, you might have already known about this feature coming next.
According to the announcement, the other features include Windows 365 based cloud PC enhancements, folders in Start, touch support for Snap Layout, better focus, captioning, and some other Microsoft Teams features for Windows 11.
Microsoft PowerToys is a set of utilities, which allows users to streamline their Microsoft Windows experience to have greater productivity using the operating system. The company has now released PowerToys version 0.57.0 which adds a ton of new features and stability improvements.
For more details on what's new and improved in the latest Microsoft PowerToys version 0.57.0, continue reading further.
Microsoft releases a new update for Microsoft Office version 2204. The new release build 15128.20000 is now rolling out to the Office Insiders who are running the Office Suite from the Windows Beta Channel. The new update doesn't include any new changes but fixed a few bugs as listed below.
If you are new, the GitHub Copilot is your AI (Artificial Intelligence) pair programmer, powered by OpenAI Codex. Last year, Microsoft announced GitHub Copilot and made it available to a number of people as a Technical Preview.
Based on users' feedback, Microsoft now announced the availability of the GitHub Copilot extension for Visual Studio 2022 IDE. You will need to signup for the GitHub Copilot technical preview before installing the Visual Studio 2022 extension.
Microsoft released a new servicing build to Windows 11 insiders. The latest Windows 11 Build 22581.200 comes as a KB5013296 Cumulative Update and is currently rolling out to the Windows Insiders in both the Dev Channel and Beta Channel.
As this cumulative update is designed to test the servicing pipeline for builds to the insiders' Dev and Beta channel, it doesn't include any feature changes and improvements.
No internet connection is without its outages and interruption, that much is for sure. The weather conditions can impact all types of internet connections. Whether it is a power outage or rain or thunderstorm, most of us have experienced disruptions to our internet connections. The impact that weather has on your internet connection will be explored in this article.
A zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2022-1096) has been reported in Google Chrome, which could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the targeted system. If you are a Google Chrome user, you should pay attention to it and take immediate action as suggested by Google.
As the bug is within the Chromium engine, all browsers powered by Chromium (Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox) will be affected due to this vulnerability.
