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Internet Explorer Takes Another Step Closer to Death!
Internet Explorer has been experiencing its death rattle for more than a few years now. And death rattle is an appropriate term as while it has been on the verge of dying for years Microsoft has always seemed a little reluctant to finally pull the plug on its once near-total…
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Google Ends Chrome Support on Windows 7 and 8!
With official support now officially over from Microsoft for Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 it’s hardly any surprise that, sooner or later, third-party applications would also start to look to move away from the operating systems. There isn’t, after all, much point throwing resources at platforms that are effectively, from…
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Internet Explorer is Nearly Dead But Microsoft Might Finish the Job on Feb 14th!
Back in the Summer Microsoft officially announced that support for Internet Explorer had concluded and the browser was now officially in its ‘end-of-life’. – Yep, it had certainly been a pretty (well, mostly) solid 27 years worth of performance, but all good things must come to an end, and, in…
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Internet Explorer’s Death Gets ‘Commemorated’ With Tombstone!
On June 15th (last week for those of you without a calendar), one of the most iconic pieces of internet history died. – Yes, following the expiration of its official Microsoft support, the once widely-used browser, Internet Explorer, expired. What did this mean? Well, while it still clearly runs, the…
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Internet Explorer Has Officially Died! – A Brief Obituary!
Initially released back in 1995, Internet Explorer was, for many people, their first gateway into the online world. – This was, of course, back in the day where having a browser wasn’t a particularly common thing. If you didn’t have an internet connection, after all, you clearly didn’t need a…
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Microsoft To Add Integrated VPN to Edge Browser?
Following the launch of the new Chromium-based Edge browser back in early 2020, while it has proven to be a huge improvement over the prior version, it’s still struggling somewhat to attract users away from Google Chrome and/or other more fringe options. – This is, perhaps, best highlighted by the…
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DuckDuckGo Continues Content Crackdown with Piracy Sites Removed!
Founded in 2008, while DuckDuckGo certainly has nowhere near the prominence or traffic of Google, in terms of search engines I think it would be fair to say that many today now choose to use this as a, rightly or wrongly, superior alternative. – One of the key features of…
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Microsoft Edge is (Finally) the 2nd Most Popular Desktop Browser!
Back in January 2020, Microsoft announced the general release of its new Chromium-based Edge internet browser. With it basically looking to adopt a lot of the features from Google Chrome while gobbling up (at least in theory) significantly less memory, by all accounts the browser was and is excellent. –…
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Google Chrome Update Looks to Give a Big Performance Boost on Windows 10/11
Despite some better efforts from Microsoft following the launch of their Chromium-based Edge back in early 2020, Google Chrome is still, very firmly, the most prominent and dominant web browser around. With it currently holding around a 66% desktop market share, this leaves its 5 biggest so-called competitors fighting (without…
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Criticism Grows As Microsoft Adds ‘Buy Now Pay Later’ Options to Edge Browser
Having credit can be an amazingly useful tool. Particularly so when an unexpected bill comes along that you don’t quite have the finances to immediately cover. It should be noted though that credit can also be an exceptionally dangerous thing. Granting the illusion of free money, and the freedom to…
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Microsoft Researchers Tease “Super Duper Secure Mode” For Edge
Ever since the release of the new Chromium-based Microsoft Edge internet browser in early 2020, it has, slowly but surely, been tempting a significant number of users away who were once very firmly entrenched in the Google Chrome camp. Many of us here at eTeknix made the swap shortly after…
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Firefox Has Lost 46 Million Users in Just 3 Years!
There was a point around 10 years ago where Firefox was an exceptionally popular internet browser. Admittedly, at the time, it’s not as if consumers were exactly spoilt for choice with Internet Explorer still representing one of the most popular mainstream consumer options. And incidentally, and just for you whippersnappers,…
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New Edge Update to Hugely Boost Multi-Tab Performance!
While Google Chrome still manages to maintain a pretty dominant stature in the desktop browser market share, following the launch of the new Chromium-based upgrade to Edge last year, more and more people have been transitioning to it. And, we should add, with good reason. The short version is that…
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Microsoft Confirms Internet Explorer Will Die Next Year
I think it’s pretty safe to say that very few people still actively use Internet Explorer 11. In fact, it’s been pretty much redundant since the initial launch of Edge back in 2015. And by the time that did release as the semi-replacement, Google Chrome already had sewn up the…
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Edge Update Looks to Improve CPU, RAM, and Battery Usage
Even though Microsoft Edge still has a relatively small user base since transitioning to the new Chromium-based design (around 10% at the time of writing), as someone who uses it literally all the time, I have nothing but good things to say about it. – If you too enjoy it…
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