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Firefox settings, about:config and browser fixes on a laptop

Background Updates Planned for Flash Player 11.2

November 1, 2011 by Venkat Eswarlu
Firefox settings, about:config and browser fixes on a laptop

Whenever vulnerabilities are found for their products this includes Flash Player Adobe releases updates which we need to install to stay protected (Alternative Flash Player … [Read more…]

Posted in: News
Freeware

Adobe Flash Player 11 and Adobe AIR 3.0 Released [Offline Installer Links Inside]

October 4, 2011 by Venkat Eswarlu

Adobe finally released flash player 11 for Windows, Mac and Linux this time including 64-bit version, as usual they are offering online installer with … [Read more…]

Posted in: Freeware, News Tagged: Adobe AIR, flash player, Flash Player 11, offline installer
Freeware

Download CCleaner for Mac (Beta)

June 3, 2011 by Venkat Eswarlu

We’ve covered Piriform going to release CCleaner for Mac soon and the first beta of CCleaner for Mac is released and available for download … [Read more…]

Posted in: Freeware, News Tagged: CCleaner, CCleaner for Mac, Mac
Firefox

Status Bar functionality is moved to top in Firefox 4 & Add-on Bar is for Placement of Add-ons Icons

October 11, 2010 by Venkat Eswarlu

If you don’t know status Bar has been removed and it has been replaced with Add-on Bar in Firefox 4, the most important use … [Read more…]

Posted in: Firefox, News Tagged: Add-on Bar, Add-ons, Firefox 4, functionality, icons, Status Bar
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