Why Firefox Had to Kill Your Favorite Extension

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Change my Subscription (or unsubscribe) Today's How-To Geek Articles Why Firefox Had to Kill Your Favorite Extension Don’t Buy Internet-Connected “Smart Toys” for Your Kids Why You Still Shouldn’t Buy Star Wars: Battlefront II How to Set Up and Use Multiple Profiles (User Accounts) in Firefox How to Stop Samsung’s App Permission Monitor From Displaying Notifications How to Set Up a VPN on Android TV How to Change Your Instagram Password Lots of Android Apps Will Lose Features or Disappear from the Play Store Soon Today's Review Geek Articles Five Tips For Your TV Holiday Shopping Spree Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Regression Testing Regression Testing (a.k.a. Verification Testing) refers to the testing (or retesting) of a program or software system that has been modified, enhanced, etc. in order to determine if: Any potential new bugs have been found and fixed That older, stable features and functions have not been negatively impacted or are now failing That any new features and functions will not cause problems with older versions of the program or software system What We're Reading This section contains what we're reading from around the web, along with commentary from our editors. Think of it like your daily digest of the most interesting things online. Elon Musk: Inventor's Plans for Outer Space, Cars, Finding Love Apparently he loves browsing Reddit and watching Rick and Morty. Hmm. [Rolling Stone] The more tech in your job, the more money you make It's never been more important to be tech savvy. [Recode] Why Firefox Had to Kill Your Favorite Extension Firefox 57, or Quantum, is here, and it’s a huge improvement. Firefox has finally caught up with Chrome in terms of speed, the interface is a lot cleaner, and there are some great new features to boot. There’s not a lot to complain about here. Read This Article → Don’t Buy Internet-Connected “Smart Toys” for Your Kids Just when you thought talking toys couldn’t get more annoying, new internet-connected toys like the Furby Connect and i-Que Intelligent Robot are smarter than their predecessors, allowing your child to ask questions, get answers, send audio messages, and more. And thanks to unpatched security holes, they’re more dangerous, too. Read This Article → Why You Still Shouldn’t Buy Star Wars: Battlefront II If you’ve been following video game news at all for the last couple of weeks, you’ve probably heard that EA’s Star Wars: Battlefront II is having some teething troubles. EA has backpedaled to avoid more controversy, but we’re here to say: don’t fall for it. Read This Article → How to Set Up and Use Multiple Profiles (User Accounts) in Firefox Firefox has its own profiles system that works like Chrome’s user account switcher. Each profile has its own bookmarks, settings, add-ons, browser history, cookies, and other data. For example, you might want to create a profile for work and a separate profile for personal use, keeping them separate. Read This Article → How to Stop Samsung’s App Permission Monitor From Displaying Notifications If you have an Android phone, you should be aware of the permissions your apps have been granted. For instance, there’s no reason for a calculator app to connect to the web. On the Galaxy Note 8 (and probably any phones coming after), Samsung has automated this process with a tool called the App Permission Monitor, which notifies you if any apps use a permission that’s especially important or outside their normal operating range. Read This Article → How to Set Up a VPN on Android TV There are several reasons you may want to use a VPN on your Android TV box, but it’s not available as a stock option like it is in Android phones or tablets. Fortunately, there are a few ways around this. Read This Article → How to Change Your Instagram Password Instagram accounts are a popular target for hackers. I know firsthand, because someone pretended to be me to try and steal some accounts. Fortunately they didn't succeed, but if you have a weak password, you might not be so lucky. Let's look at how to change your Instagram password to something a little more secure. Read This Article → Lots of Android Apps Will Lose Features or Disappear from the Play Store Soon Android, as an operating system, is great for power users—apps have the ability to do all kinds of stuff that other, more locked-down phones can’t do. Unfortunately, one of those abilities is disappearing soon, and many power user apps could lose features or disappear from the Play Store as a result. Read This Article → Advertisement Having Old DVDs? Give the Second Chance for Them to Live You might have loads of old and unplayable DVDs because of disc aging caused by improper storing or pure man-made damages. What would you do if you have three options: throw away what you have paid good money for; keep them on the dusty shelf; or backup and rebuild your DVD content with original quality