If you still remember the good old Opera 12 browser, you must be familiar with its Opera Link service, which provided an easy way to sync bookmarks between your devices. Unfortunately, when Opera became Chropera, Opera Link was discontinued. Now, after several months of development, the Opera team has finally decided to revive this feature back into their new product, the Chromium-based browser, which retains the Opera name. As of this moment, the developer version of the new Opera (which is not recommended for daily use) features complete synchronization of tabs and bookmarks. Also, Opera Beta (which is a bit more stable) has bookmarks synchronization only.
Remove the Home button from the Vivaldi browser
We continue our coverage of Vivaldi browser customization. In this article, we will see how to remove the mostly useless Home button. As usual, we will perform a simple CSS trick. Here we go.
How to disable Notification Center in Windows 10
If Windows 10, Microsoft has introduced the Notification Center feature. Similar to Windows Phone and other mobile systems such as Android, Windows 10 is able to aggregate all kinds of event notifications in one window and show past history of notifications. While you may find this very useful, some others may not want to show all past notifications. In Windows 10 build 9926, you can turn off the notification center, but this requires a Registry tweak from you. Let's see how to do it.
What is Tablet mode in Windows 10
With Windows 10, Microsoft has tried once again to create a universal OS for tablets, smartphones and the classic Desktop PC. This unification started earlier with Windows 8, but it was not a successful attempt. With Windows 10, Microsoft has only slightly tweaked the UI but hopes to achieve success again. To achieve that goal, Microsoft has added the ability to detect on which display Windows is being used and switch between tablet and desktop mode.
How to customize Quick Actions in Notification Center of Windows 10
The new Notification Center feature in Windows 10 might be familiar to Windows Phone users. It stores notifications about all important events like updates, maintenance and security warnings in a single place. In the latest Technical Preview of Windows 10, Notification Center comes with Quick Actions - a set of buttons which allow you to manage various system functions quickly and instantly. Today we will see how to customize these Quick actions.
There is a new Reader mode in Mozilla Firefox
Firefox Nightly for Windows now features a new Reader mode, which might be familiar to Firefox users of mobile devices. When enabled, it strips out unnecessary elements from the opened web page, reflows the text and turns it into a cleaner looking text document without ads, menus and scripts, so the user can focus on reading the text content. Firefox also renders the text on the page with a new font and formatting in Reader mode. At the moment of this writing, Reader mode is not available in the stable release of Firefox, but can be enabled in Firefox Nightly. Here's how.
Vivaldi 1.0.98.2 is just released
Vivaldi is a new browser with the goal of replacing the old Opera 12.x browser. It is highly customizable and is actively developed. It uses WebKit under the hood. As a new week begins, the Vivladi team introduced a new weekly build, version 1.0.98.2. Here is a brief change log.
How to hide and disable thumbnails in Vivaldi vertical tabs
If you are using vertical tabs in the Vivaldi browser, you might not wish to see thumbnails in its tabs, as they occupy too much space. In this article, we continue our Vivaldi customization tutorials by showing you how to hide thumbnails in Vivaldi when using vertical tabs.
Switch YouTube to Flash Player in Firefox
Some time ago, YouTube had switched to HTML5 videos for all modern browsers including Firefox. After doing some tweaks you can play all HTML5 videos in Firefox even without the Flash plugin installed. In some cases, e.g. when YouTube detects that something is wrong with your browser, it might switch automatically to using Flash for videos instead of HTML5, but there is no way to control this yourself. Let me show you a way to switch between HTML5 and Flash manually.
