A new app has landed in the Microsoft Store, and allows managing the installed apps in Windows 10. While its user interface is almost identical to what you see in Settings > Apps > Apps & features, it has a couple of exclusive features you may find useful.
Assign Backspace Key to Go Back a Page in Microsoft Edge
How to Assign the Backspace Key to Go Back a Page in Microsoft Edge
As you may already know, starting in Chrome 52, Google has removed the ability to use the Backspace Key for navigating backwards by a page. Since the modern Microsoft Edge is a Chromium-based browser, it retains the same behavior. However, Microsoft has added an experimental option that allows using the Backspace key to go back a page.
Enable or Disable History and Favorites Suggestions in Edge Address Bar
How to Enable or Disable History and Favorites Suggestions in Edge Address Bar
Microsoft Edge now allows you to include or exclude favorites, history entries, and other browsing data from suggestions you see when typing in the address bar of the browser. The appropriate option is now available in the privacy section of Edge's settings.
OneDrive is preventing some users from upgrading to Windows 10 version 2004
A new information has come to our attention. Some users are unable to get Windows 10 version 2004 installed, and the only thing that prevents them from getting the latest OS release is OneDrive.
Your Phone now supports multiple devices
Microsoft has updated the Your Phone app with support for multiple devices. The change is already active for Insiders. It is one of the long awaited changes for users who have more than one Android smartphone.
Microsoft won’t support PHP 8 with development on Windows
As you may already know, Microsoft is officially supporting the PHP interpreter on Windows. The company provides support for building and applying security patches to Windows binaries of PHP. This will no longer be true for PHP 8.0 and above.
Linux Mint 19.3 can now be upgraded to Mint 20
It has been quite a while since the release of Linux Mint 20. Finally, the distro team posted update instructions. The notable thing is that this time you can only upgrade Mint 19.3 64-bit. Users running a 32-bit Mint instance are out of luck.
Web content filtering will be offered as part of Microsoft Defender ATP
Web content filtering is a new feature in Microsoft Defender ATP that enables security administrators to track and regulate access to websites based on specified content categories. Microsoft offers a public preview of Web content filtering, so interested users can give it a try.
Firefox 78.0.2 is out with security and bug fixes
Mozilla has updated Firefox 78 in the stable branch. A new update,version 78.0.2, resolves a few bugs, and fixes a moderate security vulnerability.
Liquid Jewels 2 theme for Windows 10, 8, and 7
The Liquid Jewels 2 theme features 9 amazing wallpapers with macro views of flowers touched by a few drops of water. This beautiful themepack was initially created for Windows 7, but you can use it in Windows 10, Windows 7 and Windows 8.
