When helping someone debug their computer this comes up a lot. If things aren’t good in Windows-land, getting your computer to boot into safe mode can sometimes give you enough access to your computer to recover Windows. If you need to uninstall a misbehaving application, troubleshoot a blue screen of death (BSOD) or remove a bad driver, safe mode is usually your…
Michael B. from the Mozilla Marketing list recently posted an hypothesis on why Google Chrome may suddenly start taking a much larger chunk out of the browser market now that Microsoft’s browser selection screens are appearing in the EU. “I’ve a hypothesis to explain Chrome’s recent and sudden surge of usage share the last couple months. Let me first say that almost every time I ever ask what web browser someone uses, the answer I get is Google….”
We might finally get more people off of IE, FINALLY. It might seem like a minor thing, but it isn’t. Microsoft has been fined billions over browser choice (or lack thereof) in Windows, and the solution that finally satisfied EU regulators was a browser choice screen, which would let users choose a web browser rather then having Internet Explorer installed as the…
A recent PCworld story, suggests in a measure to prevent hardware modding (which does have fair use purposes as well, such as making backups of content) they have banned up to a million Xbox 360 consoles from the Xbox LIVE service, and may have rendered the machines mainly unusable. DailyTech’s sources claim the ban blocks game installations to the hard drive and…
Thanks to a new invention by PCMan (Hong Jen Yee), this extension let’s you choose the engine to use (gecko or IE) for a webpage, much like Netscape does. One great use of this is the ability to run Mircosoft Update in Firefox: Now you’ll never need to open IE to view a webpage again!
Dell, one of the largest PC makers, has begun to put Firefox on their UK PCs. The Inquirer posted a article suggesting it might be true, which was later confirmed by Blake Ross, with a promise of more information later on. (See also: Netscape on HP) This could further push consumers away from Microsoft products, as open source products are more frequently…