Microsoft isn’t one to shy away from unorthodox marketing techniques to promote its products. And the Redmond company has proved that again, with its latest Microsoft Edge battery life test video.

The video made by the company features three laptops running on the Windows 10 April 2018 Update. All three devices look similar, and Microsoft claims they are identical.

Each laptop used a different browser, one was running Mozilla Firefox, one on Microsoft Edge, and the other one on Google Chrome. The laptops were set to play the same video (which was in HD resolution) over and over in their respective browser till the battery dies.

This is actually a very [...]

One of the most used features in browsers is the search engine.

And almost every browser has two ways to let users search the internet.

One is through the address bar, or the URL bar as some of you may know it. In Mozilla Firefox, this is called the Awesome Bar. The reason behind this is, the address bar allows you to not just search from the bar, but also displays auto-complete search suggestions.

The default search engine in Mozilla Firefox is Yahoo, due to the deal between the two companies. But it is likely that many of you will be using Google or Bing or DuckDuckGo.

The other Search option in Firefox is the Search Bar itself, which you can [...]

Is your installation of Mozilla Firefox giving you trouble? Have you diagnosed the issue?

The browser is incredibly customizable, thanks to the innumerable plugins it has. Yes, there are thousands of add-ons, themes available for Firefox today.

But this also means there are two problems. Firstly not every add-on is available on the Mozilla Add-ons Repository, some of them could be hosted elsewhere. Secondly there are chances that the add-on may not have been well optimized, it could have memory leaks or bugs. This also applies to themes.

And since Firefox is open source, all forks of the browser (Waterfox, Comodo IceDragon, Palemoon, etc) also suffer from [...]

Mozilla Firefox is a fantastic browser, not counting the recent controversial changes of course.

But the fact that it is open source, and customizable is an admirable fact.

Due to this, the browser has been forked into various different applications, based on Firefox’s source code. WaterFox, Palemoon and Comodo IceDragon are a few of the popular ones. But, have you ever tried two different  Mozilla Firefox browsers running simultaneously?

If you have, you would have noticed a pop-up message which says “Mozilla Firefox is already running. Please close the older browser”.

And if you tried opening two instances of the same version of [...]