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I’ve been using Firefox Quantum non-stop for more than a week now, starting from before its official release. For years, every Firefox release has felt slower than Chrome to me. But Firefox is now a real, speedy, modern option again. Enough so that I’m switching from Chrome back to Firefox. Sure, it’s nice that Firefox is the underdog, a small company dedicated to making the web better rather than pushing its own technology ecosystem like Google, Microsoft, and Apple....

The trackpad on the Apple TV’s Siri Remote is frustrating to use at best, but there are several ways around it if you’d rather have a traditional D-pad. The Problem with the Siri Remote’s Trackpad Don’t get me wrong; the Siri Remote is a huge improvement over the previous generation. The addition of a Siri button and volume controls alone makes the Apple TV so much more useful and easy to use....

Why the M1 and M2 Chips Are a Problem For Windows Software Apple’s M1 chip is the first Apple Silicon chip used in Macs. This is a custom ARM chip that has more in common with the chips built into iPhones and iPads than the Intel CPUs found in existing Macs. (The M2 is the successor to the M1, and it’s in the same situation with regards to Windows applications.)...

Believe it or not, Microsoft worked hard on Notepad for Windows 10’s October 2018 Update. Notepad is packed with new features in this update, which was originally codenamed Redstone 5. Linux and Mac Line Breaks Microsoft is finally adding support for UNIX-style end of line (EOL) characters to Notepad. Notepad now supports both UNIX/Linux style line feeds (LF) and Macintosh-style line endings (CR.) This means that you can take a text file created on Linux or Mac, open it in Notepad—and it will look like it’s supposed to!...

Co-authoring enables you and your colleagues to work on the same Excel workbook simultaneously. Everyone sees all changes in real-time, and across all devices that run Excel for Office 365, for the web, or any mobile version. To co-author in Excel, you need the latest version of Office 365. Share Your Workbook for Co-Authoring To co-author a workbook, you first need to save it to OneDrive or a SharePoint Online library....

With TeamViewer you can remotely help your friends and family on any major operating system straight from your computer, the web, or on the go with your iPhone or iPad. TeamViewer full version should be installed on your computer for you to provide remote support for your users. You can both send and receive support with the TeamViewer full version installed on your computer. The full version is completely free for personal use and has some extra features that we will go over later....

There are a few specific channels you’ll need to watch every game: ESPN, ABC, TNT, and NBA TV. Various games from the first round are aired on all four channels, but the second round is only on ESPN and ABC. The conference finals are only televised on ESPN, with the Finals airing exclusively on ABC. Watch ABC and TNT for Free You can grab ABC for free by using an OTA HD antenna, which gets you at least part of the way there....

Social media has a tendency to twist words and their meanings. Online, words such as “Friend”, “Follow”, and “Like” all mean subtly different things to what they mean offline. If someone posts about their granny dying do you ignore the post? Like it out of sympathy? Comment? Well now Facebook has gone somewhat towards fixing this by adding a series of different reactions. You can react to any Facebook post with Like, Love, Haha, Wow, Sad, Angry, and occasional situational reactions for things like Halloween, Mother’s Day, and Pride (which you can see in the screenshot below)....

In your Facebook account, you can change your email address at any time and for any reason. You can do this from both the Facebook site and the Facebook mobile app. Today, we’ll show you how easy it is. Why Change Your Email Address on Facebook? The most common reason to change your Facebook email address is that your email account is hacked. Updating the email in your account ensures that the hacker can’t access it....

Multiple monitors are awesome. They really are—ask anyone who’s used a two- or three-screen setup for their desktop, and they’ll tell you that they have a hard time going back to just one. Laptops have a built-in advantage here, since they have one screen: to boost productivity, just add a monitor. RELATED: How to Use Multiple Monitors to Be More Productive But what if you want more than one screen hooked up to your notebook at once?...

Windows 10 saves a list of Wi-Fi networks you connect to along with their passphrases and other settings. If you want to stop your PC from connecting to a network automatically, you’ll need to make Windows “forget” the Wi-Fi network. The process was obvious in Windows 7, where you could just select “Manage Wireless Networks” in the Control Panel’s Network and Sharing Center and delete saved networks. Windows 8 removed this option and forced you to use Command Prompt commands....

Want to take a look at your archived messages, and perhaps unarchive one or more of those conversations? If so, Facebook makes it easy to find and unarchive your chats on both your desktop and mobile phone. We’ll show you how to do that. RELATED: How to Find Archived Emails in Gmail See Your Archived Messages on Facebook on Desktop If you’re on a Windows, Mac, Linux, or Chromebook computer, use the official Facebook website to get access to all your archived messages....

If you’d like to post something in a Facebook group without revealing your name, use Facebook’s anonymous posting feature. It’s easy to do, assuming that a group administrator has enabled the feature. We’ll show you how to use it. What to Know About Anonymous Facebook Posts To make an anonymous post in a Facebook group, the group must have enabled the feature for that. Also, know that the group admins, moderators, and Facebook team can still see your name in your anonymous posts....

If you’re a PlayStation 4 owner of any variety (regular, Slim, or Pro), you probably woke up today to an annoying Destiny 2 ad right there in your recent games bar. That’s pretty obnoxious, so here’s how to prevent it from happening again in the future. From the PS4’s action bar, find the Settings icon. It’s a little suitcase-looking thing. From there, scroll down to System. Next, choose Automatic Downloads....

Eero is a fantastic mesh Wi-Fi system that can help eliminate spotty Wi-Fi in your house. However, devices can appear in the app as a jumbled-up mess. Here’s how to rename them so that it’s easier to know which device is which. RELATED: What Are Mesh Wi-Fi Systems, and How Do They Work? In the devices list within the Eero app, it will just show the serial number, model number, or simply “Hostname” by default for most devices....

Snapchat was built on the idea of vanishing photos. Whenever you sent one, the idea was that they’d disappear into the ether rather than being stored on a server or your friends phone forever. RELATED: Is Snapchat Really Deleting My Snaps? But Snapchat has changed. It’s not just for sending private pictures. It’s a media platform, a messaging app, and much more. When Snapchat launched, taking a screenshot of someone’s Snap was seen as seriously bad form....

There are a lot of fake Facebook pages out there. At best, they waste your time and maybe try to sell some ads. At worst, they try to scam money and personal information from you. Here’s how to spot them. Fake Facebook pages are a big problem. Just this month it turned out that the largest Black Lives Matter Facebook page was actually being run by a white guy in Australia named Ian who buys and sells domain names—and obviously Facebook pages—as a hobby....

The trick to locking apps on an iPhone or iPad involves imposing the minimum daily limit on their use. Once you max out the limit, you’ll have to enter your Screen Time passcode to open the app. The only downside to this method is that you’ll have to manually exhaust the Screen Time limit every day to activate the lock. RELATED: How to Use and Configure Screen Time on Your iPhone or iPad...

This has been a feature on the Google Home for quite some time, but it’s now finally available to Echo users. This will allow multiple family members to use the Echo for a more personalized experience. So if you ask Alexa when your next appointment is, she’ll know who’s asking, and look on your calendar. If your spouse asks the same questions, Alexa will look on their calendar. That’s just an example, of course, and there are many other things that Alexa can personalize with this new feature, including music playlists, calling and messaging, and flash briefings....

Computer processors have a massive design flaw, and everyone is scrambling to fix it. Only one of the two security holes can be patched, and the patches will make PCs (and Macs) with Intel chips slower. Update: An earlier version of this article stated that this flaw was specific to Intel chips, but that isn’t the whole story. There are in fact two major vulnerabilities here, now dubbed “Meltdown” and “Spectre”....