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Pale Moon, a Firefox fork with its own code, has released a new version not long ago. This new version is the last of the year as Christmas and New Years are fast approaching. Moonchild made it official in the Pale Moon forums on the 28th of November. Pale Moon had several crashes and memory issues fixed. A keyboard shortcut which restarted the browser was also removed. A fix for preventing cookie injections was implemented, a fix to mitigate domain spoofing was added and the problem was in a previous version of Firefox, where certain domains using IDN's would spoof and they had an issue with using certain Latin and Arabic characters and mixing them together, but this spoofing wasn't read in punycode by the browser, now it will be in punycode. The actual bug number is CVE-2017-7832. Pale Moon also fixed their mixed content blocking feature and improved it. When you go on certain sites that use less secure transport layers, a shield will show up in the address bar before wher...

Windows, one of the world’s first major players alongside Apple, a heavy hitter with many advancements to computing. Some would argue that Bill Gates was the visionary and that Apple’s company may have built on what other people started, but that’s politics, it is based solely on opinion and has no place here. Microsoft originally debuted this Operating system in 1995(Codenamed Chicago), 3 years after starting development on it. Microsoft touted it to be a secure and powerful operating system, running on a measly 4MB of RAM, with a low end processor even for the time, but this was to help people transition from an even older and lighter Windows 3.1. Windows 95 was a monumental release, it rivaled OS/2 directly and even put them in a power struggle for market share. Microsoft Windows 95 was built upon DOS which was a power user desktop at the time, it goes back to before the internet was even a thing. During the reign of Windows 95, Internet explorer 1.0 was released, but i...