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  1. Firefox 143 Update: Pin Windows web apps, Copilot sidebar, and privacy upgrades

    Mozilla’s latest stable cycle, Firefox 143.0, arrives as a pragmatic, platform-focused update that finally restores a long-requested desktop convenience—pinning web sites as taskbar apps on Windows—while folding Microsoft Copilot into Firefox’s AI sidebar, expanding fingerprinting protections...
  2. Firefox 143 lands: Windows web apps, Copilot, privacy tweaks and more

    Mozilla’s Firefox 143 landed as a significant, pragmatic update: it finally brings a long‑promised form of desktop web‑app support to Windows, folds Microsoft Copilot into the browser’s AI sidebar, tightens several privacy and accessibility gaps, and introduces a clutch of media and UX...
  3. Firefox 143 Brings Windows Taskbar Web Apps and Copilot Sidebar Enhancements

    Firefox’s latest release delivers the kind of practical Windows-focused refinements power users have been asking for — and a high-profile AI tie‑in that will keep privacy wonks and enterprise admins debating for weeks. Background / Overview Mozilla’s rapid-release cadence means the browser you...
  4. Firefox 143 Review: AI Sidebar with Copilot, Pinned Apps, and Privacy Wins

    Mozilla’s latest stable build, Firefox 143, lands as a pragmatic — and at times polarizing — update: it brings a sidebar shortcut to Microsoft Copilot and the wider AI-chat ecosystem while doubling down on user-facing privacy controls, accessibility fixes, and platform-specific media and web-app...
  5. Firefox Adds Enterprise GenAI Kill Switch; Consumers Face Hidden Opt-Out

    Mozilla has added a way to turn off its new AI features — but only for IT administrators, not ordinary users, leaving privacy‑minded consumers stuck with an awkward manual workaround or buried about:config toggles to fully opt out. Background Firefox has been steadily adding on‑device and...
  6. Windows Weekly: Patch Tuesday, 25H2, AI Scale, and RTO Decisions

    Paul Thurrott’s Windows Weekly episode continues the show’s long-running mix of practical Windows tips, industry gossip, and ecosystem-level analysis — this week touching off from Patch Tuesday and a surprise Windows 11 ISO release, then threading through Microsoft’s return‑to‑office policy...
  7. Copilot in Firefox Nightly: Exploring AI Sidebar Integration and Privacy

    Firefox Nightly users can now summon Microsoft Copilot from the browser sidebar — an optional, opt‑in hook that exposes Copilot’s chat, voice and summarization capabilities inside Firefox while reopening a broader debate about privacy, platform boundaries, and the creeping normalization of...
  8. Firefox Nightly Expands AI with Copilot in Sidebar and New Tab Widgets

    Firefox Nightly has quietly added Microsoft Copilot to its sidebar and rolled out early New Tab page widgets — a clear sign that Mozilla is expanding both its AI integrations and its on-page productivity ambitions, all inside the experimental Nightly channel where features are prototyped before...
  9. Mozilla Extends Firefox ESR 115 Support to March 2026 for Legacy Windows and macOS

    Mozilla’s decision to keep Firefox 115 ESR alive for older machines is the latest twist in a multi-stage, pragmatic approach to supporting users who remain on end-of-life operating systems — the Extended Support Release for Firefox 115 will now be maintained for Windows 7, Windows 8/8.1 and...
  10. Firefox Nightly Adds Copilot AI Sidebar with Quick, Think Deeper, Smart Modes

    Mozilla has quietly added Microsoft Copilot to Firefox Nightly’s built‑in AI sidebar, bringing the same Quick Response, Think Deeper and a new “Smart (GPT‑5)” mode that Microsoft uses in Edge — a move that accelerates browser-level AI competition but raises immediate questions about privacy...
  11. Windows Disk Cleanup Guide: Safe, Step-by-Step Space Reclaim

    The moment your Windows PC starts whispering “Low disk space,” it isn’t always because you’ve hoarded videos or forgotten to empty the Recycle Bin—sometimes the culprits are ordinary system and application folders that quietly balloon over time. A recent practical roundup identified the usual...
  12. Firefox fixes Windows virtual desktop bug: links stay on current desktop

    Mozilla appears to have closed a workflow gap that’s annoyed Windows users for years: external links opening in a Firefox window on a different virtual desktop, pulling you out of your current workspace. The fix—reported as part of the recent rapid-release updates—changes the browser’s launch...
  13. August 2025 Windows Update Breaks MSI Self-Repair: UAC 1730 in Lab Deployments

    Microsoft’s August 2025 cumulative rollups have introduced a surprising compatibility regression: launching some MSI‑based applications — most notably AutoCAD family products, Firefox variants, and certain SAP installers — can now surface a User Account Control (UAC) elevation prompt at first...
  14. Top Open-Source Windows Toolkit: 9 Apps for Privacy, Productivity, Mastery

    Windows ships with a competent baseline of tools, but for users who prefer transparency, control, and long-term maintainability, the open-source alternatives on this How‑To Geek roster are worth considering — this article examines the nine apps the original author installs on every fresh Windows...
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    Is Windows preventing 3 browsers from streaming msnbc I can view in apple device

    My access to MSNBC is good and does work. I have 3 browsers, FF, Edge, & Chrome and all 3 fail to receive the stream, the circle keeps circling. I can get the stream on my iphone using my WIFI, so I'm ruling out my WIFI provider.
  16. Firefox Nightly Tests Prompt for Private Browsing Downloads

    Mozilla is changing how Private Browsing handles downloaded files: instead of silently removing certain files when a private window closes, Firefox Nightly is now prompting users and offering a new setting to keep or delete downloads, a behavior expected to land in Firefox 143 if the experiment...
  17. Firefox Nightly on Windows 10: API Set DLL Missing on Pre-1803 Systems

    Mozilla's Nightly build of Firefox has tripped over an old Windows 10 quirk: users running pre‑1803 builds (for example, 1703, 1709 or some Enterprise LTSB/LTSC variants) reported an immediate failure to launch Firefox 143 Nightly with an error complaining that api-ms-win-core-console-11-2-0.dll...
  18. Firefox Nightly adds native Google Lens search from image context menu

    Mozilla’s quiet move to add a native “Search Image with Google Lens” entry in Firefox’s context menu closes a long-standing usability gap with Chrome and Edge while reopening familiar privacy and platform questions for Windows users and IT administrators alike. The change—visible today in...
  19. Edge and WebView2 Updates on Windows 10 Through Oct 2028: PWAs and Copilot

    Microsoft has confirmed that Microsoft Edge and the Microsoft WebView2 Runtime will continue to receive updates on Windows 10 (22H2) through at least October 2028, ensuring that Progressive Web Apps (PWAs), WebView-dependent applications, and Edge-powered experiences like Copilot-related...
  20. Firefox 141: On-Device AI Tab Grouping - Privacy Wins, CPU Costs

    Mozilla’s latest stable release shipped an ambitious privacy-first AI feature — on-device tab grouping — but early adopters say the convenience comes with an unwelcome cost: runaway CPU use, fan noise, and faster battery drain on laptops. What began as small community reports has grown into a...