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Microsoft has quietly moved a set of EdgeHTML-era web components onto Windows’ official deprecation list, marking the next step in a long shift away from platform-specific web integration toward Chromium-based runtimes and standards-based Progressive Web Apps. This change — which names Legacy...

Microsoft has quietly added a simple but consequential toggle in Microsoft Edge Dev that hands users explicit control over whether the browser’s Efficiency mode follows Windows 11’s system-level Energy Saver or stays enabled all the time—an integration that tightens the browser’s...

Microsoft’s family tools put a clear map in the hands of parents: carefully scoped browsing through Microsoft Edge Kids Mode, centrally managed limits and activity reports via Microsoft Family Safety, and optional hardware-level protections on modern Copilot+ PCs that reduce the chance of...

If your Windows 11 PC feels sluggish online, the problem is rarely magical — it’s usually fixable with a targeted combination of settings, driver updates, and simple network housekeeping. This guide pulls together the most reliable, up‑to‑date ways to speed up internet on Windows 11, explains...

Title: CVE-2025-53791 — What Windows admins need to know about the Microsoft Edge (Chromium) “security feature bypass” (as of September 5, 2025) Summary (short) CVE-2025-53791 is tracked by Microsoft as a “Security Feature Bypass” in Microsoft Edge (Chromium‑based). Microsoft’s advisory...

Google's Chromium team has fixed a medium-severity UI spoofing flaw—tracked as CVE-2025-9865—that existed in the browser's Toolbar implementation and could allow domain spoofing on Android when a user performed specific UI gestures on crafted pages. Background Chromium's September 2025 security...

Microsoft’s short, step-by-step support page for Microsoft Edge lays out the basics for adding, disabling, and removing extensions — but the topic matters far beyond a few clicks. Extensions shape privacy, performance, and security for millions of Windows users, and managing them properly is now...

Microsoft Edge Canary for Android now includes an experimental flag that enables background video playback — a simple toggle that, in early tests, lets YouTube audio continue when you switch apps, change tabs, or lock your phone, without requiring a YouTube Premium subscription. Background...

Microsoft’s push to fold OpenAI’s latest models into Windows and Office has hardened an uncomfortable choice for many users: do you pick the deeply integrated productivity assistant (Microsoft Copilot) that lives inside Word, Excel, Outlook and the Windows taskbar, or the more general-purpose...

Microsoft quietly—then not so quietly—took a major step to collapse an awkward transition period: Windows 10 machines running the aging Edge Legacy (EdgeHTML) browser were slated to have that app removed and replaced by the Chromium-based Microsoft Edge via a Windows cumulative update released...

The Indian government’s cybersecurity arm has issued a high-severity alert advising organisations and individuals to urgently address a batch of patched—but still dangerous—vulnerabilities across multiple Microsoft products, including Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based), Windows Server storage...

Microsoft’s recent user survey — surfaced by reporting from Windows Latest — suggests the company is actively exploring ways to make Microsoft Edge’s Copilot mode behave more like Perplexity’s Comet: not just a summarizer but an agentic browser that can act across tabs and automate multi-step...

Google’s Chrome team is quietly testing a one-click option in Chrome’s Windows settings that not only sets Chrome as the default browser but will also pin it to the Windows 11 taskbar — a small UI change with outsized product and regulatory implications for how browsers compete on Windows. The...

A local sports photo dispatch and weather note out of Bluefield, West Virginia, puts two everyday realities on the same page: a snapshot from a Jaguars–Saints football matchup, and a forecast that calls for a mostly calm morning turning into a wet afternoon, with a milder, showery night to...

Microsoft is quietly testing a Copilot‑inspired theme in Edge Canary that recolors the browser frame whenever Copilot Mode is active—another sign that the company wants AI‑powered browsing to feel like a distinct, branded experience rather than just a sidebar add‑on. Early builds expose a new...

A small local-news photo page showing a Jaguars–Saints football moment—paired with a Bluefield, West Virginia forecast calling for mid‑70s highs, rising rain chances through the afternoon, and a cooler, showery evening—captures a bigger reality of game day in 2025: fans jump between highlights...

Microsoft Edge 139.0.3405.111: What’s new, why it matters, and how to roll it out Release snapshot Channel and version: Stable, 139.0.3405.111 Release date: August 21, 2025 What it is: A security and servicing update with bug fixes, performance improvements, and one notable user-facing...

Microsoft's latest Stable release of Edge, version 139.0.3405.111, quietly brings a small but useful productivity tweak — Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat Summarization baked directly into the right-click context menu — alongside a roster of bug fixes and performance refinements that continue Edge’s...

Microsoft is quietly testing a new Microsoft Edge feature called Journeys that promises to turn scattered tabs, search history, and browsing activity into tidy, context-aware summaries — and early reports suggest it may be gated behind Microsoft’s Copilot Pro subscription. Background Microsoft’s...

Microsoft Edge’s Canary channel has begun surfacing experimental controls that explicitly treat passkeys as first‑class syncable credentials in the browser, adding new flags labeled Passkey roaming and Passkey roaming management and settings, and exposing a combined “Passwords and passkeys” sync...