Another month has passed and it is time to look back at the top stories that we have published here on Ghacks Technology News in November 2011.
A lot has happened in that month. Google has added pages to their social networking service Google+, called Google+ Pages, and Ghacks has its own. Feel free to add add the channel to your circle. Check out how to addprofile banners if you want to create a profile banner for your page on Google+ as well.
Google continued with the redesign of core properties such as Youtube and released a new Google header layout.
The company added a Verbatim Search option to Google Search which ensures that results are returned for the user query and not for Google’s interpretation thereof. Check out the userscript Gooverbatim to access Google Verbatim directly.
Not everything was golden in November in regards to Google. The company continued to retire products like Google Buzz, Google Wave and Gears, and started to display advertisement in the Chrome browser.
Mozilla has released the web browser Firefox 8 and the email client Thunderbird 8, and shortly thereafter an update to Firefox 8.0.1 to fix stability issues in the browser.
The company furthermore released the final version of Mozilla Profile Manager, and revealed intentions to speed up Firefox’s update process and memory efficiency.
Microsoft made available the fourth preview of Internet Explorer 10 to Windows 8 users. The company saw the browser’s market share drop to below 50%.
The Redmond company published the biannual Security Intelligence Report that showed a much higher Windows XP infection rate. A leaked (unconfirmed) roadmap revealed Windows 8 and windows 9 release dates
Adobe discontinued Flash for mobile devices and announced that Flash Player 11.2 would include an automatic update feature.
Software, Tutorials and Misc News
A new version of the Lightning Calendar add-on for Thunderbird was released. Look at this guide if you want to sync Google Calendar with Thunderbird Lightning.
Handy browser add-ons and userscripts have been released or updated in November 2011. Among them ScriptNo and Ghost Incognito for the Google Chrome browser. The first is a NoScript port to Google’s browser, the second offers to run specific websites automatically in the browser’s private browsing mode.
Firefox users can make use of Wallflower to block social media buttons on the web to speed up their web surfing and increase their privacy, and of Low Quality Flash to improve Flash media frames per second on low performance systems.
Sky History manager, TeamViewer 7, Game Downloader, BlueStacks, to run Android apps on Windows and the Last.FM, Aupeo & Vkontakte.ru Downloader were some of the popular new releases or updates for Windows in November.
We have published many tutorials and how to articles in November. This included instructions on how to clear the YouTube viewing history, how to remove What’s hot on Google+, how to restore Firefox bookmarks, turn off automatic add-on updates in Firefox and how to disable caps lock permanently.
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