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Watchlisted K-Lite Codec Pack Update October 4 - 10:07 AM ET
Watchlisted HWiNFO (Portable) September 5 - 10:00 AM ET
Reviewed Mozilla Thunderbird for Windows 102.4.1 April 5 - 12:45 PM ET Much improved, faster and less RAM hungry than previous versions. Read full review
Reviewed Mozilla Thunderbird (Beta) 104.0 Beta 2 March 14 - 3:19 PM ET v52.0 is the shot in the arm this app needed. So much faster than 45.x series. Running the latest SQLite 3.17.0 version to reduce CPU usage, compiled by VS2015U3, gobs of bug fixes and performance improvements. Nothing will help you if your Inbox... Read full review
Reviewed Mozilla Firefox for Windows 108.0 January 23 - 3:14 PM ET When they first started releasing 64-bit builds of Firefox, I jumped on the band wagon. It ran so much better on my 64-bit OS. I remember testing it against the 32-bit version with Peacekeeper and Speed Battle. Way back, I was amazed when my old... Read full review
Reviewed Mozilla Firefox for Windows 108.0 November 15 - 5:17 PM ET Why waste time with 32-bit anymore? 64-bit screams. The past couple versions bumped up performance on my old clunker and FF50 is no exception. 51 will be built against an updated VS2015U3. Testing the 51 beta shows even more of a performance boost... Read full review
Reviewed Mozilla Firefox for Windows 108.0 August 3 - 3:46 PM ET A marked improvement over 47. I am more excited about 49 which, in my benchmarks, shows a performance improvement of over 30% using Speed Battle. They're switching to VS2015u3 for the compiler so even more performance should be realized. Factor in... Read full review
Reviewed Mozilla Firefox for Windows 108.0 June 28 - 12:23 PM ET Still works well for me. Faster with each release. Electrolysis should speed things up considerably. Future engine update is going to scream too. Chrome who? Yeah, forget that spyware trash. No issues with Add-ons. I have 32-bit alongside 64-bit... Read full review
Reviewed Mozilla Firefox for Windows 108.0 November 3 - 11:46 AM ET For many, their countless 32-bit plugins won't be recognized save for Flash which has a native 64-bit version. Emphasis on the word native. For many, many years, Firefox has only been 32-bit so developers only made 32-bit NPAPI plugins. NPAPI is... Read full review
Reviewed Mozilla Firefox (Beta) 104.0 Beta 7 September 24 - 11:27 AM ET Running happily on my old dinosaur E6500. We'll likely see it go to 64-bit if they can figure out the 32-bit > 64-bit plugin stuff. We've only ever had a 32-bit Firefox and now that plugin and add-on devs have a shot at native 64-bit, they're... Read full review

Watchlisted K-Lite Codec Pack Update

October 4 - 10:07 AM ET

Watchlisted HWiNFO (Portable)

September 5 - 10:00 AM ET

Reviewed Mozilla Thunderbird for Windows 102.4.1

April 5 - 12:45 PM ET

Much improved, faster and less RAM hungry than previous versions. Read full review

Reviewed Mozilla Thunderbird (Beta) 104.0 Beta 2

March 14 - 3:19 PM ET

v52.0 is the shot in the arm this app needed. So much faster than 45.x series. Running the latest SQLite 3.17.0 version to reduce CPU usage, compiled by VS2015U3, gobs of bug fixes and performance improvements. Nothing will help you if your Inbox... Read full review

Reviewed Mozilla Firefox for Windows 108.0

January 23 - 3:14 PM ET

When they first started releasing 64-bit builds of Firefox, I jumped on the band wagon. It ran so much better on my 64-bit OS. I remember testing it against the 32-bit version with Peacekeeper and Speed Battle. Way back, I was amazed when my old... Read full review

Reviewed Mozilla Firefox for Windows 108.0

November 15 - 5:17 PM ET

Why waste time with 32-bit anymore? 64-bit screams. The past couple versions bumped up performance on my old clunker and FF50 is no exception. 51 will be built against an updated VS2015U3. Testing the 51 beta shows even more of a performance boost... Read full review

Reviewed Mozilla Firefox for Windows 108.0

August 3 - 3:46 PM ET

A marked improvement over 47. I am more excited about 49 which, in my benchmarks, shows a performance improvement of over 30% using Speed Battle. They're switching to VS2015u3 for the compiler so even more performance should be realized. Factor in... Read full review

Reviewed Mozilla Firefox for Windows 108.0

June 28 - 12:23 PM ET

Still works well for me. Faster with each release. Electrolysis should speed things up considerably. Future engine update is going to scream too. Chrome who? Yeah, forget that spyware trash. No issues with Add-ons. I have 32-bit alongside 64-bit... Read full review

Reviewed Mozilla Firefox for Windows 108.0

November 3 - 11:46 AM ET

For many, their countless 32-bit plugins won't be recognized save for Flash which has a native 64-bit version. Emphasis on the word native. For many, many years, Firefox has only been 32-bit so developers only made 32-bit NPAPI plugins. NPAPI is... Read full review

Reviewed Mozilla Firefox (Beta) 104.0 Beta 7

September 24 - 11:27 AM ET

Running happily on my old dinosaur E6500. We'll likely see it go to 64-bit if they can figure out the 32-bit > 64-bit plugin stuff. We've only ever had a 32-bit Firefox and now that plugin and add-on devs have a shot at native 64-bit, they're... Read full review

Reviewed Mozilla Firefox for Windows 90.0 July 12 - 1:12 PM ET Fast AF now under LLVM 12 and latest Rust. Plus, they finally figured out a good way to get proper crash reporting info out of Linux. With 91 being the next new ESR release, we'll see a bump to a stable LLVM 12.0.1 / Rust 1.53 combo so that should... Read full review
Reviewed Mozilla Firefox for Windows 86.0 February 23 - 1:27 PM ET A huge improvement in rendering performance over 85 and earlier versions, especially on my crappy Nexus 5X and old Latitude E6510. When they moved to LLVM 11.0.1, the overall performance boost was tangible. I had my doubts before but it looks like... Read full review
Reviewed TCP Optimizer 4.1.1 January 29 - 12:43 PM ET I've been using this app for 15 years or more. Those who do not know how to use it properly or who don't know which specific settings it tweaks do not benefit from it nor know what they are talking about. These types always complain that this tool... Read full review
Reviewed Mozilla Firefox for Windows 85.0 January 25 - 3:46 PM ET Yay, they finally killed Flash support. At least doing that reduiced the installer size. Yes, the browser feels snappier than 84 and 83. I can feel they've made strides in improving performance. Very snappy on my crappy old E6510. 86 is going to... Read full review
Reviewed Mozilla Firefox for Windows 84.0 December 18 - 1:23 PM ET Can still customize and hack the crap out of it. JavaScript performance on some artificial benchmarks is still down since switching to WARP. Mem use is still lower as well which is great for lower power machines / 32-bit crowd. Let's hope FF85 is... Read full review

Monkey_Punch

Watchlisted K-Lite Codec Pack Update

Watchlisted HWiNFO (Portable)

Reviewed Mozilla Thunderbird for Windows 102.4.1

Reviewed Mozilla Thunderbird (Beta) 104.0 Beta 2

Reviewed Mozilla Firefox for Windows 108.0

Reviewed Mozilla Firefox for Windows 108.0

Reviewed Mozilla Firefox for Windows 108.0

Reviewed Mozilla Firefox for Windows 108.0

Reviewed Mozilla Firefox for Windows 108.0

Reviewed Mozilla Firefox (Beta) 104.0 Beta 7

Reviewed Mozilla Firefox for Windows 90.0

Reviewed Mozilla Firefox for Windows 86.0

Reviewed TCP Optimizer 4.1.1

Reviewed Mozilla Firefox for Windows 85.0

Reviewed Mozilla Firefox for Windows 84.0

HWiNFO (Portable)

K-Lite Codec Pack Update

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HWiNFO (Portable) 7.10

K-Lite Codec Pack Update 18.3.0