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Microsoft has decided to disable a 17-year-old video codec in older versions of Windows rather than patch multiple vulnerabilities, according to the company's security team.

Want to find out about your own detailed browsing behavior in Firefox? Such as, which are your most visited sites and the most visited pages within those sites? Well, install the about:me Firefox add-on, and you can get a lot of insight into your own browsing patterns in Firefox.

You are running Windows 7 and you have already looked at some of our previous posts on Windows 7 such as here and here. Now you want to know how to install and run Windows XP Mode on your Windows 7 machine. Windows 7 XP Mode is really a virtual machine running Windows XP that lets you run applications that do not run on Windows 7.

Google has just announced that it has become the default location provider service in Firefox , which means beginning in the latest Firefox Beta (available here) users will be able to update their location from their web browser without having to install an extra plugins or programs through Google. This is big.

Would you like to use Ubuntu Linux programs, but prefer the convenience of Windows 7? With VMware Player, you can install a full copy of Ubuntu and integrate it with your Windows 7 computer for free.VMware Player makes it easy to install Ubuntu Linux as a virtual machine in only 5 clicks. It then offers easy access to Ubuntu programs straight from your desktop with Unity mode. Here’s how you can set this up on your computer.

Mozilla has disabled Microsoft’s .NET Framework Assistant add-on and Windows Presentation Foundation plug-in for Firefox to stop a vulnerability that allows an attacker to take over Windows machines.