For some bizarre reason, downloading certain Steam games on macOS to an external disk can hang UVFSService with 100% CPU and cause system instability when any app tries to interact with the same external disk. When the hang happens, the only way to fix the issue is to kill UVFSService
I was building a new webapp and realize that somehow that there is a _dd_s cookie being injected. Then I realize that this cookie is still injected on blank websites such as https://example.com and feared that it might be Chrome extension malware... plus the cookie isn'
macOS
Host machine is macOS 11.4 and the latest and tested software versions as of the time of writing: * Parallels Desktop version 16.5.0 (49183) * VMware Fusion version 12.1.2 (17964953) Parallels and VMware don't know how to handle the new Install macOS 12 Beta.app,
macOS
Safari 14 now supports WebExtensions, in addition to Safari App Extensions and after killing off Legacy Safari Extensions (.safariextz) The official guides provided by Apple (a bit buried): https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safariservices/safari_web_extensions A couple of notes: * Safari's WebExtensions implementation isn't feature-parity
macOS
The developer beta of macOS Big Sur is now available for download and experimentation. Installing Mac betas inside a virtual machine doesn't provide the full experience, but it's still useful to get a first look and try out app compatibility. Host machine is macOS 10.15.
For Windows games, the most straightforward approach is to check the properties of the game EXE, however, this doesn't give the actual Unity build version. For macOS games, the Unity build version may appear on the app's info, but this can be customized by the developer
macOS
Note: This is no longer applicable starting from macOS Big Sur as softwareupdate --ignore has been removed :( Starting from macOS Mojave, Apple moved the system update functionality from the App Store to the Settings app, but they ‘forgot’ to implement the Hide Update function that existed on the previous version.
Google Chrome
Dark mode is currently being developed on Chrome for Mac, but if you want to try out the first unfinished bits, here's how to do it: 1. Quit Chrome 2. Open Terminal 3. Copy and paste open -a "Google Chrome.app" --args "--force-dark-mode" and
Microsoft Office
There are a lot of confusion [1] [2] [3] on what is going on exactly with Office 2019's major version number being 17. The internal version number for Office 2016 is 16, so most will guess the version number for Office 2019 would be 17, right? Nope. The
Facebook Security
Facebook developed a Save to Facebook extension for Chrome that lets users easily add webpages to their Facebook Saved list (just like Pocket) anywhere on the web. The extension loads a JavaScript file at https://www.facebook.com/saved/extension/rsrc/js/ in order to run the extension itself. This
React.js
I was curious to find out what my first production usage of React to end users so I checked out the history of one particular project that I developed on and found out that my first React version was v0.4.1 🙀 The first React version was v0.3.0
Maxthon
FWIW, Maxthon does not stay up-to-date with the latest Chromium engine releases and lag behind recent web technology developments. These versions only apply to the Windows edition. Mac, iOS and Android editions most likely have completely separate engine versions. * Maxthon 4.0.0.2000 - 4.0.5.3000: Chrome
Browsers
Get download links for old versions of Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera and Safari
Browsers
Opera switched from their own Presto engine on Opera 12 to using the Chromium/Blink engine for Opera 15+. The easy way to convert the Opera version to the Chromium engine version is to just add/subtract 13. Using this technique, you can quickly figure out that Opera 15 uses