Software

Firefox 56 is a minor update with various improvements, among those a new screenshot utility that's been lurking in betas for some time now. This latest version also paves the way Firefox 57 Quantum which will be this year's big release. You can try it in the beta channel.

Opera 45 improved video on Windows and now the latest Opera Developer brings similar optimizations to macOS. Smoother playback, snappier seeking, faster load times, specially on high-resolution videos. If betas are not your thing, Opera 48 final was just also released.

This week CCleaner was in the middle of a big scandal. And now the Avast-owned company looks to win back the trust of the world with new app versions which they promise are clean and signed with new digital signatures. CCleaner is available in Standard, Slim and Portable packages.

Google has released a new version of Photos with performance improvements and a new feature that reduces data usage. Once you watch a video it will be cached for faster replay without using additional data. Google Photos is also available for Windows and macOS.

Old school coders liked to say Notepad was the best text editor you could use. But truth is, lean text editors with very powerful features are superior and just as accessible and speedy. Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor for code or anything you want it to be. This latest 3.0 release has been a long time coming, and it's free to try for an indefinite amount of time.