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This article will help you fix the most common problems to boost the performance of your computer, your Internet connection and your web browser.

Personal data has become a valuable asset and in many cases the users don’t know the basic security concepts in social networks where they share it ignoring the consequences.

Once the information is publicly available, it will stay in Internet for many years generating many problems.

The new version of BriskBard is even safer against phishing threats and it also brings many improvements and optimizations in the web browser, the email client and the newsgroup reader.

These are the new features in the 1.4.0 version :

If you think there are only 3 or 4 search engines in Internet you'll be surprised at how many different Google alternatives are available.

Even if you discard specialized search engines, web directories and price comparison websites you'll easily end up with hundreds of websites in the list. For this article I've only included the general purpose search engines. 

If you look for some files and you know they are located inside an anonymous FTP server, these FTP search engines will help you find it.

Despite criticism and some premature obituaries, FTP is far from dead. It's true that the golden days of FTP are long gone but it's still used by millions of sites. 

There are many situations when you may need to create a new email account and this list will help you decide which provider to choose. In this article you will find many alternative providers that offer a secure, reliable and fast email service.

BriskBard 1.3.2 has been released with an important bug fix that affected the stability of BriskBard in a few websites using Flash.

This version also hides the mouse cursor automatically in the media player when you activate the full screen mode.

For more information go to https://www.briskbard.com

Since I wrote the last blog entry these are the changes in CEF4Delphi :

• Support for Delphi 7 thanks to Raelb.
• New TCEFApplication.AddCustomCommandLine procedure to add multiple switches with or without values thanks to rubinho241180.
• TCEFApplication.CheckCEFLibrary enhancements and fixes. It now checks all the CEF3 files even if you use custom file paths. 
• Added support for CEF 3.2924.1569.g067d915. This version of CEF 3 fixes a very nasty bug if you use Adobe Flash Player. 

I just uploaded a new version of CEF4Delphi with the following changes :

As BriskBard was growing, the need for a new rendering engine was evident. Trident was only being updated if you had IE 11 installed in Windows and Microsoft was focusing on a different web browser.