For a long time I’ve had a love-hate relationship with Chrome. I love how it opens pages more quickly than any other browser I’ve used but I hate all the resources that it gobbles up to make that performance happen. I like Microsoft’s Edge browser but there’s still something missing for me there that I can’t quite put my finger on.

However, for the past couple of days I’ve been playing around with the new Vivaldi browser and it looks like I may have finally found the browser that will allow me to comfortably ditch Chrome.

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Stop us if you’ve heard this one before… dozens of times. A very serious security flaw has been discovered in Adobe Flash and millions of users are impacted. The zero-day vulnerability allows hackers to exploit the flaw and crash a user’s system, or even take control of the system and steal private data.

It’s one of the most serious types of flaws out there and in this case the vulnerability is being actively exploited by hackers. In other words, this isn’t some tiny bug discovered by researchers and handled privately with Adobe behind closed doors. Hackers are using the security hole to attack users as you read this — and now Adobe has released an update to patch the flaw.

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Happy Friday, bargain hunters! It’s been a great week of deals so far and we’re finishing things off on a high note with 13 solid daily deals. A few of them are limited-time Lightning deals though — like this 128GB microSDXC card with adapter for just $28 — so you had better hurry if you want to snag any of them.

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Netflix subscribers, we have good news and bad new for you this morning. The bad news is that millions of you are about to start paying more each month for Netflix and you probably have no idea. Seriously, your monthly subscription fee is about to increase and you can find out more right here. But like we said, there’s also good news: We’re going to help you get even more bang for your buck than you already do using five great tools and hacks for Netflix.

That price hike is still going to sting, but hopefully these great Netflix enhancements will make it sting a little less.

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The Tesla Model X’s single most ridiculous feature is something called “bioweapon defense mode” that turns on the car’s air filter and purportedly delivers interior air quality on par with a hospital room. Model X driver Bjørn Nyland was recently driving his car through Arizona when he caught a whiff of the foul stench of manure. This gave him the perfect opportunity to put bioweapon defense mode to the test, and he was surprised to learn that the feature worked exactly as advertised.

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There’s no reason to beat around the bush at this point… Jon Snow is dead. Dead. Forget all the fan theories you’ve read that suggest how Snow might have survived at the end of season 5 of HBO’s smash hit series Game of Thrones, because they’re all wrong. As much as we’d love it if Snow was somehow still alive, it just wasn’t meant to be.

How do we know? HBO has now confirmed in no uncertain terms that Snow has indeed perished. We know what you’re thinking — maybe they read it wrong. Maybe HBO left room for interpretation. Maybe he’s still alive! Well, here’s the exact quote from HBO: “Jon Snow is dead.”

Ouch.

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Just a few weeks ago, Apple released an iPhone 6s ad that quickly went viral. Starring the Cookie Monster muppet from Sesame Street, the ad focused on the hands-free “Hey Siri” feature in the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus. Titled Timer, the commercial is about baking cookies – practically a given since the Cookie Monster is in it – and Apple has now released a hilarious making-of video that contains plenty of bloopers.

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You have an iPhone. You have an iPad. Both of them have battery life that isn’t the greatest, so they both need to be charged pretty often. Why should you have to only charge one at a time or bother with multiple tangled cables? Well, the BGR Deals team is here to tell you that there’s a better way, and we’ve got just the thing to pull double duty with both of your iDevices.

The Belkin PowerHouse Dual Lightning Charging Dock is now available on Amazon for $52 with free express shipping.

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Those of us who subscribed to Netflix before it was cool have for the last several months have enjoyed a grandfathered subscription price of $7.99 per month. However, starting next month our prices will increase to $9.99 per month to match the price increase Netflix implemented for new subscribers starting last year. Right now, an estimated 37% of Netflix’s subscriber base — or around 17 million customers — is still on the grandfathered rate, so that means millions of people are going to be paying more for the service starting in May.

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The Galaxy S7 is a hit for Samsung, and the company might launch a new flagship sooner than anticipated if some reports are to be believed. The Galaxy Note 6 might be unveiled early this summer, months ahead of its expected September launch. And the first rumors detailing some of its specs are already here.

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