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Find out what’s behind a link with SwiftPreview for Chrome
If you hang out on a site where image links get posted all the time, say on Reddit or 4chan or any of the other sites where that is happening, you are probably spending more time clicking through than...
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Firefox 18: JavaScript JIT IonMonkey speeds up performance
When it comes to JavaScript performance, Google Chrome is the uncrowned king of the browser world. Google’s browser is dominating all other web browsers in every benchmark, be it in Google’s own Octane...
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Babylon Toolbar backup option appears broken
Every other free software program seems to include a third party toolbar offer in its installer nowadays. A developer that is really going overboard with ad offers is KC Softwares, maker of popular...
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One-Click access to all of Google Chrome’s privacy settings
There are numerous reasons to make sure that your web browser does not leak information to the Internet or the browser maker if that is not required for functionality that you use. Preferences that...
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Pearls Extension: permanent on-page find for Chrome
Most users make use of the browser’s on-page find search tool to find words or phrases on a page. That works well if you need to find something on a single page, and depending on the web browser that...
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Mozilla experimenting with vertical tabs
Firefox users can move browser tabs to a sidebar so that the tabs are displayed vertically with the help of extensions such as Tab Kit. This at first may be confusing to users of the browser who always...
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Google Chrome to get Do Not Track soon
An option to enable Do Not Track headers landed in today’s Chromium release which web users can make use of to notify servers, websites and scripts that they do not want to be tracked on the Internet....
View ArticleGoogle Apps: Internet Explorer 8 support ends soon
The Google Apps team just announced that support for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 web browser will end on November 15, 2012. This falls in line with last year’s announcement that the service will...
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Firefox 18: Mozilla plans WebRTC support
If you are spending most of the time on your computer using a web browser like Firefox, you may in the future spend even more time using the browser, and nothing but the browser. The idea behind Web...
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Fix the Chrome Shockwave Flash Plugin Problem
Many people use Google’s Chrome web browser for surfing the Internet because it’s fast, stable and generally reliable. However, quite a few users have a problem with Adobe’s Shockwave Flash plugin...
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Save Google Maps locations in Firefox
You need to be signed in to a Google account to save Google Maps location in your web browser of choice. What you can do then is to save locations to a map to access them at any point in time by first...
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New: Chrome notifications when extension updates require additional privileges
Google about two weeks ago added a new feature to the Chrome web browser that improves the extension updating process of the browser. Extension updates may require more rights or permissions than...
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Where to go when you need Google Chrome help
Where do you go when you run into issues in Google Chrome that you can’t fix on your own? Say you get Shockwave Flash has crashed messages all the time, or can’t install extensions from third party...
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New Internet Explorer 0-day Vulnerability (Sept. 2012)
Microsoft has published a security advisory today that is informing system administrators and end users about a new 0-day vulnerability affecting Internet Explorer 6, 7, 8 and 9 but not IE 10. The...
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Display or clear Chrome Sync data on the Internet
Chrome Sync is a feature of the Google Chrome browser that enables you to synchronize data with other Chrome installations. The feature requires a Google account and needs to be configured in Chrome...
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Acer Readying their next-gen Chromebook
Acer, along with Samsung, was the first hardware maker to produce a Chromebook, which is a laptop based on Google’s Chrome operating system. The Chrome OS was introduced back in December of 2010 when...
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Google Chrome hanging on startup
For the past two days I have been noticing a issue with Google’s Chrome browser. Whenever I would start the browser, it would hang for a couple of seconds before the tabs of the previous session were...
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Microsoft releases Fix-It for latest 0-day vulnerability.
A few days ago a new 0-day vulnerability was discovered that affects all versions of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer – but Internet Explorer 10 – on all recent versions of the Windows operating system....
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Opera 7.5 Mini for Android introduces new social Smart Page
If you are not using Google Chrome as your browser on your Android smartphone you may have at least looked at Opera’s offerings for the operating system. According to the statistics on Google Play, the...
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Automatically use HTML5 players on Amazon, YouTube and Vimeo in Chrome
While there are still many media sites on the Internet that only provide access to their contents via a Flash-based player, there are some that make their contents available both in a Flash version and...
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