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Adblock Plus for Opera released
The team responsible for the popular Adblock Plus extension for Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox has released a first version of the official program for the Opera web browser. This version replaces...
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Get your Google homepage background image back
Google announced some time ago that it would disable a feature on its homepage that enabled users to select a custom homepage background image for the site. The feature, known as Classic Plus, gave...
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How to remove http://www.searchnu.com/406 from your browser
Some of the free software programs that you install on your computer include third party advertisement offers that you may inadvertently install if you are not careful. When it comes to searchnu.com,...
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Search Google Drive from Chrome’s address bar
If you are a Google Drive user by heart, you are probably already using all the options available to you to synchronize data with your desktop and mobile devices. That does not make searching the...
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Tabs Outliner: the ultimate Chrome tab management extension?
Tabs are an integral part of all modern web browsers. They enable you to open multiple web pages at the same time in the same browser window. While tabs have been there for years, tab management has...
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Mozilla Firefox 17.0 Stable out later today
Mozilla is currently preparing the release of Firefox 17.0 stable which will be later out today if no last minute issues emerge that delay the roll out of the update to all users of the stable version...
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Opera 12.11 security and stability upgrade
I experienced lots of crashes after the upgrade from Opera 12.02 to 12.10 which I could not pinpoint to a particular feature or website. While I can’t – yet – say that today’s Opera 12.11 release...
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Watch web videos in their own window using PopVideo for Firefox
When you watch web videos on sites like YouTube, Vimeo or Gametrailers you will notice that there is a lot going on in terms of noise that is not directly related to the video that you are watching....
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Add-ons Manager won’t open in Firefox 17? Here is the fix
Firefox 17.0 has been released yesterday by Mozilla and Firefox users have been updating their browsers ever since. Some may have noticed an assortment of odd problems in the browser after the update,...
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Mozilla: no more Windows 64-bit builds of Firefox
Where is the 64-bit version of the Firefox web browser for the Windows operating system? That’s a question that I have been asking myself for the past couple of years, probably ever since I updated to...
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How to install custom userstyles in Opera
So called userstyles can be used to change the look and feel of websites locally. Basic examples are to change the text color or size, the background color or the position of elements on a website....
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Firefox not saving cookie exceptions anymore
The Firefox web browser ships with options to blacklist or whitelist domains to either block cookies a domain tries to save on the system or to allow cookies so that they can be saved to the system....
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Mozilla adds Java 7 Update 7 to blocklist
We all know that it is important to keep installed browser plugins up to date to protect the browser and underlying system from attacks that exploit potential vulnerabilities. Mozilla’s plugin check...
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Display background information about people of interest in Firefox
Summer is a new add-on for the Firefox web browser that displays background information about people of interest in the browser. It is a direct port of the Google Chrome extension of the same name....
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Firefox 17.0.1 to fix blurry font issue in the browser
Some users of the Firefox web browser have reported issues with blurry fonts after updating it to the latest release version Firefox 17.0. The issue seems to only affect users running the Windows...
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Cloud Save: save web files directly in the cloud
Back when I was working for a large financial company in Germany I sometimes had time to browse the Internet. While Internet access was restricted heavily due to security policies, some sites were not...
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Firefox to get Plugin Hang protection
I’m running the Firefox web browser without plugins, but I know many Internet users who are running ten or even more plugins at all times in the browser. Activities like watching videos on YouTube...
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Firefox: per-window private browsing test builds available
Firefox’s current private browsing implementation features an all or nothing approach. The web browser is either in private browsing mode, which means all windows and tabs, or it is not, which again...
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Firefox 19 protects you from search engine changes, sort of
Sometimes when you install software on a Windows system you may end up with more than you have bargained for. I’m talking about toolbar installations and the changes they make to your operating system...
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Fix Chrome error download was not a CRX
When I tried to install a Google Chrome extension in the latest dev version of the web browser I was notified that an error had occured. The message below that stated that the download was not a CRX....
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