Recent Firefox versions have an option to display thumbnails for all open tabs when the user clicks on a button in the Firefox tabbar. A comparable option is not available in the Google Chrome web browser by default but the Chrome extension Tabs Plus changes that. Tabs Plus adds a variety of features to the [...]
Ubuntu Music Store (coming soon!)
If you have been playing around much with the Alpha releases of Ubuntu Lucid Lynx you may have noticed something special that was announced some time ago is actually coming to fruition. Announced soon after the release of 9.10, the Ubuntu Music Store is a new addition to the Ubuntu Linux desktop and promises to [...]
Mozilla Patches Critical Security Vulnerability In Firefox 3.6
A critical security vulnerability in the Firefox web browser has been patched by the Mozilla developers and will be made available on March 30 with the release of Firefox 3.6.2. The vulnerability, which received a critical rating from the Mozilla developers and third parties like Secunia could result in remote code execution. The security vulnerability [...]
Firefox 3.7 Alpha 3 Released
A Mozilla developer preview of Gecko 1.9.3 has been released. The release comes in the form of a nightly build of Firefox 3.7 alpha 3. The new build introduces several new features including an experimental Direct 2D for the Windows builds of Firefox, JavaScript api improvements, stability and security improvements as well as additional fixes [...]
Free Web Proxy Checker
If you work with anonymous web proxies you will encounter proxies that are not working at that time. That is a big problem if a huge amount of proxies are needed on a regular basis. It is possible to check them all manually which would however take a long time. Proxy Checkers on the other [...]
How To Disable Web Browser Windows 7 Taskbar Previews
The Google Chrome web browser was the last of the popular web browsers to get Windows 7 taskbar previews, a feature that displays open tabs of the web browser in the Windows 7 Taskbar. It is from there possible to directly access the open tabs. Not all Internet users that use Windows 7 on the [...]
Google Chrome To Allow Extensions In Incognito Mode
The Google browser is getting many feature updates in the last few days. We already reviewed the new autofill and taskbar thumbnail feature that has been added to the latest developer releases of the Google Chrome browser. The latest versions of Chromium, the Open Source core of Google Chrome, outline another interesting feature that will [...]
Windows 7 Patch Removes Hardware Virtualization Requirement Of Windows XP Mode
Not many users have problems running software on Windows 7 as the operating system seems to be compatible with most available programs. Microsoft has nevertheless added the so called Windows XP Mode to the operating system that provides access to a virtual Windows XP system that integrates smoothly into the Windows 7 operating system. The [...]
Tweak your Ubuntu with Ubuntu Tweak
In a recent article (“Greenie Linux: A distribution for all users“) I mentioned a tool (used in Greenie Linux) called Ubuntu Tweak. This tool allows the user to make certain tweaks to your Ubuntu desktop that aren’t readily available in the default Ubuntu desktop. This tool allows you to make both desktop and system configurations [...]