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Google Chrome OS: First looks, first impressions

The very early stages of the REAL Google Chrome operating system has been released (and done so fully open sourced). It’s not an operating system you can (and should) be putting on a stand alone machine. Actually what has been released are VirtualBox and VMware images that can be booted in their respective virtual machines.
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Categories: Advice, Browsing, Google Chrome, Open Source, Operating Systems

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Nov 19th, 2009
  • Comments: 3

Remove Colors And Backgrounds With No Color For Firefox

Internet users sometimes visit websites that make excessive use of colors and background images so that the actual contents of the website are hard to read. There are a few options on how to turn those unreadable pages into readable ones including bookmarklets, Greasemonkey scripts, web proxies and add-ons. One of the latest add-ons to [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Nov 19th, 2009
  • Comments: 6

Microsoft Showcases Early Internet Explorer 9 Build

Most Internet users agree that Microsoft made good progress with Internet Explorer 8 compared to previous releases of the web browser. Internet Explorer 8 introduced some interesting new features, increased the performance of the web browser by a lot compared to previous versions and introduced some new security concepts that made the web browsing experience [...]

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Categories: Browsing, Internet Explorer

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Nov 19th, 2009
  • Comments: 2

Firefox Locks Components Directory For Third Parties

Companies basically have three options if they want their software programs to be compatible with Firefox: They can create a Firefox add-on, a plugin, or integrate the program in the components directory directly. The last option caused lots of concern for the Mozilla developers who linked these method to instabilities and crashes in the web [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Nov 18th, 2009
  • Comments: 3

Mozilla Firefox 3.6 Beta 3

The Mozilla Firefox developers have released a third beta version of Firefox 3.6 just a week after releasing the last beta version of the web browser. This beta version was not listed in the Firefox roadmap and could come as a surprise to many Firefox users who expected that a first release candidate would be [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Nov 17th, 2009
  • Comments: 11

Automatically Reload Websites With Auto F5

It happens sometimes that you are on a website waiting for something to happen, for example a download that should be available on that day or a registration form for a new web service. And then there are times where you want to reload a page because the contents change all the time. This can [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Nov 13th, 2009
  • Comments: None

Opera 10.10 RC

The Opera developers have released the first – and likely – final release candidate for the upcoming Opera 10.10 web browser. The download of the web browser is available for all supported operating system (Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac and Linux) and can be used to either upgrade an existing version of Opera or to install [...]

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Categories: Browsing, opera

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