One of the new features that Microsoft introduced in their Internet Explorer 9 browser was support for so called Tracking Protection Lists. These lists can be installed in the browser to add protection against tracking, and as a side effect many forms of advertisement. A list of common TPLs is available at the Internet Explorer [...]
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Don’t Want To Be Tracked Online? Use TrackerBlock
Most Internet users do not know that every step they make on the Internet is likely tracked by one or multiple companies. Tracking can be loosely divided into a first party and third party group. First party tracking is usually connected to the generation of visitor statistics, and less about the individual user. Third party [...]
Microsoft To Push Latest Internet Explorer Via Silent Updates Next Year
One of the core issues that Microsoft is facing in the browser-war is that many users of the Internet Explorer browser are not updating the web browser. If you look at the browser’s market share, you will notice that users are still working with Internet Explorer 6, 7 or 8 and not the latest version [...]
Google Funded Browser Security Comparison Says Chrome Most Secure
A recently conducted and published browser security comparison by Accuvant Labs comes to the conclusion that Google’s Chrome browser is more secure than Firefox and Internet Explorer. The researchers looked at specific browser security technologies and their implementation in web browsers. That’s an analytical what-if approach, and fundamentally different from analyzing a browser’s vulnerabilities in [...]
How To Add Search Engines To Internet Explorer
Internet Explorer gives you options to select a default search engine, also called search provider, during the initial setup on first start. You find a list of search providers that are currently installed in the browser under Manage Add-ons. Please note that this guide uses Internet Explorer 9 to walk you through the steps of [...]
Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview 4 Available
The last test version of Internet Explorer 10 shipped exclusively with the Windows 8 Developer Preview. The platform preview that shipped with the Windows 8 system was actually the third preview version that Microsoft released publicly (see Microsoft Pushes Out Second Internet Explorer 10 Preview for previous coverage). Microsoft today made available the fourth platform [...]
Google Enables Forward Secrecy For HTTPS Services
Last year Google started to push the HTTPS protocol on many of their services which basically meant that users always connected to the https version of the site regardless of their own preference. Before that, https was only an option in a service’s settings. Gmail users for instance were able to enable https for their [...]
Internet Explorer Expired Cookies Cleaner
Cookies, those small data files that can do good (saving preferences or session information) or bad (tracking), have all an expiration date. The expiration date is set by the webmaster of each visited website and can range from seconds or minutes to years. Cookies will expire eventually and when they do they cannot be used [...]
Spellchecking in Internet Explorer 10, Test It Now
You may have heard that Microsoft plans to integrate a spell checking module into their upcoming web browser Internet Explorer 10. Up until now, Internet Explorer users had to install third party software like SpeckIE (Spell Check IE) to have spell checking functionality at their disposal in the Internet browser. Users who are interested in [...]
Show Anchors, In-Page Linking
Sometimes when you are reading a page full of contents you may come upon a passage or element that you want to bookmark for later use or sharing with other users. While you could send the page url to someone or bookmark it, you would need to explain or remember where that element or content [...]
MetroIE, Run Internet Explorer 10 Metro Under Windows 7
It is only a matter of time until software developers find ways to bring features of new or upcoming Microsoft Windows operating systems to previous versions of said systems. One of the first features to get ported to Windows 7 is the new Metro version of Internet Explorer 10 that Microsoft will ship with the [...]
Uninstall Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 Completely
Windows users who have installed Internet Explorer 9 recently on one of the supported versions of Windows, may at one point decide to uninstall Internet Explorer 9 again. A common reason for uninstalling the browser at a later time is if it is acting up and troubleshooting the issue did not resolve it. Most Windows [...]
Want To Open A Website In Another Browser? Just Drag And Drop It
This is one of the things that makes you go uh if you read about it or find out about it on your own. I know many computer users who run multiple web browsers on the same PC. On my PC I have Chrome, Firefox, Opera and Internet Explorer installed. And while that may be [...]
Change Default Browser, Quickly Switch The Default System Browser
One web browser is always the default system browser on a computer system. That’s the program that is launched when you click on links for example. The majority of computer users on Windows come into contact with multiple browsers. They got Microsoft’s Internet Explorer installed by default on the system and download and install at [...]
View Source Code with a Text Editor in Internet Explorer
Most users are already familiar with text editors for viewing source code and may have one of choice that they like to use. Many other users are still using the default choice in Internet Explorer 8 or 9. If you are dissatisfied with the default choice, this article will demonstrate how to access the text [...]
Windows 8 And Internet Explorer 10
Microsoft has integrated Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview 3 with the recently released version of Windows 8. If you look close, you will find two different versions or styles of Internet Explorer in the operating system. First the standard desktop browser and then the Metro UI browser. According to Microsoft, they both use the same [...]
VTExplorer, Virus Total Internet Explorer Add-on
One of the handy security related services on today’s Internet is Virus Total. The online can be used by people from all over the world to analyze suspicious websites or files. Usage could not really a lot easier than it is currently. Just browse for a file on your computer and click the send file [...]
Google Related For Chrome Extension
Google Related is a brand new extension by Google for its Chrome web browser. The extension acts as a browsing assistant displaying related news and contents in a small bar at the bottom. This process itself is automatic. The related information that are displayed on the toolbar at the bottom of the browser screen are [...]
Good news, IE users aren’t stupid after all
Last week we reported, somewhat sceptically I’m happy to say, about a piece of research by a company called AptiQuant Psychometric Consulting, that said that people who used Internet Explorer had lower IQs than people who used other browsers. The research “measuring the effects of cognitive ability on the choice of web browser” was apparently [...]
Microsoft Updates Core System Fonts To Fix Blurred Fonts Issues In Windows
Internet Explorer and Firefox users have criticized the font rendering under recent versions of Windows in the past. Some Firefox users for instance began to notice a difference after the Firefox 4 installation or upgrade. Internet Explorer users after the Internet Explorer 9 installation. Add-ons, extensions and tweaks were discovered that resolved the issues on [...]