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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 5th, 2009
  • Comments: 14

Backup Facebook Accounts

Many online services do not offer the means to backup data locally. Users who want to backup data are usually left with a tedious manual process (like downloading pictures or videos one by one). Data that cannot be downloaded right away is even harder to backup, think of contacts or private messages for example.
Archive Facebook [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 5th, 2009
  • Comments: 5

Google Chrome Fullscreen Address Bar

Google Chrome’s fullscreen mode is similar to that of other popular web browsers. It will limit the web browser controls and maximize the web browser window at the same time to display the website using as much screen estate as possible. The Google browser on the other hand removes the address bar completely from fullscreen [...]

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Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 3rd, 2009
  • Comments: 10

Mozilla Plugin Check

The Mozilla Firefox development team started to check the Flash plugin version of Firefox web browsers on the What’s New page after Firefox updates recently. This page would inform users if the Flash plugin version of their web browser was not the latest one which usually meant that their web browser was open for attacks [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 3rd, 2009
  • Comments: 3

Secure Internet Explorer With IEController

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer web browser is tightly integrated into the Windows operating system. This makes it an important software program even if the users of the system do not use it as their main web browser. The reason for this is that several other programs make use the Internet Explorer rendering engine. It is therefor [...]

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Categories: Internet Explorer, Security, Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 2nd, 2009
  • Comments: 7

Firefox Tab Progress Bar

Those users who are paying attention to the development of the Firefox web browser might have already seen the design mockups of future Firefox versions. While these mockups can be subject to change (and most likely will) they do demonstrate how the Firefox development team visualizes future versions of the Firefox browser. One of the [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 1st, 2009
  • Comments: 4

Automatically Clear The Firefox Search Bar

Firefox users have quite a few ways to perform searches without visiting the website of a search engine first. The most common option is the search bar that is displayed by default in one of the Firefox toolbars. Another option is to enter the search term in the Firefox address bar.
The former method is [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 1st, 2009
  • Comments: 2

LastPass For Google Chrome Arrives

There are two Firefox extensions that I do not want to live without: NoScript and LastPass. I’d think about switching to another web browser if that web browser would support these two extensions. This option has come a step closer with the announcement that LastPass has developed an extension for the Google Chrome web browser. [...]

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Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

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