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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 22nd, 2009
  • Comments: 2

Verify Firefox Bookmarks With Check Places

The amount of bookmarks increases with time. Most users add bookmarks regularly from time to time but do not delete them if they are not needed anymore or if the websites ceased to exist. One of the main reasons for this is that most web browsers do not provide the tools to check bookmarks effectively. [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 20th, 2009
  • Comments: 41

Bypass Megaupload Captcha And Wait Time

It is a cat and mouse game between file hosting websites like Rapidshare or Megaupload and unofficial tools that make it more comfortable to work with those websites. The latest mouse to enter the play field is Muautolink, a Firefox add-on that offers a comfortable solution for users who are downloading files from Megaupload.
Megaupload has [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

Hulu desktop for Linux

I’m sure by now everyone here knows about Hulu. If not, Hulu is a rather huge collection of television programs that can be viewed on line, for free, with few commercial interruptions. It’s brilliant. You can watch old reruns of What’s Happenin? or Mork and Mindy or Alf! Yes, Alf! But many of you may [...]

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Categories: Browsing, Desktop Manager, Entertainment, Linux, Music and Video, The Web, software

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

Mozilla Seamonkey 2.0 RC2

A little bit more than a week ago we previewed the first release candidate of the Mozilla Seamonkey 2.0 Internet suite. The program, which started of with code based on Netscape Communicator, combines not only a web browser but also an email client, IRC client, instant messenger, newsgroup client and HTML editor in the application. [...]

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Categories: Browsing, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 18th, 2009
  • Comments: 10

How To Stop Automatic Plugin Installations In Firefox

Yesterday’s incident (read Microsoft Silently Installing Windows Presentation Foundation Plugin For Firefox for pointers) brought up a question on how the plugin that caused the problems was installed it first place. Mozilla Firefox users with the Microsoft net. Framework 3.5 SP1 had the plugin installed without them accepting the installation of the plugin. This can [...]

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Categories: Browsing, Security, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 18th, 2009
  • Comments: 18

How To Uninstall Windows Presentation Foundation Plugin In Firefox

Firefox users with the latest Microsoft .net Framework 3.5 SP1 installed might have noticed a message yesterday on browser startup that was telling them that the Windows Presentation Foundation plugin and the Microsoft .net Framework Assistant add-on. Quite a few things puzzled many users about this: Most were pretty sure that they did not install [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 17th, 2009
  • Comments: 40

Microsoft Silently Installing Windows Presentation Foundation Plugin For Firefox

If you have recently opened your Firefox web browser you might have noticed a notification from the web browser that the Windows Presentation Foundation plugin was disabled to protect the user and the web browser. Many users who received the message were a bit puzzled as they did not install the plugin in first place. [...]

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Categories: Browsing, Microsoft, Security, firefox

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