Microsoft’s Internet Explorer is still one of the most popular – or shall we say widely used – web browsers for computers running the Windows operating systems. Two of the main reasons for this ongoing popularity is the inclusion of the web browser in the operating system and the tools and options offered to deploy [...]
Google Chrome Translate Plugin
Extension and plugin development for the Google Chrome web browser is finally taking off with the inclusion of the extension engine in the latest development versions of the Google browser. Chrome users had to start the browser with a command line parameter before if they wanted to enable extensions. It is now more comfortable to [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Oct 13th, 2009
- Comments: 31
Five ways to ease migration from Windows to Linux
With the ever-maturation of the Linux operating system there are more and more people considering a migration from their operating system of choice to the flagship of the open source community. For many this migration is a strange, but simple adventure. For others, however, the task is very daunting and one challenge after another. What [...]
Firefox: Show Mouse Over Urls In The Firefox Address Bar
Firefox users: What do you need the Firefox address bar for? Many will probably answer that they do not need it at all while some say that they use it to check out links by hovering the mouse over them on the website. Then there is also the group of users with other add-ons that [...]
Automatically Shutdown Computer After Firefox Downloads Finish
Auto Shutdown is an add-on for the Firefox 3 web browser that adds the option to automatically shutdown the computer after downloads finish. It is generally not advised to use the Firefox download manager to download large files as it does not play well with download problems like interrupted downloads. Third party download managers like [...]
Seamonkey 2.0 Release Candidate 1 Available
Firefox, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Opera and Safari. Those are the five most popular web browsers on the Internet. If you would ask users to mention two more most would probably have difficulties answering the questions while others might mention Flock and Seamonkey (and probably Netscape). Seamonkey is a Mozilla project. It combines not only [...]
Expect A Faster Firefox 3.6 Beta Next Week
The Mozilla Firefox developers are planning to release the first beta of the upcoming web browser Firefox 3.6 next week (to be precise on October 14 which is also the release date for the beta of Firefox 3.5.4). Not that many Firefox users will take notice of these two beta version releases but those that [...]
