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 [...]
Web Browser Backup Software FavBackup Updated
FavBackup allowed Windows users to backup web browser specific settings. The program was easy to use and supported most major web browsers. Some things were not perfect like missing support for custom or multiple user profiles, portable browser support or the disk and computer memory usage during backup jobs. The developer of FavBackup has recently [...]
Download Panel Displays In Depth Information About Firefox Downloads
The download manager of the Firefox web browser is not displaying many information by default. Only the name and size of the file, the time and the main domain it was downloaded from are displayed in the Downloads window. A right-click offers the possibility to open the folder the file was downloaded to, to load [...]
Google Starts Educating The Masses About Web Browsers
You might remember the survey that Google conducted in New York a while back asking random people passing by what a web browser is. It was not that surprising, at least for tech savvy users who have to carefully word their explanations whenever they to tech support, that most who were asked did not know [...]
Perform Plain Google Searches Without Video, Image And News Results
If you perform a Google search nowadays you get mixed search results. Google not only displays the first ten pages that is has in its index for the entered keyword but also image, video and news results. Sometimes ads are also added to the search results and placed on top of everything else.
Some search engine [...]
Price Comparison With Invisible Hand For Firefox
Price comparison is one of the essentials things that Internet users should do before buying a product on the Internet. It does not matter if they do it manually by visiting several Internet shops that carry the product or use one of the price comparison services. Users can save lots of money when comparing prices [...]
Test The Phishing Protection In Firefox
There are basically two options to protect computer systems (and their users) from phishing attacks. The first are protections in programs like email clients or instant messengers that are commonly used to spread phishing links while the second method blocks the web browser from opening those links (when they have already been clicked on). The [...]
