A handful of popular Internet browsers make up more than 99% of the browser market share. When you look on the Internet you find lots of articles about Firefox, Internet Explorer and to a lesser extent about Opera, Google Chrome and Safari. QtWeb Internet Browser is an alternative portable Open Source web browser based on [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Firefox Invert Colors Add-On
The Invert Colors add-on for Firefox will – as the name suggests – invert any colors on websites basically turning very dark looking websites into lighter ones and vice verse. The first run after the installation of the add-on will come as a shock for many users as the option is turned on globally by [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Firefox Automatic Extension Updates
Firefox users will be automatically notified if an update to an installed extension or theme is available for public download. The add-on can be downloaded directly from within the web browser’s interface. It will be installed and the browser restarted afterwards. Several problems with this procedure exist which can be exemplified by looking at the [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Firefox Price Comparison
Experienced users use the Internet to research prices before they make a purchase. While they use the Internet for price comparison they do not necessarily make the purchase on the Internet. A handy tool for Firefox users is Right-Click Buy which offers an easy way to check items on price comparison sites from within Firefox. [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Use Firefox Without A Computer Mouse
It is most of the times faster to perform an action with the keyboard than with the mouse if a keyboard shortcut is available for that action. There may be situations where you have to use the keyboard. Think of a computer notebook without connected mouse. If you have ever tried to make good use [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Firefox Password Revealer
Use long secure passwords. That’s what they say. Did you ever try to type in a secure password with a length of 25+ characters several times because the web form would not accept it? Since you do not see what you type you cannot easily identify what went wrong. Even more so because the password [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Youtube Video Download
Youtube is slowly starting to provide access to high definition videos on the video portal. If you perform a search for it you find many websites that explain how to view the videos on Youtube in high definition. High definition Youtube video downloads on the other hand are not explained that often. One of the [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Load Websites With Hotkeys In Firefox
Web browsers usually offer several ways on how to access websites quickly. Users can type in the url, assign keywords to urls or use their bookmarks to do that. Something that has not been on the radar yet is the ability to use hotkeys to launch websites. It is actually a very good question why [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Url Revealer
Url shortening services like Tinyurl have seen an influx since the release of web services like Twitter. Twitter is a prime example as the services limits the amount of characters per message to 160 much like SMS on cell phones. Yes, you can write / send multiple messages but that’s not really the same, is [...]