Most systems which warn of unsafe websites, like OpenDNS and Google, work in mysterious, non-transparent ways and websites are often deemed as unsafe for reasons other than safety. Web of Trust is a Firefox extension which rates the safety of websites based on ratings received by other users of the plug-in. Users rate websites on [...]

Categories: Browsing, Security

If you are in the position to have access to a network that has banned Rapidshare but is otherwise pretty lax when it comes to restrictions you might want to bypass the ban to be able to download from Rapidshare. I would not advise doing that at work or school because it can have serious [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Are you feeling bored right now? Don’t know what to do? If you want to spend time on the Internet but don’t know where you might let fate decide instead. Random Site is a Firefox add-on that opens a random page in the currently active tab in Firefox. It takes those pages from Google Search [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Windows does seem to have the habit of changing the default browser back to Internet Explorer from time to time. Many web browsers do also ask the user during installation if he wants to change the default browser. The difference between the default web browser and an installed browser is that the default browser is [...]

Categories: Browsing, Software, Windows

Sorting downloads can be a very good way to control where files will be stored on a computer system. The default option in Firefox is to save them in the standard folder which will contain all downloads no matter the size or file extension. The Save As right-click option provides an option to save the [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

It is a common among security professionals to use a password only once. Many Internet users on the other hand prefer to select the same username and password on all websites that they create accounts for to make it easier to access those websites. Having to remember only one password is easier than having to [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Many websites require a signup before their services can be fully used. While this is usually necessary to offer the user his own profile page with custom settings it is sometimes used to grab user profiles to sell them to the highest bidder. But no matter the reason it is always a nuisance for the [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Quoting text on a website usually requires to include the url of the website the quote was found. Some webmasters prefer not to do this but visitors like the possibility to check the source for additional information to research the topic further. And sometimes it comes in handy to check if the article on one [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Don’t have the time to read a long article on a web page? Then it might be worth to give the Great Summary service a try. The service extracts the most important sentences of a web page and provides them as a summary to the user. It is pretty obvious that a computerized summary won’t [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Online Services