It is sometimes hard to concentrate on reading an article because of all the background noise on a particular website. That is especially true for long articles or articles on websites that like to bombard their visitors with lots of interactivity, say a video playing, music, advertising banners and colors. One way to reduce the [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

The time would eventually come that Firefox 2 users would be reminded (nicely at first) that a new version of Firefox was available. The new version is Firefox 3.0.1. and it could be quite a shock for those guys who decided to stick with Firefox 2 because they did not want the features that Firefox [...]

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Perspectives is a research project to improve SSH-style Host Authentication with Multi-path Network Probing by researchers of the computer science department at Carnegie Mellon University. The title of their research surely sounds scary for many Internet users but it basically means that they have created a method to authentic hosts securely by pulling their information [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Security

Some web developers like to squeeze small html forms into their websites which are uncomfortable to use for the visitors of the website. Imagine a comment form that displays three lines that each can take only a few words. It’s problematic to write a comment of a hundred words or so in that box and [...]

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Searching is probably the one activity that every Internet user is doing on a daily basis. It does not really matter if it is a student doing research for his next essay, a housewife looking for new recipes, youngsters looking for the latest music videos on Youtube or the couple looking for a new health [...]

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Extended Statusbar is a Firefox extension that adds a few useful information to the statusbar. Opera users might feel comfortably right away because the functionality has been taken from that browser and was ported – or shall I say cloned – to Firefox by the developer. The extension provides four additional parameters that are displayed [...]

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Removing traces of just one website that you have been visiting is quite some task. It requires knowledge of the storage locations of the information in Firefox. An easier way to remove traces of an active website is to use the Firefox add-on Close and Forget. Close and Forget provides two features. The first is [...]

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No, I’m not referring to something called French Stick – whatever that might be – that has been renamed to Freedom Stick in an effort to punish the French for not siding with the US in their war against terror. Freedom Stick is a software for an USB device that aims at defeating the virtual [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Security, Software

Viewing the source code of a website is a standard function in all web browsers. A right-click usually opens a menu with the option to view the source code of the page. Source code only refers to html source code. There is no way to view Javascript or CSS source codes directly from those menus. [...]

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