Firefox Panorama is a new feature of the upcoming Firefox 4 browser which offers a different way of managing tabs in the browser. Among the features are options to group tabs, display all open tabs on one screen and to only display selected tab sets in the browser’s tabbar. Tab Sugar basically is a port [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

Video thumbnails offer a limited preview of a video before it is played. This can be helpful for getting a first impression, and may sometimes even make the viewer skip the video based on the preview. Videos at a glance is a Chrome extension that offers video previews on several popular video hosting and posting [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

Using a web browser’s keyboard controls can speed up web surfing significantly. But most web browsers limit those keyboard shortcuts, and do not offer options to add additional hotkeys to speed up specific operations that are not supported by default. Vimium is a Google Chrome extension that adds a few dozen keyboard controls to the [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google Chrome

They come under many names, boss key, panic button or anti boss to name a few. Computer users can make use of these applications to quickly switch from their current desktop view to one that is hiding specific windows, applications or everything. That’s helpful for instance while visiting websites during work that are not work [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

A huge usability problem for some users in Google Chrome is the fact that the browser exits automatically when the last open tab is closed. While that may make sense sometimes, some users would expect it to open the blank tab page instead and leave the browser open. The blank tab page feels like the [...]

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A virtual keyboard provides two main advantages over a hardware keyboard. First, it defeats most keyloggers as the keys are not typed in but clicked on, and second it may offer faster access to special characters, especially from other keyboard layouts. An example would be an English user who needs to write a German ö. [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

The Google Chrome browser has been supporting extensions for quite some time now. Most extensions are installed directly from the Google Chrome Extensions Gallery website, while a handful are installed from other sources. Many Chrome users, especially those familiar with the way the Firefox browser handles add-on updates, want to know how Chrome handles extension [...]

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A recent post on the Chromium blog revealed two changes coming to the Google Chrome Extensions Gallery. Both changes are introduced to increase the effort of protecting Chrome users against the distribution of malicious extensions. In the current system everyone can upload Chrome extensions to the gallery, and malicious developers could simply use that to [...]

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Up until now it was not possible to port the popular Firefox script blocking extension NoScript to Google Chrome. Restrictions in the browser made it impossible to block elements before they were loaded, which obviously did not work out well for a security add-on that needed to block the scripts before they were loaded. The [...]

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