There is only that much that you can cut from a browser’s interface. You got the header area with the title-, address and tabbar and the footer with a status bar. Especially Google with its Chrome browser and Mozilla with Firefox have started to cut down on the interface. The latest trend is to display [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

I remove broken links regularly here on Ghacks. Today I stumbled upon a review of a proxy extension for Google chrome. The extension had been discontinued, and I made the decision to try and find a suitable alternative for that extension. The quest for the best available proxy extension for Google Chrome had started. I [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

I use online file viewers for two core reasons. First, they allow me to view files even if the computer system I’m working on has no compatible viewer installed, and second, they mitigate the risk of opening files from questionable sources. Sandboxing is an alternative for the latter, but that’s a rather technical solution, and [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google Chrome, Online Services

Unless you are running the new experimental search interface on Google, you can make use of a feature called similar pages directly on the search results page. This feature displays a list of related, or similar, websites, directly in the search results. Say you are fed up with Google Search and want alternatives. Instead of [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

The standard history page of the Google Chrome web browser is a mess. All visited web pages are listed in order of visit, with no options to filter the items by date, name or frequency of visits. Only the search at the top offers some form of customization, as it can be used to find [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

If you are a user of the highly popular classifieds website Craigslist you may have asked yourself if there is an option to display attached images right on the general listings page and not only on the individual pages. You can enable a single thumbnail image on Craigslist with a click on the show images [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google Chrome

I sometimes like to view or listen to YouTube videos multiple times. To bad that there is not an option to repeat YouTube videos automatically. Sure, you can click the Replay link once the video has stopped playing, or refresh the page on YouTube to start from the beginning; But that’s not automatic. It is [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

You sometimes may encounter useful pages that have such an irritating design or page style that you have a hard time concentrating on the contents offered. Maybe it is the blue text on the dark background, or lots of whitespace that hurts the eyes, or links that you cannot distinguish from text. You can run [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

Google caches all websites and pages of that site when it crawls them with its bots. Most cached pages are then linked to from Google Search as well. This can be handy at times, for instance if a website is not responding or down. The cached version provides access to the website’s contents even if [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome