How would an effective and secure cookie management look like? Most users would probably answer that it would make use of whitelists, blacklists and temporary cookies. The whitelist would contain trusted sites that require cookies to function properly. Trust would mean that you would keep the cookies on your system even after closing the session [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google Chrome, ie, Opera

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

Greasemonkey scripts can really increase the usability of a web browser which is especially true for scripts that improve a day to day activity. If you regularly search for and download files at Rapidshare you might have felt the frustration when a link was not working anymore. Most Rapidshare Search sites and search engines give [...]

Categories: Browsing, Software

Google Multi-Column View is a Greasemonkey script that can display Google search results in two or three different columns instead of the default display. Doing that can be extremely useful for users with widescreen monitors who want to use all of the screen estate when working with Google. A test on a 1920×1200 LCD monitor [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google, The Web

Google Chrome Dual View makes it possible to split the Google Chrome browser into a left and right part that can each contain and display a website. Since there is no extension engine yet for Google Chrome the functionality is provided by a bookmarklet which has its impacts on usability. Users with large computer monitors [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google Chrome

Are that many security vulnerabilities of Google Chrome coming to light because it is less secure than other web browsers? Or is it because everyone is putting more effort into discovering vulnerabilities because it is Google’s browser? Whatever it is; No week passes by without the discovery of a new security vulnerability in Google Chrome. [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

Many users maintain multiple accounts on various websites, for example two Gmail accounts one for business and one for private contacts or multiple Facebook or MySpace accounts. Using multiple accounts is usually privacy related but it could also be used for other purposes. The main problem that most web browsers have with multiple accounts on [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google Chrome, ie, Opera

Recent tries to install the latest official version of the Google Chrome web browser failed during installation with the error message Installer fails with error 4. The error box provided a link (Help me fix this) to the online help page for that error message which simply stated that there was no help at this [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

Many users have to work with several web browsers. Could be that they are webmasters who have to check the design of their websites in the most popular browsers or because they have to use a different browser at work than they use at home. There are more possible scenarios why someone would use more [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google Chrome, ie, Opera, Software