The Google Chrome web browser, after a recent update, is now showing a cupcake in the upper left corner of the screen. To be precise, that cupcake is shown on the tab bar, and there on the left side of it. The tabs are then listed to the right of it. This cupcake links to [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

I do not like the navigational structure of the Chrome web store. I cannot figure out for instance how to sort all extensions based on their last update. Sure there is the new and noteworthy category but it is limited to a handful of extensions. Featured and popular as well do not provide access to [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

I have to admit that I’m spending more time on Google Plus than I’m spending on Facebook. Not a big amount of time though, usually anywhere between 5 to 10 minutes per day. While I like Google’s new messaging service, I have spotted a few annoyances that I wanted fixed. One of the main ones [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google Chrome

Up until now the only way to share a web page, story or information on Google+ was to open the Google+ website to do so. That’s not overly comfortable, especially not so if you are not having the service open all the time in your browser tab. The new Google Chrome extension Surplus changes the [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

I’m slowly getting the hang out of Google+. The coolest feature by far in my humble opinion is circles to group users and get filtered news streams. One thing that I think is missing are update notifications for your circles. As it stands now, you need to click on each circle stream to see if [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

Many toolbars are not installed in only one browser, but in multiple web browsers. That’s not a problem if you have only one browser installed, but if you have them all like I do, you might end up with the same toolbar installed under multiple browsers. That’s cool if you want to use the toolbar, [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer

Not all RSS readers are the same. Indeed, some are far more useful than others and deserve to be pulled from the pack. One such reader is NewsSquares, a Chrome app specifically catered to the interests of news readers. While still in the final beta stages, NewsSquares is a great way to browse your various [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

Opera and Google are already doing it, so why should not we. That’s probably the reasoning behind Mozilla’s latest move to optimize the interface of the Firefox web browser. For those who do not know (is there anyone reading my blog that does not?); The http prefix in front of website addresses in the url [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera

Prerendering is a technology that can speed up web browsing by loading web pages in advance. The advantage of prerendering is an almost instant page loading time for prerendered pages. There are disadvantages though. The average web page has anywhere from a few dozen to more than one hundred links. Prerendering all link targets would [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome, Search Engines