No one can find out on which websites you have been once you delete the Temporary Internet Files, cookies and history in Internet Explorer, right ? That’s unfortunately wrong and should cause some concern by some users. The Internet Explorer is using so called index.dat files to store information even though the information contained in those files are hardly needed. The auto complete feature is using the index.dat file of visited websites.

Categories: Browsing, ie, Security, Software

I dnt hate Mozilla but use IE or else… is what I got when I tried to start Firefox sometime back. Just as the window opened, a box with this message popped up and then disappeared, taking my Firefox window along with it. Internet Explorer seemed to work until I tried opening Youtube. Then, I [...]

Categories: Browsing, Security

A reader was asking me if there was an easy way to migrate his data – that is cookies and bookmarks – from Internet Explorer to Firefox. I can see that this could pose a problem for some users that want to use Firefox but don’t want to manually add all their bookmarks again. The process of exporting and importing cookies and bookmarks on the other hand is relatively easy and can be done in a matter of minutes.

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, ie