Microsoft has released Internet Explorer 8 some time ago and is starting to distribute it over their update services to users still running a previous version of the web browser. While the web browser does run fine on most computer systems it can – like any other software – cause problems on some. We covered [...]
Customize Google For Internet Explorer
Customize Google has been a very popular add-on for the Firefox web browser for some time now. It basically allows users to customize many aspects of their interaction with Google services like Google Search or Gmail. Options range from interface enhancements to security and privacy related settings like removing ads or tracking cookies.
Customize Google for [...]
Internet Explorer 8 To Be Distributed Via Automatic Updates
Microsoft has announced plans to distribute their latest web browser Internet Explorer 8 to computers running previous installments of Internet Explorer via Automatic Updates. The final version of Internet Explorer 8 was already distributed that way to users still running a release candidate or beta version of the web browser.
The distribution will be started in [...]
Microsoft Download Portals Overview
Microsoft is not only maintaining one public download repository on the Internet but several. Many of these download sites are offering downloads for a specific Microsoft product or group of users. Some are accessible from within Microsoft products while others are only accessible from a web browser. This makes it rather complicated to create an [...]
Internet Explorer 8 Ad Blocking
Ad Blocking in the Internet Explorer 8 web browser is not as accessible as it is in other web browsers like Opera or Firefox with add-ons installed. Many Internet Explorer 8 users do not even know that an ad blocking feature exists in the web browser. It can be easily accessed by pressing the shortcut [...]
8 Sleeper Internet Explorer 8 Add-ons
Internet Explorer add-ons have been introduced by Microsoft in the previous editions of Internet Explorer. Despite the claim they never managed to come close to the popularity and inventiveness of add-ons produced by the Mozilla Firefox community.
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 introduced a set of new features (accelerators and web slices) that fall into the [...]
Internet Explorer Bumpers
Browser bumpers is a lightweight portable application for the Windows operating system that interacts with both the Internet Explorer web browser and Windows taskbar. It is based on Fitt’s Law which basically says that the screen edges are easier to hit with the computer mouse. Browser Bumpers takes this concept and applies it to Microsoft’s [...]
