Many websites today reported that Internet Explorer’s overall market share fell below 50% for the very first time. When it comes to statistics, it always pays to ask for the source to better analyze the data presented. All websites who have reported on this have been using StatCounter elusively (likely one site started it and [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Speed Up History Navigation In Opera
Did you know that the Opera browser has three different modes for history navigation? All browsers make use of the history, to allow their users to go back and forth in it which is a lot easier than having to re-open the pages manually. Opera by default uses an automatic mode for the history navigation. [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Private Browsing Modes Not So Private After All, Report Says
Cnet’s Seth Rosenblatt today published a story about privacy risks in private browsing modes of modern web browsers. He summarized the findings of a soon-to-be published report of researchers at Stanford University’s Computer Science Security Lab. The researchers analyzed the private browsing modes of Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer and Apple Safari. First [...]
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Opera 10.61 And 10.70, The Next Opera Releases
Opera users who follow the development of the web browser closely may have been confused by the two versions of Opera that are currently developed and offered as snapshots by the development team. Release snapshots by the Opera Desktop Team were alternating between Opera 10.70 and Opera 10.61 releases. The issue became even more confusing [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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How To Stop Video Autoplay On Youtube
Have you ever opened multiple Youtube videos at the same time? The cacophony of sounds has probably been unbearable. Youtube videos start to play automatically, and there does not seem to be a restriction in the number of videos that can play at the same time. A user opening four videos simultaneously will make the [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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What is a tracking cookie?
Computer users may run into the term tracking cookie frequently if they are using a security software like Norton 360 or Kaspersky Internet Security. These programs detect those web browser cookies, and offer to delete them from the system. The detection of third party cookies by security software does not mean that they pose the [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Opera 10.60 Final Released, Download Now
Opera 10.60 final has been released by the Opera developers, less than three days after the release of the first out of three release candidate builds. Opera users can expect improvements in all areas but most noticeably in browser performance and web standard support. The final version of Opera 10.60 continues to shine in web [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Opera 10.60 Release Candidate Released
Opera Software has just released the first release candidate of the upcoming Opera 10.60 web browser. Opera 10.60 continues where Opera 10.50 left of improving on overall web browser speed and compatibility. Opera performs very well in popular web browser benchmarks, how well usually depends on the benchmark. It is fair to say that Opera [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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How To Add Google Encrypted Search Engine To Firefox, Opera, Chrome And Internet Explorer
Jojo just asked in the thread about Google’s new encrypted search engine if it was possible to add that search engine to the list in the Firefox search bar. The following article explains how to add Google encrypted search, or any other search engine for that matter, to the list of standard search engine providers [...]