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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 30th, 2009
  • Comments: 1

Opera Halloween Edition

Halloween, which is celebrated on October 31, has roots in the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain and the Christian All Saints Day. Much of its symbolism comes from the past including wearing costumes and masks, bonfires or lanterns. If you want to top it up a notch you might want to download the Halloween edition [...]

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Categories: Browsing, opera

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 11th, 2009
  • Comments: 2

Seamonkey 2.0 Release Candidate 1 Available

Firefox, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Opera and Safari. Those are the five most popular web browsers on the Internet. If you would ask users to mention two more most would probably have difficulties answering the questions while others might mention Flock and Seamonkey (and probably Netscape). Seamonkey is a Mozilla project. It combines not only [...]

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Categories: Browsing

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 10th, 2009
  • Comments: 8

Expect A Faster Firefox 3.6 Beta Next Week

The Mozilla Firefox developers are planning to release the first beta of the upcoming web browser Firefox 3.6 next week (to be precise on October 14 which is also the release date for the beta of Firefox 3.5.4). Not that many Firefox users will take notice of these two beta version releases but those that [...]

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Categories: Browsing

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 9th, 2009
  • Comments: 3

Web Browser Backup Software FavBackup Updated

FavBackup allowed Windows users to backup web browser specific settings. The program was easy to use and supported most major web browsers. Some things were not perfect like missing support for custom or multiple user profiles, portable browser support or the disk and computer memory usage during backup jobs. The developer of FavBackup has recently [...]

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Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, firefox, opera

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 8th, 2009
  • Comments: 3

Google Starts Educating The Masses About Web Browsers

You might remember the survey that Google conducted in New York a while back asking random people passing by what a web browser is. It was not that surprising, at least for tech savvy users who have to carefully word their explanations whenever they to tech support, that most who were asked did not know [...]

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Categories: Browsing

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Sep 28th, 2009
  • Comments: 8

Want To Impress Your Friends? Run Chrome OS

We have all read the news that Google is planning to enter the operating system market with their soon to be released Google Chrome OS which is initially targeting the netbook market. Google Chrome OS is based on Google’s web browser Google Chrome and a Linux kernel. Little information are know as of yet. The [...]

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Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome, Operating Systems

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Sep 27th, 2009
  • Comments: 2

PageZipper Makes Browsing Multiple Pages More Comfortable

Ever been to a website that likes to divide articles into multiple pages to artificially increase their pageviews and thus advertisement revenue? I remember websites that would display every item of a top 50 or top 100 list on individual pages with each page consisting of a few sentences and a screenshot.
The Firefox add-on [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

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