Using a web browser’s keyboard controls can speed up web surfing significantly. But most web browsers limit those keyboard shortcuts, and do not offer options to add additional hotkeys to speed up specific operations that are not supported by default. Vimium is a Google Chrome extension that adds a few dozen keyboard controls to the [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google Chrome

Spoon offers a web service for Windows users that allows them to run desktop applications directly in the web browser, without prior downloads or installations. The cloud approach offers several advantages over the convention way of running applications, including the ability to run apps from anywhere without downloading and installation. Spoon needs to be installed [...]

Categories: Windows

Firefox users have several options to open multiple links in the web browser at once. They can click on each link individually, or use a popular extension like Snap Links to open them all together. But there is no real option to open multiple websites from a text document for instance, other than copying and [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Some Firefox users may want to open links sporadically in other web browsers. That’s for instance helpful if they know that the link destination will not display correctly in Firefox, if they want to make use of functionality that another browser offers, or if they want to test how a website displays in another Internet [...]

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Opera has just released a new version of their Opera web browser. Opera 10.61 is now available for download after releases of three release candidates. Opera considers the new version a security and stability update, which makes it an essential update for all Opera 10.60 users. The release notes of the new Opera version list [...]

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Users of the Google Chrome browser may have had troubles locating the program executable on their hard drive after installation. This can be attributed to the fact that the Google browser installs itself in the user directory. The benefit of this is that the browser does not require administrative privileges to be installed, the downside, [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

The Internet Explorer team just as expected released the fourth platform preview of the upcoming Internet Explorer 9 browser. The preview still offers no “real” user interface, but lots of progress has been made under the hood. Hardware accelerating everything that is rendered on the user’s PC seems to have been one of the main [...]

Categories: Browsing, Internet Explorer

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 [...]

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Resetting a web browser to its factory default settings is sometimes a last troubleshooting option, especially if all other repairing options have failed. The consequences are manifold. All custom settings and preferences will be reset to their default parameters, which means that the browser has to be customized after the resetting again. All popular Internet [...]

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