Web Archive Viewer is a plugin for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer that provides access to file archives before the download. It displays the contents of zip and rar archives and gives Internet Explorer users the option to download selected files instead of the complete archive. This can be useful if only a few files are needed [...]

Categories: Browsing, ie

Users can practically set one or multiple websites as their start pages in Firefox (and any other web browser as well). Another option are Speed Dial extensions which copy a feature from Opera to Firefox that provide access to a handful of links on one page. Autohome puts that concept to the next level by [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Opera 9.6 has been released just a day ago and the Opera team did a fine job of integrating some interesting new features in the new version of the web browser. The release is a security and stability update that did introduce several new features. Since it is a security update it is a recommended [...]

Categories: Browsing, Opera

UrlbarExt is an experimental Firefox add-on that adds a few interesting functions to the Firefox location bar. Experimental meaning that users have to log into an account at the Mozilla website to download and install the add-on. It is usually not an indicator of a “not yet ready” add-on. Users who do not have an [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

The release of Google Chrome and its Open Source counterpart Chromium put Google for the first time in the position that Microsoft was in for the last ten years or so. Users are looking at Microsoft products with suspicion suspecting privacy breaches and data collection on large scales. This is especially apparent in Microsoft operating [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

Mozilla started distributing the final version of Firefox 3.02 to various major and minor mirror sites. This is the usual process before they release the notification on the homepage about the new version. The Check for Updates feature will show the new version usually 0-24 hours later. Firefox users who cannot wait can head straight [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

When a user enters a search term in the Firefox location bar (address bar, awesome bar) it is determined if the entered term is an actual web address or a search term. If it is a search term a search using the default search engine is performed. If it is a web address the web [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Two major Open Source applications have been updated in the last two days. The Mozilla development team released Firefox 3.1 Alpha 2 to beta testers and everyone else who is interested in trying out the upcoming features of Firefox 3.1 before it is officially released. The alpha versions of Firefox 3.1 Shiretoko / Gecko 1.9.1 [...]

Categories: Software

The new browser by Google called Google Chrome is now available for download in various languages on the Google Chrome website. The installation file has a size of 474 Kilobytes on Windows XP and downloads additional components during installation. The first thing that users will realize after starting Google Chrome is that it will import [...]

Categories: Google, Google Chrome, Software