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How to clear Web Storage in your browser of choice

Web Storage, also known as HTML5 Storage, Local Storage or DOM Storage, offers a way for web applications and pages to store data locally in web browsers. The data that is stored […]

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WAToolkit enables WhatsApp notifications on the desktop

The company behind WhatsApp released WhatsApp Web recently, a web-based service that allows you to use WhatsApp in Google Chrome without phone. It introduces most of the functionality of the mobile application […]

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FiddlerCap: capture and prepare web traffic for analysis

Unless you run software that logs all local and remote connection attempts, you don't really see what is going on when you connect to a website or run a program on the […]

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Sites may detect the local IP address in browsers supporting WebRTC

Whenever you connect to sites on the Internet information about the connection and the underlying system are available to the site automatically. Information include the web browser and version used to connect, […]

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Opera co-founder launches Vivaldi web browser

The technical preview of Vivaldi, a Chromium/Blink based web browser by Opera co-founder and former CEO John von Tetzchner is now available. The Opera browser is best known for innovations that Opera […]

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Hide Adobe Flash Player is required notifications in Chrome

For the past couple of days I have received notifications about Adobe Flash Player on sites that I visited in Chromium. The message read Adobe Flash Player is required to display some […]

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Plug-in blocked notifications in Google Chrome

Google pushed out an update today for its Chrome web browser that brings the version to the version of the web browser to 40 on the stable channel. Most Chrome users should […]

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Improve online privacy by controlling referrer information

Whenever you click on a link on a web page to open another one in the same browser, referrer information are sent to the linked site. You can verify this for yourself […]

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The majority of free antivirus solutions ship with potentially unwanted offers

Developers and companies that offer free version of products have different options at their disposal to monetize their work. From pro and business editions over donations to third-party offers. Third-party offers in […]

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Create Profiles to start or stop programs in bulk on Windows

When I start my Windows PC in the morning, I load the browsers Firefox and Chromium, the email client Thunderbird and the RSS reader Quite RSS right away. While I could add […]

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How to restore the last session in Google Chrome

You can configure the Google Chrome web browser to open the last session, meaning all tabs and windows open the last time you used it, or to open a blank page or […]

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Opera 26 Stable for Linux now available

Phew, that took a long time. When Opera Software announced the switch from its own browsing engine to Chromium users noticed immediately that many things were not as they were before. The […]

First bit of Firefox's Sandbox lands in Nightly for Windows

One of the reasons why Mozilla is working on a multi-process architecture for Firefox is that it paves the way for a browser sandbox. The sandbox that the team plans to implement […]

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How to use NoScript efficiently

Whenever I speak to someone who used NoScript for a day or two I'm told that the add-on is complicated and a nuisance. NoScript, for those of you who do not know […]

Yandex releases alpha version of new minimalistic browser

Minimalism seems to be the trend of the hour, or more precisely, of the past two or three years in the browser world. It started with the release of Google Chrome and […]

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How to convert WebP images to other image formats

Depending on your web browser of choice, you may have encountered webp images before or not at all. The main reason for this is that the format is not supported by all […]

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Comodo promises faster Dragon browser updates

Several browsers based on Chromium came out shortly after Google released its Chrome web browser. Most had in common that they modified or removed privacy related information or modules. Comodo Dragon was […]

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How to re-enable plugins in Chrome that are blocked by Google starting 2015

Web browser plugins are being used by many Internet users even though their use is in decline. Most companies that produce browsers try to get away from the plugin architecture, or at […]

Massive Benchmark highlights asm.js performance of web browsers

Performance or more precisely JavaScript performance has been a thing in the browser world ever since Google launched its Chrome browser to the public. Back then Chrome was without doubt the most […]

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YouTube supports 60 fps videos now

Frames per seconds and resolution are a big deal in the gaming world and it is usually the case that the more you get the better for the gaming experience. While screen […]

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Google releases Bookmark Manager extension for Chrome

The native bookmark manager of the Chrome browser is as basic as it gets. All it enables you to do is to search bookmarks, move them to and from folders, and to […]

SSL 3.0 vulnerability discovered. Find out how to protect yourself

A security vulnerability in SSL 3.0 has been uncovered by Bodo Möller and two other Google employees that attackers can exploit to calculate the plaintext of secure connections. SSL 3.0 is an […]

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How to disable middle mouse button scrolling in Chrome

I have always used the middle mouse button in browsers to open links in a new tab. It is a comfortable option and way better in my opinion than having to right-click […]

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A core difference between Firefox's and Chrome's private browsing mode

Most modern browsers ship with a private browsing mode that can be started independently from the main browsing session. It prevents the recording of history information in the browser so that information […]

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Firefox best browser to run Unity WebGL content according to Unity

If you are serious about browser games you may have the Unity plugin installed in your browser of choice. This plugin is currently required to play games that use Unity, a cross-platform […]

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Browsing proxy ZenMate now also available for Firefox

ZenMate, the popular virtual private network extension for Chrome and app for Android, is now also available as an add-on for the Mozilla Firefox web browser. VPNs are used for a variety […]

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RSSGuard is a new cross-platform desktop RSS Reader

RSSGuard did not make the best desktop RSS feed reader for Windows listing because I did not even know it existed back then. It would have made the list as it offers […]

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How to buy items from Yahoo Auctions Japan if you are not Japanese

I recently started to collect retro video games, mostly classic 16-bit stuff. One of the issues here, after you have made up your mind about the console systems you want to collect […]

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Test if your Android device is affected by recent SOP vulnerability

Companies like Google or Microsoft have a hard time getting users to upgrade to the latest version of their operating systems. On Android for instance, a quarter is using Android version 4.4, […]

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Google Software Removal Tool for Windows released

While it is difficult to come by statistics to find out how many Internet users are affected by software that is manipulating browser settings or installing add-ons and other potentially unwanted tools […]

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Why some Chrome extensions use memory all the time

You know probably that Google Chrome is supporting extensions just like Firefox or the Opera browser. Extensions add functionality to the browser or modify the default behavior which can be quite useful […]

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How to make Chrome's bookmarks toolbar better

If you are using Google Chrome's -- or any Chromium-based browser actually -- bookmarks toolbar you may have noticed that it does not provide you with many options. You can add folders […]

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Fix Latest Chrome looking zoomed in and blurry

Google has released Chrome Stable 37 yesterday and with it came a new feature to improve font rendering on Windows. The text rendering was switched from Graphics Device Interface (GDI) to DirectWrite […]

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Zenmate launches Android VPN app that extends its VPN service

Zenmate was rated one of the best Chrome VPN recently by us. While it is used by many to access geo-restricted contents, it is adding other VPN-specific features to it as well that […]

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Chrome's Device Mode feature: emulate mobile devices quickly

As a webmaster, you not only have to make sure that the right contents are displayed to desktop users but also that mobile users are served correctly. This can be a big […]

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Bookmarks Manager enabled in Opera 25

When Opera Software switched from the company's own Presto rendering engine to Chromium/Blink, part of the browser's userbase criticized the company for it. Among the points the community made was that the […]

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How to test quick changes to web pages before making them

Most developers use a local development environment that replicates the live website. They use it to test any change made to the website before it is pushed to the live server. This […]

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Find out if websites get loaded from cache and how to force reloads

When you visit a website in a modern web browser for the first time, contents get loaded from a web server to the local computer. While some resources may be loaded from […]

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How to prevent WebRTC spying in Chrome

New technologies are more often than not a double-edged sword. While they add or improve functionality on the one hand, they may also introduce undesirable features. This is for instance the case […]

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The Best VPN add-ons for Firefox

Firefox users have access to a selection of VPN add-ons for the browser which they can install from Mozilla's official add-ons repository. Whenever a connection to a virtual private network is established, […]