Reading modes have been an integral part of several mobile web browsers for some time. It refers to improving the readability of contents displayed in the browser by applying a different style […]
Browser developers and web companies work on various alternatives for Adobe's popular Flash technology. The most common solutions are to replace Flash video with HTML5 video and to replace Adobe Flash with […]
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, […]
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 […]
Pale Moon and Firefox are two popular web browsers that share many features. Most Firefox add-ons run perfectly fine in Pale Moon for example and the same is true for the majority […]
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 […]
When Mozilla launched Australis, several readers of this blog moved away from Firefox by installing Pale Moon instead. The Pale Moon browser is Firefox in essence but with several notable differences. Probably […]
LibreOffice 4.2 has just been released. The new version of the open source Office suite introduces several changes and improvements that improve the functionality, usability or performance of the application. The first […]
Windows 7 or newer users who run Firefox may have noticed text rendering issues in the web browser for some time now. The first bug addressing the issue was filed on Bugzilla […]
Back in Summer 2013 Google was criticized for storing user login information -- username and password -- in plaintext in the web browser without any sort of protection. For some, this was […]
Whenever I'm at my parent's house and use my mom's computer, I noticed that video playback on the system is anything but a great experience. On YouTube, videos are choppy, play and […]
Welcome to the best of page here on Ghacks Technology News. This page lists some of the popular articles that we have published here on the site over all the years. We […]
If I had to pick one extension that I can't browse the Internet without it is Firefox's NoScript extension. You have probably heard about it or are using it as well to […]
I have to admit that I'm not a fan of Epic Games anymore ever since they decided to make shiny great looking games that are not the best gameplay-wise. I was a […]
Depending on where you live, you may not be able to access select websites or services available on the Internet. This is not limited to countries where you would expect Internet censorship […]
The Firefox web browser is available in dozens of languages that you can download from the official Languages page over at the Mozilla website. Sometimes you may want to have two different […]
Mozilla's Addon repository is one of the backbones of the Firefox web browser, Thunderbird email client and various other programs based on the same core. Users can download and install add-ons with […]
I consider the page title an important piece of information, which is only topped by the web address. I use the web address of a page for confirmation that I'm on the […]
If you have recently installed the Firefox 15 Beta version on a computer, you may have noticed that it does not ship with an option to display tabs on the bottom anymore. […]
The current version plugin of Google Update is one of those mysterious plugins that you may find listed in the plugins listing of the Firefox web browser without really knowing what it […]
There are certain situations where it may make sense to save as much bandwidth as possible while connected to the Internet. The most obvious is if you are limited to a certain […]
Some time ago I started to look into Google Search alternatives. This had a number of reasons, from too much noise on Google results pages over deteriorating quality to privacy concerns. I […]
Visited is a free add-on for the Firefox web browser that enables you to override custom visited link colors on websites that use these modifications. Visited links by default display in a […]
I recently discovered that I had two explorer.exe processes running on a Windows PC. Odio posted a comment under that article where he mentioned that on his PC 2 plugin-container.exe processes were […]
Update: With Opera switching to Chromium just like Google Chrome, the method below is no longer working. To change the cache of Opera 15 or newer, you need to add the startup […]
Firefox users with eagle eyes might have spotted a new process (or two) that pops up from time to time when they are running the web browser. The process plugin-container.exe appears and […]
The write speed of Solid State Drives is usually lower than the read speed. Write operations on slow SSDs can slow down the system performance and reduce the longevity of the drive; […]
All web browsers are currently vulnerable to a CSS history leak which enables attackers to test if a particular site was visited by a user in the browser used to connect to […]
All modern web browsers support so-called taskbar previews on Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system that display thumbnails of open tabs there. The Google Chrome web browser was the last of the popular […]
YouTube users experience a wide variety of problems and issues on the popular video hosting portal. Probably the most common issues for most users are playback problems while playing YouTube videos. This […]
If you want to look up the definition of a word in a web browser you usually have to open a second browser window or tab and open a web dictionary like […]
The NoScript add-on for the Firefox web browser is without doubt one of the best ways to increase the web browser's security as it disables JavaScript elements on all websites that are […]
The Orca Browser is based on the Firefox 3 core but adds lots of unique features and options to it that Firefox does not support. The first thing that you notice after […]
Thunderbird is my mail software of choice even though I do have various webmail accounts. I simply prefer my mail to be on my computer and not on a server somewhere on the Internet. I run a fairly customized version of Thunderbird and I would like to share five advanced Thunderbird tips with you that I implemented in my version.
Opera is already a very fast browser, but if you would have the choice between fast and faster than fast, what would you choose ? I took the liberty to compile a list of 10 great tips that speed up Opera in several unique ways. Many of the settings can be changed by simply going to Tools > Preferences in Opera but some can only be used by accessing not so obvious ways like ini files.
Please note that everything that I'm describing here worked fine on my computer. It speed up Opera and increased my browsing experience with it tremendously. While most tips will work for any users no matter their connection to the Internet some tips might only increase performance for broadband users.
