Mozilla Firefox 3.6 released – faster, personas, form complete
Mozilla has released the latest 3.6 version of the popular browser Firefox after months of testing beta versions and release candidates. Mozilla claims that the Firefox 3.6 version is 20% faster. One of the major changes made is the Personas feature that allows you to personalize the look of Firefox by selecting the persona [...]
Google Chrome now third most popular browser
In December, 2009, Google launched Chrome for Mac and Linux operating systems (the Windows version was released earlier in 2008); and moreover, it also launched browser extensions for Chrome. These efforts appear to have paid rich dividends to Google Chrome, as now it has become the third most popular browser by usage share for the [...]
Firefox 3.5 becomes the most popular browser
The popularity of Mozilla Firefox has been on the rise continuously, courtesy its rich features and a rich set of more than 7000 add-ons that further enhance its features. However, it has always lagged behind the Internet Explorer in market share. Now, the latest data released by StatCounter, widely-used web-analytics site, shows that for [...]
Free online virus and malware scan from BitDefender QuickScan
If you’re suspecting that your computer is infected with viruses and/or malware, you can conduct a free online scan of your computer using QuickScan from BitDefender. It combines local scanning and in-the-cloud scanning to quickly detect security threats to the computer scanned.
Google Chrome may get extensions soon – may improve its market share
Google Chrome is already the fastest browser. In fact, it is faster than other browsers such as Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox by a big margin. This fact has been admitted by Microsoft, though indirectly, see Internet Explorer 9 to improve speed, graphics rendering. In spite of the fact that Chrome is a [...]
Convert your Opera browser into a Web Server – share files, photos and more
Want to host your website on your own computer? Want to share files, photos, music with your friends on Internet directly from your computer without uploading them on a website or on a file-sharing site? You can do so easily. You can convert your Opera browser into a web server, which means that now [...]
How to disable automatic web page refreshing in Firefox
There are certain websites or web pages which automatically refresh or reload after regular intervals of time, say, after every two minutes. There are certain sites where you may like to have the refresh feature, for example, a web page displaying stock quotes or showing live scores in a match. However, auto-refresh feature in [...]
Internet Explorer 9 to improve speed, graphics rendering
Less than a month back, Microsoft released Windows 7. Thereafter, work has started on Internet Explorer 9, the next version of the most widely used browser in the world. It is too early in the day for IE9 but Microsoft has revealed some basic details of what the focus areas are for IE9. It [...]
How to ensure that web pages update when new content is found
When you use your browser to visit a website, you would generally get the latest content available on that website. If you again visit the same web page or website, then you would expect the updated content to be displayed in the browser. Normally, the updated content on the same web page will be [...]
Forgot online password? Recover it from Firefox if you had saved it there
Have you forgotten your password for some website or some online service? If you use Mozilla Firefox browser and you had used the “Remember password” feature of Firefox for that particular password while browsing that website or using that online service, there is a good chance that you can easily recover your lost or [...]