Category: Internet

Recently, I wanted to disable JavaScript on a website in Firefox. To my intense surprise, I found out that the feature to disable JavaScript has been removed from Firefox 23 and above. This is very much undesirable. After some research I found out an add-on called SettingSanity that can add this feature back in Firefox. The SettingSanity extension adds the options to disable images, tab bar and JavaScript back in the Firefox Options window.

If you have a webcam attached to you PC, then you can use it to snap and share your pictures online. But sometimes you are in a hurry and do not want to go through the webcam software and uploading of the pictures taken. In those times, you can use the free online app Take Picture Online to take your pictures online through your webcam, upload and share them with your Facebook or twitter friends.

Sometimes the Internet just stops working in a Windows PC, even though it works in other computers. The fault usually is not in the hardware, but in some of the inner Windows settings. These settings can be repaired using the free Complete Internet Repair program, so that you can once again use the Internet in your Windows PC. This free tool can fix more than ten different settings in Windows to get Internet working again.

If you install too many extensions in the Google Chrome web browser, then their toolbar icons may get hidden in order to save space for the location bar. The hidden icons are shown in form of a drop-down menu if you click on the right-arrow next to the location bar. If you do not like these hidden icons, then you can display the icons in the toolbar once again using the following steps.

Firefox, like some other popular web browsers, allows you to open PDF file using an internal viewer. But this internal viewer cannot handle all sorts of PDF files. Some of the PDF files have special features that can be used if opened in a full featured PDF viewer like Adobe Acrobat or Foxit Reader. You can use the pdfViewerSwitcher extension to switch the PDF file between internal viewer and the Adobe Acrobat plugin in Mozilla Firefox.

Like other browsers Opera also keeps releasing newer beta versions of the browser under the title Opera Next. If you want to try out the Opera Next without having to install it, then you can create a portable edition of the Opera browser. This way you can run multiple versions of Opera in Windows in order to check them out. Here is how you can create a portable edition of Opera in Windows.

If you have to fill up online forms multiple times, then you would possibly have to visit a chiropractor for the pain in your fingers. But if you are a Firefox user, then you are in luck – you can use the AutoFill Forms extension to automatically fill forms online at the click of a button. This extension is very useful when filling up several forms on university or school websites where you have to enter the same information over and over again.

Internet can be addictive and you may find yourself spending more and more time on online gaming, video or social networking sites. If you feel helpless before the fascinating time wasters of the internet, then you can use the Block Site extension in your Chrome web browser. This extension blocks or redirects the websites that you add to the blacklist. This way your procrastinating habit can be tackled, and you can concentrate more on your work or study.

When you are using Firefox and want to make a nice cup of tea, usually you have to get up, go to the kitchen, start making the tea and wait for it to be ready. But thanks to the Tea Timer extension in Firefox, now you no longer have to wait in the kitchen. You can set the water filled kettle on the stove, put tea in it and come back to use your Firefox – Tea Timer would tell you when the tea is ready.