Category: Internet

We have earlier written about the Chrome Eraser application which helps you reset the Chrome configuration data. Now Google has added an option to reset the web browser in the Chrome settings itself. Using the reset option in Chrome, you can reset the Chrome browser settings back to their original default values. It will turn your Chrome browser back to its virgin settings as if you have just installed it.

If you like watching Youtube videos then you know sometimes they take a long time to load and sporadically stop in the middle for a few seconds. But now Youtube has started a Feather project which switches off most of the Youtube features and reduces the amount of bytes downloaded by the browser to make Youtube seem faster in response. You can enable Feather for your Youtube account in order to have a faster Youtube experience.

The blinkx website is a beautiful way of discovering and sharing videos online. Unlike many other video sharing sites, blinkx presents you with an uncluttered, clean and powerful video search interface. While many other video sites are filled with low quality useless content, blinkx shows you high quality videos both in terms of the content and the resolution. It has videos arranged into multiple categories for easy browsing.

The cookies in any web browser are used to store the user data for different websites as well as the login information. This means that anyone who uses the Chrome browser on your PC would be able to access your online accounts on Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. You can always manually clean the browsing history and cookies in the Chrome browser, but a better option is to automatically clean all the cookies when you close the Chrome browser.

Although not so authentic, Wikipedia is a great source of all kinds of information. You can find articles on almost any kind of topic on Wikipedia. If the information does not exist on Wikipedia, then you can start a new article for it and contribute your knowledge about it. Sometimes when we find an article on Wikipedia, we want to print it or download it for offline use. Fortunately, Wikipedia allows you to download any article in the printable PDF format.

Firefox lets you create two or more profiles for Firefox each of which has its separate configurations, bookmarks and add-ons. You can use these different profiles for different requirements, for example, one profile for gaming online, another for internet banking, third one for social networking sites and so on. If you use multiple Firefox profiles then you can use the Profile Switcher extension to quickly switch from one profile to another.

You can always clean the browsing history and cookies in the Chrome browser, but if you want to completely reset the Chrome configuration then you can make use of the free Chrome Eraser application. It can reset the configuration of current user profile for the Chrome browser. It can also completely delete all the configuration files of the Chrome browser for the current user.

Some of the websites are designed to work only for Internet Explorer, especially some of the government and university sites. These sites are used for filling up of online application forms of various kinds. But if you are a Firefox user and do not feel comfortable outside your Firefox world, then you can use Internet Explorer inside a Firefox tab using the free IE Tab v2 add-on.

The Social Share button is a new feature added to the version 23 and above of the Firefox web browser. The Social Share button uses the Social API to interact with the social networking sites like Facebook. Through the Social Share button you can quickly share any webpage or article with your friends over the social networking sites easily. But before you can start using the Social Share button, you have to add the social providers to Firefox.

More and more websites are offering their services over the encrypted HTTPS protocol. Accessing websites over HTTPS increases your online security as all the data transfer takes place over an encrypted connection. If a webpage is showing HTTPS and HTTP content together, then it is said to have mixed content. If you are a Firefox user, then you can block these mixed content objects to boost your security when accessing secure websites.