Category: Internet

Everytime you open a video in Youtube, it starts to play in 360p definition or some other SD quality. If you want to watch the video in HD, then you can manually select the video quality from the video window itself. But this is very frustrating to do every time you want to play a video. If you are a Google Chrome user, then you can make use of the Auto HD extension for Chrome. The Auto HD for Youtube extension not only plays the Youtube videos in HD, but also allows you to widen the player.

Everybody knows the painful experience of re-installing Windows, especially when you have to adjust the web browser settings, bookmarks and add-ons all over again. Imagine doing this for all the different web browsers manually. But if you use FavBackup, then you can backup and restore your web browser settings at the click of a button. FavBackup is a free program for Windows that allows you to backup and restore various settings for all the popular web browsers.

Now you can optionally add an extra layer of security by enabling the 2-step verification in Google accounts. After enabling it, you will be required to enter the verification code in addition to the usual username and password. This verification code would be sent to your phone. This means that the potential hacker cannot break into into your Google account even if he knows your password, because they do not have access to your phone.

Google has offered to boost your security by offering to turn on the 2-step verification system in your Google accounts. The 2-step verification requires that you enter a verification code received on your phone in addition to the usual password. But the 2-step verification is not available for all the Google services like AdSense. Also some of the phones are hard coded to ask only for username and password. If you feel uncomfortable using the 2-step verification, then you can choose to turn it off.

Facebook is the top social networking site all over the world. Many millions of people use it everyday to share their pictures, videos and comments with their friends and family. But there are cyber criminals also tapping into the popularity of Facebook by posting links about scams and phishing sites. If you are a Firefox web browser user, then you can use the FB Phishing Protector add-on to prevent such scams on Facebook.

We all are familiar with the desktop backgrounds or wallpapers in Windows. But now people are spending more time using their web browser so why not set your favorite pictures as browser backgrounds. Now you can change the backgrounds for your Firefox web browser using the Browser Backgrounds add-on. This add-on lets you set background images for the newly opened tabs in Firefox. You can also set random backgrounds for each new tab.

Google Chrome has a large collection of extensions, designed both by Google and third parties. You can install these extensions by visiting the Google Chrome webstore which also has many apps and themes in addition to extensions. After you are done testing an extension and decide that you do not like it, you can uninstall it very easily.

Most of the websites store information in your web browser using the cookies. These cookies can improve the way a website interacts with your web browser. For example, a forum stores the login information in form of a cookie so that you do not have to login everytime you visit that site. But there are other sites which use cookies to track your browsing behavior. If you do not want to remove all the cookies from your Firefox browser, then you can selectively remove only a few of them.

Some sites are very aggressive about redirecting you to different pages or even different websites. One possible reason for them to do this advertising but some attack sites may also redirect you to phishing or malware infected websites. If you do not want to be redirected by websites, then you can make use of the NoRedirect add-on in Mozilla Firefox. This add-on prevents websites from using HTTP header to redirect you.

Starting with the version 19 of Mozilla Firefox, the popular browser has started to show the PDF files right inside your web browser using an in-built PDF viewer without using any third party plugins from Adobe or any other company. The in-built PDF viewer in Firefox has an option to download the file too. But this in-built PDF reader cannot handle all kinds of PDF files as some of the PDF files have advanced features in them.