Category: Internet

When you open many websites in multiple tabs inside an Internet Explorer window, it becomes difficult to switch to different tabs. This is specially true for Internet Explorer 9 in which the location bar and tabs are shown side-by-side in a small space. You can use the Quick-Tabs feature of the Internet Explorer to see a miniature view of all the open web sites in different tabs and then click on any of them to switch to that tab.

Most of the modern browsers support the location aware browsing. Any web site can request your geographical location (physical location) and display content accordingly. For example a restaurant can request your geographical location and display the branch nearest to you. If you do not want the Internet Explorer browser to send this information to any web site, then you can turn it off easily.

Following the footsteps of Google and Facebook, Twitter has also given an option to the users to always browse through secure HTTPS connection. When you visit a web site through the HTTPS connection, the data transfer to and from that site becomes encrypted. This way any middle-man (like your ISP) cannot eavesdrop on what you post on Twitter.

Like all the other moderns browsers Firefox 4 has also added support for utilizing GPU for video and animation playback on a webpage. This is called hardware acceleration and is enabled by default. But if you have a low end graphics card then it can make videos play very slow and you may have to disable hardware acceleration. After you have disabled the hardware acceleration, Firefox would use software rendering for all web page contents.

The WebM media format is an open-source free media format specially designed for the HTML5 video tag. The WebM plugin is based on the Matroska codec and features very high-quality video, better video playback even on older computers, ability to change the video speed and is open-source. Most of the web browsers support the WebM media format internally except Internet Explorer 9.

More and more browsers are supporting hardware acceleration for faster rendering of media rich web sites. Hardware acceleration makes use of the GPU in the computer to render the media embedded in a web page for faster and better results. In the Google Chrome hardware acceleration is disabled by default. Here is how you can enable hardware acceleration in Google Chrome web browser.

PHProxy is a web based proxy technology designed in the PHP programming language. A PHProxy based web proxy server can download a requested page on its server and then show it to you – thus acting as a proxy. The user is completely hidden behind the PHProxy protective layer of proxy. If you are using Firefox web browser, then you can use the PHProxy add-on in Firefox to automatically view a webpage using the PHProxy web proxy servers.

Many web sites use content from other sites like maps, videos, images, counters or analysis etc. These third party sites may track your browsing behavior using many different methods like tracking cookies. The InPrivate Filtering in the Internet Explorer can help prevent website content providers from collecting information about the sites you visit.

The offensiveX Image Upload service allows you to upload your images to their server so you can share them to friends over many social networks like twitter, facebook etc. or post them on various forums. The offensiveX Image Upload service is very easy to use and unlike many other similar services you do not have to register any account to use it. You can also use a Firefox add-on to upload images on a webpage to the offensiveX server.

Mozilla Firefox is unarguably the best web browser both in terms of security and customization. But one problem everyone faces with Mozilla Firefox is its high memory usage. The high memory usage is invisible if you have larger amount of RAM, but if you do not have that much RAM then you may experience the sluggishness of the Firefox browser. You can make Firefox use lesser amount of memory by adjusting a few of its settings.