Category: Internet

A jumplist appears when you right-click on an apps icon in the Windows 7 taskbar. The Firefox jumplist shows a list of most frequently visited websites. This can become a privacy issue when you share your computer with others. With just a right-click on the Firefox icon, they can find out which sites you spend most time on. In that case, it is a good idea to disable this feature in Firefox.

While the Autofill feature in Google Chrome browser is one of the best among the auto-complete features in various browsers, it may pose a security and privacy risk if you share your computer with others. It is better to turn this Autofill feature off and manually type in your information everytime it is required.

Some sites are designed to be viewed best in Internet Explorer. If you want to open them in Firefox then, you can install the IE Tab Plus add-on. IE Tab enables you to use the embedded IE engine within tabs of Mozilla Firefox so that you can view IE compatible sites right inside Firefox. You can also add some sites to be always opened using the Internet Explorer engine.

Norton Safety Minder is a free program from the Symantec Corporation. It allows you to manage, monitor and block the sites your children visit. If your children try to browse a blocked site, you would be notified by email. You can block sites, restrict computer time, monitor social networking and more to keep your kids safe online.

Now Gmail allows you to use your own pictures as Gmail background. By setting your own custom image in Gmail as its background, you can personalize Gmail even more. You can upload and use pictures of your family, friends and loved ones to be used as Gmail background. You can also choose a background from Featured images section which contains high quality photos taken by professional photographers.

Facebook has assigned everyone a random free facebook email ending in @facebook.com. You are free to customize your facebook email address. When someone sends an email message to this facebook email address, the message appears on your timeline. By default, it is visible to everyone on your timeline. You can hide this email address, if you want using these instructions.

If you are familiar with Mozilla Firefox, then you already know what the search bar is. It is a small search box located on the right side of the location bar in Firefox. You can use it to quickly lookup something in a search engine. You can choose from many of the search engines in the search bar like Google, Yahoo, Bing, Wikipedia and more. But what if you want to use a search engine not listed in the search bar? Do not worry, you can add a new search engine very easily in Firefox.

Usually what happens when you type in a word or phrase in the location bar of the Mozilla Firefox browser, is that Firefox searches Google for that word or phrase. For example, if you type ivy bridge in the location bar and press Enter key, Firefox would search Google for ivy bridge. Firefox uses Google as its default search engine, but if you want to use some other search engine as your default search engine then it can be done easily.

Web sites often track your browsing behavior so that they can present with products or advertisements that better suite your web browsing pattern. If you think that this is a violation of personal privacy then you can use a new feature in the Opera browser which politely asks all the websites that you do not want to be tracked. Of course, it is upto the websites to respect this request but most of the standard sites do respect this request and stop tracking you online.

Starting with the version 12, Opera has added many new features including the theme support to the web browser. Now you can change the appearance of the Opera browser by installing a theme just like you do in other web browsers. Previously the Opera browser offered to install skins which were similar to themes. But now Opera has dropped the older skins and adopted the new lightweight themes system.