Category: Internet

Some web sites only allow Microsoft Internet Explorer and force you to use only one specific web browser. These web sites detect your browser by the User Agent String sent to the sites by the web browser. By spoofing this User Agent String, you can fool these web sites into thinking that you are using a different web browser. The Opera web browser allows you to spoof or identify itself either as Microsoft Internet Explorer or Firefox web browser.

You want to play a little prank on your friend? Use Google Chrome web browser to turn every webpage upside down using the Upside Down extension for Google Chrome and tell your friend that he is should go see an eye specialist. Using the Upside Down extension, you can turn a whole webpage or its images upside down for the sake of fun.

If you get bored doing the everyday work at your office, it would be a nice timeout from the boredom if you can turn any webpage in your web browser into a video game. The Destroy-the-Web addon for Mozilla Firefox does exactly that

Usually we visit the YouTube web page, to check for the latest videos that someone (you have subscribed to) has uploaded, liked or favorited. But if you are too lazy to visit the YouTube webpage to check for the new videos, then the YouTube Feed extension for Google Chrome web-browser is for you. This extension notifies you of the new videos when someone you have subscribed to uploads a new video, likes a video or favorites a video or comments on some video.

Recently we published an article on how to clear the web history from your Google account. Similar to your web search history stored by Google, the YouTube web site stores your video watching history – which video you watched in the chronological order of watching the videos. This history is used in suggesting you more videos of the time in the Recommended For You section.

YouTube has become one of the most visited websites all over the world. Everybody loves to watch funny videos on YouTube. If you also visit YouTube a lot and enjoy watching the videos on it, then you would love to watch the videos in expanded mode. When you expand a video, it removes all the unwanted and distracting texts on the right side and the comments on the bottom.

Apple Safari web browser is one of most elegant looking web browsers available today. It has an integrated bookmarks bar built into the Safari browser window, so your most frequently used bookmarks are always visible without cluttering your screen. Though the bookmarks bar automatically shows the most visited websites but you can also manually add a category and websites in it.

If you use Google to search for anything while you are logged into your Google account, then Google records what you searched, when you searched and which websites (in the search results list) you clicked on. These records of your search items and visited sites helps Google to predict what you would be searching and so give you the related search results.

You do not have manually hunt for the lowest available process. Now you can automatically get the lowest price when you shop online. InvisibleHand add-on for Mozilla Firefox shows a notification when a better price is available on a product you are browsing or shopping for. This add-on works for over hundred online shopping web sites in the US, UK and Germany. This add-on also works on Google and eBay when you search for a product.

Amazon is the largest online retailer company in the United States. You can get almost anything from books to computers on Amazon. If you often shop online at Amazon, then you can get good bargains using the AmazonAssist add-on in the Mozilla Firefox web-browser. The AmazonAssist add-on shows up at the bottom on the Firefox web browser and shows the related product searches as you lookup for a product in the search engines like Google, Bing or Yahoo!.