Category: Internet

The tabbed browsing has become a standard feature in modern browsers. Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 also has the tabbed browsing turned on by default. If you like the old school browsing with each site in its own browser window, then you can turn off the tabbed browsing feature.

Some of us are very bad internet addicts and spend a lot of time browsing the internet. What is worse is that we do not realize how many hours we have spent on a particular web site. The Time Tracker extension for Google Chrome shows how much time you have spent on a website in Google Chrome. Do not be shocked to see that you have spent over 20 hours on sites like YouTube.

How many times you want to capture a web page and save it as an image? Now you can capture a portion of a web page or the complete web page and save it as an PNG image using the Screen Capture extension in Google Chrome.

When you download a file in Internet Explorer 9, this file is downloaded to a default download folder on your hard disk. By default this download folder is the download folder under your user profile. But you can change this download folder location to any folder you want.

Internet Explorer 9 uses GPU rendering to provide accelerated graphics when you browse web sites. Although it gives rich web site browsing experience but on low end systems, it can make the system slower. You can save the GPU power at the expense of reduced graphics rendering in Internet Explorer 9 by disabling the GPU rendering and enabling the software rendering.

When you open a new tab in Internet Explorer 9, you are shown a new tab page which includes thumbnails and shortcuts of the web sites you visit the most. If you want to open a blank tab instead, then you can disable this new tab page.

If you have more than one Google, Yahoo!, MSN and other kinds of accounts then usually you login in your first account, use ii, logout of this account and then login into another account. If you are using Firefox, then you can use the MultiFox add-on to login into multiple accounts at the same time.

Internet Explorer 8 comes with a feature – Suggested Sites. When you visit a web site, its information is sent to Microsoft servers and they bring you a list if similar sites. This can pause a risk to the privacy of the user. Here is a way to turn off Suggested Sites in Internet Explorer.

Google is always adding more features to its services. Recently, Google has added a new feature to its free email service GMail. This feature, called Priority Inbox, attempts to automatically identify your important incoming messages and separates them out from everything else.

One of the reasons why Google search engine is so popular is its highly customizable nature. You can customize to suit your needs. For example, you can change the number of search results displayed per page (by default it displayed 10 results on a page).