In many of tips discussed on TrishTech.com, you have to manually configure settings in Mozilla Firefox by typing about:config in the Firefox location bar and fiddling with the settings. In one of these kind of adventures you may mess your Firefox settings, so it is a better idea to backup your Firefox preferences.
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Enable smooth scrolling in Mozilla Firefox
When you scroll a web page in Mozilla Firefox using the mousewheel, the page scrolls up or down 3 lines. This scrolling is not smooth and the page scrolls up or down immediately. If you want to scroll smoothly the web page, then you will have to enable smooth scrolling in Firefox.
Read moreSet default search engine in Chrome
When you type a word or phrase in the Google Chrome browser’s location bar and press the Enter key on your keyboard, Chrome uses its default search engine to search for the term. Depending on the search engine, it either displays the search results or takes you to the first web site in the search results. The default search engine in Chrome is Google on a fresh Chrome install.
Read moreTurn on SafeSearch in Bing
When you search for something in Bing search engine, it may display inappropriate search results containing pornographic links or images. You can turn on SafeSearch in Bing preferences to filter out such results.
Read moreLock SafeSearch in Google
Google’s SafeSearch blocks web pages containing explicit sexual content from appearing in search results. If you enable SafeSearch then you will not see any such sexually explicit pages listed in the results. You can even lock the SafeSearch settings in your browser.
Read moreChange content location in YouTube
You can choose a content location in YouTube. By default the content location is set to worldwide and you see videos uploaded from all over the world. But if you want to watch videos from a particular country then you can see which country’s content (videos and channels) you would like to view.
Read moreChange database storage size in Apple Safari
Some web sites like Google Docs and Zoho, which provide tools for you to create and edit documents online, sometimes store your documents as databases on your computer. You can increase or decrease the amount of space available for this purpose.
Read moreReset the Apple Safari browser
If you have made a mess of settings in Apple Safari and it is no longer working like it should, then you can reset all the settings to their default. This will change all the settings in the Apple Safari browser to their original values when you first installed Apple Safari.
Read moreDisable AutoComplete in Internet Explorer 8
When you fill in information in forms on a web site, the information is locally stored by Internet Explorer’s AutoComplete feature. This feature is good as it automatically fills the data when you revisit that web page. But this feature is vulnerable to web attacks by hackers.
Read moreSet font smoothing in Apple Safari
How the text is shown on a web page depends on how the browser renders the font. In the Safari browser, you can choose how to smooth the fonts. You can choose standard font smoothing or one of the ways optimized for CRT or LCD monitors.
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