Category: Internet

Twitter is a very popular social networking and micro blogging site. Normally, you have to post your tweets by going to Twitter’s web site or using a third party application. But now you can tweet right from the location bar of Mozilla Firefox using an add-on called TwitterBar.

Google search engine has brought a new feature called Instant Search. This allows you to search as you type

When you browse the web, the web browser stores the information about the web sites you visit, including the web site content, cache, cookies and any user names and passwords you enter. Other people who use your computer can view that information. If you don’t want this information stored, use InPrivate Browsing feature of Internet Explorer.

Google Chrome web browser offers suggestions for navigation errors. So if you type a wrong web address, Chrome may be able to correct you and offer you a list of suggestions. While this is a useful service, but if you do not like this, you can disable this service by following these instructions.

When you visit a web page which is not in a language you can read and understand, Chrome offers to translate that web page for you. This is very useful feature but if you want to disable it, then follow the instructions in this article.

Google Chrome can automatically translate a web page into your reading language. To let Chrome know that a web page is in a language you can understand or whether it requires translation, you have to add this language to the list of your reading languages.

The internet is full of all kinds of information but some of it is not in a language that you understand. You can always translate a web page into the language you use using the online services like Google Translate or Yahoo! Babelfish. But Google Chrome browser can do this automatically.

Starting with version 6, Google Chrome has in-built support for viewing of PDF files inside it. Which means that you do not have to install any third party PDF viewer like Adobe Acrobat or Foxit Reader to view the PDF files. But before you can use this feature, you have to enable it first.

Mozilla Firefox offers a find toolbar at the bottom of the browser when you press the find keyboard shortcut Ctrl + F. Using this find bar, you can search for text on a web page. But you can extend the functionality of Firefox’s finding ability by installing the Find All add-on.

Sometimes when Firefox gets updated, it says that one or more of your add-ons are incompatible and it disables them. If updated to that add-on are not available then you are pretty much stuck without using that add-on. The same problem is seen when you try to install an incompatible add-on. But you can force Firefox to install and use incompatible add-ons.