Category: Internet

Mozilla Firefox version 4 has a look similar to Google Chrome with tabs being shown on top by default. But you can toggle if you want to see the tabs on the top of the window or below the navigation bar.

A proxy server is a middle-man server through which you connect to the site you want to visit. Thus you can surf the site of your choice without revealing your IP address. Your ISP, if logs the sites you visit, would only log the proxy server site and not the actual site. You become hidden behind the proxy server. The HTTP proxy server can only be used to browse web sites. You can easily set an HTTP proxy server in Firefox.

Starting from the version 3.64, Mozilla Firefox starts a separate process for plugins like Adobe Flash, Adobe Air etc. so that if these plugins crash they crash in a separate process. This avoids the main browser process not to crash along with the plugins. The separate process is started using the binary file plugin-container.exe. If you do not like the idea, you can stop this.

When you browse a website it may log your IP address, your location, your browser, your operating system and other information. Some web sites deny access based on your location. To hide this all private information of yours and surf anonymously, you can use AnonyMouse.org.

If you keep forgetting your passwords to various web services, then you can use the online password management utility from LastPass. You can access LastPass without any plugin but full access to LastPass features requires installing a plugin. The LastPass installer tool installs a plugin in most of your browsers and using which you can store and retrieve your passwords.

If you are watching the World Cup Soccer 2010 matches being held in the South Africa, then you already know what vuvuzela is. A vuvuzela is a blow horn being played all around in the World Cup Soccer matches, and many people say it is very distracting. Now YouTube had added a feature to play the vuvuzela sound in the background of any video, just like you hear the vuvuzela being played in the World Cup Soccer matches.

World Cup Soccer 2010 are different in the sense that all the matches are haunted by the loud vuvuzela sounds coming from all around. A vuvuzela is a blow horn. When several vuvzelas are played together they make a noise resembling a swarm of angry bees. Now you can browse the web as if you were at World Cup Soccer 2010 – adding the vuvuzela sounds to every web page you visit.

Today the internet is full of harmful web sites and malware. Sometimes, you get paranoid of what to download and what to not download. Luckily, there is Dr.Web LinkChecker which you can use to scan a file or webpage before downloading or opening it.

The Macmillan English dictionary is an award winning dictionary first published in the year 2002. If you want to add the Macmillan English dictionary search to your Mozilla Firefox searchbox, then you can add it easily. This would allow you to look up word definitions and the thesaurus in the Macmillan English dictionary for free.