Category: Internet

When you browse a web site in Mozilla Firefox 3.6 and scroll the page, the default web page scroll speed using the mousewheel is not very fast. If it is a very long page then you have to turn the mousewheel many times to scroll the whole page down. Fortunately, in Mozilla Firefox 3.6 you can adjust the scroll speed as explained in the following steps.

When you visit YouTube, you are open to a whole variety of videos uploaded by millions of users. These videos may range from funny, knowledgeable and innocent to dirty, absurd and filthy kind. But there is a way you can turn on the safety mode in YouTube to disable the dirty and inappropriate videos.

When you download a file in Microsoft Internet Explorer, a download window is shown in which you can choose to open or save the file. When you choose to save the file, a save to folder dialog is shown. By default this folder is %userprofile%\Downloads. But you can change it to any folder you like.

When you format your computer you lose all your Internet Explorer settings, including the bookmarks, auto-complete, history and other security settings. But you can create a backup of all your settings so that you can quickly restore from it when needed.

Like all the modern browsers, Mozilla Firefox also used tabbed browsing. Although there is no option to disable the tabbed browsing feature in Mozilla Firefox, but you can configure it in such a way that tabs are almost never used.

When you visit a web page using the Microsoft Internet Explorer, you can see the source code of that web page by right clicking on it and selecting View Source. By default, the source code is opened in the internal source code viewer of Internet Explorer. But you can change it to whatever text editor you want.

When you visit a web page using the Opera, you can see the source code of that web page by right clicking on it and selecting Source. By default, the source code is opened in the internal source code viewer of Opera. But you can change it to whatever text editor you want.

When you run Internet Explorer 8 for the first time, it pop-ups a Welcome window which takes you through many screens asking questions. This may become a headache if you re-install Windows every few months like I do. Also, when you create a new user account, that new user has to go through this Welcome window again. But here is a fix for this Welcome window.

Google Chrome has hundreds of extensions you can install and make use of. Google Dictionary is such an extension which you can install in the Google Chrome browser. After installing this extension, you can look up the definitions of words as you browse a web site.