Category: Internet

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.

Internet Explorer 8.0 and above has a feature called Accelerators. When you select a text on a web page, a blue arrow is shown clicking on which various options are shown like Blog with Windows Live, E-Mail with Windows Live, Map with Live Search, Translate with Live Search, Search with Live Search, Search with Bing and etc.

Starting with Firefox 3.6, when a new tab is opened, Firefox does not automatically switch to it but keeps the current tab active. But you can change the settings to make it switch to the newly opened tab as soon as it is opened.

Mozilla Firefox is a popular browser partly because it allows a high number and variety of customizations. You can choose to make any part of the Firefox browser look as you want. In this article we would see, how to customize the address bar font.

Most of us use the tab feature in Mozilla Firefox and open multiple web sites in Firefox. Sometimes, when we open multiple sites using the tabs we might accidentally close one of the tab. Now what? But do not worry, Firefox has a method to open the closed tabs.

If you have installed more than one web browser on your computer you can set any one of them as your default browser. This article details how to set Internet Explorer, Opera and Firefox and Chrome as your default browser. But instructions are same for any other browsers.

In any browser, when you press the backspace key, it takes you back one page in the browsers history. It is equivalent to clicking the back button in the browser. In the default Mozilla Firefox installation in Ubuntu Linux, the backspace key does not do this. But you can modify, backspace key action can be modified easily.

Every web browser uses user agent strings to have itself identified. The web servers request these strings to find out if it is Internet Explorer, Opera or Mozilla Firefox etc. The user agent strings are built inside the browser. But in Mozilla Firefox you can spoof the user agent strings.