Watch YouTube videos in expanded mode

YouTube has become one of the most visited websites all over the world. Everybody loves to watch funny videos on YouTube. If you also visit YouTube a lot and enjoy watching the videos on it, then you would love to watch the videos in expanded mode. When you expand a video, it removes all the unwanted and distracting texts on the right side and the comments on the bottom.

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Clear web history for your Google account

If you use Google to search for anything while you are logged into your Google account, then Google records what you searched, when you searched and which websites (in the search results list) you clicked on. These records of your search items and visited sites helps Google to predict what you would be searching and so give you the related search results.

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Personalize shopping experience using AmazonAssist in Firefox

Amazon is the largest online retailer company in the United States. You can get almost anything from books to computers on Amazon. If you often shop online at Amazon, then you can get good bargains using the AmazonAssist add-on in the Mozilla Firefox web-browser. The AmazonAssist add-on shows up at the bottom on the Firefox web browser and shows the related product searches as you lookup for a product in the search engines like Google, Bing or Yahoo!.

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Get lowest prices when shopping online in Firefox

You do not have manually hunt for the lowest available process. Now you can automatically get the lowest price when you shop online. InvisibleHand add-on for Mozilla Firefox shows a notification when a better price is available on a product you are browsing or shopping for. This add-on works for over hundred online shopping web sites in the US, UK and Germany. This add-on also works on Google and eBay when you search for a product.

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Disable Windows HotStart in Windows 7

Microsoft Windows HotStart is a new technology introduced in Windows Vista and Windows 7, which enables you to turn on your computer and run an application at the press of a button. For example, if you have a laptop with media playback button, then pressing the media playback button will start the Windows 7 and then launch the default media player application.

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Automatically Clear Pagefile at Shutdown in Windows 7

When Windows is running, this pagefile is opened exclusively by the operating system, and it is well protected. But if you have a multi-boot system then the sensitive information contained in this pagefile can be accessed by an unauthorized user through another operating system. But you can make Windows 7 to automatically clear the pagefile and the hibernation file upon a clean shutdown to prevent such attempts.

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Type to navigate links in Apple Safari browser

If you are old school keyboard person who loves to type on your keyboard rather than to click on the computer mouse, then you are going to love the Apple Safari web browser as it allows you to navigate the links by just typing on your keyboard. For this functionality, you have to install an extension called Type-to-Navigate in the Apple Safari browser

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Force secure HTTPS URLs in Google Chrome

When you access a website using an in-secure HTTP protocol, then a hacker can eavesdrop on the data that is being sent to and from your computer. This is also called man-in-the-middle attack. But if you use an HTTPS connection then all the data transferred from and to your computer is encrypted and nobody can see it. If you are using Google Chrome, then you can force it to use only HTTPS connections for many websites like Google, Facebook, Twitter etc. which support it.

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