Opera offers some pretty handy features that you can’t find on other browsers; the underdog always seems to try harder …
Opera has always been the underdog in the browser market, with browsers like Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, Firefox or Chrome dominating it. While the browser’s market share is low in comparison, it is still an impressive feat for a small company like Opera Software.
If you’re hit with ads when you visit Wikipedia, you probably need to check your system for malware …
Sometimes it is not easy to spot if ads are injected into your browser sessions or not. Sometimes though, you can be dead certain that something fishy is going on, for instance if advertisement starts to appear on Wikipedia, a site known for its ad-less approach to things.
Here’s an extremely useful new tool for Firefox users …
Troubleshooting issues that you experience in the Firefox web browser can be an exhausting experience, especially if you can’t pinpoint the issue that you are experiencing to a setting, add-on or particular version of the browser. If Firefox has become slower over time, a lot of things can be responsible, and finding out which can sometimes feel like mission impossible.
If there’s one thing I hate, it’s when a search engine tries to figure out what I’m searching for before I tell it what I’m searching for.
Google Web History is an automatically turned on service for Google account users who use Google search while being logged into that account. According to Google, it contains information about the searches users do, and the pages that get clicked on. Users can access the web history online, and Google uses the information to personalize the search results. (If you are a Google user, and logged in while using the search engine, you may want to consider turning off the Web History feature).
More fun with overly zealous copyright protection, AKA, “Throwing the Baby Out with the Bathwater, Part 3,952.”
Times are rough for file hosting sites, with some being shut down by the authorities or in a lengthy legal dispute, while others are ceasing their business operations or changing the way they do business. We have seen all of this began at about the same time the Megaupload incident happened. Megaupload, one of the most popular file sharing sites back then was taken down back then on request of U.S, authorities. The gap was soon filled by other file sharing services, even though only a few saw such a rapid growth in popularity as Rapidgator.net.
If you’re unhappy with Firefox’s new PDF Viewer, here’s how to get rid of it …
Before I take a look at how you can remove the PDF Viewer extension in Firefox, I’d like to spend a moment talking about why it is necessary to write about it. Add-on removals should be straightforward operations after all. The big issue here is that you can’t remove add-ons installed by third party software from within Firefox. And third parties in this regard also means Mozilla, if the company decides to add an add-on to Firefox automatically. While you can disable those add-ons, you can’t remove them.
In spite of other convenient features, Chrome does seem to fall a bit short when it comes to blocking pop-ups … but here’s a cool extension that will take care of that problem.
Popups, I do not like them, at all. While they are sometimes used by sites to make part of the website’s functionality available, they are more often than not used for advertisement. And while there is nothing wrong with advertising in general, popup ads tend to be one of the most annoying forms of advertisement that you encounter on the Internet.
This program doesn’t really do anything new that Windows itself doesn’t do already … but it does provide a simpler means to select which programs will be blocked.
Microsoft has improved the firewall in the Windows 7 operating system, and while that is a good thing, the firewall is still nowhere near as feature complete or comfortable to configure than its third party counterparts. The blocking of programs is for instance overly complicated.
