Browsers

Opera 12.02 Brings In-Process Plugins Back for 32-bit Windows

Posted by Techdows on Aug 30th, 2012

It is Opera 12 major release which brought Out of Process Plugins for Windows which isolates allows all plugins like Flash Player, Silverlight, Java and other from browser and runs in a separate process called Opera_plugin_wrapper.exe... More »

How to Disable or Remove Advanced SystemCare Surfing Protection Feature and Add-ons from Browsers

Posted by Techdows on Jul 18th, 2012

Just now we’ve covered that the first beta of Advanced SystemCare 6 installs ASC surfing Protection add-on for browsers like Firefox, Chrome and IE automatically without user permission, we’re following up that post with how... More »

CookieSpy: View Cookies Stored by All Browsers in Your Computer

Posted by Techdows on Feb 3rd, 2012

Cookie is just a simple text file that stored by the web browser when you visit a website, these cookies allows websites to identify users. Cookie stores information about time of visit to websites and other tracking information about... More »

Mozilla: We’ve No plans to Turn on Do Not Track by Default for Firefox Users

Posted by Techdows on Nov 10th, 2011

Mozilla added Do Not Track HTTP header feature to Firefox 4, DNT gives control over the behavioral tracking, users who don’t want to get tracked can select and enable the option from Privacy Tab in Firefox options. After enabling... More »

Waterfox, The Fastest 64-bit Variant of Firefox

Posted by Techdows on Sep 30th, 2011

Currently Firefox 64-bit is still under development (though testing build available, stable version might be available with Firefox 8 release for Windows 64-bit systems), wait! you can taste Waterfox which 64-bit version of Firefox... More »

Change Default Browser in Windows

Posted by Techdows on Sep 26th, 2011

Some browsers and software after installation alters user’s default browser in Windows, some browsers do offers option to set themselves as default browser, if you’ve multiple browsers installed in your Computer instead to... More »

How to Check Whether a Browser Supports WebSockets or Not?

Posted by Techdows on Jun 2nd, 2011

WebSockets used to create interactive communication between a browser and a server, and this technology is used to build Multiplayer Games, HTML5 chats and much more. Mozilla dropped WebSockets support for Firefox 4 (Opera also dropped... More »

CCleaner V3.05 Released Supporting IE 9 and Firefox 4 Browsers

Posted by Techdows on Mar 24th, 2011

Piriform released CCleaner v3.05 by adding support for final Firefox 4 and IE 9 browsers. Current version of CCleaner already supports Windows 7 Sp1 and Piriform added detection and cleaning capabilities for recent browser releases... More »

PDF Download, View PDF Files in Browsers Without the need of a PDF Viewer

Posted by Techdows on Mar 24th, 2011

If you’re one of those wants to view PDFs inline in browsers though a plug-in/add-on (Chrome offers built-in PDF Viewer though) without the need of installing any PDF viewer/Reader such as Foxit/Adobe in your Computer you should... More »

Mozilla Firefox 3.6.16 and 3.5.18 Security Updates Blocks Fraudulent Certificates

Posted by Techdows on Mar 23rd, 2011

Mozilla released Firefox 3.6.16 and 3.5.18 which blacklists few invalid HTTP certificates. Firefox 4 final users are already protected from this. If you’re using Firefox 3.6.x and Firefox 3.5.18 you’re highly recommended to... More »

WebBrowserPassView, Reveals Passwords Stored in Browsers

Posted by Techdows on Mar 2nd, 2011

WebBrowserPassView is a free portable utility that recovers all passwords stored in popular browsers like Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera and Internet Explorer. If passwords stored in mentioned browsers, this tool does recovers lost/forgot... More »

How to Check Whether a Browser Supports Geolocation or not Online

Posted by Techdows on Feb 18th, 2011

While testing Geolocation feature in IE9 RC, I came to know about a service that actually tells whether a browser supports Geolocation or not. As you know Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari browsers and IE9 RC support GL, want to... More »

Safari 5.03 Released, Download now

Posted by Techdows on Nov 19th, 2010

Apple released security update for Safari 5.02, safari 5.03 is available as download from Apple’s website. This update fixes security issues and brings improvements to Safari, so it is recommended for all users to upgrade their... More »

A Curious Guide to Browsers and the Web from Google Chrome Team

Posted by Techdows on Nov 18th, 2010

Google always trying to communicate complex concepts about technology through innovative ways like Comic book on Chrome launch, to explain what is browser to the people they created WhatBrowser.org, in spirit of Chrome’s tradition... More »

Web Browsers Traces Eraser from NoVirusThanks

Posted by Techdows on Nov 9th, 2010

Recently we’ve covered Square Privacy Cleaner from NoVirusThanks which deletes temporary files in your Computer as well as browsers history, NoVirusThanks today released specially developed Web Browsers Traces Eraser app which... More »

List of Browser Extensions File Types

Posted by Techdows on Oct 30th, 2010

Firefox is popular and most successful because of its ability to customize and add more features to the browser through add-ons.Currently Google Chrome, Safari,IE ,Opera (Opera 11 alpha)supports extensions. Except for Chrome ... More »

Restart Crashed or Frozen Browsers with Restart Browser(s) Batch File

Posted by Techdows on Feb 8th, 2010

These days every user not depend on solely on single browser for surfing, using different browsers for his own interests.Browsers do gets crashed or freezes due to unresponsive plug-ins like Flash Player or due to other reasons.Restart... More »

Block explicit content in Google by Locking SafeSearch

Posted by Techdows on Nov 12th, 2009

By default, we have moderate filtering enabled for Google search, that is Google filters explicit images from Google images search results, but it will not filter search results for web search. Today, Google has released another... More »

Google’s Response to What is a Browser ?

Posted by Techdows on Oct 7th, 2009

It is quite surprising that lot of people still don’t know what a browser is ? some are thinking browser as a search engine . Google posted an entry in their blog to aware people what a browser finally is and they also created... More »

Microsoft Changes IE8’s First Run Behavior

Posted by Techdows on Jul 21st, 2009

Despite getting criticism from IE8 users Microsoft Changed its first run behavior after install to give user has the choice to select the option to set IE8 as the default browser if another browser already installed in your computer. ... More »

Firefox 3.5:Low memory Warning

Posted by Techdows on Jul 13th, 2009

I updated my firefox 3.0.11 to Firefox 3.5 as Firefox 3.5 has been released. Mozilla did say that Firefox 3.5 will be fast and stable, but it is embarrassing us with crashes. Firefox 3.5 is showing new low memory warning which I... More »

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.11 Released

Posted by Techdows on Jun 12th, 2009

Mozilla released Firefox 3.0.11 which fixes several security issues found in Mozilla Firefox 3.0.10 .It is recommended to update your Firefox browser to latest version for safe and secured browsing . Your Firefox will be updated... More »

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.10 Released

Posted by Techdows on Apr 28th, 2009

Mozilla Released Firefox 3.0.10 which fixes major security issue and stability issue found in Firefox 3.0.9.It is recommended to update your Firefox version to Firefox 3.0.10 to fix the bugs found in Firefox 3.0.9. To update... More »

Mozilla Firefox 3.09 Released

Posted by Techdows on Apr 24th, 2009

Firefox 3.09 has been released .Several security issues and bugs that were found in Firefox 3.08 are fixed .Update your Firefox to latest version of Firefox 3.09 for safer and secured browsing. Read Firefox 3.09 release notes... More »

Tweak to Bring back IE8 Menu Bar to top

Posted by Techdows on Apr 19th, 2009

As Internet Explorer 8 released ,if you are updated to IE8 from IE7 you can observe the menu bar of IE8 is below to the address bar which is quite opposite to the other browsers as their Menu bar is above address bar.With a little... More »

How to Reset Internet Explorer’s Settings to Default

Posted by Techdows on Apr 14th, 2009

There will be problems you can face after installing some add-ons or some toolbars as Internet Explorer gets crashed.If you don’t know which is causing IE to crash or you want to restore your Internet Explorer to the default state... More »

Remove IE7 RunOnce Page with IE7 RunOnce Remover

Posted by Techdows on Apr 13th, 2009

Though IE8 is released still lot of people are preferring to use IE7.You can face a problem with IE7 when you run IE7 for the first time,an annoying runonce page appears which requires us to specify default search provider,enabling... More »

Internet Explorer 8 Released

Posted by Techdows on Mar 20th, 2009

After Internet Explorer 8 gone through Betas and Released candidate,Microsoft finally released much awaited Internet Explorer 8 in 25 languages which is secured and most fast browser according to Microsoft .Windows... More »

How to Fix “Warning:Unresponsive Script“ in Firefox [Updated]

Posted by Techdows on Mar 12th, 2009

Update: This is worth the try. Install YesScript extension which lets you block JavaScript that is causing problem on specific websites. Install the add-on, restart the browser, open its options and add the page/site on which warning... More »

Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate(RC1) Released

Posted by Techdows on Jan 27th, 2009

Microsoft released Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate which is almost behaves as final IE8 ,IE8 RC is available to download for 25 languages in Windows Vista ,Windows XP and Windows Server.This IE8 RC will not compatible to Windows7... More »

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