Tag Archives: Browser
Mozilla launches Firefox 3.5.4, closes 16 vulnerabilities
Posted on 30. Oct, 2009 by Joseph.
Mozilla has just released a minor but still significant update to its popular Firefox web browser. Version 3.5.4 is essentially focused on security and stability improvements, closing a as much as 11 critical vulnerabilities among a total of 16. These include problems with third-party media libraries, the core and JavaScript engines, web worker calls, the [...]
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Disable and Deactivate Automatic Scanning for Viruses for Downloads in Firefox
Posted on 21. Oct, 2009 by Joseph.
Since Firefox 3, a virus scanning feature has been built-in to protect downloaders from malicious or infectious files. The auto file scanning feature is only available in Windows platform and only if an anti-virus application is installed on the system. The Firefox web browser’s virus scanner scans downloads automatically once the file has been completely [...]
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Download TinEye Firefox Extension to Search for Image Information
Posted on 10. Oct, 2009 by Joseph.
Do you need to find out where an image displayed on a site comes from? Or need to look for a photo in a higher resolution? TinEye, a reverse image search engine which can give you the answer is now available in Firefox. Users who want to search for an image’s origin or information about [...]
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EU warms to Microsoft’s browser ballot screen idea
Posted on 10. Oct, 2009 by Joseph.
Microsoft is one step closer to finally reaching an agreement with the European Commission over its practice of bundling Internet Explorer with Windows. Back in July, the software giant offered to include a ballot screen which would show users in Europe a choice of possible browsers during the Windows 7 installation process. Now after several [...]
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Firefox 3.7 to bring Windows 7 jumplist support
Posted on 10. Oct, 2009 by Joseph.
With Windows 7’s debut right around the corner, program developers are working to fine tune their software for Microsoft’s latest operating system. In addition to the other interface tweaks and new features, Windows 7’s revamped taskbar is probably the first thing that will catch your eye. Icons on the bar now have “jump lists” that [...]
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Mozilla unveils plug-in check service for Firefox
Posted on 10. Oct, 2009 by Joseph.
In an update to its Firefox browser last month, Mozilla introduced a new feature to warn users of outdated and possibly insecure plug-ins, prompting them via the “What’s New” landing page to download a new version if available. Although initially this only covered Flash Player installations, the idea was to extend this check to include [...]
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Fix IE8 Does Not Remember or Save Picture or Image Folder Location or Path Correctly
Posted on 24. Sep, 2009 by Joseph.
When saving an image using Internet Explorer 8 (IE8), the IE browser may or may not “remember” or “save” the full path or location to the folder which the image or picture was last saved to, within the same IE browsing session, especially when there are many tabs been opened or closed. Normally, IE will [...]
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Hack to Launch Only One or Limited Processes of IE8 Regardless of Number of Tabs
Posted on 24. Sep, 2009 by Joseph.
When running Internet Explorer 8 (IE8), there will be more than one iexplore.exe processes that are been spawned and launched with every additional tabs or IE window frames. The behavior is due to the fact that IE8 now implements a new feature called Loosely Coupled IE (LCIE) that uses separate instances of the iexplore.exe process [...]
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Google releases stable version of Chrome 3.0
Posted on 18. Sep, 2009 by Joseph.
Just over a year after first launching Chrome into the browser scene, Google has announced a new stable build in the 3.0 branch. Besides the usual range of bug fixes, Chrome 3.0 includes the promised support for themes, a more customizable New Tab page, an improved Omnibox (the equivalent to Firefox’s Awesome Bar), better HTML5 [...]
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Optimize Firefox Performance Via Defragmentation Add-on Applications
Posted on 11. Sep, 2009 by Joseph.
Mozilla Firefox browser version 3 and above stores a variety of configuration data such as bookmarks, history, RSS feeds, cookies, etc in its self managed and self contained SQLite databases. Over time, the database will get fragmented. The size of the database will get inflated with more and more junk data mixed together with real [...]
