Web browser news as it happens
In: Firefox
25 Jan 2010Firefox 3.6 has introduced a new tab behaviour, where new tabs are opened next to your currently selected tab, while Firefox 3.5 and older would open new tabs at the end of all your tabs.
If you don’t like this new behaviour, you can change it back to the way it was. Simply follow these steps:
Go [...]
In: Firefox
21 Nov 2008Mozilla, makers of the popular Firefox web browser, have passed a huge milestone, with over 1 billion add-ons downloaded.
This number is much likely larger, as Mozilla only started tracking downloads in 2005, with add-ons also available from other websites.
Justin Scott from Mozilla says there are about “1.5 million add-on downloads per day and increasing”.
Add-ons are [...]
In: Firefox
19 Nov 2008I’m sure some of you may be frustrated by Firefox 3.1’s new tab behaviour when pressing Ctrl + Tab. No longer does it just browse through the tabs, but instead it switches to the most recently viewed tab (much like Windows Alt + Tab.
Thankfully, you can turn the new Ctrl + Tab behaviour off, and [...]
Those of you still using Internet Explorer may notice that you can only download a maximum of two files at once. With a quick registry fix you can increase this number up to 10. The steps you need to follow are found below:
Click Start->Run
Type ‘regedit‘ without the quotes and hit Run.
Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersions\Internet Settings
Click Edit->New->DWORD [...]
In: Chrome| Firefox| Internet Explorer| Opera| Safari
10 Oct 2008Mashable has posted a great article with 25 resources on how to customise your favorite browser.
Included are resources for Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Opera and Google Chrome.
You can read the full article on the Mashable website.
Happy customising!
In: Chrome
19 Sep 2008Edit 2: Real full screen mode is available in the latest release of Google Chrome. You simply need to press F11.
Edit: For clarification – there is no full-screen mode in Google Chrome yet. This simply opens the browser maximized.
One thing that many users may find frustrating is that Google Chrome opens in window mode. Thankfully [...]
In: Firefox
17 Sep 2008There are many cool little Firefox tweaks that users often don’t know about, all hidden away and editable from a special link within Firefox. These following tweaks will make your Firefox quicker and more efficient for today’s broadband connection.
To get to this special menu, in the address bar type about:config and then press enter. Firefox [...]