Blocking websites for parental control is a good option available in today’s browsers. You can easily control the websites which can be viewed and rest can be blocked. As explained in one of our earlier posts you can easily block websites in Internet Explorer with the help of its inbuilt options. Also in Google Chrome websites can be blocked with the help of a simple addon.
Firefox
Imagine you have 20 tabs open in your Firefox 4 and somehow it crashes due to memory related issues. You will find that at next start up your Firefox 4 would give two option; one to start a new session and second to restore all tabs. If you restore all tabs, chances are high that Firefox would crash again.
Users of Firefox 3 must have realized that Firefox 4 has got many cosmetic changes in it. Beside cosmetic changes, many new features have been added to the new version. One of the cosmetic features added to Firefox 4 is the swishing tab animation. If you don’t like it then there is a simple about:config fix to remove this eye candy.
Mozilla Firefox 4 has broken all records so far. Firefox 4 was launched last week and within 24 hours the number of downloads touched a 7.1 million mark. Within 48 hours, it passed 15 million and currently it is nearing 40 million total downloads.
Firefox 4 Beta 7 is out and available for download. Firefox 4 Beta 7 is coming with two major performance improvements. The performance improvement which we are talking about includes Hardware Graphics acceleration. JagerMonkey just-in-time (JIT) JavaScript compiler. Mozilla is very concerned for this version of Firefox and that it is still in Beta mode. [...]
Those who monitor their system memory must know that Firefox eats a lot of system memory. At times Firefox even crashes or becomes unresponsive due to this problem. So what can you do to reduce Firefox memory usage? Well we dug some addons out of the huge addons library and found few of them good [...]
Firefox 4 has a lot of new features. Some can be enabled with the help of addons and others can be enabled or can edited with the help of about:config settings. In past 3 posts we have been telling you that how can you gain all benefits without installing any addon. Here is a new [...]
Firefox Home is the iPhone App which caught our attention few days back. We started digging information and found that Firefox Home is not a web browser but it is an App which could save a lot of time for iPhone users. Being absent as web browser, Firefox had to to take some step for [...]
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