Firefox 4 brought a new inbuilt feature with its release named Firefox sync. Firefox Sync was available as an addon before the release of Firefox 4 but now this feature has been integrated within Firefox 4.
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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.
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.
Microsoft is going to release the full version of IE 9 on 14th March and many people are already excited about it. Since the time Internet Explorer 9 for first released in beta form and then RC form, it has been downloaded 36 million times. According to the sources IE9 itself is capturing 0.66% of the worldwide browser usage share.
IE9 Release Candidate version was launched few days back. IE9 is coming with a new feature known as ActiveX Filtering which helps in blocking and preventing ActiveX controls which are automatically executed on certain web pages. Web developers use ActiveX to create contents which are used to display interactive animations, video playback, stock quotes, play [...]
People like using chrome because it’s fast and customizable. Talking about customization, chrome themes is one of the area which gave this browser a good pitch. There are lots of chrome themes available out there in Google Chrome themes Gallery and ChromeThemes.org. But still if you are not satisfied with the available options then you [...]
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