Improve, Enhance, Make Better Browsing Experience With Internet Explorer

Tweak Internet Explorer to Enhance Speed

Most Internet Explorer (IE) users complain about its slow speed, and how much time it takes to start up, and load web pages. However, a few tweaks will ensure that your IE experience becomes twice as fast. This article will tell you how to carry out these minor modifications – all you have to do is follow the steps listed out below.

IE Tweak 1

1. Launch Internet Explorer, and select the option Tools -> Internet Options.
2. Select the Advanced tab.
3. In the Settings field, scroll down to the heading called Multimedia. There, you have to clear the check-boxes next to the following options (as per your preference):
   1. Play animations in webpages
   2. Play sounds in webpages
   3. Show pictures
4. Click on Apply, and then OK.

However, the problem with this tweak is that it will greatly restrict your internet experience – all at the cost of speed. This might not be an attractive option to many.

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Google Chrome for Linux - Available in Beta

Hello everybody out there using Linux -

Google Chrome is go for beta on Linux! Thanks to the many Chromium and WebKit developers who helped make Google Chrome a lean, mean browsing machine. Here are a few fun facts from us on the Google Chrome for Linux team:

60,000 lines of Linux-specific code written
23 developer builds
2,713 Linux-specific bugs fixed
12 external committers and bug editors to the Google Chrome for Linux code base, 48 external code contributors


Click here to download Google Chrome for Linux.

Online Password Manager for Chrome, Firefox and IE

If you looking for an online password manager which supports almost all the popular browsers like Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera and Safari then try out Lastpass. With this free online password manager, the login details like username and password which you have already stored in Firefox can now be easily (and securely) accessed in Chrome, Opera, and on my iPod with a simple little button.

Features and Performance


Lastpass performs well in capturing passwords from ajax forms which other browsers fail to do so.
Allows you to import from every major password storage vendor and export too.
Create strong and different passwords for all sites (you only have to remember one).
Mobile access at http://m.lastpass.com

Security (most important part)

Passwords are locally encrypted and stored on your PC with AES, then uploaded to allow syncing with other computers or browsers. Only your LastPass password can unlock your data.

Install LastPass, Firefox addon

Fix Slow Tab and Broken Tab Issues in Internet Explorer 8

There are many users who upgraded to the latest version of Internet Explorer, i.e. Internet Explorer 8. But they are experiencing issues with tabs not working properly or taking a very long time to load. It seems for majority of the users the issue can be attributed to a problem related with actxprxy.dll not installing and registering properly during the upgrade of the browser. If you are facing a similar problem while using Internet Explorer 8, then fixing this issue is very simple. You have to run just a single command. To resolve this issue: 1. Click on the Start Button, and then click Run. 2. In the Run… dialog box, type regsvr32 actxprxy.dll 3. Click OK, and then click OK again when you receive the following message: “DllRegisterServer in actxprxy.dll succeeded“. 4. Reboot your computer for the tab issue should be resolved.

Copy Photos from your Friend's Profile in Orkut

Recently Orkut disabled the right click on the photos of other person's profile and due to this we can't copy the photos. To copy the photos follow these steps for any web browser: Step 1 - Click on the thumbnail of the photograph you want to download. Step 2 - Once you get the enlarged version of the photograph, click on it and drag to the address bar i.e. keep pressing left-click and move the arrow to the address bar (where you type www.orkut.com) Step 3 - On releasing left-click, the address bar should now have link for image. Step 4 - Now browser window consist of image only. Save it as you normally do. Shortcut of this method is to click on the photo and just drag on to the desktop or any folder. Feel free to post comments :)

How To Delete A Particular Web Address In Internet Browser History

Well this post of mine is just a simple help for those who are newbies to computers. Below is a simple procedure to do it : To delete a single page, open your Internet browser and click on the drop down menu in the address bar. Now select the link that you want to delete, just highlight it and press shift+delete from your keyboard. Simple !!!

Solution for blogger XML error BX-bliced messages after upload new templates

What to do: 1. Download the template you want to upload 2. Get the XML file and open in a WordPad (right click --> Open With --> WordPad). 3. Press “Ctrl + F” and in the search box type widget id 4. In every widget line it will display something like this : widget id='example1', replace that number for a any other one. Example, if the widget says 1, erases it and place number 2 instead. So you will have something like this now: widget id='example2' 5. Do this to all widgets you find in you XML code. When you finish SAVE(Press CTRL+S) 6. Go to Blogger --> Layout --> HTML 7. Upload --> Preview / Save Done! Enjoy it. Update* if you get this error bX-si9ejx, after edited your template, you should delete cookies and temporary internet files at your browser and upload template again.

Free Online Radio via Gtalk/Yahoo/MSN

Listen free online radio through Gtalk or your favorite messenger. You can use this online radio service either via the browser interface (inside gmail) or the Gtalk application itself.This online chat radio is made possible by the guys from gtalk2voip. Google Talk, MSN/Live Messenger and Yahoo Messenger users now can connect to a number of Internet Radio Broadcasting stations and start listening radio streams. How to listen to free online radio 1. Subscribe to gtalk2voip by adding service@gtalk2voip.com to your buddy list. 2. Send RADIO command to service@gtalk2voip.com to get list of available radio stations along with their ID’s. 3. To listen a particular radio station, simply send a command RADIO (number/id). Here is the complete list of online radio stations available through them. LIST OF AVAILABLE RADIO STATIONS: 100 - 181.fm - Kickin Country (Todays Best Country!), http://scfire-chi0l-1.stream.aol.com:80/stream/1075 101 - 1.FM - Country, http://64.62.194.11:8020/ 102 - Atlantic Sound Factory - ASF Radio, http://69.31.50.146:80/ 103 - 100.7 Jack FM, San Diego, http://38.116.132.31:9024/ 104 - 102.7 FM The Fringe, http://64.72.124.89:8134/ 105 - 181.fm - The Buzz (Your Alternative Station!), http://scfire-nyk0l-1.stream.aol.com:80/stream/1022 106 - 181.fm - The Mix Channel (70s, 80s, 90s and Todays Best Music), http://208.53.158.167:8032/ 107 - 181.fm - The Eagle (Your Home For REAL Classic Rock!), http://208.53.158.126:8030/ 108 - .977 The 80s Channel, http://scfire-ntc0l-2.stream.aol.com:80/stream/1040 109 - 1.FM - Channel X, http://209.51.161.54:8072/ 111 - Radio Helsinki - 92.6 MHz, http://88.198.49.11:8000/live56.ogg 201 - KCRW World News, http://scfire-ntc0l-2.stream.aol.com:80/stream/1047 202 - Sporting News Radio, http://scfire-chi0l-2.stream.aol.com:80/stream/1057 203 - KPFK - Southern Californias 90.7 FM News, Talk n Music, http://64.27.31.66:80/ 204 - WBUR 90.9 FM, Bostons NPR News Station, http://205.234.188.21:80/ 205 - TalkRadioX -- http://talkradiox.com, http://tv.stream-music.net:8332/ 206 - Arabian HIT 96.7 FM, Dubai, http://wm-live.abacast.com/arabian_radio-hitfm-24 To connect, type RADIO number where number is a station numerical ID from the list above.

Google Chrome's Keyboard Shortcuts

If you're not much for the mouse, you're in luck: Google Chrome has lots of built-in keyboard shortcuts, many of which mirror Firefox's—so you don't have to retrain your fingers. Here are a few of our favorites: • (Chrome only) Ctrl+B toggles the bookmarks bar on and off. • (Chrome only) Shift+Escape opens Google Chrome's Task Manager. • Ctrl+L to move your cursor to the address bar. • Ctrl+K moves your cursor to the address bar to enter a Google search. • Ctrl+T opens a new tab. • Ctrl+N opens a new window. • Ctrl+Shift+T opens the last closed tab. • (Chrome only) Ctrl+Shift+N opens a new window in "Incognito Mode." • Ctrl+Tab cycles through open tabs; Ctrl+Shift+Tab reverse cycles through open tabs. • Ctrl+J opens the Downloads tab. • Ctrl+W closes the current tab. • Ctrl+R refreshes the current page. • Ctrl+H opens the History tab. • Alt+Home loads your homepage. • Ctrl+1 through 9 switches to a particular open tab position. • Ctrl++, Ctrl+-, Ctrl+0 Enlarges, reduces, and restores default text sizes, respectively.

How To Set Up Proxies In Your Browser

This is a small Tutor - try it out! =================================== How to set up proxies in your browser, (!!!!be anonymous and make the passes last longer...!!!!!! =================================== In Internet Explorer =================================== Click "Tools", then "Internet Options", the in the "connections" Tab, click the "LAN Setup" Button in the bottom. There is a "Proxy Servers", tick the "Use a proxy....." and then enter the proxy in the bigger textbox and the port (the part that comes after the ":") in the smaller textbox. Hit okay, and then go to CODE www.whatismyip.com to see if the proxy is now your IP. =================================== In OPERA =================================== Click "Files", then "Preferences", then "Network", then click the button "Proxy Servers", tick "HTTP", fill in with the proxy:port, click okay and that's it! Don't forget to check with CODE www.whatismyip.com =================================== In Firefox =================================== Tools -> Options Then click the General Icon Then the "Connection Settings..." button Then click the "manually configure proxies" radio button, and enter the proxy address and port in the HTTP Proxy area. Don't forget to check with CODE www.whatismyip.com CODE www.proxy4free.com www.safeproxy.org www.megaproxy.com www.guardster.com www.silenter.com www.anonymizer.com Happy Anonymous surfing! To be clear: if I give you 255.255.255.255:8080, that means 255.255.255.255 is the proxy and 8080 is the port To Optain Fresh and new proxies, you can always check Google...

Adding the Internet Explorer Icon to the desktop in Vista

By default, the icon for the Internet Explorer 7 does not show up on the Vista desktop To add it back in again, a registry edit is needed. Just copy the below code and paste in notepad and save it as anyname.reg Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideDesktopIcons\NewStartPanel] "{871C5380-42A0-1069-A2EA-08002B30309D}"=dword:00000000 Then log off and back on again.

Adding Custom Sound Event in XP

We all know how to change a sound when window starts. But what if we want to create a Custom sound event. What if we like to add a sound whenever a program is opened? Just imagine how good it would be to add a sound whenever Firefox starts, After all sometimes it takes long to open. To add a custom sound effect, you need to open your registry, and please do not forget to backup your registry before making any changes. 1. Go to Start –> Run, type Regedit 2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps 3. Right Click on Apps, New –> Key 4. Name the key with the programs EXE file, like Firefox for Firefox, Winword for Office word, without the extension 5. Now on right pane, right click Default, and click Modify and type in the same application name 6. Right click on new key and create a new key, and name whatever you want to Custom Sound 7. Go to Control Panel –> Sounds and Audio devices –> Sounds, there you should be able to see the Custom sound event you added. You can now assign any sound event you want to. Do try it, an great tip to personalize your system more :)

Mozilla Firefox Cool Stuff !!!

Hello Friends , Here I am writing some cool Firefox tricks which are very helpful in using Mozilla Firefox. As we know Mozilla Firefox is the Best and very good browser with extensions, add-ons, Language Packs, Plug ins and themes and many new things by which you can execute JavaScript. Mozilla Firefox also has other features like Tabbed browsing, Pop up blocking, Cookie Manager, Download Manager, pause downloads, JavaScript Console, JavaScript Debugger, Select text and perform search, View Selection Source, Cross-platform, Display icons in tabs and address bar, HTTP Pipe lining, XML Base, CSS generated content, CSS2 selectors, Caret Browsing etc. Below are some tricks and tips by which you can use Mozilla Firefox easily. 1. Here are the Keyboard shortcuts. - Space bar (page down) - Ctrl+K (go to search box) - Alt-N (find next) - Ctrl+L (go to address bar) - Ctrl+= (increase text size) - Ctrl+D (bookmark page) - F5 (reload) - Ctrl+- (decrease text size) - Ctrl-W (close tab) - Alt-Home (go to home page) - Ctrl+F (find) - Shift-Spacebar (page up) - Ctrl+T (new tab) 2. Sometimes in hurry by mistake you click on close button of Firefox tabs. But In Mozilla Firefox you can remove or move close tab button by about:config. Type about:config in address bar then search for browser.tabs.closeButton in search bar. When you find it double click on it. It will show you a prompt with by default value 1. You can change it to different values for different behaviors. - Enter 0 to display a close button on the active tab only. - Enter 1 (default Value) to display close button to all tabs. - Enter 2 to don’t display any close buttons. - Enter 3 to display single close button at the end of the tab bar. 3. Now we know Mozilla Firefox have giving feature of multiple tabs , so sometimes it is very hard to handle multiple tabs with mouse, so you can also handle tabs by keyboard. Below are some tips to handle tabs by keyboard. - Ctrl+Tab (rotate forward among tabs) - Ctrl+Shft+Tab (rotate to the previous tab) - Ctrl+1-9 (choose a number to jump to a specific tab) 4. Here is the Mouse shortcuts for Mozilla Firefox. - Middle click on link (opens in new tab) - Shift-scroll down (previous page) - Shift-scroll up (next page) - Ctrl-scroll up (decrease text size) - Ctrl-scroll down (increase text size) - Middle click on a tab (closes tab) 5. about:config : This is a feature of Mozilla which lists aaplication and configuration setting setting of Mozilla. You can Get all settings configuration of your Mozilla by enter about:config in your address bar of Mozilla. 6. If you want to speed up your Mozilla Firefox then - Type about:config into the address bar and hit return. Type network. http in the filter field, and change the following settings (double-click on them to change them): - Set network.http.pipelining to true - Set network.http.proxy.pipelining to true - Set network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to a number like 30. This will allow it to make 30 requests at once. - Now, right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it nglayout.initialpaint.delay and set its value to 0?. This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.

Google Chrome Cool Stuff

As you know the new Google Chrome is out. If you had a chance to try it out you should know how fast, simple and minimal it is. Google Chrome is an excellent software and apparently it looks like it doesn’t need any tweaks to improve its already good performance. Anyway, for those of you guys who are always looking for good stuff to improve your software beyond its limit, here is a list of useful tricks or hacks: 1. Control + Shift + N : Opens the famous “incognito” windows. Thanks to it you will be able to surf without leaving any footprint on your PC (cookes, history etc.) 2. You can also open a website in an “incognito” window by right-clicking on a link and selecting: Open link in incognito window. 3. Alt + Home : Loads your Google Chrome home page along with thumbnails of your most visited sites. 4. Control + T : Opens a new Tab. 5. Control + Shift + T : Opens your most recently closed tab. Press this key combination again to open the tab closed before the one you just opened. 6. Control + 1, Control + 2, Control + 3, etc. : Lets you jump to different tabs. 7. Control + Tabs : Lets you open tabs in order. 8. As in Fireofx 3, you can drag a link onto a tab to it , or drop it between two tabs to open a new tab. 9. Control +B : Hides or shows the bookmark’s bar. 10. Control + H : Opens the History page. 11. Control + J : Opens the download page. 12. To delete an item from the download page, right-click on the selected item and click Remove. 13. Right-click the top of the browser window, select Task manager to find out how much memory tabs and plug-ins are taking from your computer to work. Select one of them and click End process to stop it running. 14. About:plugins (write it in the address bar): Lets you see what plug-in you are using. 15. About:crash (write it in the address bar): Lets you see what a crashed tab looks like. 16. To know more information about Google Chrome you can also type in the address bar the following commands: about:stats, about:network, about:histograms, about:memory, about:cache, about:dns, about:internets. 17. To delete all of your data stored into Google Chrome: click the Tools icon and select Clear browsing data… 18. Shift + Escape: Lets you bring up the Google Chrome Task manager.

Hidden Information and secret Things in Mozilla Firefox

Hello Friends,In this post i am trying to give you some new and useful information about Mozilla Firefox Browser. So Please read it and if you like it then give comments to it.So If you want to know secret and new things about Mozilla then open Mozilla Firefox and then enter string into address bar one by one given below and then press enter . 1. about:Mozilla When you enter this string in address bar then pressed enter then you will see that this page will show a quote from “The Book of Mozilla” with RED background. 2. about:credits When you enter this string in address bar then pressed enter then you will see that this page will show a page with heading of “Our Contributors” in Alphabatic view. In Short this page will show names of Contributors who created Mozilla. 3. about:plugins This string will show list of installed plug ins in Mozilla Firefox Browser. 4. about:config When you enter this then you will see several setting key, By which you can set all configurations of Mozilla Firefox Browser. But if you don’t know any about it then please don’t try to change it. By these configuration settings you can do anything with Mozilla like You can spped up Mozilla speed by 400 percent etc. 5. about:cache When you use this to get information then by this string you will get all information about Memory cache device and Disk cache device and also your all cache details of Mozilla. 6. about: This will show Logo of Mozilla Firefox with version, Contributors information, License information and Build configuration of Mozilla Firefox. 7. about:buildconfig This will show all build configuration of Mozilla Firefox. 8. about:license This will show all information related to license like Mozilla Public License, # GNU General Public License, GNU Lesser General Public License etc. If you like my posts then please comment on it.

Google launches their new browser "Google Chrome"

Yet another addition to the services provided by Google to the internet users. Google launches their new open source web browser "The Google Chrome" . People at Google labs are popular for their user friendly designs and features and im sure that this Google Chrome is not going to be any different. Google Chrome is an open source web browser developed by Google. It builds on components from other open source software, including WebKit and Mozilla, and is aimed at improving stability, speed and security with a simple and efficient user interface. The name is derived from the graphical user interface frame, or "chrome", of web browsers. Download Google Chrome

Make Orkut Free From Google Ads

Internet is a vast place for people like us who like to surf from one site to another. Social networking sites are just one more place to surf. These sites such as Orkut, MySpace, Hi5 or FaceBook have penetrated so deep into our lives that the moment we start surfing, we logon to these sites first.


Orkut is one of social networking sites owned by Google. Though it's only popular in Brazil and India, but for some reason, Alexa says Orkut is the 9th most visited site in Ireland.

One thing which I have been annoyed of lately is the Google Ads shown by Google in the community homepage as this one.


But applying this trick you can free yourself from these ads in a cool place like Orkut.

Trick:

First and foremost requirement of this trick is that you should be using Mozilla Firefox. This Open Source piece of software is best software I've ever came across.

Fire your Firefox and proceed to this addon link -> AdBlock Plus. According to their developers

"Ever been annoyed by all those ads and banners on the internet that often take longer to download than everything else on the page? Install Adblock Plus now and get rid of them."

Click "Add to Firefox" and install the addon for your browser. Next step is restart your browser. Now everyone must be thinking how this can be called a trick when it comes to just installing a simple addon. Wait!!!


Whenever you want to block an ad, just right click it and click "AdBlock Image". But clicking all the ads inside Orkut is an impossible task because for that you have to search each and every community. But ever noticed that what is common with all these ads, their command format is

http://www.orkut.com/AdsIframe.aspx?xxxxxxx

This page is responsible for generating the Adsense code and placement of ads on pages.

Follow the next step and block all the Google ads. Right click any Google ads and click "Adblock Image". A box will popup and just enter "http://www.orkut.co.in/AdsIframe.aspx" . Bingo !!! You will blocked that main page which generates the ads.

This way you can block all the ads in Orkut. Liked the trick, I'll be waiting for your precious comments.

Increase the Browsing and Downloading speed in Windows Vista

With windows Vista you have noticed the slow internet speed. The web browsing and downloading speed is very slow as compare to previous versions of windows. You can open the same sites in windows XP and server 2003 with the normal speed. Follow the given steps to increase the Vista browsing speed: First go to Advance tab in Internet Explorer settings and turn off the TLS (Transport Layer Security) encryption option. Here to fix problem with some secure pages turn on the SSL 2.0 (Secure Sockets Layer) feature and click Ok button to close it. Follow the major fix for this problem: In windows Vista, the TCP autotuning feature is enabled by default. Some web servers do not respond properly to this feature, so it appears that some sites open with very slow speed. To use this feature, you will need to be logged into your computer with administrative rights. First click on Start button and type CMD in Run option then press Enter. At Command Prompt, type the following command and press enter. netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel= disabled This command will disable the TCP autotuning feature. Now close the command Prompt and restart your computer after any changes to go into effect. You can easily restore these setting by typing the following command at Command Prompt. netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel= normal Now close the command Prompt and again restart your computer after any changes to go into effect.

Enabling right click on sites that disable it

Enabling right click on sites that disable it Lots of web sites have disabled the right click function of the mouse button... it's really, really annoying. This is done so that you don't steal (via right-click->save picture) their photos or images or any other goodies. Unfortunately, it disables ALL right-click functionality: copy, paste, open in new window. It's easy to change, assuming your using IE: Click "Tools"->"Internet Options" Click the "Security" tab Click "Custom Level" Scroll down to the "Scripting" section Set "Active Scripting" to "disable" Click "Ok" a couple of times. You'll probably want to turn this back to "enable" when your done... 'cause generally the javascript enhances a website.

Gmail Fast Login

Works in Internet Explorer, Opera & Firefox. For low speed connections logging in to gmail could becomes an irritating task. You must have experienced gmail login problem especially on a dial up connection. Login in to gmail is comparatively slower because of its rich user interface, because of that sometimes the gmail login screens gives an error. And in orkut also sometimes the login box does not appears and says “connection timed out” or “server not responding” kind of messages. Following are some tips and tricks to login into gmail faster even with low speed internet connections. Gmail login tricks - Use HTML version of gmail instead of standard version. You can access to gmail’s HTML version directly from this url http://mail.google.com/mail/h/ - Also try gmail mobile version It is very lo-fi version of gmail but the speed of logging in really fast, it is opening instantly on my system. The mobile version of gmail login page is simple, fast and furious. So no more gmail login problems now. http://m.gmail.com