Tag: BROWSING

There have been more than a few blog posts lately talking about how websites can use Flash cookies to keep tabs on you even if you're visiting their site using your browser's private browsing mode. It would appear, however, that the crew at Adobe thinks this is something which should change. According to a post on NeoWin, Adobe is working to make sure that Flash 10.1 will play nice with the ...

Welcome back to Chrome Corner! Due to some craziness we're running a day behind here - so let's get going! Chrome for Mac gets extension support Google pushed out two Chrome updates in the past five days - including one which added some missing features for Mac users. Yes, at long last the developer channel for Mac has gained support for extensions! You're now free to browse around the ...

digg_url = 'http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2009/12/31/firefox-throttle-keeps-your-browsers-bandwidth-usage-under-cont/'; While the guys over at UselessApplications.com claim their software is "of no interest to most people," I've got dozens of customers here who would love to have me bolt Firefox Throttle onto their web browser. See, I live and work way out in the boonies - about 6 ...

Tired of accidentally closing important tabs in Firefox? Tabberwocky, a useful tab-manager add-on, lets you protect a tab, open a duplicate tab next to the original, and lots more. Tabberwocky can move the 'close tab' button to either side of a tab, highlight unread tabs, retain a tab's history when you open a link in a new tab -- and that's just the beginning! This tiny 25kb add-on has a list of ...

There are plenty of ways to utilize the Tor network for a little added browsing privacy - like OperaTor, for example. If you'd prefer a single anonymity solution that can handle any browser, portable or not, give PortableTor a try. It's Tor, Vidalia (a GUI frontend for Tor), and Privoxy in a single, portable package. All you need to do is launch PortableTor and edit your browser's proxy settings ...

First off, let me clarify: I'm not saying that StumbleUpon isn't a very complex, smartly built addon. It's just that I don't go stumbling off to a (somewhat) randomly selected site all the time. Sometimes I'd like walk a path that has been trodden by others searching for the same things I am. Fast Forward by BuzzBox is an excellent alternative, suggesting possible destinations based on where ...

Adobe has announced that there is a known clickjacking vulnerability in the current Flash player. If you're looking to protect yourself, there are two possible remedies. Adobe has a workaround posted on their web site. Visit the Flash player settings panel and click always deny on the global privacy settings. Firefox users would do well to install the NoScript addon, which has updated ...

If you frequently find yourself browsing on a low-bandwidth connection, you can potentially speed up your browsing experience by using the compressing proxy server at Toonel.net. The concept is simple: install their application on your computer (versions are available for Windows, Mac, Linux, Sun Solaris, and even Windows Mobile and Symbian), then set your proxy settings to point to your localhost ...

iBreadcrumbs is a browser toolbar you can use to record the websites you visit while you're working on a particular project, so you can find your research again or share your sources with someone else. Sure, you could do this manually, by posting your finds to del.icio.us or a similar bookmarking service, and giving them all the same tag, but iBreadcrumbs makes that look like way too much work. ...

Zurfer is straight out of the Yahoo! Research Berkeley facility. This handheld application is a location based photo browser. What it is in basic terms is Flickr for your mobile device. The Zurfer application is currently being developed in the Yahoo research labs, and will -- when loaded on mobile phones -- showcase photos taken around you based on current gps co-ordinates. You can also pull ...

On Monday Google released Google Toolbar 4 beta which has a number of cool new features. The biggest new feature, in my opinion, is a bookmarks menu that's accessible from anywhere a la Foxmarks, but some might be uneasy about entrusting their bookmarks to Google's servers. The second big feature is the new custom buttons API that lets developers easily create little buttons on the toolbars that ...

Firefox may take the cake as far as extensions, plugins and the kitchen sink goes, but OS X's Safari browser has its own plugin following that's hot on Firefox's trail: PimpMySafari.com.From dev tools that can copy the HTML of a whole site with a single hotkey, bookmark managers and browsing scratchpads, this quickly expanding collection of Safari plugins, helpers and accessories has everything an ...