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Restore Default Search Engine In Google Chrome 6

Aug

2011

Many people ask me how to restore Google as their default search engine. Maybe you are one of those people who have installed something that changed their default search engine and now you don’t know how to restore it. I’m writing this guide to help you solving this, very common, problem. How to restore Google ...

Browsers’ Private Mode Is Not So Private 1

Aug

2010

During the last Usenix Security Symposium was presented a research by G. Aggrawal, E. Bursztein, C. Jackson, and D. Boneh. This research was published as a PDF and you can download it. According to their research the “private mode” features offered by the major browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome and Safari) don’t work as promised. ...

Serious Safari Security Flaw Found: A Bug Makes Vulnerable Your Personal Informations 1

Jul

2010

If you are among the more than 80 million people who use Apple’s Safari browser to surf the web, you may want to change your settings stat. At the moment, if you are a Safari user, who surfs the web visiting web pages and stuff, a malicious website can uncover your first name, last name, ...

How To Surf The Web Anonymously: Proxy Servers 5

Jul

2010

If you want to surf in the web anonymously, if you want to hide your IP address, there are a lot of free proxy servers that you can use to secure your web browsing activities. Proxy servers allow you to surf in the Web without leaving any trace of your passage. They also allow you ...

Use Gmail As A Web Based Email Client 1

Feb

2010

Have you got a multitude of email addresses? Wouldn’t it be great to have them all together in one single place, that you can also check on the fly using just a web browser? No more Outlook, Thunderbird, and all those things? Google’s own Gmail is simply the best webmail application ever: I have been ...

Simultaneous Anonymous Browsing In Firefox: Private Browsing Window

Jan

2010

With version 3.5, Mozilla introduced in Firefox a new feature: Private Browsing. For those who don’t know, Private Browsing is a particular state of Firefox which allows people to browse anonymously on the web, without leaving any trace into the browser’s history, cookies, complement data, etc. Unfortunately this feature in Firefox is not very practical ...

Set Firefox As Your Default Browser

Jan

2010

By default when you first install an operating system on your machine, the default web browser that you find will be Internet Explorer on Windows and Safari on Macs…Only some Linux distributions have Firefox as their default browsing program. It is really easy to set Firefox as default on any OS, but someone might not ...

How To Turn Firefox Into Google Chrome With Two Add-Ons 3

Dec

2009

We already showed how to make Firefox look like IE 7 using a theme. Well maybe you could prefer Google Chrome’s look to IE’s, but you cannot live without your Firefox? To transform Firefox into Google Chrome, all wee need to use is two things : a full theme which will give the look and ...

How To Sync Your Bookmarks: Mozilla Labs Weave Project 1

Dec

2009

Today I want share with you a new way to sync your favorite bookmarks. Last month I told you about Backup And Sync Your Bookmarks And Your Password For Free – Xmarks. Today I’m going to introduce Mozilla Labs – Weave Sync The Weave Sync add-on lets you securely take your Firefox experience with you ...

Make Your Extensions Work With Firefox 3.6 1

Nov

2009

If you’ve downloaded, like me, the Firefox 3.6 Beta release and you’ve seen that your favorite extensions don’t work on it this guide is for you. I have not given up when my extensions didn’t seem to work properly and I tried a solution, and finally I found the solution in the How To Geek‘s ...