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Restore Default Search Engine In Google Chrome

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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 Chrome default search engine:

  1. First you have to click the “wrench icon” located at the upper right corner of your browser


  2. Now go to “Options” (Preferences on Mac and Linux; Settings on a Chromebook)


  3. Open the “Basic” tab


  4. Click on the “Manage search engines” button
    • Now remove the search engine you wouldn’t use just selecting it from the list and clicking the “x” that appears at the end of the row.
    • Add a search engine: Scroll to the bottom of the dialog and fill out the following fields:
      • Add a new search engine: Enter a nickname for the search engine.
      • Keyword: Enter the text shortcut you want to use for the search engine. Use the keyword to do keyword searches.
      • URL: Enter the web address for the search engine. Learn how to find this URL
    • Edit a search engine: Select the search engine from the list and click the field you want to modify.
    • Make a search engine default: Select the search engine you want to use as your default search engine and click the Make default button that appears in the row.

You have done! If you want to share your experience or if you found some problems following this guide drop us a comment and we will help you!

Browsers’ Private Mode Is Not So Private

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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.

In theory these features should let you to browse the Web without leaving any trace on your computer , but they don’t. For example when you visit a website that uses SSL security certification,also if you are using Firefox, IE, and Safari “private mode”, this visit will be recorded in a file on your computer.
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Serious Safari Security Flaw Found: A Bug Makes Vulnerable Your Personal Informations

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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, work place, city, state, and your email address. Even if you’ve never been there, or entered any personal information, before.


PhotoFiltre: Todd Klassy

This is possible using an exploit discovered in Safari’s AutoFill that allows malicious websites to extract a user’s first name, last name, work place, city, state, and email address. They don’t even need to fill out a form to trigger the bug: It can occur simply by their loading the site and takes place in just seconds. WhiteHat Security’s Jeremiah Grossman has described it in greater detail.
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How To Surf The Web Anonymously: Proxy Servers

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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 to bypass firewalls due to censorship filters, schools, universities or any other case where yo are forbid to browse the web like you do at home.


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If you are in your office and a firewall doesn’t allow you to access some websites a proxy server is what you really need.

When you surf in the Web your privacy is constantly at risk. When you are in Internet everything you do is recorded by Internet providers and by the servers that host the web sites you visit. All this information is collected without you even noticing, and these could be given away to third-party services.
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Use Gmail As A Web Based Email Client

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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 using Gmail since it was in the invite-only beta phase, and it has been adding features over these years, coming to be an almost-perfect email web based client, and one of the best things it does, is the ability to send emails pretending to be another account, on a different domain and server. That’s what we will use in this mini-guide to transform a single Gmail account into an all-in-one email client for all of your address (that support forwarding).
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Simultaneous Anonymous Browsing In Firefox: Private Browsing Window

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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 to use: in fact, you have to close your actual session in order to start it.

Luckily there’s a plugin, Private Browsing Window, that lets you open a new completely independent anonymous window, like it is in Chrome’s Incognito Mode, so that you don’t need to close the current browsing session.
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Set Firefox As Your Default Browser

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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 have had the chance to learn how yet…so here’s how to do it in two easy steps:
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How To Turn Firefox Into Google Chrome With Two Add-Ons

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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?

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To transform Firefox into Google Chrome, all wee need to use is two things : a full theme which will give the look and feel, and an extension that’ll move the tabs and make them look like Chrome’s ones.

Are you ready to start? Let’s begin!
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How To Sync Your Bookmarks: Mozilla Labs Weave Project

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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

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The Weave Sync add-on lets you securely take your Firefox experience with you wherever you go. You can now surf the Web on your PC, get up and go, and have everything waiting for you on your phone: your history, open tabs, bookmarks, the Awesome Bar – just as you had left it.
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