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Mozilla applications render web pages incrementally - they display what’s been received of a page before the entire page has been downloaded. Since the start of a web page normally doesn’t have much useful information to display, Mozilla applications will wait a short interval before first rendering a page: by default, Firefox doesn’t try to render a web page for 250 milliseconds while it’s waiting for data.

If you use about:config to add the Integer preference nglayout.initialpaint.delay, and set the value to 0, Firefox immediately starts to display the page, even without complete data (lower values will make a page initially display more quickly, (more…)

These have been around for quite sometime now but you might want to check them out again. For newer Mozilla Firefox users, these are quite interesting. Firefox does actually have these so-called hidden pages. Call them easter eggs if you want but a bunch of these hidden pages are quite useful.

You can just type these in the address bar and press enter to access the pages. Here are the magnificent seven: (more…)

An Instructional video posted to YouTube has been offering a primer on how to use Google to nick music and video files in less time than it takes to download them from a P2P site. The Financial Times has got its knickers in a twist after discovering a a 21 year old called Jimmy Ruska has posed the video which shows how to direct Google’s search engine to locate files from unprotected computer systems.

The FT says that Ruska’s formula worked at Yahoo and other search engines. The nine-minute long video shows that the trick is focus a search on certain keywords, (more…)

The world’s best browser. Now on Windows… Experience the web, Apple style, with Safari: The fastest, easiest-to-use web browser in the world.

The fastest web browser on any platform, Safari loads pages up to 2 times faster than Internet Explorer 7 and up to 1.6 times faster than Firefox 2. And it executes JavaScript up to 2.8 times faster than Internet Explorer 7 and up to 1.6 times faster than Firefox 2. (more…)

Removing temporary Internet files from Internet Explorer 7 is sometimes necessary to solve certain problems with web pages and sometimes to even fix problems with IE7 itself.

The temporary Internet files in Internet Explorer 7 contain locally saved copies, called cache, of web pages you have recently visited. Clearing the temporary Internet files in Internet Explorer is completely safe and should not remove any other data from your PC.

Follow the easy steps below to clear the temporary Internet files from your Internet Explorer 7 browser: (more…)

Clearing the Internet cache from Firefox 2 is often necessary to solve certain web page and browser problems that sometimes occur.

The Internet cache in Firefox 2 contains locally saved copies of recent web pages you have visited. This is done so that the next time you visit the page, Firefox can load it from your saved copy which will be much faster than loading it from the Internet.

Clearing the Internet cache in Firefox 2 is completely safe and should not remove any important data from your computer.

Follow the easy to follow steps below to clear the Internet cache from your Firefox 2 browser: (more…)

Clearing the temporary Internet files from Internet Explorer 6 is sometimes necessary to solve certain problems with web pages and with the browser itself.

The temporary Internet files in Internet Explorer 6 contain locally saved copies, also called cache, of recent web pages you have visited. Clearing the temporary Internet files in Internet Explorer is completely safe and should not remove any important data from your computer.

Follow the easy steps below to clear the temporary Internet files from your Internet Explorer 6 browser: (more…)

To do this you need a tool called UnPlug which is a Firefox Add-On, so you don’t have to be a genius to understand that you need Firefox.

UnPlug is an extension which lets you save video and audio which is embedded on a webpage, it’s a video download tool. You can install it from here

UnPlug scans web pages and tells you where media players are getting their data from, and displays it as a simple hyperlink: in most cases, you can then follow the simple download link to save the media file. (more…)

1.IE Appearance IE allows you to zoom in or out on web-pages – use Ctrl+(+) and Ctrl+(-), You can even generate a print preview that scales the page to your paper size.
2.Classic Menus To stick with tradition, the ALT key or the Tools menu provides easy access to those familiar classic menus of IE.
3.Web Search Use the search engine you prefer through one familiar search box, and change search providers on the fly from a handy drop-down menu.
4.Tabbed Browsing How often do you open a number of web pages with a similar theme? Well you can group these together under the same Internet Explorer window with tabbed browsing. A simple ctrl-click will open a link in your current window to a new tab.
5.Quick Tabs Once you have the tab group, Quick Tabs allows you to view all your tabbed pages as thumbnails, allowing you to quickly pick the page you want.
6.Favorites (Groups) Favorites are even easier, and you can even save those same tab groups you created for later use. Simply use the star to access saved pages or tab groups, or + to add the page or tab group to favorites.