Internet Explorer 8 Coming via Automatic Update

Microsoft is starting to Push Internet Explorer 8 to the existing users via Windows automatic update feature.It won't install itself.Once the download is complete you will be propted by a window having the options to install it.

As it was mentioned on the IE blog

Starting on or about the third week of April, users still running IE6 or IE7 on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, or Windows Server 2008 will get will get a notification through Automatic Update about IE8. This rollout will start with a narrow audience and expand over time to the entire user base. On Windows XP and Server 2003, the update will be High-Priority. On Windows Vista and Server 2008 it will be Important.

IE8 will not automatically install on machines. Users must opt-in to install IE8. Users will see a Welcome screen that offers choices: Ask later, install now, or don’t install.

Automatically Save Files to Specific Folders - Automatic Save Folder 0.9.2

This firefox add-on will help you by openning the save dialog already pointing at the right folder location according to filters you set.

The filters are based on filenames and domain's name.
This extension works with automatic file downloading and left click on a link only, no right click for the moment.

You won't need to search the good folder for hours anymore, ASF will open it for you automatically.

Note : Compatible with Firefox 3.1 beta 3

Download or proceed to its Homepage

IE 8 is the fastest browser

A white paper published by Microsoft states that in a ‘real world’ test on browser speeds, Microsoft's team compared the performance of IE 8 (currently available as Release Candidate 1), Google Chrome 1.0 and Mozilla Firefox 3.05. Microsoft has made available a video on the study as well as a whitepaper, "Measuring Browser Performance: Understanding Issues in Benchmarking and Performance Analysis".

For the purpose of the benchmarking, Microsoft used 25 popular Web sites, based on a comScore ranking. The results clearly showed that IE 8 was the fastest browser at 12 sites, followed by Chrome (nine sites) and Firefox (four sites).

Microsoft also added that in addition to the exceptional page load performance, Internet Explorer 8 is also optimized to speed up the things that many users do day in and day out such as mapping an address, emailing links to friends, checking the weather, monitoring eBay auctions, etc.

Internet Explorer 8 can perform these tasks using anywhere from 10-50% fewer steps than other browsers.

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Disable Automatic Virus Scan in Firefox 3

Fireofox 3 has a built in feature of scanning for viruses after each download is completed.That could slow the process specially if the file is big.That can really take some important time.So if you want to disable this automatic virus scan you just have to follow these simple steps.Yeah yeah the same old about:config trick.Here you go.

• Type about:config in the Firefox address bar
• Now filter the following browser.download.manager.scanWhenDone
• Preference should be : No
• Set the parameter to False

Here you go.Now Firefox won't scan for viruses automatically after each download.

Check Memory Consumed By Websites Using Google Chrome

Google Chrome Beta which is now available for public downloading is said to have the Potential to be a Firefox Killer.Well i think it has a lot to do to be a Firefox killer.Nevertheless here is one very interesting feature in Google Chrome,"Google Chrome Task Manager" which helps you the check memory, CPU and bandwidth usage of the web pages.



All you need to do is press the SHIFT + ESC keys at the same time.The Google Chrome Task Manager Will appear showing you the Physical Memory usage as shown in the pic above.

Zoom In Or Out Any Web Page Using Firefox

One of the great Features of Firefox is the ability to zoom in and out while on a webpage. This is helps a great deal when text, or even a photo, is too small to see well.

All you need to do is to follow these simple steps.

Go any web page that you want Zoom.Hold the Ctrl Key & press The "+" key on the keyboard till you get the satisfactory results of zooming in.Similarly you can zoom out while Holding the Ctrl key & Pressing the "-" key.You can also Zoom in and out if with the help of your mouse only if you have a scroll wheel in your mouse.Just Hold the Ctrl Key & scroll upwards to zoom in & Downwards for Zooming out.

How to use About:Config in Firefox 3

You all must be familiar to the About:Config trick in Firefox 2.But in Firefox 3 it has a slightly different method to perform that trick.So whats the difference?Here it is for you.

1. Start Firefox.

2. Type about:config into the address bar and press Enter. Something like this will appear.Click I’ll be careful, I promise button:


Here comes our desired about:config Window



3. Now we have to modify or create new values as you used to do it in Firefox 2

Update Your Firefox Extensions to Firefox 3

In order to make your Firefox add-ons & Extensions to work on Firefox 3 you need to follow following simple steps.Here is the trick from Firefox developers.

Step 1: Update the install manifest

The first step -- and, for most extensions, the only one that will be needed -- is to update the install manifest file, install.rdf, to indicate compatibility with Firefox 3.

Simply find the line indicating the maximum compatible version of Firefox (which, for Firefox 2, might look like this):

2.0.*

Change it to indicate compatibility with Firefox 3:

3.0.*

Then reinstall your extension.

Note that Firefox 3 does away with the extra ".0" in the version number, so instead of using "3.0.0.*, you only need to use "3.0.*".
Note: Note that at this point more changes in Firefox 3 are expected. These changes may break some extensions, so you shouldn't release an extension with 3.0.* maxVersion to the users until the Firefox 3 release candidate is out. During the Firefox 3 Beta period, you should use 3.0b5 as your maxVersion.

There have been (and will continue to be) a number of API changes that will likely break some extensions. We're still working on compiling a complete list of these changes.
Note: If your extension still uses an Install.js script instead of an install manifest, you need to make the transition to an install manifest now. Firefox 3 no longer supports install.js scripts in XPI files.

Step 2: Ensure you are providing secure updates

If you are hosting addons yourself and not on a secure add-on hosting provider like addons.mozilla.org then you must provide a secure method of updating your add-on. This will either involve hosting your updates on an SSL website, or using cryptographic keys to sign the update information.

Read the rest at

http://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Updating_extensions_for_Firefox_3

Inquisitor For Firefox - Try Peers

All modern day Web browsers have a little search box present near their address bar.That's for searching over the internet in some popular Search Engines like Google,Yahoo & Live Search.
Similarly in Firefox a search box is present for quick searching.But it may still take a little time.I mean type in your query & then visit a website on the result page.Here is a much faster searching solution for you.

Peers is a handy add-on for Firefox.Peers provides real time previews for your search bar. It makes your web experience much more comfortable.So that you can directly visit the site without going to the result page.You can install peers from Here.

Note:Works with Firefox 2

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Automatically Launch Applications at Each Flash Drive Plugin - USB AutoRunner

Hello everyone.Do you have any important document or application,that you want to be displayed automatically each time you plug in your USB Flash drive?Well here is a solution for you.It is neat little utility called USB AutoRunner.

It will just create an Autorun.inf file on your Flash drive.Through which you will be able to run the file automatically.You must be thinking that whats the use of such an application?Let me tell you there are some.You can automatically scan for viruses using your portable Anti Virus when you plug in your Flash disk.Or you can launch your portable Web Browser & there are several other things that you can do wit it.To get USB AutoRunner please proceed to this link.

Import & Export Firefox passwords - Password Exporter 1.1

In my previous post i have written about Firefox Extension & add-ons.Well here is one more useful
add-on.Now i have told you about how you can import or export your add-ons.But now i am about to tell how you can import & export Passwords saved in your Firefox.

Password Exporter allows you to export your saved passwords and disabled login hosts using XML or CSV files that can be imported in another browser or computer.

This password Exporter 1.1 Supports Firefox 2, Firefox 3, Thunderbird, and several other applications.You can access it by following these simple steps.

• Go to Firefox Options/Preferences
• Security pane
• Import/Export Passwords button

OR you can perform the same operation by

• Add-ons Manager
• Preferences/Options for the extension

So If you want to use this add-on you can proceed to its Homepage.

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Easily Import & Export your Firefox extensions - OPIE

One great advantage of Mozilla Firefox is a broad range of Add-ons & Extensions.OPIE (Ordered Preference Import/Export) is another Firefox extension that enable you to backup your other Firefox add-ons.By this it allows you to import & Export your previously installed extension preferences.

Don't mix it with FEBE, which is in fact is another extremely popular Firefox extension.It is different from FEBE.One major difference between these two Firefox Extensions is that OPIE works with Firefox 3.So if you want to use this Firefox extension,please proceed to OPIE page.

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