Google started of as a website which basically was all about searching things online. I even wondered a couple of days ago if Google is used by me out of sheer habit. I thought about all the Google products I must say there are a few which I use almost every time I am online.
We use Gmail, Google Docs, Google Maps and so much more with Google. I personally end up being signed into Gmail from where I look for jump-points to other services like Documents, Reader etc.
Google Shortcuts is a Firefox add-on which really allows us to visit a page of our choosing with ease. It looks like the screen shot below.
The add on is pretty nifty as once installed it can be customized to show some icons next to the address bar. If that is a problem you can set it to a drop down menu like I did in the image.
I could edit the URL of a particular shortcut which can be useful for adding email jump page with Google apps.
I could select which page I wanted in the drop down from a host of options. I think I stopped counting at thirty. 😉
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When I started writing for Devils’ Workshop last year, I wrote a post about how the pie is shrinking for Internet Explorer when it comes to the browser market. In those days Internet Explorer market share had fallen from heady 70’s down to mid 60’s when it come to the percentages. The one browser gaining momentum was Firefox and closely on its heels was Chrome.
I decided to check some stats on Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer when it came to their market share for the month of June 2010 and the stats threw up some interesting trends.
Some of the things that stand out are that Internet Explorer’s share is at 60.32%. This is actually better than a month ago but over all if you compared it to last October it is quite disappointing when it was about 66%.
The interesting part comes reading the Firefox and Chrome numbers. Chrome in the last 10 months has probably doubled its market share from 3.17% to 7.24% now. Firefox has not grown much but seems like plateauing out as in October 2010 it had 23.75% is now only at 23.81%.
I think this has been mainly due to Chrome being a real competitor and is pretty much as good as any other browser. It has added the options of syncing bookmarks and settings. It has added extensions support and that has led Chrome to grow with lightening speed.
The latest security and stability release for Mozilla Firefox 3.6.4 provides crash protection for Windows and Linux users by isolating third-party plugins when they crash. There are more than 400 million firefox users and this update fixes more than 225 bugs with crash protection technology from the Mozilla Lorentz Project.
This crash protection works just like chrome that prevents flash, silver-time crashes from bringing down your entire browser.
Actually this technology works on full process isolation to Firefox, and it separates web pages from plugins. Plugins would run separate from the main browser, so that when there is a crash, with the process isolation, the rest of the browser is unaffected by the failure. Currently, crash protection only works for Adobe Flash, Apple QuickTime and Microsoft Silverlight on Windows and Linux systems.
As for now, the update is not for Mac OS X users and its currently in developing stage. Windows and linux users are benefited from crash protection technology.
Whenever we watch videos on YouTube we can’t just stop at one, we keep on watching related videos but watching all the videos waste lots of time. What if you can download all the videos together and watch it in your free time?
I came across such a Firefox Add-on which will allows you to download YouTube videos, playlists in group that too very easily and quickly . You don’t have to download any software, no time waste and your all favorite videos will be downloaded with a single click.
The name of this Firefox Add-on is ByTubeD. Apart from YouTube search videos, you can also use ByTubeD for videos embedded on a blog post, related search videos and from search engines results. It means it is for all those videos which are directly or indirectly linked to YouTube.
Here is easy way to install and use ByTubeD Firefox Add-on:
Select the video which you want to watch, you can select all required videos in bulk.
Once the playlist is selected you can easily download all the videos by clicking on “Start”.
You can also choose the format according to your requirement like FLV, MP4 or HQ.
The best part which I liked about this Add-on is that I don’t have to use any online service or any software for downloading YouTube videos, I can download all my YouTube videos in bulk with just a click.
We all know old browsers like IE6 , Firefox 2, Google Chrome 3 and their older versions are just hazardous. By using them, you risk your online data, or even risk yourself; your privacy and everything you do on the internet.
One of the ‘riskiest’ place is social-networking sites. Not all social-networking are bad and trusting these less-harmful sites is just cool, you know.
There are hundreds of software to control usage of social-networking sites. But this one will take your heads off! Want to know the name? It’s famous one. It is Microsoft Internet Explorer 6. IE6 has also got the label of the “worst web browser” in the past. Check out this funny usage of IE.
IE6 as a web limiter
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Well, all you need to do is install IE6. Most of the social-networking sites will automatically block you. Facebook will do for sure. Some companies do use IE6 for the same purpose. The admins do not upgrade their browsers so that the employees wouldn’t get access to social-networking sites. Facebook, as of now will ask you to upgrade your browser and will not allow you to login if you are on IE6. Orkut will too suggest you to upgrade to latest ones. Google Apps does not support old browsers any more effective March 2010.
Security adviser at Microsoft admits the fact that IE6 can limit the web. If you install a copy of WinXP, all you need not do is upgrade your browser. But, please be aware of the above said risks before installing or using IE6. It was funny noticing ‘Internet Explorer’ changing to ‘Internet Exploiter’ in a system running WinXP.
Other old browsers
There has no much risk reported on other older browsers like that have been reported for IE6. But still, it is always better to keep out of them.
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I was harassed of the “Aw, Snap!” error brought up by Chome 3 every time I open a webpage based on Java or some webkit based ones. That nasty thing forced me to use Firefox for a while. But, Firefox made me down due to its consumption of large amount of time to open a window, so after Chrome 4 released, I dumped Firefox and was back to Chrome. But many people still like to use Firefox.
What can we do?
Simple, if you are just someone, wanting to access social-networking sites and most of the risk-free sites, all you need to do is upgrade to a latest browser. You can always download the latest version of the browsers from their respective homepages. Those maybe Chrome, Firefox or IE. I personally recommend Google Chrome. Also get yourself a good antivirus and keep it updated for the side of better safety.
I hope you can do your best with the latest web-browsers. Do drop in your comments on old browsers and the risk they produce on surfing. Also do comment on your favorite web-browser.
The FIFA World Cup 2010 is underway and I must confess that almost everyone here at rtBlogs is football crazy. Now that the World Cup is underway we have got our computer ready for the football action that will unravel over then next whole month.
Here I am listing 5 things you can do to stay up to date following the World Cup.
#1. Add FIFA extension to your Chrome browser
Chrome browser has an official extension from FIFA which lets your follow the World Cup action live along with other match previews and news related to the mega event.
YouTube also has some great channels where you can catch the world cupaction. The best way is to immediately subscribe to some of the recommended YouTube channels which will show highlights with the ESPN channel. You can also follow up on Christiano Ronaldo’s channel on YouTube.
#3. Bookmark Twitter’s new FIFA World Cup interface
If you are a Twitter lover and love following and interacting with other World Cup followers around the world on Twitter you might be interested in having Twitter’s World Cup forum which streams real time tweets based on the matches taking place. It may be a great idea to bookmark the link to Twitter’s World Cup forum.
#4. Catch Google Earth’s 3D layout of World Cup stadiums
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Okay we do not have a television at our office and that leaves us to catch the matches live on the internet. You might want to check out top 5 websites to view World Cup matches for free and get into the world cup environment. But Google Maps allows taking the whole idea of exploring South African world cup venues to another level by allowing users to look up the world cup stadiums in a 3D environment.
So if you are spending most of your awake time in front of the computer screen how are you keeping track of the FIFA World Cup 2010? Do let us know through your comments.
In Windows, you generally take notes on notepad. It is a useful tool but while working on a browser, switching to notepad for taking notes is a time consuming process.
If you are a Firefox user, then you can use Scribbly Firefox extension to take notes quickly right inside the browser. You can also create to-do lists or write any important points which strike during an online work.
Download and install the extension. After restarting the browser, you’ll get the Scribbly icon on the bottom right of your Firefox browser. Click on the icon to open this tool.
You can find several tab icons on this tool. First icon is for taking notes. You can write the subject of your note in the subject field and then write the message in the box given below. You can send it (scribble it) to your email ID. To send the note, you have to set your email ID first by clicking on the second tab.
Click the second tab, enter your email ID and click “Save” button. That’s it. Your scribble tool is set. Now you can take notes quickly and send it to your email ID.
The other great feature of this tool is “Time Stamp” and “Clear all” button. You can insert current date and time by clicking on time stamp button. Currently there are no shortcut keys to operate this tool but the developer of tool promised to make shortcuts soon in the coming versions.
FIFA 2010 world cup is just around the corner and the whole world is going crazy about the football world cup. There are already many iPhone apps and iPad apps available for FIFA world cup 2010. If this is not enough, then you can now enjoy the football world cup fever on Firefox web browser.
Firefox has officially released FIFA world cup 2010 personas for football lovers (Americans call it soccer). Firefox FIFA world cup personas contains personas of all the participating countries. Basically this personas are the flag of the participant countries. Firefox cup will be given to the team whose fans used most personas.
There are already more than 1200+ download for Argentine Firefox personas which means that Argentine is one of the most favorite team to win this FIFA world cup 2010. If you have missed our previous post about FIFA world cup then do check out “5 website to watch FIFA world cup 2010 live online“. If you are a windows 7 user then you can also download FIFA world cup 2010 windows 7 theme.
This trick is for the users who want to set multiple homepages with Mozilla Firefox.
If you want your favorite websites (such as www.gmail.com and popular search engines like google.com and bing.com ) that you visit regularly when you start your browser , to open directly as your browser starts , you need to set multiple homepages.
So here are the steps to set multiple homepages with Firefox browser:
Open your Mozilla Firefox browser.
Then go to Tools >> Options >> General >> Home page.
Then Hit Home button on browser you will get three homepages open at same time.
You can set two or more than two homepages by modifying above code and putting ‘|’ symbol between two URLs.
Homepage is where you set the URL of website that you want at startup of your browser.
Note: These steps are not applicable to Internet explorer, Google Chrome browsers. For these browsers you need write JavaScript code in home page URL.Soon I will be posting the steps to get multiple homepages on IE and Google chrome.
This is a guest post by Vishwanath Dalvi, if you too would like to write guest posts for Devils’ workshop, do check out our revenue sharing program.
Mozilla Firefox is the most popular browser used by techies to access websites when compared to other browsers like Internet explorer and Opera. Most of users use Mozilla Firefox as there default browser.
There are many tricks using Mozilla Firefox this is one of the trick I’m sharing with you, Firefox inside Firefox.
So here , 4 steps to follow to get Firefox inside Firefox.
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Open your Mozilla Firefox Browser.
Copy and paste the code below into the address bar of your Mozilla Firefox browser.
chrome://browser/content/browser.xul
If you want to open another Firefox browser paste the same above address into address bar of newly open Firefox tab.
Firefox inside firefox
Amazing isn’t it? This is a easter eggs that is hidden in Mozilla Firefox browser, so stun your friends by embedding new Firefox browser window inside Firefox browser.
