Among all the new features introduced in Safari 5, the one that stood out was the Safari Reader. Why? Because perhaps it is one of few innovations that developers of other browsers haven’t yet thought about. All of them are working on improving JavaScript engines, extensions and increasing speeds but Apple is the first one [...]
Apple has released Safari 5 for public usage. It has come with loads and loads of new features. Apple announced it by a press release during the ongoing WWDC 10 . It is claimed that the new features give it a performance boost of almost 30% over Safari 4. Here are the other new features [...]
Ryan asks: I want to reformat my computer. But I am avoiding it because I am afraid I will lose all my Firefox bookmarks. Is there a way by which I can backup my Firefox bookmarks and restore them later too? Ryan, backing up Firefox bookmarks is a very easy. There are basically three ways [...]
Bookmarks are an effective way of remembering websites , especially those with difficult names . While all browsers today offer Bookmarking facitlity , Firefox still comes on top when it comes to ease of accessing and backing-up these bookmarks. In our last article we learnt how to backup Firefox bookmarks without using any addon. Today [...]
Ranjan asks: I share my computer with my friends and I have bookmarked a few websites that I don’t want them to see. How can I password protect my bookmarks in Firefox? There may be times when you don’t want to share some of your bookmarks with other people using the same computer. For such [...]
Rex asks: I love Chrome because I can search anything from the address bar itself. Can I add the functionality of searching from Address Bar in Firefox too? Most of the web browsers today handle invalid URL input as a query string and search for it using default search engine provided. Firefox is a bit [...]
The success of iPad has led many a website owners’ redesign their website layouts for iPad. If you too are a website owner but you don’t have the luxury to own an iPad as yet, you can use Apple iPad User Agent String to check how your website would looks in iPad’s Safari. Here is [...]
Ryder asks: My wife has just got a new MAC. We need to export all her bookmarks from Firefox in my PC to Safari in her MAC. How do we do it? Bookmarking is one of the best features of the modern day web browsers. With a simple Ctrl + D , the browser saves [...]
Google Chrome and all other web browsers store some files from websites in its local cache. This cache (stored files) generally includes previously displayed images, texts, style sheets, JavaScript etc. To see for yourself what Google Chrome has stored in its cache type “about:cache” in the address bar ( Omnibox). While cache files don’t take [...]
Google Chrome 6 Beta for Windows, Linux and Mac platforms is available for download now. The new release is just an update and fixes bugs discovered in earlier versions. No new features have been added in this release. Chrome team has worked specifically on fixing the behavior of chrome while handling shortened URLs in the [...]