February 27, 2012
It’s easy to see why YouTube is one of the greatest places on the Web. Of course, there’s plenty of others that are just as good, if not better, but there’s still a reason why YouTube is such a household name. Inside this wonderful world of web videos, you can search and view so many [...]
February 26, 2012
Last week Apple and Microsoft employees were shocked to find that Google had bypassed user privacy settings in IE and Safari. But this isn’t the only surprise – apparently Facebook and many other companies are doing the same thing. The problem is that Internet Explorer blocks third-party cookies unless the site presents a Platform for [...]
February 25, 2012
Do you think the web is fast? What if I told you that you could make your Internet even faster (as far as productivity is concerned), without having to get a faster Internet connection? It already exists and is waiting for you to use it. What’s this magic potion I’m talking about? A Chrome extension, based on a very popular Firefox extension that hasn’t been getting a lot of love here at MakeUseOf.
February 24, 2012
Have you ever clicked a link and seen an error page, or revisited a bookmarked website and found it’s closed up shop? We’ve all been there. The good news is that you can view the website anyway, whether it’s buckled under an onslaught of traffic or was taken down three years ago. Google, the Coral Content Distribution Network and Archive.org’s Wayback Machine all take snapshots of webpages, allowing you to view the cached version.
February 22, 2012
Tab Utilities is a Firefox add-on that helps you to control the behavior of different links from different locations to the smallest detail. You can determine how tabs will open or close, where links from external applications open, change the appearance of various tab states, and determine what different mouse clicks on different types of links will do. If this sounds like a lot of features, you’re right!
February 18, 2012
As the web has evolved, some pretty interesting problems have risen. One of these problems is the so-called “tab overload”, where you have a ridiculous amount of tabs open. There are a handful of tab aids that try to help you manage your tabs as efficiently as possible, but they all implement different variations of mainly the same approach. What about an extension with a completely different approach?
February 15, 2012
Restoring browser sessions was a milestone in browser development. Meanwhile, all browsers offer this feature to some extent. Firefox allows you to restore previous windows and tabs, but it doesn’t come with an elaborate session manager. The aptly called Session Manager fills this gap, allowsing you to save and restore multiple sessions.
February 15, 2012
Do you love Chrome, but miss having live RSS feeds in your bookmark toolbar and menus? Foxish brings this famous Firefox feature to Chrome, and it’s only a click away. Firefox has, for ages, offered built-in support for RSS feeds. Showing up essentially as folders in Firefox’s bookmark menu and toolbar, RSS feeds in Firefox make it easy to keep up with blogs and other websites that regularly update.
February 11, 2012
Chrome 17 has just been released, offering pre-rendered web pages and malware protection. If you’re a Google Chrome user (and haven’t blocked automatic updates) you’re now using version 17 of the browser. As is typical for Chrome, the update doesn’t add any drastic changes, but it does include a few new features. Most noticeable of [...]
February 6, 2012
Today’s browsers are constantly trying to improve and beat their competition. This ranges from behind-the-scenes changes to improved speed or standards support, user interface changes for a cleaner look, or even the addition of entirely new features. However, the developers of all those browsers haven’t been very active (or successful) in one type of improvement that could potentially bring some massive results: going from 32-bit to 64-bit.
