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[Firefox Friday] FireTorrent - Download Torrents from Firefox

Thursday, December 18, 2008

This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series Firefox Friday As we all know, Opera supports download of torrent files within the browser eliminating the need of external torrent clients. Same is not true with Firefox. Fortunately, we now have an extension which lets us download .torrent files within Firefox. FireTorrent integrates BitTorrent into [...]

Firefox for Mobiles Released, finally…

Sunday, October 19, 2008

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This is what I was waiting for a long time. The good news is Mozilla has released a developer version of Firefox for mobiles under the code-name: Fennec. This is the first alpha release of Fennec. And now, the bad news is, Fennec is designed to work with Nokia N810 internet tablet. Mozilla says it will [...]

Is Google Chrome Really a Success?

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

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When Google Chrome was released on 2nd September 2008, media around the world, especially the blogosphere (including me) added a lot of hype to the hoopla surrounding the release of the browser. Some people predicted instant success to the browser, while some others predicted death of Internet Explorer and end of Mozilla Firefox!! Few others [...]

Opera 9.6 is Out!! Download Now!!

Thursday, October 9, 2008

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Off-late the browser war has intensified with the release of Google Chrome a month back and a major Firefox release earlier to that. Opera has joined in by announcing the new version 9.6 of its browser which promises some uniquely new features and capabilities built into the browser. Features Here go some of all the unique new [...]

IE8’s ‘Porn Mode’ Already Busted!

Friday, August 29, 2008

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I pity Microsoft. Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 was released just a few days back and one feature which was making all the headlines was the new “porn mode” in IE8, where the browser erases all traces of what you browsed after your session is over. And like any other Microsoft product, even this has been [...]

Using your Browser URL History to Guess your Gender

Monday, July 28, 2008

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Ideally, any website should not be able to read the the history of sites that a user visited previously. Even Google is not capable of tracking the previous sites a user has visited. But a small CSS hack and some spicy Javascript is just enough to use a trial and error method to find out [...]

Skabble - Social Web Browsing!

Sunday, July 13, 2008

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Skabble = Shared browsing + Desktop chat client! The first impression just when you open the website is great. One gets a feeling that its multiple features packaged into one application, but in reality there are not many practical features just yet. If you’re going to launch a new chat client, you’re going to have [...]