Google has released Chrome 4.0 Browser. Its been quite a while that we had an update to Google Chrome Browser.

Google claims that Google Chrome is more faster than the previous version.

The new version is bug free and has more features. This stable version of Chrome 4 has over 1500 new features!

Google Chrome 4 Final supports extensions.

Extensions are similar to Firefox addons. They add extra functionality. Check out Top 10 Popular Google Chrome Extensions

Google Chrome 4 Extensions

Download Chrome 4.0 Final

Downlaod Chrome 4 | Alternatively Download Google Chrome 4 Offline Installer

Most of us have some favorite sites and you would like to open as soon as you open the Browser. Let say you have open 10 websites daily. Opening them one by one will be tedious and mundane task.

Lot of you might have thought about this… Why not Open Multiple Websites with Single Click?

There are number of ways you can Open multiple websites at one go.

I am presenting you one such way with which you could Open Multiple URLs with a Single Click !

URL Opener is a service created by Brad. URL Opener is a Productivity Tool. Using this tool you can Open multiple websites at the same time

Paste URLs in Text area and Hit Submit !

How to Open Multiple Websites with a Single Click

1. Visit URL Opener website.
2. Once the website is opened, you will see a large Text Area
3. Paste all the Websites / URLs you would like to open at the same time into that Text Area
4. Now simply Hit Submit button to Open Multiple URLs at the same time
   You need to set your Browser to open new windows in tabs. here’s how

URLOpener can be used to Open Multiple Websites using Firefox, Internet Explorer 7 or later, Opera, etc.,

Open Multiple URLs using URLOpener | FAQs on URLOpener

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I am very particular about the privacy, especially when you are in at workplace. You are surfing some sites and you don’t want people to know what actually you are browsing? What do you do?

To avoid embarrassing situation, I either use Maxthon Browser to Hide the browser totally or use Rename Firefox Tabs – Firefox Extension. This way i am safe.

Few days back, I got to know about one more Firefox Extension – Hide Tab. As the name suggests, this Firefox Addon will allow you to Hide and Unhide any Firefox Tab of your choice.

Diego A. Ruiz is the developer of Hide Tab Firefox Extension.

Hide Tab Firefox Extension Features

• Different ways to hide/unhide tabs
• Discrete paranoia button to quick hide all tabs in your Firefox web browser
• Firefox 3.5 compatible
• English & Spanish languages
• Option to choose what page opens when paranoia button is clicked
• Keyboard shortcuts

How to Hide Firefox Tabs using Hide Tab Firefox Addon

Once Hide Tab Firefox Extension is installed, restart the browser. Hide Tab Download link is provided below.

You should see a small tab image on the bottom right – Marked in Red circle in the below image.

Image courtesy – HideTab.com

Clicking on that small tab will show you, all the current tabs opened in Firefox browser. In the below screenshot, on clicking on Google will hide the Google Firefox Tab.

Image courtesy – HideTab.com

Once the tab is hidden, the tab image on the bottom right status bar becomes red color. You can click on it again and Unhide the hidden Firefox tab or hide more Tabs.

You can also use CTRL + Q shortcut key combination to Hide Current Firefox Tab. There is also option to Hide/Unhide All Tabs at one go.

Download Hide Tab Firefox Extension

Download Hide Tab Firefox Extension

Do check out Hide Tab Installation Guide and Hide Tab User Manual

Hope you like this Firefox Addon.

Google has released Chrome 3.0 version. This release has lots of enhancements and bug fixes.

More about Google Chrome 3.0 at Official Google Blog

This release comes hot on the heels of 51 developer, 21 beta and 15 stable updates and 3,505 bugfixes in the past year. For you, that means significant speed improvements for the browser as well as a fresh redesign of some of its most loved features.

We’ve improved by more than 150% in Javascript performance since our very first beta, and by more than 25% since the most recent stable release.

When you download and fire up this latest release of Google Chrome, you’ll notice that the New Tab page sports a new look. We’ve redesigned the New Tab page so that it’s easy to use and easily customizable. Now you can rearrange thumbnails of your most-visited websites by simply clicking and dragging your mouse. Additionally, you can pin thumbnails to a spot so they don’t disappear even if your browsing habits change. This way, you can easily get to the websites you care about with just one click.

We’ve also improved one of the most used and loved features of Google Chrome, the Omnibox. Because it’s a search bar as well as the web address bar, the multi-talented Omnibox helps you get to the sites you’re looking for with just a few keystrokes. With this release, we’ve optimized the presentation of the drop-down menu and added little icons to help you distinguish between suggested sites, searches, bookmarks, and sites from your browsing history.

We’re very excited about HTML5 becoming standard in modern browsers, and continued to add HTML5 capabilities to this stable release.

After testing out Themes for Google Chrome in the beta channel, we’re finally releasing it in this stable release. Themes allow you to deck out your browser with colors, patterns and images. We’ll be bringing more Themes for the browser soon, but in the meantime, you can change the theme of your browser by visiting the Themes Gallery.

Google Chrome 3.0 Download Links

Download Google Chrome 3.0 | Google Chrome 3.0 Offline Installer

– Check this out How to Download Google Chrome Offline Installer

I think more than 50% of the world wide Firefox users might have updated to Firefox 3.5.

Immediately, after upgrading to Firefox 3.5, most of us might have see some of the Addons that we were using might not be compatible with Firefox 3.5.

What if you got accustomed to some addons which you want to use at any cost with Firefox 3.5? This is trick will help you to Make Firefox Addons compatible with Firefox 3.5 or higher. Once you apply this you don’t have to worry much about Mozilla’s updating of Firefox to the latest version fixing all the memory leaks, vulnerabilities and other security loopholes.

How to make Addons compatible to Firefox 3.5 or higher?

The solution is to add some configurations in Firefox settings (which is similar to Windows Registry). All the changes you make from here on are done at your own risk. Do revert the settings if something goes wrong.

1. Type about:config address bar of Firefox browser and hit enter. It will give you a warning. Just click the button “I’ll be careful, I promise!” and proceed…
   
2. It will show a huge list of values. Now, right click any where in the free white-space on the screen and click on New –> Boolean, then name the Boolean as checkCompatibility – make it false in the next step.
3. again right click and click on New -> Boolean and name as checkUpdateSecurity and choose false.
4. After doing this changes to get the changes applied, Restart the Firefox browser. Now install the addon that was not supported or compatible by Firefox 3.5 and install it.
5. Restart the Firefox browser once again. Now, the not compatible addon will work with Firefox 3.4

Hope you liked this trick.

Thanks to Blogote

Mozilla released Firefox 3.5 for download. It is said that this version of Firefox is faster than the previous versions and has come up with a lot of new features and enhanced browser.

One of the major features is “Private Browsing”. There are also improvements made to support the latest Web Technologies.

The most important feature is now you can view pages faster than before and with very less memory.

Firefox 3.5 New Features

• Private Browsing: Surf the Web without leaving a single trace.
• Super Speed: View Web pages way faster, using less of your computer’s memory.
• Web Technologies: Firefox now supports HTML5

Download Firefox 3.5

Download Mozilla Firefox 3.5

I download lots of Movies, Software, Tv Shows using Torrents. I use uTorrent BitTorrent client to download all the stuff.

Two days back, my browser suddenly stopped working. I usually use Firefox. I thought may be there is some problem with Firefox browser. I then tried to open a website in Google Chrome and Internet Explorer. But, i got same result. No site was opening.

I noticed one strange thing, uTorrent BitTorrent client was downloading and uploading stuff. But, at the same time i was unable to open any website in the browser. It means the internet was working.

I then closed uTorrent, waited for 10 sec and tried opening the website. I was surprised, the websites were opening. I again opened uTorrent and tried opening the website in the browser and it again stopped working.

At this point, I got to know that there is some problem related to uTorrent which is blocking the browser. Here is one of solution to unblock the browser when using uTorrent Client.

µTorrent Client blocked Browser or Browser stops working after starting uTorrent Client

Most of the users who use Torrents know that there is a Windows tweak called Change Half Open TCP Connection Limit In Windows XP SP3 to increase the download speed drastically. I used a TCP IP Patcher tool to change the Half Open TCP Connection Limit on my Windows XP SP3 laptop to set to 256 connections.

The default Half Open TCP Conneciton Limit in windows is 10. Accidentally, due to a Windows Security patch that was installed on my PC had reset the Half Open TCP Connection Limit to 10. I thought this might be the cause of Browser stopping when using BitTorrent Client.

I used the TCP IP Patcher tool to set the Half Open TCP Conneciton Limit to 256 from 10 (Windows Default). I tried opening the websites in browser and it worked!!!

If you have same problem, Try doing above. If you fail, then there may be some other cause.

Hope this helps!!

Did this post help you? Do you have any other solution? Do leave a comment or suggestion

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Most of us bookmark websites so that we can jump on to the website quickly. But, what if you have organized your bookmarks that have 10-20 categories each having 10-20 websites in it.

The time taken to browse through the bookmarks menu and select a particular website is more than typing the website address.

SiteLauncheris a Firefox add-on which can turn your bookmarks into shortcuts. Site Launcher lets you replace your bookmarks toolbar with a window of links that can be opened using a simple keyboard shortcut. It gives you a super-quick way to open your favorite websites that you use often throughout the day by using only your keyboard. One special hotkey brings up the Launcher (shown below), followed by a unique key to launch a site. You pick which sites you want on the list, and a one-letter keyboard shortcut is given to each.

For example, i have added these sites – Google, Gmail, NiharsWorld, and IBNLive.com to SiteLauncher – what sites to include is entirely up to you. CTRL + SPACE will popup the transparent window with links. Then you just need to type shortcut key to launch the website. Check my list below.

My favorite sites to launch them quickly!

Compared to the alternatives (standard bookmarks, the address bar, etc) the Launcher is the fastest, and most convenient way to navigate to your frequently needed sites (at least, that’s what we think). SiteLauncher also minimizes clutter, because the Launcher only appears when you press the hotkey.

When you install the extension. It comes with a some of popular sites built in. You can delete or add your favorite ones on your own. You also have several color and menu style options including setting the maximum number of columns you want, and how transparent the window is.

Check out a quick demo video of how it works:

Download SiteLauncher (a Firefox Add-on)

Via CNet.com

What do you think about this review? I appreciate your input. Do you know any other extension or tool that can be better than this? Share your thoughts

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I think you might have heard that there is a major security flaw recently found by Guardian, which affected Internet Explorer 7, and all users with Internet Explorer 5 and 6.

As soon as this flaw was found, the IE Team started working on it and asked everyone to avoid using IE and use other browsers like Firefox, Chrome etc.

Microsoft has released an official patch to this critical security flaw for Internet Explorer 7 and is asking everyone to update as soon as possible or hackers might gain access to your computer.

This security update resolves a publicly disclosed vulnerability. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user views a specially crafted Web page using Internet Explorer. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.

Download the following Patches:

• Security Update for Internet Explorer 7 for Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition (KB960714)
• Security Update for Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP x64 Edition (KB960714)
• Security Update for Internet Explorer 7 in Windows Vista x64 Edition (KB960714)
• Security Update for Internet Explorer 7 in Windows Server 2008 x64 Edition (KB960714)

For more information and download links for Internet Explorer 5 and 6, visit the Microsoft Security Bulletin page.

I have already downloaded and installed the security fix. Hope you have done it. If not, do it now.

Today, i am going to pass on a trick that i am using from a long time, way back from 2003. I use it everyday, umpteen times a day at my workplace.

Most of you those who browse at workplace ( to pass the time ) and don’t want others to look at what you are browsing ( especially your boss )

I am using a browser from 2002 – till date and this browser has an option to hide the browser

The feature to hide the browser is called “Boss Key” ( you can guess why the feature is named as this ). There is a shortcut to hide and unhide the browser Alt + ~ key combination like a toggle switch. The option can be found in File Menu.

The browser is Maxthon (formerly MyIE2). You can download the browser from here.

If you have permissions to download and install at your workplace then go ahead use this browser. Maxthon is portable by design, so you don’t have necessarily have to install it anywhere. Either download a zipped version and unpack it to a UFD and run it from there at work (assuming USB isn’t disabled at work), or install Maxthon at home, copy the whole folder to work.

Or if you know what you’re doing, you can even unpack the install .exe, configure it to your liking, then copy the folder to a CD-R and run it from there.Let me tell you, you will love it and will be excited to use this feature.

For some of them who are addicted to the Firefox browser, Don’t worry… Ashwin has posted a trick with which you can hide the tab’s or whole tab bar of Firefox browser

If you have installed Maxthon and used Firefox before, I suggest you use Maxthon because

• The tabs can be hidden in Firefox , but the Firefox main window is still visible. what if you don’t others to see a browser on your desktop at all (want your boss to think that you are working and NOT browsing ) then ?
• Maxthon is a good option because after you press Alt + ~ key (“Boss Key”) combination, the browser is hidden. just a small icon is your system tray.

If anyone knows any extension for Firefox to hide the Firefox browser, then leave a comment here or If anyone is good at writing/developing Firefox extensions, then come up with an extension.

Do you know that i prefer using Maxthon even though i have Firefox installed. Do Check this post – Browser Wars Maxthon Vs Firefox to the know the reason.

I found that there is also an utility waiting to be downloaded at HideMyBrowser. It does the same thing. check it out.

If you want to hide any application on windows not only a browser then you can try this:

Go to AutoItScript download and install it.

What is AutoItScript ?

It is a scripting language designed for automating the Windows GUI and general scripting. More details @ AutoIt Script

Want to try hide and unhide Firefox window (make sure you have downloaded and installed AutoIt)

Hide FireFox:

• Open notepad
• Copy and paste the below commands in it.

  AutoItSetOption("WinTitleMatchMode", 2)  // sets the win title match  mode to "Match    any substring in the title"
  WinSetState("Firefox", "", @SW_HIDE)     // hides the Firefox window

• Save the file as hide_firefox.au3

Unhide Firefox:

• Open notepad
• Copy and paste the below commands in it.

  AutoItSetOption("WinTitleMatchMode", 2)  // sets the win title match mode to "Match any substring in the title"
  WinSetState("Firefox", "", @SW_SHOW)     // unhides the Firefox window

• Save the file as unhide_firefox.au3

Now you can hide and unhide any application by just replacing the first argument in WinSetState.
below is for winamp

WinSetState("winamp", "", @SW_SHOW)
WinSetState("winamp", "", @SW_SHOW)

With above trick you can hide Maxthon, hide Firefox, hide IE. Do check it out and share with friends.

Download Maxthon browser | AutoItScript

– URL Alias for Mozilla FireFox – Very Useful Feature

– Rename Firefox tabs for your privacy – Firefox Plugin

– Google Chrome – How to Browse Privately

– How to Import Bookmarks / Favorites, Passwords, Search Engines and History from Firefox and IE into Google Chrome

– How to make Firefox Old Addons compatible with Firefox 3.5 or higher