IE8 Faster than Firefox 3.05 and Chrome 1.0

How To Export Passwords from Mozilla Firefox

12.03.2011 by admin · Leave a Comment

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Most Firefox users including me love to save user name and passwords of web pages using the save password feature of Firefox. For everyone who is using “Save Passwords”, should also use a master password so that all the passwords are safe. Today we will talk about a small Firefox Addon called Password Exporter which lets you export Firefox passwords, disabled host login file etc. and can be used for restoring them later on (if required).

Having a saved backup XML or CSV file is handy if you forgot the master password for Firefox or data stored for passwords get corrupted or infected. Its difficult to reset the Master password and hence you can use this addon for backing up your Firefox Passwords and Importing/ Exporting it.
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Filed Under: Firefox, How-To's · Tagged With: csv, export, firefox, passwords, xml

The Ultimate Guide To Speeding Up Firefox 3.5

29.09.2009 by admin · 1 Comment

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I like Firefox but it’s not as fast as it used to be. This is a comprehensive, safe guide to optimizing Firefox 3.5 for speedy browsing. For each suggestion, your mileage may vary. Before you proceed, create a new profile.

Quit Firefox, run “firefox.exe –profilemanager”, and create a new profile to experiment on. Use the new profile as your default only if your performance improves. Only those changes needed from a default installation are mentioned in this guide.
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Filed Under: Browser, Firefox, How-To's, Software, Tips & Tricks · Tagged With: browser tips, firefox, speedup

How To Auto Shutdown The Computer (or Firefox) after Downloads Complete

28.09.2009 by admin · 1 Comment

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I am a download junkie. I have to schedule downloads to start late at night (because of the Internet Plan). So, naturally I am a huge fan of any auto shutdown software that has the ability to shutdown the computer once the downloads are complete.

Most download managers have it, µtorrent has it and they are perfect for my need. There has always been a great void in this setup due to Firefox. Many a time, I have files downloading in Firefox but no way to auto-shutdown the computer. Some time back, I hacked together an auto script that would sit there and wait for the Firefox’s ‘Downloads finished’ notification to appear, it would then close Firefox and shutdown the computer. Lame I know, but it did the trick. [Read more...]

Filed Under: How-To's, Tips & Tricks · Tagged With: automate, downloads, firefox, firefox addons, windows shutdown

Troubleshooting Problems with Firefox 3 Crashing or Hanging

02.07.2009 by admin · Leave a Comment

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With all the fanfare surrounding the release of Firefox 3 and the setting of a new world record for downloads, the fact that many people are having problems with Firefox instability seemed to get lost in the shuffle… so I decided to write up a list of troubleshooting methods that might help solve your problems.

There’s a number of reasons for Firefox 3 crashing, which could include any of these, or be something else:

Incompatible or Buggy Extensions
Buggy Plugins
Upgrading an Old 2.x Profile to 3.0 (using a fresh profile works best)
Spyware/Viruses
Compatibility Problems with XP
Video Card Drivers (Make sure you are not using old drivers)
Tablet PC Incompatibility
Sneezing loudly

You’ll have to read through the article and go through the steps that might apply to you… the last, and potentially best, option is to completely uninstall Firefox and remove all your profile folders, and then install it again, which we’ve covered below.
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Filed Under: How-To's, Internet · Tagged With: firefox

Apple Releases Safari 4 Beta: Faster, Prettier, and Easier to Use

04.04.2009 by admin · Leave a Comment

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Apple Releases Safari 4 Beta: Faster, Prettier, and Easier to Use

Apple today released the first public beta of Safari 4, which sports a redesigned interface that resembles Google’s Chrome, as well as support for all of the major Internet standards, and a large range of new and enhanced features. Among these new features are a reimagined start page with a speed-dial interface similar to what Opera and Chrome are currently offering, a Cover Flow-like interface for browsing your bookmarks and history, and the ability to perform a full-text history search of your bookmarks.

Overall, Safari 4 feels a lot like the love child of iTunes and Google Chrome. It takes some of the best UI elements of both and mashes them up in a browser that can now easily compete with Chrome, Firefox, and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer – though, of course, it does lack the third-party developer ecosystem that has sprung up around Firefox.

Granted, most of the new features in Safari 4 are not exactly new, but, as Apple does so often, it exceeds at putting all of these features together in a very attractive package.

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Filed Under: Computers, IT News, Main, News, Reviews, Tech · Tagged With: apple, Browser, firefox, google chrome, opera, safari

Browser War: IE8 vs Chrome vs Opera vs Firefox 3

04.04.2009 by admin · Leave a Comment

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Soon after our first impression on the Internet Explorer 8 RC1, we decided to do the inevitable, a browser comparison with long time rivals Firefox, Opera, and the latest kid on the block, Chrome.

Note that this is not a review to find out which amongst these is the best browser around. It would be unwise to do such a comparison because, eventually, it boils down to personal choices, and for the same reason, there will always be controversy and related chest thumping about how “my” browser betters “yours.” Therefore, this is just a rehash of the features and drawbacks of these four mainstream browsers available as of today. [Read more...]

Filed Under: IT News, News · Tagged With: firefox, internet explorer 8

IE8 Faster than Firefox 3.05 and Chrome 1.0

04.04.2009 by admin · Leave a Comment

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Microsoft made available to the public the results of a “browser measuring contest” involving Internet Explorer 8, Firefox 3.05 and Google Chrome 1.0. What the Redmond company did was to measure the browser load times for the top 25 websites worldwide. In the software company’s own comparison, IE8 managed to come out on top of its rivals, besting the open source Firefox and Chrome which were released in 2008, and not the current 3.1/3.5 version of Firefox or the 2.0 flavor of Chrome. But the real question is does it matter?

Obviously, Microsoft is rather a new comer to the browser measuring game. Simply because Internet Explorer, while considered by rival browser makers a reference point, never actually needed to compare itself to competitive products, especially from the perspective of the dominant browser on the market. IE continues to account for the lion’s share when it comes down to browser usage share worldwide, but Firefox has made a dent in its dominance that is harder and harder to ignore. And fact is that for the first time in the long life of Internet Explorer, Microsoft has a release that it’s worth comparing, as it is bound to score at least on par with rivals, if not even best them in certain scenarios.

“Did you know that IE 8 Loads faster than Firefox 3.05 and Chrome 1.0 on the top 25 popular web sites? Is the faster on 5 out of the top 10 sites; 12 of the top 25; 3 times as many as Firefox; and 1/3 more than Chrome,” revealed Microsoft’s Rob Margel. The table included on the left, from the “Measuring Browser Performance: Understanding issues in benchmarking and performance analysis” study, contains all the results published by Microsoft.

“In line with the testing guidelines outlined in this paper we have used the browser “Done” indicator for timing when the page is completely loaded at that point. For pages which continue to load and change after the “Done” indication we have used common visual cues to generate the timings. Timing is started when the Go button is pressed. These timings were captured in January 2009; because Internet content is always changing you may get different timings when you run these tests,” Microsoft revealed.

The question remains. Does it matter that Google.com is loaded in 0.28 seconds by Chrome, 0.22 seconds by Firefox and 0.20 seconds by IE8? What does a mere 0.02-second difference in browser load times represent to the end user? Well, absolutely nothing. You would need a high speed camera just to notice the difference. And at the same time, differences such as 5.48 seconds for Chrome, 6.37 seconds for Firefox and 8.03 seconds for IE8 when loading Sina.com.cn are more than visible, and irking to the end users. Still, what Microsoft does is establishing that benchmarking is in no way representative of real-life.

“Many benchmarking tests cite results from tools such as SunSpider, Celtic Kane, V8 and iBench. Each is designed, at least in some way, to test only a portion of the end-user scenario. SunSpider primarily tests JavaScript performance and also some other popular functions used on websites today. Other popular benchmarks, Celtic Kane and V8, are also geared at testing only the JavaScript engine. Meanwhile, the iBench suite relies on a browser reporting when it’s finished loading a page. Since browsers differ on when they define a page is done loading, this test also yields unreliable results,” the company stated.

Fact is that any measurement performed involving browsers has to take into account a multitude of variables from caching behavior, to overhead and resource competition, but also connectivity and network device latency, Internet-based data, browser-targeted content, machine configurations, inconsistent definitions, and even extensibility. In this context, benchmarks and benchmark results remain largely a marketing tool more than anything else. Due to the sometimes minute differences between the browser load times in the tests performed by Microsoft, with some minor tweaks, rival browser makers Mozilla and Google could turn the same set of tests to their advantage easily. Such a situation certainly diminishes the relevance of browser measuring contests.

Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) Release Candidate 1 (RC1) is available for download list:

External Mirror 1 – For Vista/2008 x86 [EXE]

External Mirror 2 – For Vista/2008 x64 [EXE]

External Mirror 3 – For Windows XP x86 [EXE]

External Mirror 4 – For Windows XP/2003 x64 [EXE]

External Mirror 3 – For Windows 2003 x86 [EXE]

GERMAN Installer For Windows XP [EXE]

GERMAN Installer For Windows Vista & Server 2008 [EXE]

SPANISH Installer For Windows XP [EXE]

SPANISH Installer For Windows Vista & Server 2008 [EXE]

ITALIAN Installer For Windows XP [EXE]

ITALIAN Installer For Windows Vista & Server 2008 [EXE]