The add-on shows the file size in open with dialog box

However ‘Show file size’ extension adds up this feature to the Firefox browser and displays file size data in the open with dialog box. This is a very light weight add-on which is developed specifically to get the file size data. Users can decide whether or not to display round off value of the file size. This can be done through the settings once the add-on is installed.

Knowing the file size is important in many situations. As extremely light weight add-on (4kb), ‘Show file size’ add-on does the job.

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Show file size in Firefox before downloading

Whenever a user tries to load a previously accessed page, opera first attempts to find what type of webpage it is, Is the page a static webpage? Does it rely on scripts to display the information? Based on these findings it decides from where it should the webpage. However, some users might want to load the webpage from cache always. It speeds up the display of the webpage and it was a default setting of opera version 8 and earlier.

If you wish to do so, just enter opera:config#UserPrefs|HistoryNavigationMode in the address bar of your opera browser, and change the value from 1 to 3.

1. Automatic Mode: Opera browser decides whether to load the page from its local cache or retrieve the page from the web server
2. Compatible Mode: The webpage is always loaded from the web server.
3. Fast Mode: The webpage is always loaded from the local browser cache.

Now scroll down and save the settings. That’s it, your pages from history are loaded in blazing speed from now.

Note: If a webpage heavily relies on scripts to display the information, you might see a disrupted webpage. Just press the reload button in such cases.

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How to Speed up History Navigation in Opera Browser

Below are the logos with the time line.

Internet Explorer v1.0 – Came with Microsoft Plus! For Windows 95 – August – 1995

Internet Explorer v2.0 – Supported 12 different languages – November – 1995

Internet Explorer v3.0 – First to have the blue ‘e’ logo. – August – 1996

Internet Explorer v4.0 – Included Outlook Express for the first time – October 1997

Internet Explorer v5.0 – now Microsoft has 1,000 people working on IE – March 1999

Internet Explorer v6.0 – Support for RSS feeds – August – 2001

Internet Explorer v7.0 – Integrated tabbed browsing for the first time – October – 2006

Internet Explorer 8 – Added Accelerators, webslices and Smartscreen – March – 2009

Internet Explorer 9 Beta – Beautiful web in HTML5 – 15th September 2009

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The Evolution of Internet Explorer Logos

The add-on is still in beta, you might experience some bugs. Firesay add-on work only in windows. Once Installed, the developers recommend users to train the speech recommendation in windows control panel. After training, you can test voice control in Mozilla Firefox. Firesay can save a lot of time through voice browsing.

Currently, you can:-

• Say your search queries(Eg: Search google ‘Technology’ )
• Say which sites you want to visit.(Eg: Go to Facebook ; only limited sites are supported as of now.)
• Say what TV shows you want to watch on Hulu.(Eg: Watch the ‘Office’, to watch Office Tv show on Hulu.)Close the active tab (Eg: Close tab)
• Open, Launch ( Same as ‘Go to’)

We can enable/disable Firesay with a click. It accepts commands only when the browser window is active. It would be great if the developers add functions like “Scroll Down” “Save Web Page” “Next Tab”and other daily browser tasks we do.

There are many challenges, and more features to be added,  long way to go, but Firesay might soon become a must have add-on for your Firefox.

Firesay can be downloaded from the Mozilla Add-ons Repository.

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Firesay Add-on for voice browsing in Firefox

The features update:

1) Autofill: Which helps in filling web forms automatically with the information you specify, such as name,address, phone number etc. Its save lot of time without typing the same information over again while filling forms.

2) Extended Synchronization: In addition to bookmarks, preferences, and themes, You can now sync your chrome extensions as well as your Autofill data though your Google account.

3) Increase in speed: Chrome is constantly increasing the speed in the performance. The Chrome beta 6 is 15% faster than the old one.

Well, it will take some time for these features to show up stable version. So, If you want to try them today just download the latest update from the links below.

Download Google Chrome 6.0 Beta for Windows [Full Setup]

Download Chrome 6.0.472.33 Beta for Mac [Full Setup]

Google Chrome will automatically update itself with the latest changes if you are subscribed to the beta channel.

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Google Chrome 6 beta released

Soon we are going to have a major update of Mozilla Firefox. Recently Mozilla release beta version two of the popular web browser. The visual experience with Firefox 4 is going to be great with polished look. hidden menu bar and a revamped add-ons section. Most of us face a problem with every major release of Mozilla Firefox. That is compatibility of old add-ons with the newer version of Firefox. So some of our existing add-ons might not work with Firefox version 4 since they are written for previous versions of Firefox browser. The developers of add-ons takes time to update them to the newer version. So, if you don’t want to wait for the updates, Here are some ways to make your old add-ons work with newer version.

1 ) Install Compatibility Reporter add-on developed by Mozilla. It is created to test and report the compatibility of add-ons with the various versions of Mozilla Firefox. This add-on automatically configures your browser to install and use add-ons which are incompatible with your latest version of Firefox

2) Type about:config in your Firefox address bar and agree the warning message. Now, right-click inside the browser and choose New –> Boolean, type the preference name as xtensions.checkCompatibility.4.0b and set it to False. This way by replacing 4.0b by future versions, you can make add-ons compatible in future versions too.(more about it at mozillaZine entry)

3) Edit the Firefox add-on file. Download the add-on file to your computer and unzip/extract it ( double-click the .xpi file and open it with winzip/winrar application to unzip ) and edit the install.rdf file. Change the value of em:maxVersion to 4.0.* , Now compress it folder and change the extension of the compressed file to .xpi, then drag and drop the file in your browser to install the add-on. If you have anything to say please use the comment form.

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Make old Firefox Add-ons Compatible with version 4.0

Having said that, here is a word of caution: Chromium are likely to be buggy than Google chrome. If you are very much enthusiastic to try new features first, then go for it, else safer option is to install the early access release channels for Google Chrome, which include support for auto-update.

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Try latest build of Google Chrome with Chromium updater

1) Open Google Chrome web browser.

2) On the top right corner you will find wrench button, This is where you can customize and control Google chrome.

3) Click that and now you will see a drop down menu, Select Google chrome Options from the list.

4) You will see an options window now, It has 3 different tabs Basics,Minor Tweaks and Under the hood.Select Under the hood

5) When you scroll down a little bit, you will find Change proxy settings button below Network options.On Click this, you can find an internet properties window.

6) Now select LAN settings bottom from the internet properties window.

7) You will be now taken to Local Area Network (LAN) Settings window.

8) Now keep/change your proxy server ip address and port number as show in the above picture

9)If you don’t know your proxy server ip address or port number, contact your network administrator.

Note: If you are installing Google chrome web browser, it has a beautiful option to import your settings from other web browsers.It even imports your proxy server settings.Incase you have not opted for it or you want to change the proxy server, then just follow the above steps.

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Proxy Server Settings in Google Chrome

Google Chrome Bundled with RealPlayer

If you try to install real media player now, you’ll notice that the setup downloads Google Chrome. Its default is set to install Google chrome.Real player seems to be the first third party application promoting Google chrome.Google replaced Firefox browser in their recommended software pack.Google chrome even installs with the latest downloads of Google earth software.

Although this is a common practice used by many, It is slightly unusual for the search giant to play these kind of tricks.

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Google Chrome Now Comes With Real Player Setup

In the regular version, it got an option to duplicate any given tab.This feature can be used to easily move over cookies and other session related content from one tab to another to duplicate a tab, right click on any of the tab you want to duplicate and click on the Duplicate Tab option

To enter full screen mode in Google chrome.

Press the F11 key on your keyboard and see what happens :) , The difference between full screen mode in Google  chrome and other browsers is the address bar.There is no address bar available in the full screen mode, so you will have to get out of full screen to type in another URL.

Note that If you are not a developer channel user, you will not see the new features in your Google Chrome.However, shifting to Developer Channel of Google Chrome is pretty simple.Complete the below steps.

• Download the Google Chrome Channel Changer.
• Run the file.

• Select the circle next to the Dev: The latest features and bugfixes.
• Click on the Update button to save your choice.
• Click on the Close button
• In Google Chrome, click the wrench menu(Top right) and choose “About Google Chrome”.
• If there are any latest update, click Update Now to install the current channel’s release.
• Restart Google Chrome

Google Chrome will automatically update the browser to the latest version when future updates are released, to change back to a different channel(stable or beta), follow steps once again.

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Google Chrome gets Duplicate Tab and Full Screen Mode