Author Archive: Vygantas
Vygantas is a former web designer whose projects are used by companies such as AMD, NVIDIA and departed Westood Studios. Being passionate about software, Vygantas began his journalism career back in 2007 when he founded FavBrowser.com. Having said that, he is also an adrenaline junkie who enjoys good books, fitness activities and Forex trading.
Speed Up Internet Explorer
Now here is something for you, IE users. Five tweaks to increase Internet Explorer performance. Written by reliancep
1. Turn off Phishing Filter. This feature supposedly helps to prevent you from being tricked into accessing a rogue web site that is masquerading as a bona fide web site. I’ve found this feature to really slow down web access at times. Microsoft released a patch that supposedly fixes the problem, but my computer has the patch and I still notice this feature slowing down web access. If you think you can live without the extra protection of IE7 anti-phishing, you can disable it by starting IE7 and then going to: Continue Reading
New Apple Safari Vulnerability Discovered
Guy Brian has discovered a new Safari vulnerability which affects Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) users who haven’t changed default feed reader preferences.
This vulnerability allows phishing sites to silently read all the user data from hard drive without him knowing that.
There is however a workaround for Safari users on Windows OS. Continue Reading
Remove Opera Widgets Menu
If you want to delete/disable Opera’s widget menu, just follow these simple steps below:
Open “defaults” folder in Opera’s directory. For example:
C:\Program Files\Opera\defaults
C:\Program Files (x86)\Opera
Close Opera and open standard_menu.ini file with your favorite text editor. For example: Notepad
Find and delete the following entry:
Submenu, M_WIDGET_MENU, Browser Widgets Menu
Save, exit and this is it. Start Opera.
Internet ExplorerSpeed Up Opera
Followed by Speed up Firefox articles, here are some tips by Sid on how you can increase Opera’s performance.
Windows 7 Beta and Internet Explorer 8 Experience
I was playing with the public beta of Windows 7 for a while now and decided to show you a few neat features of it while browsing with Internet Explorer and just show the overall experience.
Windows 7 shows all opened tabs on Internet Explorer 8.
Mozilla Drops Google in Firefox 3.1 and Tries Yandex
It looks like Mozilla is trying some other players as well. As for now, Firefox default search engine for Russian language users will be Yandex instead of everyone’s beloved Google.
According to research studies conducted by TNS, FOM, and Comcon, Yandex is the largest resource and largest search engine in Russian Internet, based on the audience size and internet penetration. Continue Reading
Browsers Tracker, No Ads, More Writers and More
Here is another update for you: FavBrowser.com 2.30
First of all, good news for our regular visitors. No more ads after posts or in the top right corner. Advertising will be shown only for our new readers and should disappears within few days.
As per your request, I’ve just finished web browsers tracker script. It updates everything automatically every 30 minutes.
Related posts will be back within few days!
And finally, 4 new writers have joined the team: Alejandro Yee Cota (Tweet Directly From Opera’s Address Bar), Ameer Dawood (his post will be published tomorrow), Ethan Piekarski (How to Disable Firefox 3 Extensions Compatibility Check) and Russell Dowdy (Speed Up Firefox 3).
Also, I am considering to begin coding and designing new WordPress theme. Feel free to post your suggestions here.
Firebug 1.3 Released
The final version of Firebug 1.3 has been released and can be downloaded via addons.mozilla.org
The following version won’t work with Firefox 3.1. However, the upcoming Firebug 1.4 alpha release will fix that.
For the changelog, please check release notes here.
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Browsers Market Share for the Year 2008
Previous year were great for some of the web browsers and not so good for Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer.
Since it’s now 2009, let’s sum up all the market share reports and check final results.
Internet Explorer lost 7.32% of its market share Continue Reading
