Tag: Tips
YouTube Crashing In Chrome? Here’s How To Fix That
Over the course of last few last days, a huge amount of Google Chrome users have started experiencing crashes when surfing YouTutbe web site. While the search giant is presumably working on a way to fix that, here is what you can do to stop crashes from happening again:
- Right click on the video
- Click “Stop Downloading” before you close the tab
- Job done
[Via reddit]
Opera: Go Back To Previous Page Without Reloading It
Works for going forward as well.
If for one reason or another you would like to go back to the previous page without waiting for it to reload, here is a setting to speed up your browsing experience:
Paste the following code to your address bar
opera:config#History%20Navigation%20Mode
Set “History Navigation Mode” to 3
Done.
That was easy, wasn’t?
[Via: reddit]
Opera: How To Backup Opera Mail, RSS Feeds, Bookmarks, Passwords And Other Data
It’s always important to backup your data, especially when it comes to your web browser. Thankfully, there are a couple of tools to do that, from cloud based servers to local ones. Here’s how you can backup Opera to your USB Flash drive or just a regular HDD:
- Download FavBackup
- Menu: Backup > Opera
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Internet Explorer: Disable Facebook News Ticker
Some time ago, we wrote on how to disable the Facebook news ticker in Google Chrome. Turns out, you can do that on IE9 as well.
Here is how:
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November, 2011: Google Chrome Share Up; Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Opera – Down
With just one month left before the end of 2011, it’s time to check the latest stats for the browsers market share.
Falling below 50% last time, Internet Explorer is now down from 49.58% to 48.95% (0.63 point decrease).
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Backup Your Browser Data: FavBackup 2.1.2 Released
Good news, we have just released a new version of FavBackup for you to play with. No major changes, just additional web browser versions support.
Changelog
- Added Google Chrome 16 Support
- Added Firefox 7 and Firefox 8 Support
- Added Opera 11.60 Support
Google Chrome: Disable Facebook News Ticker
If you are not a big fan of recently introduced Facebook News Ticker feature, then here is a simple way to remove it.
Arik Fraimovich has created a Google Chrome extension which does exactly that: removes the Facebook news ticker.
Blurry Text In Firefox or Internet Explorer?
Due to a Hardware Acceleration related issue, some users might see blurred text in Firefox or IE web browsers. Turns out, there are a few ways to fix that.
1. Download Windows Updates (KB2545698) for Windows 7, Vista or Server 2008
- Follow the setup instructions
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Internet Explorer Falls Below 50% Market Share Mark
Months and months after the continuous Internet Explorer’s market share decline, Microsoft’s web browser has finally breached the 50% mark and now sits at the 49.58%, down from 50.97% (1.39 point decrease).
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Weekly Browsers Recap, October 17th
- Before Netscape: the forgotten Web browsers of the early 1990s
- Building Rich Text-Centric Pages in IE10
- IE10 HTML5 Video Captioning
- SVG Filter Effects in IE10
- Firefox for Android changes UI code
- Noscript Firefox security extension goes mobile
- How to show the full URL in Firefox
- Google Chrome Beta Channel Update
- Google Chrome Dev Channel Update
- Opera: There is nothing more hypocritical
- It’s a bird, it’s a plane – it’s 3D Opera Man
- Useful Eyedroppers (Color Pickers) For Designers – Best Of
- HTML5 Facebook for mobile goes live
