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Jun262011 by Anchit PandeyNo Comments

Firefox: Change Address Bar Search Provider

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When Firefox performs a search from the Address Bar, it queries the search engine string you have setup within Firefox. If it’s using Yahoo, you can switch to Google. Don’t like Google? Use DuckDuckGo. Here’s how to switch which search engine Firefox searches when you use the address bar to search. 1. In Firefox type about:config in the address bar and press ENTER. 2. Locate and double-click the entry for keyword.URL 3. Set the value based on which search provider you would like to use for your address bar searches. Here are a few search strings you can use. Yahoo: http://search.yahoo.com/search?p= Ask: http://www.ask.com/web?q= Bing: http://www.bing.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q= DuckDuckGo: http://duckduckgo.com/?q= Go...

Google to left out Support for Microsoft's IE7, Firefox 3.5 and Chrome 9

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"Beginning August 1, we'll support the current and prior major release of Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari on a rolling basis," said Venkat Panchapakesan, who heads Google's enterprise engineering team, in a company blog Wednesday. "Each time a new version is released, we'll begin supporting the update and stop supporting the third-oldest version." By that scheme, Google will stop supporting IE7, Firefox 3.5, Apple's Safari 3 and its own Chrome 9, all which have released two newer versions. IE7, for example, has been superseded by IE8 and IE9; the same goes for Firefox 3.5, which has been replaced by Firefox 3.6 and Firefox 4. After Aug. 1, users running those browsers may have trouble with some features in Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Talk...

Firefox 4 vs Internet Explorer 9

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I was a fan of Mozilla FireFox, always used their browser. however the day I downloaded FireFox 4 and used it. I start losing interest in them because it loads pages very slow, it made me think that I have some problem with ISP I am using. As it was in my mind that from the day I am facing slow page loading from the day I start using Mozilla FireFox so I start looking for its alternative. Later I got to know that Microsoft has also launched its new version of Internet Explorer (IE9). Since I had a bad experience with IE8 and IE7, I was afraid to use this one, but later I found that unlike its previous version, this version of Internet Explorer (IE9) is much more cooler than FireFox 4. It is more stable and also loads pages faster. It is true that FireFox 4 has cool interfac...