Google Chrome Keyboard Shortcuts and Easter Eggs

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Google Chrome is one of the fastest and light weight browser. Then, why not take the full potential of Chrome by using these keyboard shortcuts and surf the Internet much more faster? Below are the keyboard shortcuts and Easter eggs present in Google Chrome:

To open Google Chrome Task Manager press [Shift] + [Esc].
To open a New Incognito Window press [Ctrl] + [Shift] + [N].
To reopen the Last Closed Tab press [Ctrl] + [Shift] + [T].
Switch Tab (From Left to Right) [Ctrl] + [1] to [Ctrl] + [8]. You can also switch Tab by pressing [Ctrl] + [Tab]. You can also switch directly to the last tab by pressing [Ctrl] + [9] or by pressing [Ctrl] + [Page Down]. If you want to go to the previous Tab press [Ctrl] + [Shift] + [Tab]. [Read more...]

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Increase the Number of Server Connections to Speedup Internet Explorer

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Microsoft has made sure that Internet Explorer follows Internet standards, by allowing you and your browser to download only two files at a time from any server.

If you visit a web page with a lot of images and required files, such as CSS styles and JavaScript, you can easily end up with a scenario where your web browser has to make more than 40 requests to the web server to download all the files and then assemble the web page. Requesting only two of these 40 files at a time is going to be a lot slower than downloading, say, 10 of them at a time.

By tweaking a hidden registry value, you can speedup Internet Explorer and break Internet standards to download more than just two files at a time. Modifying this setting is simple to do, but be careful; the standards police will be after you. Follow these steps to speed up IE: [Read more...]

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Firefox 3.5 Portable

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Mozilla FirefoxAfter the release of Firefox 3.5, millions of copies were downloaded. But users of Firefox 3.0 are now in a dilemma of whether going for the upgrade or not. Since, they want to be sure before upgrading if their favorite add-ons, settings, websites etc are working properly in the new version. The best way to find out the answer is to try out a portable version first.

The portable version is the exact copy of Firefox 3.5 installed version, so it is great for testing out the features before upgrading. You can download the portable version from the PortableApps website. Though this portable version is only compatible with the Windows operating system, Linux users may try it on the Linux operating system using Wine. [Read more...]

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Mozilla Firefox 3.5 Released

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firefoxMozilla has released the final version of its web browser Firefox 3.5 for download. If you were using Mozilla Firefox version 3.0.11 then you can update to the latest version using the following method:

  • Open Firefox 3.0.11
  • Click on Help and then select Check for updates.
  • Firefox will tell an update is available and may also give you warning with the list of plugins that may stop working after you download this latest version.
  • Click on the update button to update to version 3.5
  • After completing download restart Firefox to apply the update.

Simple and easy way to update to the latest version. :)
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