How To Reset Browser Settings For Firefox, Chrome And Internet Explorer

Most of the widely used Internet browsers have a reset option. This can be useful in case of problems caused by different add-ons, if there is browser hijacking or simply because of performance issues. Let’s take a look at using the reset functionality in three of the widely used browsers : Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Microsoft Internet Explorer. Mozilla Firefox : For resetting Firefox,...

How To Create An Email Alias In Hotmail

Hotmail has the feature of creating an email alias. What this means is that separate email addresses can be created for a given primary email address which can be useful when managing different tasks like personal communication, official communication and so on. The benefit of creating email aliases is that primary email address no longer needs to be given out thereby reducing spam greatly and also...

How To Set Multiple Home Pages In Google Chrome

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Setting multiple home pages can be a great way to save time when browsing specific sites regularly as these web sites are automatically loaded every time a browser is launched. Here is how to set multiple home pages in Google Chrome : 1. Click the wrench icon and select “Settings”. 2. Under the section of “On startup”, enable the option “Open a specific page or set of...

Improve Web Privacy In Internet Explorer 9 By Using TPLs

Adding a TPL in IE 9
Internet Explorer 9 comes with a feature of supporting “Tracking Protection Lists (TPL)”. What this means is that if a TPL is enabled, then it will filter out third party content whenever you visit a website. Since most websites have third party ads or other elements, TPL in this case will act as a “Do Not Call” list, thereby limiting or blocking access to third party content...

Quickly Find Out Latest Version of Commonly Used Browsers

Latest versions of commonly used browsers
Using updated version of browsers is important for stability as well as security and performance reasons. Here is a cool site by WordPress that shows the latest versions available for the most commonly used browsers and has a link to the downloads page for each of them, all in a single location : Go to browsehappy.com and select the browser that needs to be either upgraded or installed from scratch. This...

Quickly Translate Text And Web Pages Online Using Bing Translator

Bing Translator
Just like the popular Google Translate, Bing now offers online translation between various languages. Visit Bing Translator and type in what is needed to be translated. The Auto-Detect feature works well by default but can be changed to specify a specific language as source. Hit “Translate” to view the translation. For translating entire web pages, simply enter their links in source field....