Google Safe Browsing is enabled by default in Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. This is what both browsers use to determine whether a web site is "safe" or not to display. You can use this feature independently in any browser. This is especially useful if you’re ever on a PC with an older browser with older or no screening safeguards. All you...

Caret Browsing is when you use your keyboard to navigate a web page as you would if you were in a text editor or word processing application. This style of moving within a document is nothing new as it’s been around for a very long time, however most don’t know it exists in web browsers. IE and Firefox both have the Caret Browsing feature, accessible...

Although I know this is being echoed all over the internet I couldn’t resist writing about this one. The upcoming release of Internet Explorer 8 (now in Beta 2) has a privacy feature that the internet populous instantly dubbed “porn mode”. This feature is called InPrivate and what it does is that at the end of each session the browser will completely wipe...

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