Recently, I yet again ran into a web site that would not work in Firefox or Chrome correctly. It had some form dialog boxes in combination with some JavaScript that simply would not display proper in the two aforementioned browsers. What I did at that point is what anyone else in Windows would do, I fired up Internet Explorer 8, loaded the site with that browser...

As web browsers continue to evolve, a design element that is brought up often is how much space menus take up. The current trend is to focus as much attention as possible of doing what’s called "reducing visual footprint", which in a nutshell means to make menus as small as possible while trying to remain informative and useful. To see where...

Internet Explorer 8 has two features that are underutilized by many, that being Web Slices and Accelerators. The following video shows you how to use them. Once you do (particularly with Accelerators), you can enable quick shortcuts all by using just a few clicks of your mouse, such as quick translations, shortening URLs, sharing out things on Facebook and a...

Before starting this one, yes you can download the IE9 platform preview now at http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/ but it is very limited as to what it can do as it’s for demonstration purposes only. This is not a completed browser by any means. It’s meant for developers, but if you want to try it out for yourself, go right ahead. Quick installation...

The entire reason we didn’t use sidebars for anything in web browsers years ago is simply because we didn’t have the screen real estate for it. We more or less always had the option, but it took too much away from web page viewing to be useful. Since many people today use higher resolutions, we now can use bookmarks in the sidebar while still having...

If there was any universal immutable truth to the internet, it’s that things vanish from it all the time. Those pages you bookmarked last year? They may be gone. Those forums posts that contained a wealth of useful information? They may be gone as well. There are several different ways to archive web pages. You could use ScreenGrab for Firefox. But the...

The definition of a web site that refuses to upgrade is one that does not "understand" anything other than Internet Explorer 6 or 7. For many this is a constant source of frustration for three very good reasons:Internet Explorer 8 has been in existence for almost seven months at the time of this writing. The administrators of these "IE...

People save web pages to ensure they can retrieve information later without having to load it on the internet. It also is a way of retrieving a web page just in case the original web site has an outage or goes offline for whatever reason. There are two basic ways of saving web pages, that being via the browser or "printing it" to a PDF. Via the...

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...

In our last episode.. I talked about how much web browsers suck. But now it’s time to discuss how great they are. The best way to describe the greatness of modern web browsers is to point out the features we have now that most people take for granted. 1. Tabbed Document Interface Most people know this as simply tabs. This was one of the best improvements...

The web browser is the most used application on your computer, period. Even when you’re not using it, it’s probably minimized to the taskbar/dock/panel. Unfortunately web browsers still to this day have a fair degree of suck factor. Here are 5 reasons why web browsers suck: 1. Plugins are the browser’s own worst enemy I call them plugins. Call...

For those who remember installing Internet Explorer either an an upgrade or fresh install, the process was specifically tailored to replace your default browser settings when electing to use the "Express" installation method. This is no longer the case. This comes shortly after it was announced that Windows 7 upgrade for UK users would not come with...

The most-used browser on the internet is still Internet Explorer. It surprises me how many people do not know how to make basic customizations to this browser. This video will show you how to do it. You may learn a few things you didn’t know about the browser before. See video...

How are pre-order sales of Windows 7 doing in the UK? Very well. However there are two major differences compared to the US version. First, it is required to have a clean install. For most people this means the drive must be wiped in order to use it to get rid of the old Windows (Vista or XP). Second, there is no Internet Explorer in the UK version. This is...

For those of you out there using the Internet Explorer 8 web browser, customizing the Command Bar makes it a lot easier to get to specific functions in IE 8 faster. This is what mine looks like: From left to right: Home, InPrivate Browsing, Internet Options, Page, Safety, Tools, Manage Add-Ons, Zoom In particular, I really like having the InPrivate, Internet...

Most web sites will work with no issue using Firefox 3 or Internet Explorer 8. But there will be times you encounter a web page that will instantly crash your browser. One such example is crappy MySpace pages. It is very common to find pages with the following junk in it:Animated background graphic Animated Flash graphics Auto-play music player Other...

Ah yes, Internet Explorer 6. It has more holes than Swiss cheese, is exploited easily and is slow as molasses. It doesn’t even do tabs. You might be thinking, "What moron would still use IE 6 when you could use 7 or 8?" Corporations would, that’s who. Windows 2000 is still used widely in the enterprise environment. And as anyone who uses...

The last time I wrote about IE 8 was on March 19. It’s March 30 today, I’ve been using the browser here and there, and here’s what I have to report on it. Is IE 8 good enough to make me switch back from Firefox? Not a chance. When I switched to FF way back in the day when Firefox was still called Firebird, I did so with a clear conscience....

There are some web browsers that are safe in older versions and some that aren’t. The safest (and fastest) web browser in the world is Lynx. This is because it’s 100% text-based. There is no malware, spyware or malicious code that exists for Lynx that I know of. The only drawback is that there aren’t any images in Lynx, nor can you use a mouse....

Microsoft released Windows Internet Explorer 8 today at 12 noon EST. I downloaded, checked it out and here’s what I have to report. First I’ll say that I’m not going to rehash what’s going to be on hundreds of other blogs out there. I’m only going to concentrate of the nitty-gritty of what matters to most people in...