Google basically proved to everyone that background auto-updates work concerning their web browser, Chrome. Initially, people were very against this because they didn’t want "stuff happening in the background they didn’t know about", but then quickly realized that background updating of the browser is convenient, not intrusive and certainly...

You may run into the situation where you ‘inherit’ a PC from someone else where the Internet Explorer is chock full of crap, namely toolbar apps. This is the long way to get rid of crap out of IE when you can’t reinstall Windows for whatever reason (usually not having the disc). It requires some simple uninstall procedures, followed by checking...

Well, we’ve heard time and time again that IE6 needs to go away and stay away. Heck, even Microsoft wants it gone for good. If you know the basics of PHP, below are code examples you can use to remind IE6 users to upgrade on your own web site, should you have one. Requirements: A Linux or UNIX based web server running Apache and PHP. The vast majority of...

IE9 is definitely a huge (and I mean huge) improvement over IE8, however there are certain things about the browser I don’t like. Some of my complaints are new while others very old that stem all the way back to the IE6 days. If you’re running Windows Vista SP2 or Windows 7, yes I do recommend the upgrade to IE9, but as with any product it has its...

For the privacy-minded, one of the easiest ways to keep web companies from virtually following you around on the internet is to simply have the browser dump (as in delete) all cookies on close. All major browsers have the ability to this, but IE’s way is rather buried, so here’s how it’s done: 1. Internet Options There are several ways to get...

It’s here! Windows Internet Explorer 9 is officially out of RC and into official RTM release! Below is a video of my initial impressions about the browser. The good: IE9 is great as far as IE goes. Definitely better than IE8, has great features where it counts. The bad: New tracking options a bit too complicated, Private Browsing still complicated to get...

If you use Firefox, Chrome, Safari or Opera, those browsers have a built-in spell checker. Misspell a word, and you’ll see a nice little squiggly red line letting you know you can right-click to get the correct spelling. We all know what this looks like as we’ve seen it many times in Word. Internet Explorer – even in version 8 – has no...

After using Windows Internet Explorer 9 Beta for a few days now, I do believe that IE8 is the last bad browser from Microsoft. IE9 is the one that finally gets its act together. Late to the party, to be sure, but it is genuine forward progress. "Bad" defined in reference to a browser counts as three things: Slow, non-compliant, insecure. IE8 is slow...

If you use the search bar in Internet Explorer 8, it’s handy to have multiple search choices to quickly find what you’re looking for. Adding them in is easy using the following information below. Adding a search provider Click and bookmark/favorite this link in IE: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/searchguide/en-en/default.mspx On load of that web...

Based on the commentary from my last article, nobody (or at least the ones that commented) likes IE too much these days. I wasn’t surprised by this. For you IE haters out there, I have alternatives. No, I’m not talking about Firefox, Opera or Safari because you already know all about those. What I’m talking about are different IE shells....

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...

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...

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...

Yesterday a ton of people (possibly you included) received an auto-update from Microsoft patching the security flaw recently discovered in IE 7. If you haven’t received it yet for auto-update you will soon enough. Not to be outdone, malware authors have already begun work on alternate ways of exploiting security holes in that browser. One of the ways...