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Some thoughts about IE9.

First Impression – IE9 website – www.beautyoftheweb.com hanged.. What ???? That website was supposed to showcase the cool features of IE9. Anyway the browser neatly handled the situation. It asked whether to recover the page and did it without problem.

Nice download manager.

Neat, clean and minimalistic UI.

Nice developer toolbar. Easily accessible through the shortcut F12.

Carot browsing (press F7) to easy select and copy text using keyboard.

Reopen closed tabs feature is good.

Shows which addons take time and prompts us to disable them.

And surprisingly IE9 beta got 95/100 in Acid 3 test.

Visit www.beautyoftheweb.com to know more about IE9.

Download Opera 10

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Main features of Opera 10 are

• Exclusive Opera Turbo compression which boosts slow connection speeds
• Innovative visual tabs displays Web sites in thumbnails
• Intuitive, sleek design
• Easy-to-personalize Speed Dial visual bookmarks
• Everything built-in, no need for extensions

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Before starting this tuning, you can try “Reset Internet Explorer’s Settings to their default condition”.  Then restart the browser and finish off the “Set up Windows Internet Explorer 8″ wizard.

1. Make your home page about:blank
2. Make your new Tab page about:blank
3. Uninstall all useless Toolbars and Addons
4. Disable script debugging
5. Disable script error notification
6. Disable useless addons if you cannot uninstall them
7. Disable useless Downloaded Controls.
8. Disable Suggested Sites
9. Enable Popup blocker
10. Hide Favourite’s Bar
11. Remove useless Accelerators
12. Remove useless Search Providers
13. Turn off  SmartScreen Filter
14. Uncheck “Warn me when closing multiple tabs”
15. Select “Always open pop-ups in a new tab”
16. Open links from other programs in “A new tab in the current window”
17. If you do not use Accelerators, uncheck “Display Accelerator button on selection”

If  you have some more suggestions or if you differ in opinion, add a comment.

All you have to do is go to www.spoon.net/browsers , click on the browser’s icon which you have to run. They will prompt you to install a plugin (spoon plugin). After installing the plugin, restart your browser and click on the browser’s icon again and the browser will be started.

You can run IE6, IE7 and IE8 simultaneously.

Plus Points : Great tool. Saves a lot of time. You can start the browsers from Firefox also.

Drawbacks : They frequently update the plugin. So you will have to install the latest plugin frequently. And the plugin exe will be run every time you start Windows. You will have to manually remove that from msconfig. And some text boxes in IE6 wont work properly when run through Xenocode. I have seen IE6 crashes also.

Download Firefox 3.5

Its hard to understand why Opera has only ~2.2% browser market share while IE6 still boasts a whopping ~14.5% market share. Maybe the Opera developers were so busy developing solid browser features that they forgot that they need to do some promotions in order for people to use it. In contrast IE developers were so busy shoving their crap browser down people’s throat they forgot to make a half decent browser. Whatever is the case, the internet is a better place today thanks to some of the innovations that started from the Opera camp.

1) Speed Dial: First introduced by opera in 2007, copied by Chrome since the beginning, added to Safari 4 since beta and can be added to Firefox in the form of an extension.

2) Tabbed Browsing: There are some disagreements about who introduced tabbed browsing. The first version of Opera in 1994 (named MultiTorg Opera) introduced MDI tab where each tabs could be resized, tiled, cascaded and moved. But Netcaptor in 1997 was the first browser that offered the current form of simple fixed tabs that we are used in browsers (but at the bottom). Tabs on top of the browser (unlike Netcaptor) was also introduced by Opera in 2000.

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Speed Dial, Page Zoom, Synchronize, tabs above Address Bar and many more. Opera’s features are often emulated by other browsers. Read below to see why we are often called the Research & Development center of the browser industry.
2. Instant navigation

With Mouse Gestures and extensive keyboard shortcuts, you will never need to click the back button again.

3. It is FAST

Opera invented fast browsing. We were fast before the other guys were even born. From day one speed has been a prime focus, something that is visible to anyone using Opera. This is not just about tests, but real life.

4. Super safe

An outstanding security record (according to Secunia) in addition to the included fraud and malware protection.

5.Synchronize your life

With Opera Link your PC, Mac and mobile browsers are all synced with bookmarks, notes and more.

6. Tabbed browsing master

Opera is the pioneer of tabbed browsing with features like undo closed tab and rearrange tab order.

7. Speed Dial

Another first from Opera–access your favorite Web sites with a thumbnail quick-dial. Opera lets YOU decide which sites should be there, unlike other browsers.

8. Save tabs for later

With sessions you can save different tabs for opening at another time.

9. Zoom in & out

Opera introduced this feature where you can zoom into Web pages to read small fonts and get a closer look at image details without straining your eyes.

10. Fill forms & passwords

With the Wand, you never have to retype your information.

11. Unique & customizable

Opera’s uniqueness lies in its personality and tradition which is obvious every time you use it. At the same time, you can customize it with hundreds of skins and configuration options.

12. Look nowhere else

Read your RSS feeds, download BitTorrent files and access your email–all from the browser.

13. Opera runs on all (even older) hardware

Opera believes that even your old computer deserves to continue being in use longer. Our goal is to run on up to 10 year old computers and on real world networks. Thus you will notice a significantly faster browsing experience on your old computer on a slow network, and Opera Turbo now makes it even faster.

14. The Opera community

More than 2 million members of the most helpful, fun and passionate community anywhere.
15. It’s FREE!

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Download Opera Turbo from Opera Labs