Showing posts with label Web Browser. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Web Browser. Show all posts

speed up Firefox | How to speed up Firefox

Mozilla Firefox is the most powerful Internet browser and a good alternative to the plain old Microsoft Internet Explorer. Firefox has many advanced features and is much more customizable in numerous ways. Firefox when installed will have default settings, but you can tweak a few of these internal settings to make it run faster. Now to do this click Control + J shortcut and this brings up the downloads window in Firefox.

Now having many files in that list can slow down you browser a little as it has an impact on memory. So go ahead and clear them. Use the Clean Up button to do this. Note that this does not delete the original files from you computer but simply erases the list of downloaded files from this window. This video shows how to speed up Firefox by doing some simple tweaks.

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How to boost the speed of Firefox 4 with the BarTab tweak

Did you get the latest Firefox browser? If you're a tab addict, you know how much memory all those tabs can hog. Enter BarTab,

which will help speed up your web browsing experience, and still allow you to keep as many tabs open on your Firefox browser as you wish.

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How to launch multiple websites in your web browser

In this clip, you'll learn how to custom configure your web browser to open multiple sites all at once.

For a complete demonstration of the process and detailed, step-by-step instructions, watch this handy home-computing how-to from the folks at CNET.

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Building Windows 8 | Metro Style Web Browsing

We wanted to talk some about Metro style browsing and the work we have done to deliver a truly chromeless browsing experience. We are very much focused on HTML5 and standards support with the very best performance and reliability along with IE's well-regarded safety features.

We also continue to evolve and deliver the desktop experience that uses the same HTML5 technologies. That's how we deliver a no-compromise browsing experience with IE10. This post describes the IE10 platform preview 3 in Windows 8 developer preview.

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IDF 2011 Intel shows off a Windows 8 Ultrabook

CHIPMAKER Intel gave this year's Intel Developer Forum attendees a look at an Ultrabook running the Windows 8 operating system.

During a keynote that almost forgot about Sandy Bridge, Intel's vp Mooly Eden invited Brett Carpenter from Microsoft's Windows Ecosystem Group to show off an Acer Aspire S3 Ultrabook running on Windows 8 as well as a 32nm Atom based tablet. Carpenter gave a brief demonstration of the Windows 8 'Metro style' user interface with its live tiles and navigation using the keyboard and mouse even though the operating system was designed for touch input.

Eden's keynote presentation focused more on the Ultrabooks that will run on the firm's third generation Ivy Bridge processor, which are due in the first half of next year as well as looking ahead to 2013 when Haswell based Ultrabooks will "complete the Ultrabook revolution". Eden rounded off by saying, "What we are trying to do together is Windows 8, Microsoft's newst operating system, and Intel's new platform solution together provide a no compromise based user experience."

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