When you click on a folder in Windows Explorer to open it, it opens in the same window. An Open in New Window option would be a handy addition to the folder context menus. This is how you can add that option to folders’ righ...
When you enter an invalid URL into the Firefox address bar, a server not found error message opens. You can customize that error message page with the Fierr add-on for Firefox. That replaces the default error page with one that in...
Usually, you must click on windows to scroll down their pages. However, with the WizMouse utility we can scroll through a page in a background window without selecting it. The software adds scrolling out of focus windows. This is ...
The backspace button, also known as the text delete key, is one that you can set up as a Firefox hotkey. You can press it to either go back to a previous page or scroll up the current one. This is how you can turn the Backspace bu...
Windows doesn’t have any options to customize the transparency and colors of its menus. Nevertheless, with the Moo0 Transparent Menu software we can do exactly that! That’s a freeware package available for Windows XP/V...
When you click on the Windows Explorer taskbar shortcut it opens in the Libraries folder by default. However, you can set up Windows 7 Explorer so that it opens in any alternative folder. Then you can skip to folders that you open...
Previous versions of Firefox included an option that removed the Tab Bar from the top of the browser. That option can no longer be selected in the current Firefox browser. However, you can still remove the Tab Bar from Firefox wit...
You can view the source code of websites in Firebox by pressing the Ctrl + U keyboard shortcut. That displays the HTML code for the website in a small built-in source viewer. However, you can also view the source code in external ...
Whilst browsing, you might find a few Web page images that are a little small. In which case you should check out the Image Zoom add-on for Firefox. With that you can resize and rotate page images to make them clearer. Open this p...
When you open a page that’s not in English in Google Chrome, the Infobar translation bar, in the shot below, opens at the top of the window. The Infobar includes translation options that you can select to translate page to E...
Adding a website page to your bookmarks saves the entire page. You cannot bookmark just a few smaller snippets of text from a specific page. However, thanks to the ScrapBook Firefox add-on we can now bookmark snippets of Web pages...
Firefox has a few URL (Universal Resource Locator) suffix keyboard shortcuts. You can press Ctrl + Enter to add the www and com to the beginning and end of a URL in the address bar. Press Shift + Enter to input www and net before ...
The Firefox about:config page includes a variety of settings to customize the browser with. Among them is a secret animation that you can switch on. When you have switched the animation on, the Firefox Options window size decrease...
For an alternative to the Google Chrome New Tab page why not add speed dials to it? Then you can have your own predefined visual bookmarks on that page. Speed Dials is the extension required to give your Chrome New Tab page a reva...
The system tray clock on the right of the Windows taskbar includes AM and PM symbols. You can customize the system clock’s AM and PM symbols and its time format. Then the system tray clock can include any alternative text be...
