Internet security is a branch of computer security that includes several security measures implemented to ensure the security of online transactions. In the process, it prevents security attacks on browsers, networks, operating systems and other applications. Today, businesses and governments are more concerned about secure cyber-attacks and malware coming from the Internet. The main goal of Internet security is to establish specific rules and regulations that can hijack attacks from the Internet. The excellent security of the Internet protects financial and other details from what is controlled by the servers…
Tag: Browsers
Web Apps Vs Native Apps - Winner Hybrid Apps
You have an idea for an app which you wish to develop yourself or get it done through a developer. Or probably you already have a popular website and the number of visitors accessing through mobile device is going through the roof and in a bid to captivate your mobile user traffic you wish to expand onto an app. Thereby giving you some real estate on their mobiles or tablets. Whatever the case may be, Apps are no cliché. Today or tomorrow you have to go the App way or…
HowTo Make Chrome default Browser on iOS iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch
We love Chrome on desktops and Android. There’s nothing that beats Chrome on Desktop but there’s still a scope of improvement on mobile devices. Nevertheless, Chrome’s great bookmark and Tab syncing features make it the most attractive and useful browser in the market may it be iOS or Android. So, admit it, everyone is addicted to Chrome. Best overall browser that gets anything done fast. On Android you can set it as default browser ina single click but Apple has made it tricky, Safari would launch for clicks to weblinks…
Get iOS like Smooth Kinetic Scrolling on Chrome, Firefox
After the iOS and OSX Lion evolution, we no longer like those jerky / clunky scrolls elsewhere. A Smooth scrolling vertical page is always pleasant to watch, and its good to the eyes. If you don’t like the way your Chrome browser scrolls on windows or OS X, here’s a quick extension for you that can help you get there. Chromium Wheel Smooth Scroller is a Chrome extension makes scrolling webpages a beautifully smooth experience with iOS-like kinetic scroll. You get the power of controlling the mouse scrolling and smoothness, fine tune it to…
Flash on Mobile Browsers is Dead, Native AIR apps for Future
Year after Steve Job’s war on Flash, its finally over, at least for the mobile. Adobe today announced that they will no longer work on developing new versions of Flash player on any mobile devices for Browsers including the ones on Android, Playbook, however, they would continue to support the existing versions. What this means is Flash would continue to work on our Android, other smartphones, but don’t expect any improvements. Adobe is shifting the focus to develop Native Flash (AIR) based apps on mobile, which exist vastly on Android…
Chrome 14 vs Firefox 7 vs Opera vs IE9 Benchmark
There was a time in Browser wars when every performance test was Owned by Chrome or Opera. Firefox continues to dominate the market share with Chrome trying to fill the gap. Firefox 7 is released and its back to re-capture those early days when it used to be among the leaders. Lets see how they bechmark against each other for various tests: Test system: Tests were conducted on Core i7 Macbook 6gb DDR3 RAM, Windows 7 & OSX Lion. Matrix: A Relative matrix has been used to make graphs easy…
Identify Browser Tab with Sound [Chrome, Firefox]
You are getting bugged by one of those tabs that has that random music or an ad playing, and while hunting down your 100s of tabs, you can’t seem to find the one. And it gets worse when you re-open your browser in office and that tab starts signing the song you were playing last night. The new Chrome extension does he right things: Mute Tabs. Mute Tabs Mute Tabs looks on to all your open tabs for the audio violator, and puts a musical icon on it, makes an…
Browse Web Pages in 3D
Add that extra dimension to your web browsing experience with a new Firefox extension called “Tilt”. Tilt lets you visualize a web page’s structure in 3D, may it be any site. The 3D rendering is done using WebGL which ensures that the graphics are smooth and rich. The work comes from Mozilla’s own developers which kickstarted the idea at Google Summer of Code project. Tilt takes the DOM structure and creates a tree like representation layering each node based on the nesting in the tree, stacks of elements, each having a…
Run Linux in Browser [Qemu Javascript Emulator]
We often use emulators like Qemu, Virtualbox, VMWare to virtualize another Operating systems on a different platform. Qemu is popular and open source emulator that lets you virtualize nearly any OS on any other OS. Qemu has now been ported to a new platform: Browsers. Most modern browsers like Chrome 11 and Firefox 4 can run this javascript based Emulator making it possible to run an actual Linux in your browser. Since javascript is slower than native code, one would expect slower boot times for the Linux, but it boots…
Firefox 4 - Top 10 Features
We don’t like delays but when an Open source project is delayed, its delayed for good. Firefox 4 is finally here and the plus point is that you get latest web features in Firefox making it one of the most modern browsers which aligns it withChrome, Safari, Opera making IE9 look ugly, already. We had tested Firefox 4 betas and Release candidates and saw a gradual improve in performance and standards. Firefox 4 vs Chrome 10 vs IE9 is all about Firefox vs Chrome love. Without getting much into the…
IE9 vs Chrome 10 vs Firefox 4 Benchmarks
The browser wars has always brought good stuff for us: All new set of features and significant speed improvements. And when we talk about speed, we trust Benchmarks more than anything else. But relying a single benchmarking technique is risky, and that’s why we execute all popular benchmarking tools before declaring a winner. IE9 vs Chrome 10 vs Firefox 4 Benchmark Platform: Windows 7 32bit on a Intel i7 Macbook Pro, 4GB RAM. We are not testing 64bit since IE9 has poor performance on 64bit as it still uses older javascript engine,…
Sync Chrome, Firefox Tabs / Sessions across Computers, Android
Synchronize Chrome Tabs, Session across Multiple Computers, an end to all problems. We all happen to use multiple computers and hop all the time. Even if you don’t, its not hard to lose track of last session when there are 30+ tabs, and you are about to open more. Google Chrome provides ability to sync bookmarks, form autofills, extensions, themes, preferences, out of the box but there’s no support for saving Tabs from current session. Its time for your to save your Chrome Tabs, Session and sync to the cloud…
Speedup [TurboCharge] Web browsing on Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
If you happen to be on a fast (and really fast) broadband connection, this tip would actually help you out getting there, even faster. Most of the modern day web browsing speed is limited by the peeks of the IO of your hard disk drives. High seek times and relatively slow transmission rates when compared to RAM speeds can add up to actually gives out slow browsing experience. Even switching to a SSD harddrive won’t help you much as SSDs are more helpful when writing/reading large data files. The Problem:…
How to Crash Internet Explorer IE6, IE7, IE8, IE9
If you are still holding onto Internet Explorer, I seriously feel bad for you. Not only are you using world’s most inferior web browser, you are wasting power, energy and most precious: your time. There are always some wacky things you can do to people who use Internet Explorer. You can hack their windows PC, you can crash their browser, you can capture their cookies,spoof attacks. If you are here to tryout some hacky Crashes for Internet explorer, you have come to the right place. How to Crash IE6, IE7…
Opera 11 features Tab Stacking, Extensions
Power Web users are blissed by multiple Tab supports but what happens when Tabs grow too much? You waste time searching & switching to the right one. There’s no good way of organize your tabs, save them for later retrieval. Power users rejoice, Opera has been, again, thinking about ways to make Web browsing more pleasing. with Opera 11. The Opera 11 beta is loaded with new features with wide set of improvements over previous release, the most exciting being Stacking tabs and mouse gestures. Tab stacking is fairly easy,…

