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Browsers

Mozilla’s New Feature Will Lessen the Likelihood of “Invasion of Privacy” Lawsuits

by Neha  April 9, 2011

Mozilla Firefox has made a respectable stride in dealing with the issue of behavioral targeting with their new “do not track” setting. The practice of behavioral targeting entails tracking the activity of internet users, and then tailoring advertisements to their browser based off of their activity. This practice has angered many legal experts, who assert [...]

Why should “Chaaps” move to HTML5?

by Shivang Acharya  March 29, 2011

HTML5 is the language of web in 2011. With the advent of latest browsers like IE9, Firefox 4 and Chrome 10; the developers have got a boost to create multimedia enabled web pages with ease. The website designers have slowly realized the importance and efficiency of HTML5 based web pages. If one just performs a [...]

Google all set to unveil Body Browser that maps out Human Body

by vidya  December 17, 2010

Google is on its way to unveil a new browser that can map the entire human body. Google Body Browser a 3D hightech application is a breakthrough the study of anatomy that could increase people’s understanding of the human body and even fast track media research. At the WebGL Camp at SRI, Google’s WebGL team demoed [...]

Alexa for your Favorite Browser

by Murugappan  November 8, 2010
Alexa for Internet Explorer

Since the foundation of Alexa was laid in 1996, It has been a major factor on which the popularity of a website depends upon. According to Alexa: In addition to the Alexa Crawl, which can tell us what is on the Web, Alexa utilizes web usage information, which tells us what is being seen on [...]

5 extensions to tweet right from Google chrome

by Murugappan  October 25, 2010
Twitter birds

Are you one among the few who hate the new twitter or are you just lazy to go to the twitter website? Then these extensions can Give you a great helping hand! Chromed Bird To be summarized, Chromed Bird is simply A better alternative to the twitter web. It is more or less having the functions [...]

SEO Site Tools: The Chrome extension that gives Pin-and-Point information about any website

by Murugappan  October 9, 2010
Searching all information about a website in just a click

SEO Site Tools is a Google Chrome extension that shows you the On-Page/External metrics, Social Media info, PR/ numbering on Yahoo, Bing, Google Search Engine Result Pages [SERPs]. It also shows up WMT, YSE and GA with metrics. Read on to know more about the extension in detail: External Page Data <View full size image> [...]

40+ Google Chrome shortcuts that you Must know

by Murugappan  September 4, 2010
Google chrome

A couple of days ago, Google chrome started celebrating it’s second year anniversary. Google chrome is, no doubt, one of the browsers which is seeing a consistent and steep rise in it’s share in the browser market. We have discussed a lot about Google chrome in Chaaps. Here is a list of Google chrome shortcuts [...]

Celebrate Independence Day of India with Indian Themes by Epic Browser

by Chethan Thimmappa  August 9, 2010

August 15, The Independence Day of India has almost Arrived! This Year, 2010, We have Some New Things to Try Out in the World of Web. With the Launch of Epic Browser in India, The First Ever Indian Browser by Mozilla, You have loads to try! India Themes for Independence Day Over 1500+ Themes Specially [...]

Download ‘HTTPS Everywhere’ Firefox Extension and Encrypt Everything

by Chethan Thimmappa  July 27, 2010

The Tor Project and Electronic Frontier Foundation(FCC) brings a Firefox Extension Called “HTTPS Everywhere” which encrypts your communication with Major Websites.. At Present, Though Many of The Sites support Encryption over https the effect is Limited as almost all of the Websites have made Unencrypted http as default. This Firefox Extension “HTTPS Everywhere” makes Everything [...]

Scramble: Fun Extension for Google Chrome

by Murugappan  July 21, 2010
Scramble: Fun extension in google chrome

Are you a google chrome user and Feel like having some fun? If you have many e-mail pals, you might have got forward emails saying: Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer [...]