Monthly Archives: September 2010

Add-on Performance Advisor in Internet Explorer 9

The newer beta of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer provides users detailed information about add-ons affecting their browsing experience. The IE 9 alerts and suggests uses to disable slow add-ons. Continue reading →

Kraken – A New Browser Benchmark From Mozilla

Mozilla has announced a new JavaScript benchmark, which will focus on realistic workloads and forward-looking applications. This new browser benchmark, Kraken, is better in terms of reflecting realistic workloads for pushing the edge of browser performance forward, says Mozilla developer Rob Sayre. Continue reading →

Get YouTube Instant on YouTube.com With This Greasemonkey Script

Stonos has created a Greasemonkey script which integrates the instant search feature with the search box on YouTube.com homepage. Continue reading →

NoteTree Chrome Extension

NoteTree is a new Chrome extension for managing text notes with Google Chrome. You can create folders and sub-folders to organize notes. Continue reading →

Restore Previous Session At Any Point After Start-up, Firefox 4 To Get A New Feature

Firefox 4 will have another exciting and useful feature: Users will be able to restore previous session at any point after start up. Firefox 4 will have an entry in the History menu to restore previous session, which can be used at any point to load previous session. Continue reading →

Mozilla Planning For Firefox Add-on Marketplace

Mozilla, the organization behind web browser Firefox, is exploring the possibilities of add-on marketplace. This marketplace will help add-on developers to showcase and sell their add-ons. Continue reading →

Mozilla’s New JavaScript Engine, JägerMonkey, Makes Firefox Four Times Faster!

Mozilla developers are working on a new JavaScript optimizer for Firefox based browsers. This new JIT compiler, JägerMonkey, is now available for the testing and will be integrated to Firefox soon to replace current optimizer, TraceMonkey. Continue reading →

Google Streaming Search Page Shows Instant Results

We have seen tools like Keyboardr, which shows the search results in real time – as you type the query. Google is about to launch a similar search tool, where you can see results as you type in the search box. Continue reading →

Hardware Acceleration And HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) in Firefox 4

Mozilla today released another beta version of Firefox. This release, Firefox 4 beta 5 has the Direct2D acceleration activated by default for Windows Vista/7. This Hardware acceleration feature makes page-drawing operations faster. Continue reading →

Get USB 3.0 Capabilities On Your Computer With Transcend’s ExpressCard Adapter

Transcend has released USB 3.0 adapter in India, which is an easy-to-install add-in card to enhance their computers with USB 3.0 technology. This device, Transcend ExpressCard Adapter, has two high-speed USB 3.0 ports supporting USB 3.0 standard with connection bandwidth of up to 5Gb/s. Continue reading →