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Firefox 3.5: How to Disable Location-Aware Browsing

Contributed by shamanstears on July 4, 2009 under Mozilla Firefox

If you are concerned about your privacy and don’t wish for Firefox’s new Location-Aware Browsing feature, you have probably noticed that there is no setting to turn it off in the Preferences screen. You can disable this feature though, you just have to use about:config.

Gmail: Use Reply By Chat to Converse About an Email in Real Time

Contributed by shamanstears on June 25, 2009 under Google

The Reply by Chat feature allows you (and your contacts) to converse about an email message that you have sent or received, in real time. An added bonus is that if you have Gmail saving your chat history, the chat will be nested in with the rest of the conversation generated by the message.

Google: How to Disable SearchWiki

Contributed by shamanstears on June 11, 2009 under Google

Google’s SearchWiki allows you to customize your web search results by ranking them, adding notes to them and even removing them. If you don’t use any of SearchWiki’s functionality, you can disable it so that the various icons won’t show on your search results.

Bing: Increase the Number of Results Displayed per Page

Contributed by shamanstears on June 7, 2009 under Internet

While most of the time, you want to narrow your search down and view only a few results for a particular search query. However, sometimes it becomes necessary to view quite a few results, especially if the topic matter is new to you and you aren’t sure how to narrow your search. By default, Bing displays 10 results per page. With a broadband connection and have cookies enabled on your browser, why limit yourself to 10?

Bing: Filter Explicit Text and Media from Search Results

Contributed by shamanstears on June 1, 2009 under Internet

By default, Bing filters explicit media by utilizing moderate filtering. Since it is doubtful you were looking for explicit language in the first place, you can filter out explicit text as well. You must have cookies enabled on your browser for this to work.

Using the New Google Search Options

Contributed by shamanstears on May 12, 2009 under Google

Everyone’s favorite search engine has made it easier to get the search results you desire. You can filter your result set to show forums, reviews, videos, etc. and place a time constraint on the result set as well.

How to Disable Facebook Chat

Contributed by davak on May 11, 2009 under Internet

Although I use facebook a lot, I never want to use it for chatting. In fact, I never even want people to know when I am online. By following these steps, you will always appear “offline” and facebook chat will be turned off.

IE8: Place the Menu Bar Above the Address Bar

Contributed by shamanstears on April 28, 2009 under Browsers

If you use Firefox, then you are used to the menu bar being placed above the address bar, however Internet Explorer 8 places it below the Address Bar. You can move it by using a simple registry hack.