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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.

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.

IE8: Make the Favorites Bar Display as Icons Only

Contributed by shamanstears on April 22, 2009 under Browsers

By reducing your Favorites Bar to show only the icons, you can access more of them from Internet Explorer’s Favorites Bar. This works great for sites with recognizable favicons like Gmail, Google Calendar, etc.

IE8: Increase the Maximum Connections Limit to Download More Than Six Files at One Time

Contributed by shamanstears on April 21, 2009 under Browsers

By default Internet Explorer 8 limits the number of files that can be downloaded at one time to six. While this is higher than previous versions of IE, you can still get it to do better.

IE8: Reset to Default Settings

Contributed by shamanstears on March 24, 2009 under Browsers

If your browser is misbehaving, resetting it to the default settings might be just the fix you are looking for. By resetting Internet Explorer, you remove all previous settings but does not affect your Favorites, RSS Feeds or WebSlices.

IE8: Display the Stop and Refresh Buttons Before the Address Bar

Contributed by shamanstears on March 20, 2009 under Browsers

By default, Internet Explorer 8 places the Stop and Refresh buttons after the Address Bar. If you want all of the browser controls to be grouped together, you can move your Stop and Refresh buttons to the left of the Address Bar.

IE7/IE8: How to Disable Automatic Image Resizing

Contributed by shamanstears on January 9, 2009 under Internet Explorer IE7

When you view large images, Internet Explorer’s default settings make the browser resize the image to fit within the browser window. If you would like to see the image in its original size instead, you can disable this functionality.

How to Copy and Select Text from Snopes.com

Contributed by davak on November 29, 2008 under Browsers

I really like Snopes. I really do. However, they use a stupid javascript command to prevent people from selecting and copying the text on their web pages. Here is how to defeat their defenses.

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