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Google Chrome: How to Disable the Built-in PDF Viewer

contributed by Rob Rogers on February 22, 2011 under Browsers, Google

If you don’t like using the built-in Chrome PDF Viewer, you can disable it and go back to doing like you did before.

IE 9: Change Website Icons Pinned to Taskbar

contributed by Lê Hoàng on February 21, 2011 under Browsers

With the new IE 9, users can pin websites to the taskbar. However, a website’s default favicon may not blend well with other icons in your theme. This tech-recipe will show you how to customize these icons.

Create Web App Shortcuts on Your Desktop With Chrome

contributed by Chris Luongo on February 18, 2011 under Browsers

Using Google Chrome you can create Web App shortcuts on your Windows desktop, start menu, or pinned to your taskbar. This is helpful for open services such as Gmail or Twitter directly from your desktop.

IE9: How to Prevent Websites from Requesting Your Location

contributed by Rob Rogers on February 11, 2011 under Browsers

One of the latest trends for websites, especially social media sites, is to know your physical location. In some instances this can not only become a privacy issue, but one of personal safety as well. You can set Internet Explorer 9 to not allow these location requests by following this tech-recipe.

IE9: How to Display Tabs on a Separate Row

contributed by Rob Rogers on under Browsers

By default, Internet Explorer 9 has the tabs located on the same row as the address bar. This causes a limit to the number of tabs you can comfortably display. By moving the tabs to their own row, you have more room for them.

Chrome : How to Add a Download Button to YouTube

contributed by Siddharth Bose on February 4, 2011 under Browsers, Internet

This tech-recipe will demonstrate how to add a download button to every YouTube video page so that the video can be downloaded with a simple single click.

IE8: How to Disable and Remove Accelerators

contributed by Jimmy Selix on December 22, 2010 under Browsers

This tech-recipe will explain how to fully disable and remove Internet Explorer 8’s Accelerators feature. Accelerators were added to IE8 by Microsoft to help perform everyday tasks easily in IE, however for some of us the extra clutter in the browser is not worth the usefulness of the feature. This removal guide will work on IE8 in Windows 7, Vista, and XP.

IE9: How to Delete Cookies for a Single Domain

contributed by Rob Rogers on October 8, 2010 under Browsers

If you are experiencing problems while using a specific site, deleting the cookies for that site usually can help. Unfortunately, when using the normal method for deleting cookies, you end up deleting all of the cookies for all of the sites that you’ve visited. Not always a desirable thing to do. Here’s how to go about deleting cookies for a single domain, and ONLY for that domain.

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