Firefox has a convenient function in its Bookmark Manager (Bookmarks / Bookmark Managerr). Once you’ve opened BookMark Manager, which opens in a new window, just click on File, Export and choose where to save the bookmarks file. By default, the file titled bookmarks.html. Of course, if you ever need to restore the file — or [...]

WinClear is a computer history cleaner program designed to delete or erase the history of your activity on your computer. Obviously, it can’t dig into the guts of every program to find and delete the history each might retain (and you probably would not want that). WinClear targets general Windows items, recent document lists in [...]

There’s a great package of goodies available from Google for us to install on our computers — Google Pack! Visit Terry’s Computer Tips for more information on this free Google Pack software. Google Pack is the combination package of Google Earth (view and zoom the Earth from space), Picasa (photo gallery), Google Pack Screensaver (create [...]

Firefox 2.0.0.1 has just been released. If you’re running Firefox 2.0, you’ll see the update as it automatically installs.  When you exit Firefox and restart it, the update will finish its installation and check for updates to any Add-ons (formerly called Extensions) that you have installed.. Primarily, v2.0.0.1 is a security-fix update, although it has [...]

Microsoft has released patch for IE7 that speeds up the built-in phishing filter, which otherwise can slow down your web surfing. Unfortunately, MS did not push it out in their December updates on Tuesday. If you can pass the Genuine Microsoft test, you can download the patch from Microsoft’s site. Thanks to Infoworld for spotting [...]

I’ve been using Firefox for a long time now and have my short list of favorite Firefox Extensions. That’s not the slang “short list” meaning “the most important” — it’s my really short list of Firefox extensions that I use. But, it’s always fun to see which extensions other people prefer… Lorelle on WordPress has [...]

I read a couple days ago that IE7 was showing up on Windows Updates automatic downloads. At first, I believed it. Then, when I checked manually (I have automatic turned off), Microsoft Updates did not show it available for my computer. This morning, though, my desktop (my only computer that still has IE6) had the [...]

The blog at Mozillazine.org reports that Firefox 2.0 had over 2 million downloads in the first 24 hours and a peak rate of 30 downloads per second. A little math shows that they must be talking about downloads INITIATED per second, because dividing 2,000,000 by 24 hours, 60 minutes per hour and 60 seconds per [...]

I found a site with some good tweaks for Firefox 2.0. You’re probably familiar the concept of “Extensions” for Firefox — these are small programs that you can download to add features to Firefox. As of Firefox 2.0, Extensions have a new name — “Add-ons.” But, I’m not talking about extensions or add-ons now.. Firefox [...]

It was a bad weekend for browser security. Midweek, Microsoft released an early patch for a critical VML bug in Internet Explorer. Then, cyber-badguys started hitting a Windows Shell bug that was vulnerable through Internet Explorer. Fortunately, some third parties have already released bug fixes for that one. Also, reported in by Joris Evers in [...]