Quick tips. On 9 January 2009, Google started to use new favicon on its sites. In this post, you will find how to change the old Google's favicon to the new one in Firefox and Opera, if you feel like changing it.

Mozilla Firefox

You can update the Firefox’s default Google search plugin to show the new Google search icon:

1. Download this updated version of the Google search plugin (right click to save).

2. Copy it to your searchplugins folder in your Firefox install folder (usually in C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\searchplugins on Windows), and overwrite the existing google.xml file.

3. Save the file and restart Firefox.

[via: Mozilla Links]

Opera

1. Make sure Opera is not running. Go to the directory where Opera is installed (usually in C:\Program Files\Opera). Open search.ini with Notepad to edit it.

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Everyone have their own favourite web browser. As for me, my favourite web browser is Opera. Why Opera? Even though Opera is not open source like Mozilla Firefox, it has a lot of great features that make me love Opera. One of them is the mouse gestures. The mouse gestures feature in Opera is indeed the most powerfull feature that a browser can have. Opera allows you to fully customize the mouse gestures.

Most of us usually have our own favourite web browsers that we use to access the world wide web. Each of these browsers have their own characteristics and features that made us love them. For November 2008, 49.13% of TMS Network's blog visitors use Mozilla Firefox to visit this blog, 39.2% uses Internet Explorer, 5.13% uses Opera, 3.33% uses Google Chrome and 1.7% uses Safari. As for me, I like to take my favourite web browser in my pendrive so I can use it if I go to internet cafe or at work. This allows me to use the browser with my own settings, addons and any customizations that I've done. In this post, I will list a few portable web browser that we can install and run from a portable USB drive.

Opera@USB

Since this is my favourite web browser, I will start with Opera. The portable version of Opera has the same features as the normal desktop version, surf the web, write emails, or use IRC. In fact, with Opera Link, you can synchronize your bookmark, notes, history and speed dial. Opera Link works very well with the portable version of Opera. You can expect it to be functional as the desktop version. However, the portable version cannot run directly from network (using \\192.168.1.10\Opera Portable\ path for example). You need to mount the directory as network drive first.

Opera Link is the ultimate free service by Opera that allows you to sync your Opera Browser's informations wherever you go. If Opera is your favourite web browser, then you should use Opera Link. Opera Link will let you to save bookmarks, notes, custom searches, typed browser history, the Personal Bar and Speed Dial settings to the online "Opera Link" service.

Once you logged in to Opera Link service, the synching process is fully automated and simple. Your browser data will be automatically synchronized until you logged out. With Opera Link, your browser data is stored online, and the best thing is you can also synchronize the data with other Opera browsers such as Opera Mini which can be run on your mobile phone.

How to use Opera Link on your PC

1. If you don't have My Opera account yet, you can sign up for it freely.

2. On your Opera Browser, go to File > Synchronize Opera...

3. Click Opera Link Options (1) to select what type of data that you want to be synchronized. You can synchronize bookmarks, speed dial, personal bar, notes, typed history and searches.

Since version 9, Opera has built in bittorrent download manager, and by default, Opera will ask you if you want to use the built in bittorrent download manager to download files from bittorrent network when you’ve downloaded a .torrent file. This is quite annoying since we cannot save the .torrent file to be use in our favourite bittorrent client.

If you are new to Opera web browser, here are the simple steps to disable the built in bittorrent download manager in Opera. Open a new tab in Opera. type about:config (1) in the address. Click ‘BitTorrent’ (2), untick ‘Enable’ (3), and hit ‘Save’ (4). Just as simple as that, and you’ve disabled the built in bittorrent download manager in Opera. Now, .torrent file will be treated as a normal file that can be downloaded.

If you are using Firefox, you should know that typing ‘foo’ in the address bar and pressing CTRL+Enter will auto-complete it to http://www.foo.com, pressing Shift+Enter to http://www.foo.net and CTRL+Shift+Enter to http://www.foo.org. In Opera browser, by default, you will only get the CTRL+Enter for auto-complete. Below are the steps to enable the Shift+Enter and CTRL+Shift+Enter in Opera (or any other key if you want to).

I am actually a heavy tab user, usually every time I am browsing the Internet, I opened average 10 tabs and maybe more. My desktop PC is running on 2.66Ghz Pentium 4 which is quite slow for a heavy tab user like me. I’ve tested a lot of browsers that doesn’t require a lot of resources even when opening lots of tabs. So far, I found that Flock 1.2.1 is very suitable for me. Flock is a browser with Web 2.0 features, built on Firefox. Flock 1.2.1 is based on Firefox 2.

Veoh is a Youtube like service that allow users to find and watch major studio content, independent productions and user-generated material.

Veoh.com started to block viewers from various countries started from 31 May 2008. The block occurred due to low concentration of visitors from the countries, according to a representative of Veoh.