Posts Tagged by Internet Explorer

How to Easily Backup and Restore Web Browser Bookmarks (and other data too)

If you are a frequent web surfer, your bookmarks will be one of your important piece of data. Usually for most of us, when we are planning to reinstall the operating system that we use, we tend to forget to backup the web browser bookmarks and other data such as saved passwords, extensions, etc. (at least for me, and most of my friends). Unless you are using web browser synchronizing services such as Opera Link or XMarks, backing up and restoring your bookmarks manually is pretty much not a user friendly step.

FavBackup is a free simple program that allows you to easily backup and restore your web browser bookmarks. FavBackup supports backup and restore the bookmarks for major web browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Google Chrome and Flock).

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Other than bookmarks, FavBackup is also able to backup full web browser profile and data such as cookies, saved passwords, site preferences, search engines and many more. This will ease the backup, restore or migration process of your web browser profile to another system.

By default, FavBackup will automatically list the profiles of the web browser that installed on your system. If you want to backup a portable web browser, FavBackup has the ability to select custom web browser profile location.

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Comparison of Web Browsers JavaScript Benchmark Scores

Web 2.0 applications use Ajax and complex JavaScript libraries. It is important to have a browser with fast JavaScript engine in order for JavaScript to be executed faster. In this post, you will find 15 web browsers for Windows JavaScript benchmark scores. You will get the rough view which web browser has a faster JavaScript engine. I will use 2 JavaScript benchmarks, the first is V8 Benchmark Suite v4 and the second one is SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark. V8 Benchmark Suite is used by the developer of Google Chrome to tune the V8 JavaScript engine. The test was ran on Windows XP SP3 on AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ (2Ghz) with 1.75GB of RAM. The web browsers and their versions that being used in this test:
Arora
Arora is a simple cross platform web browser.

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Avoiding Malicious Websites With SiteAdvisor

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Prevention is better than cure. SiteAdvisor can warn you if you are trying to enter websites that may make you victim of malware or spam. The plugin is available for Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox.

SiteAdvisor plugin will display these color rating for each site visited:

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Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 Features Announced, Now Available For Download

Here are the list of new features that we can expect to see in Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1:

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