Android Marshmallow

              Android 6.0 "Marshmallow" is an upcoming update to the Android mobile operating system, most likely to be released in Q3 2015 ("tentatively slated for September"), with its third and final preview released on August 17, 2015.

             Marshmallow will primarily focus on improving the overall user experience, and will bring a few features such as a redesigned permission model in which applications are no longer automatically granted all of their specified permissions at installation time, Doze power scheme for extended battery life when a device is not manipulated by the user, and native support for fingerprint recognition.

These Features are new that we will look out for :

1.  Android Pay

                   With the arrival of Apple Pay and Samsung Pay, Google is revamping its own mobile payment service it actually introduced back in 2010 with Android Gingerbread. Compatible with phones running on Android KitKat and above, Android Pay will let you walk into stores and tap on an NFC terminal to pay for products.
                     The process works by creating a virtual account number, which mean your actual number is not shared with the retailer. This aims to make the process more secure. It's set to work with 700,000 stores in the US and will work with existing credit and debit cards from the likes of Mastercard. For developers, they'll now also be able to introduce Android Pay inside apps to make purchasing quicker and easier.

      2.  Finger Tip support

                    Fingerprint sensors have already popped up here and there on Android phones, but soon, they're probably going to be everywhere. That's because Google is building dedicated support for fingerprint sensors into Android, so that phone makers don't have to code it all in on their own. That means your next Android phone will likely let you use a fingerprint sensor to unlock your phone, make payments, and log into various apps and services. Basically, it's going to be a huge convenience for both the people making Android phones and the people using them.

      3.   App Permissions 

                  

                       We've all been there before. You go to install an app in the Google Play store and you're met with a long list of things the developer wants access to. To make it easier for users to keep track of what phone features can be accessed, permissions will now sit in specific categories like Sensor, Camera and Location.
                       Google used WhatsApp already downloaded to a phone as an example to showcase the new feature. When you need to use the microphone for a voice message, an app permission will appear prior to using the feature. If you grant access, you'll then be able to make a call.
Additionally, if you want to have a better idea of what app permissions you've granted, you'll now be able modify permissions within the phone settings.

      4.   Doze

                 

                       In a bid to hopefully give your battery life a boost, Android Marshmallow is introducing a feature that recognise when the Android device is in a rested state to help conserve power. Google says it has tested it with a Nexus 9 and claims it can help make battery life last two times longer in standby mode by using fewer background services. If you're worried about missing out on alarms and incoming instant messages, Doze will still allow those notifications and modes to be activated.

We will update this Article when we recieve more confirmed updates about the features of Android Marshmallow. 

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Cool MP4 To FLV Converter 1.0

Cool MP4 To FLV Converter is a very easy to use video conversion software. It can convert almost any video with MP4 extension. The interface is too simple. It also has advanced options which allows you to set bitrate, framerate, frame size, aspect ratio, also crop or pad black strips at outer part of video. Furthermore you can use Cool MP4 To FLV Converter to process several files at the same time.

Requirements:

NET Framework

(Link for NET Framework is available at -- Anti-Malware Toolkit 1.09.186 -- post)

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USB Image Tool 1.42

Backup and restore your USB drives with ease and accuracy.

USB Image Tool can create images of USB memory sticks and MP3 players, that are mounted as USB drives. USB Image Tool allows you switch between images with different music styles on your MP3 Player or to make an exact backup image of your USB Stick.

Here are some key features of "USB Image Tool":

· create image files of USB drives
· restore images of USB drives
· compressed image file format
· show USB device information
· manage favorite USB images

Requirements:

.NET Framework 2.0

(For NET Framework 2.0 LINKS go to Anti-Malware Toolkit 1.09.186 post )

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Morse Code Explorer 2.0f

A program that will enable you to explore the wonders of Morse Code
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The Morse Code Explorer application was designed to be a program that will enable you to explore the wonders of Morse Code.

With this program, you can :
- Decode a Morse Code string.
Simply type in a series of DOTs (full stops) and DASHes (minus signs) and seperate each seperate morse code by a space, and the program will convert it to text for you.
- Encode text into Morse Code.
Simply type in text and the program will convert it to Morse Code for you. All characters not included in Morse's Code are ignored.
- Display all Morse Code codes for each letter in the alphabet.
i.e. a quick reference chart.

When Samuel Morse decided to use an alphabetical system of signals for his newly invented telegraph, he consulted a Philadelphia newspaper's typecase. Morse desired to assign the shorter dot-and-dash symbols used for telegraph transmission to the more commonly used letters of the alphabet, while some of the longer dot-and-dash symbols would be used for less frequently used characters.

In counting the type in each letter bin, he found 12,000 e's, 9,000 t's, 8,000 each of a, o, m, i, and s, 6,400 h's, and so on. With few exceptions, Morse followed this list in developing his teletype code, assigning the
shortest symbol, a dot, to the letter "e", the most common letter. The symbol dash, was assigned to the letter t, the next most common symbol.

Modern International Morse Code only differs slightly from Morse's original Morse Code. The duration of a dot equals one dot-unit, a dash equals three dot-units, the space between dots and dashes of a letter equals 1 dot-unit, and the space between letters equals three dot units.

The transmission of an English message consisting of 100 letters requires the transmission of approximately 940 dot-units. If, instead of assigning symbols logically, they had been assigned at random, then the same 100 letter message would take 1160 dot-units - an increase of about 23%.

This encoding technique represents the earliest application of Statistical Compression for data transmission, and permits almost 25% more messages on a telegraph line during a peak period, than if dot-and-dash symbols were assigned at random.

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Anti-Malware Toolkit 1.09.186

A program to help users get the pograms they need for computer security.

Anti-Malware Toolkit is a program that automatically downloads all of the recommended programs to help users clean their computers and get them running at peak performance again.

Requirements:

· NET Framework 2.0

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MX Skype Recorder description

A great new recording tool that works in conjunction with Skype

MX Skype Recorder is a tool that works in conjunction with Skype (and with other VoIP applications) for recording calls.

It has the following advantages: can work in automatic or manual mode, automatically compresses to the MP3/WMA format, can save recordings as WAV PCM format, records conversations either in single or dual audio track, can work in spy mode, can work with PC-to-PC, PC-to-phone as well as Skypecast conversations, all versions of Skype supported, Google talk, Yahoo Messenger and other VoIP applications, user-friendly interface, etc.

Here are some key features of "MX Skype Recorder":

· can work in automatic mode (you don't need to press "record" or "stop") or manual mode
· automatic compressing in mp3 format (8-320 kbits) using Lame MP3 Encoder
· can save as wav PCM format
· you are able to record conversations either in mono or in stereo mode (one channel for input, other for output)
· can work in spy mode (user who uses Skype won't guess that all conversations will be recorded)
· can work with PC-to-PC, PC-to-phone as well as skypecast conversations
· support all versions of Skype, Google talk, Yahoo Messenger and anothet VoIP applications

Requirements:

· Memory: 64 Mb
· Disk space: 1 Mb for program files and space for records
· Skype



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Softpedia Mirror (RO) [MSI]

Limitations:

· 30-day trial
· trial-version can record only up to 5 minutes for each conversation
· Nag screen

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Vista and XP Tweaks --- Customize the way the OS works for you

Tune System Settings

Some options in Windows may not quite be to your liking and there is plenty of customization to be done to the operating system. The trouble is that not all of them are in the same place and you have to dig up the location of the settings yourself. The Tune System Settings module in Ashampoo WinOptimizer comprises a set of options designed to help you adjust the settings of the operating system to your liking.

There are four apps available, running you through system and performance tweaking, visual adjustments, an icon saver and a context menu manager that will let you customize the right-click menu entries. You will be able to tailor Windows to suit your needs easily and with the least effort.

Tweaking

Through this application, WinOptimizer lets you break from the default settings in Windows and adjust it to better fit your needs. Thus, in the Tweaking section, you will benefit from a configuration set that covers some of the most important sections in Windows, and not only. You have to know from the beginning that you can't go wrong with any of them, because every change is recorded and stored in the Backups section, allowing you to revert to the previous configuration.

In case there are multiple accounts available on the system and you want the OS to automatically log into a specific one without having to choose it yourself and type in the protecting password, the Logon section is the place to be. Here, you can provide the default user name and password to be used and enable the option. Care should be taken, though, because although this may represent an easy way to log into your account, everyone using the computer will be able to do the same.

Additional settings let you enable the display of welcome messages at logon and edit them, as well as the display of the “Switch User” dialog on logoff and the “Shut Down/Turn Off” button in the logon screen.

The System performance and security settings are included under the System menu of Tweaking. The five tabs present here affect the system, your privacy, and system folders. Another tab allows you to disable some functions and another one deals with miscellaneous settings.
Under System, you can dictate the way the OS recovers from serious errors such as BSODs (choose between restarting only Windows Explorer instead of the entire system, automatic restart of the OS and terminating unresponsive applications after a user-defined time). You can also bring some changes to the way the drivers and kernel files are managed and choose not to cache them on the hard drive as well as remove the DLLs from memory on release without caching them. Last in this tab is the option to pick how the memory should be optimized, for applications or for the system cache.

The Privacy tab is simple, as it allows you to deny the appending of items to the Recent Items section in the Start menu or completely delete them on the system shut down. The same can be done to the pagefile at the computer turn off. XP users benefit from yet another option that allows deleting the items sent to the Recycle Bin (Shift+Delete, without actually pressing the key combination)




If you are discontent with the default locations for Windows system folders, you can change them to a path of your choice. The System Folders presents you with the possibility to modify the default path for the following locations: installation files, favorites, My Documents, My Pictures, My Music, My Videos, Send To and Templates. As you can see, the names of the folders are those from XP, but modifications should affect Vista as well. All changes will take effect after the first system restart.

But our tests on XP showed that after restart there was absolutely no change and the path to the tested folder had reverted to the original one. Actually, we only managed to change the location for a couple of folders (My Music and My Pictures) and not even then was the change complete because the directories were still present in My Documents.

Disabling some functions is not as popular as one may hope, and, in fact, provides only four options if you run WinOptimizer on XP and three if Vista's your OS of choice. These let you disable the Properties context menu on the desktop, reprimand the execution of “Regedit.exe” and “Regedt32.exe” (limited to XP use), and limit the use of CD and floppy drives to the current user only.

Our attempts to limit the use of the CD drive to the current user on Vista, however, failed gloriously, as switching the user did not affect the use of the CD drive at all and full liberty was granted. The same happened in the case of “Regedit.exe” and “Regedt32.exe”.

A very handy option that allows you to enable the Windows boot time defragmentation is present in the Other tab. The feature can also be activated manually, but for those not keen on tampering with the registry manually this is a good solution.





The tabs under Control Panel provide tweaks for the Device Manager, some function disabling, OEM information and network settings. You can enable USB Polling every five milliseconds, reduce the heat generation of the CPU and lessen the power usage. The Device Manager can list all the devices (disconnected and disabled ones included) and display extended information for each one of them.

The functions you can disable here are eliminating the Display applet in Control Panel, the Desktop tab, the Screensaver and Settings tabs in Display Properties, as well as restricting the access to Add/Remove Programs in the Control Panel. These all work on XP, while on Vista, Add/Remove Programs options are greyed out, hence unavailable.

The Control Panel menu of Tweaking modules also features a tab that lets you type in information about your computer such as the manufacturer, the model, the support information button, and add a custom image. OEM Information is where you can do this.

In Network adjusting, you are free to tweak include enabling/disabling automatic network search, restoring network connection only on access, creating administrative drive shares, and setting the maximum QoS bandwidth limit.





Next in line are the Windows Explorer settings to personalize. The palette of options refers to appearance, the desktop, the start menu, the taskbar, as well as to disabling certain functions and other settings. The options available for modifying the looks of Windows Explorer are simple, but useful, if you want to add some color to the background (XP only), give up the arrow in shortcut icons, display (or not) the window content while dragging and resizing, show drop shadows under all menus, enable desktop animations when minimizing windows to taskbar, or make use of anti-alias fonts.

If, by any chance, you have removed certain system icons from the desktop and want to re-enable them, WinOptimizer lets you do this from the Desktop tab of the Windows Explorer menu. The desktop items that can be made visible with a single click on the checkbox are My Computer, My Network Places, Internet Explorer, Printers and Faxes, My Documents, Network Connections, Recycle Bin, Scanners and Cameras, Fonts and Administrative Tools. You can also make visible the Windows version you are currently running in the lower right-hand corner of the Desktop. Even if a system restart is required in order to apply all the settings, you can get off easily by just restarting Windows Explorer from the Task Manager.

The Start Menu tab on Vista will not provide too many options, as the great majority are unavailable. Only the display of the Computer Administration program group and disabling the default highlighting of newly added apps will work. On XP, there is a wider variety of settings, such as setting the program group delay time, making the items in All Programs scrollable, or displaying the current user name in the Start Menu (not available for Classic Start Menu).

Taskbar customization settings are few and cope with allowing/denying general alerts and the show of icons in the system tray area. For the latter, you can remove all the icons and leave only time visible, hide time or icons of inactive applications.






More tweaking that affects all the users of the computer is available under the Disable tab, which presents several function-disabling choices: the context menu for Windows Explorer and the Desktop, the File types tab under the Folder Options of the Tools menu in Windows Explorer, the “Log Off” and “Turn Off” buttons in the Start Menu, the Help and Support, Search and Run options in the Start Menu. All of these are functional, save for the option affecting File Types, which continued to be present even after a computer restart.

Should you test these the hard way like we did and disable all of the above-mentioned functions at once, you will appear to be in a bit of a jam, as there is no evident way to restart or turn off the computer. And if you end Windows Explorer, then restarting the system really sounds appealing. However, there is a way to start Explorer and gain access to the desktop in order to start WinOptimizer and enable some of the functions.

Task Manager is the only reliable app in this case. Press Ctr+Alt+Delete to start it and then go to the Users tab in order to reach the Run menu and start explorer.exe (that's the only place you're going to find it, as none of the other tabs feature it). The Shut Down menu lets you turn off the computer or restart it.

Pulling this on Vista is slightly different because Task Manager does not feature a Shut Down menu and the Run command cannot be executed from anywhere (tip: enabling/disabling this takes effect on the spot and a restart is not required, neither on Vista, nor on XP). One way out in this case is to switch users and turn off the computer or restart it from the menu.

Other options for Windows Explorer tweaks take care of some functions such as displaying BMP image thumbs as icons, showing preview for video, or reopening all previously open Explorer windows when Windows starts. More than this, you can set the desktop and the taskbar to run as separate processes, which offers more stability, but uses more RAM, or add “Command Prompt from Here” in the context menu of the folders.





The Drives menu under Tweaking permits you to pick the volumes that should be checked by Windows if it is configured to autostart an application. For more protection of the data, the application lets you hide them. And if you want to tamper with system performance once more, you can do so by adjusting the hard disk cache, cache for file positions and path names. More drive-related settings disallow the creation of additional file names using the DOS 8.3 format, disregard the date of the last access to folders, deny searching for files associated with orphaned shortcuts, or enable extended security for NTFS shares (available for Windows XP Professional and above). A useful option reserved for XP users is restricting the Windows CD-burning function.



Internet Explorer hits the tweaking list with five tabs regarding security, general appearance, some function disabling, user-agent string, and various other features. The Privacy and security area lets you enable the automatic check and install of updates (even if automatic updates are disabled). Additional options refer to deleting the contents of IE temporaries upon closing the browser and enabling the Windows authentication.

The looks of Internet Explorer can be changed by defining a new window title, setting a customized image for the toolbar (unavailable on Vista), or enabling the display of only frequently used items in Favorites.

If you're looking to disable certain functions in IE, there's a set of 9 options available that let you restrict access to the menu functions as well as tabs in the Internet Options panel. You have the possibility to ban the launch of a new window, eliminate “Open” and “Save As” functions unde the File menu, “Full Screen” in View menu, entirely disable Favorites and “Internet Options,” or the Security and Connection tabs in Internet Options. During our testing, all of them worked, save for one: Disable “Security – Security Level” in Internet Options.

In the Other Settings menu, Ashampoo WinOptimizer makes available the changing of the search engine in IE's “Search” button. However, this is pretty much obsolete, as it affects only version 6 and lower of Internet Explorer. More functionality is to be found in defining the default path for saving downloaded items or the source code viewer (default is Notepad).



The app provides some brief tweaks for other Microsoft software, such as Messenger, Media Player, Outlook Express, MS Office and MS Outlook. In case you don't have these applications installed, all the options referring to them will be disabled.

To make an already long story short, suffice to know that all the options provided are also available in the original software. WinOptimizer's benefit is that it amasses some of the most important of them in a single place.



The Customization choices for Windows Vista are not as abundant as one would think. The main concerns are the User Account Control settings, some appearance adjustments and the integrated Windows Mail. For UAC, you have some flexibility, as it can be granted permission to automatically continue to both administrators and normal users, or you can completely disable it.

The Appearance alternatives are mainly for the Aero interface and relate to enabling animation effects, showing them in slow motion and checking the graphics card for the Aero glass interface. A desktop option permits the deletion of the Recycle Bin icon from the desktop.

The Windows Mail options are not too numerous either: define a new window title, disable/enable the splash screen at the application start or the BCC (blind copy) field when composing an email.



The Firefox tune-up has also been included on the tweak list, and although there are little possibilities, some of them are really cool. Links can be prefetched for a faster loading and set the delay time before each page build-up, activate the automatic spell-checker and the auto-complete for the address bar and opening links in a new tab on middle click.

A plus of options is available in the Appearance tab for Mozilla's Firefox, where you are able to allow/deny a blinking text effect and scrolling marquee text effect. The Sidebar settings include changing its position to the left or to the right part.

The tabs can also be affected by tweaks in what concerns the color of the active tab (you have a wide palette to pick your color from), set a minimum tab width, and modify the close button display.



Last on the Tweaking menu are the Input Devices, which present some basic choices regarding the mouse and keyboard. You can switch the action of the primary buttons, enable window tracking, deactivate scrolling altogether or set a specific number of lines to scroll at once. The keyboard alternatives are limited to the input cursor settings, specifically to adjusting the blink rate and the width of the cursor in pixels.

In order to avoid all the manual tweaking, this module provides the possibility to automatically optimize all the settings for a maximum security. Also, everything can be reset to the Windows defaults. However, reverting to the default configuration actually means that the settings are rolled back to the state of a fresh Windows installation.






Visual Styler

This is the only application in Ashampoo WinOptimizer that actually minimizes to the system tray if you press the “Close” button in the upper right. It allows personalization of how Windows Explorer and the drive icons look like. More than this, you can drop transparency on some application windows in the operating system.

The possibilities are rather limited, but good, nonetheless. If you are tired of the same Windows icons displayed on your desktop, Visual Styler comes to give you a hand in changing this. Thus, the icons for My Computer/Computer, Administrative Tools, Fonts, Printers and Faxes, Help and Support in the Start Menu, Search icon, regular folder look and the default icon can all be changed to something in the large palette offered by the shell32.dll in Windows. For a more custom look, any ICO file can replace the default icons in the OS.

The Drives section of the Visual Styler allows for the same modification, but the DLL containing the images is this time imageres.dll. Again, using any other ICO picture will have the same effect in the face-lift process.

The Window transparency is another aspect included in this tweak tool. And you have the possibility to diminish the opacity level for the following: taskbar, Windows Explorer windows opened via the “Open” and “Explore” functions in the context menu, menus and popups, Internet Explorer versions 6 and 7, the Notepad window, MS Word and Excel 2003. The transparency can be set anywhere between 10 and 100%.

Nothing is irreversible, as the possibility of resetting both icons and the window transparency level of the initial settings is present in the application. These are available in the Visual Styler window, as well as in the context menu of the system tray icon, which also lets you open up the transparency and icon-editing sections.



Icon Saver

This app in Ashampoo WinOptimizer is designed to save the position of your icons on the desktop and restore it whenever needed. In case of unwanted reorganization of the icons by mistake or by someone else, this little utility will prove pretty handy.

All there is to it is creating a new restore point and naming it. Icon Saver will store the position of all the elements on the desktop and permit you to restore them no matter how mixed up they get. Of course, should some elements get deleted before restoring them, there will be no bringing them back and Icon Saver will work with the old items still present on the desktop. Also, in case some new ones have been added, the app will only affect the original items.



Context Menu Manager

The next heavyweight utility included in the Tweaking module deals with the elements present in Windows Explorer's right-click menu, be it for drives, files, or folders. The Installation of new software can lead to crowding this area to the point where you really have to sit a while and look for a very simple and used option, such as the cut/copy or Send To menu.

Context Menu Manager makes it easy for you to have only the choices you want when right-clicking a drive, folder, or file. It lays out almost all menus and, by simply unticking checkboxes, you eliminate the functions from the pop-up menu. Right-click entries are split into several categories, according to the type of element they address: file type, file system objects, drives, folder and Recycle Bin.

The downside for the Context Menu Manager is that not all items in the pop-up menu are present there. Some of them are omitted and this can be seen as an impediment for many users.

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Open Source Passive Security Tool for Web Applications ---( Available for download)--

Watcher version 1.1.0 is now available for download from Microsoft's repository of open-source projects. The Redmond company is not the author of Watcher, but it is certainly recommending the tool via its online hotspot dedicated to the Security Development Lifecycle. Put together by Casaba Security, Watcher is designed to enhance Fiddler proxy, a tool developed by Eric Lawrence, IE


program manager. In this context, the plug-in from Casaba Security complements Lawrence's web debugging proxy, closely monitoring and analyzing HTTP traffic.

“Watcher is a plug-in for Eric Lawrence’s Fiddler proxy aimed at helping developers and testers find security issues in their web-apps fast and effortlessly. Because it works passively at runtime, you have to drive it by opening a browser and cruising through your web-app as an end user. For the developer, the tool can provide a quick sanity check, so you can find problems and hot-spots that warrant further attention. In the hands of a pen-tester it can assist in finding issues that lead to other attacks like XSS and CSRF,” revealed Chris Weber of Casaba Security.

Version 1.1.0 of Watcher brings to the table no less than 35 checks. According to Weber, the tool will bring to the surface security issues that although evident are often overlooked. In this regard, the tool is capable of sniffing out a variety of vulnerabilities affecting areas such as cross-domain mashups, user-controlled HTML (potential XSS), open redirects, insecure handling of cookies, and Unicode, according to Weber.

“Setup is simple – install and run Fiddler, then launch the Watcher setup installer, or manually drop the Watcher DLL’s in Fiddler’s ‘scripts’ folder. Inside Fiddler, click Watcher’s “Security Auditor” tab and click ‘enable’. At this point the findings will start showing for any domain. To narrow things down, you’ll want to configure Watcher with the domain name you’re concerned about, and add any trusted domains you want to include,” Weber added.

Watcher version 1.1.0 is available for download here.

Fiddler is available for download here.

or here.

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Download Google Chrome 2.0.174.0

The latest version of the open-source browser made available for download through the Google Chrome Developer channel is 2.0.174.0. With Google Chrome 2.0.174.0, the Mountain View-based search giant is offering end users a tad more flexibility when it comes down to the content on newly opened tabs. In this regard, Google informed that Chrome 2.0.174.0 would permit end users to remove all the thumbnails representing shortcuts to websites that had been so far featured by default on the empty space associated with new tabs.



In addition, other notable changes involve: the addition of “"Undo Tab Close" and "New Tab" to the context menu on the tab bar. It is no longer possible to cut or copy from a password text-field. Ctrl+Shift+Arrow allows change in text direction in RTL UIs. Also now support Ctrl+Shift text alignment based on which side of the keyboard those keys are pressed,” revealed Anthony Laforge, Google Chrome program manager.

Google also fixed an issue reported with the previous dev channel release of Chrome where Google Calendar widget failed to show events. Chrome 2.0.174.0 comes just a couple of days after the release of 2.0.172.5. However, the 2.0.172.5 development milestone is a build belonging to the Google Chrome Beta Channel, designed to offer end users all the security updates and resolves offered in the past with releases such as 2.0.169.1 and 2.0.172.2.

Laforge explained that in addition to improvements in stability and bug fixes, Chrome 2.0.172.5 “Added support to cache some form submissions so that when you press back, you don't get the annoying "Confirm Form Submission." Autocomplete popup now appears when you press up/down key in a text-field. Visited links from normal browsing are no longer being displayed as visited (i.e. purple) in incognito mode. Pressing the Del key while an item is selected in the form suggestion popup deletes that suggestion.”

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Which Is The Best Browser

What Is A browser?

A browser is a program that enables you to view the Web on the Internet. If you need to view a site like the one you're reading now then you are using a browser. You may not even know which browser you're using! Well! It will normally be that little blue "e" icon you click on to search for things. This particular browser is called "Internet Explorer". It is the most common browser used, and there are many peo

ple who are still using Internet Explorer, thinking there is no other! But there is! And better ones!

Browsers are like vehicles. You want to travel fast, with lots of cool features, security and in style! You will find below (including links) all the browsers currently on the market, but I will talk only about the top three!

I have used almost every browser available, but have settled on 6 that include the top 3. Firefox, Opera and Internet Explorer. Because no matter how good your vehicle is, another one will have some features, styles, add-ons, etc, that are better!-- I could have written thousands of words here to describe all the differences among browsers, as well as the pros an

d cons, but it would be pointless beca

use browser versions and updates are so regular, with newer features, tools and gimmicks added all the time. My advice is: Take them for a spin and see how they handle during your usual Internet activities! Observe the differences in speed and the tools you regularly use, and If you like, keep it! if not, you can either un-install it or keep it for a rainy day just in case you have problems with your existing browser!

Google new web browser. More Information, tips and tools click Here

You can use as many browsers simultaneously as

you like without any conflict. If you decide to use other browsers, I would not un-install Internet Explorer from your PC! It is an integral part of your computer and it's best to

keep it!

How To Make Your Browser Faster! Turn off images within the browser settings! If your using it for script based searches, turn off flash, Java and images! Turn off

sound! Close toolbars when not In use! Clear your Internet cache/files regularly. Or--- Instead of turning off each individual features from your favorite browser, try selecting another browser which can be used purely for script based searches and have switch off/close these settings. This will enable faster researching, and simply switch to your ex

isting browser when you need to use or see specific functions and things!. Depending where I'm going (browsing-surfing) will depend on the vehicle (browser) that will be the best for that particular journey!

What Is The Best Browser For a Mac: Camino, Firefox, Flock, OmniWeb and Opera all perform well on Mac Machines, again, its all about user preference. I would say try them all and see which you prefer! The best excuse is, they a

re all free..

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Here's my 'quick' review - The Top 3 - Firefo

x Vs Internet Explorer Vs Opera.

3rd place Internet Explorer.

Internet Explorer 8 was a major improvement..It has a new navigation bar and is a much better design. it has the tabbed browsing, the addition of the Zoom function at the bottom of each page to instantly zoom in and out of the current page is very useful. The "find next" tool is still weak. Yet it still has an impressive range of plug-ins. I.E 8 is a great improvement for security and new features compared to it's predisessor I.E.7, and a very good browser which should never be underestimated.

DOWNLOAD Internet Explorer 8 Beta HERE: This version is public preview release intended for developer testing and community feedback.

Supports: Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) Windows XP Professional x64 Edition Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1) - vista compatible.

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Opera 9.64

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2nd place: Opera 9.64

Opera is a highly respected, quality Web browser from Norway that offers many unique features including great magnification tool, thousands of cool widgets, text to speech, 3rd party extensions. You can do everything from home PC to mobile, Surf the full Web on your smartphone or PDA. It's very cool. The progress bar on the address bar lets you see pages loaded from the site. Overall, it's a very good looking browser, performs very well, and is a must have to you're arsenal of Browsers.

Supports: All Windows OS including windows Vista.. Solaris Sparc.. Solaris Intel... QNX... OS/2.. MacOS.. Linux Sparc.. Linux Power PC... Linux i38..6 FreeBSD i386 ...BeOS

DOWNLOAD Opera HERE.

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Mozilla FireFox

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Winner in 1st Place Firefox

Firefox has a tabbed interface: pop-up blocker/built-in multiple search tools: and built-in RSS reader, it handles nice and is always stable. The spellcheck for text boxes uses the familiar dotted colored lines under words . although the others has this feature. If you need an Extension for something, the Firefox extension capabilities are powerful, elegant and easy to use. It's also offers many theme's. I have been using Firefox since day one and compared to the other's, it is in a class by itself although Opera does come extremely close...

Firefox, as well as all other browsers, can be downloaded, installed and run in conjunction with any existing browsers you have.

Note: Firefox does not currently support ActiveX.

Supports all Windows 98 to XP & Vista: Mac OS X and several varieties of Linux and Red Hat Linux 8.0.

DOWNLOAD Firefox 3 HERE: This is a "lastest" version of Firefox 3 and still updating.

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