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How To Disable Orbit Downloader 404 Error Redirect Page

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If you have installed Orbit Downloader in your browser as built-in download manager, you might have observed Orbit downloader 404 redirect page appearing whenever any webpage you open returns a 404 error.This may  be annoying at times and you may want to disable this unnecessary redirect.The redirect page automatically opens up whenever browser navigation error occurs.

 

 

 

 

Orbit Downloader 404 landing page

Let’s see how to disable this Orbit redirect page in your browser (Firefox, Chrome, Netscape,Opera, Maxthon)

Solution:

  • Open Orbit Downloader Preferences from the menu.

Prefences in Orbit menu

  • In The Preferences, go to "Monitoring” tab, and uncheck “Let Orbit suggestions on browser navigation error”.

Uncheck Orbit Browser navigation error

  • And Click ‘OK’ to save your preferences.

Google Chrome Gains Market Share To Stand @ #3

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According to the published by web metrics company NetApplications.com, Google Chrome managed to gain market share both from Internet Explorer and Firefox.

The superfast browser from Google has a market share of 5.20% as of January, 2010 overtaking Safari (4.51%) and Opera(2.38%).Remember Chrome has a share of just 1.62% in March 2009.

The following table shows the comparison of market shares of different browsers as of March 2009 and January 2010.

Month IE Firefox Chrome Safari Opera Opera Mini Others
March 2009 68.46% 23.30% 1.62% 3.63% 2.12% 0.23% 0.65%
January 2010 62.18% 24.41% 5.20% 4.51% 2.38% 0.59% 0.72%

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The worst affected being the IE, which lost almost 6% of market share since March 2009 to 62.18% in January 2010, whereas Firefox ended up at 24.41% even though Firefox lost its share slightly by 0.2% as compared to 24.61% in December 2009.

Full data:Link

Firefox 3.6 Beta Revision 4 Version Available For Download

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Okay, if you are still using Firefox Beta 3 version, just check it out guys, Firefox has released beta 4 version couple of days back.

Upgrades in FF 3.6 B4:

  • Third party components lock down
  • Fixes for more than 140 bugs since the last beta version.
  • It can run scripts asynchronously

I just kept it simple by giving some major upgrades, the list is pretty big, you can check it out at this page.

Download FF 3.6 Beta Revision 4 (For Windows–English (US), 7.7 MB)

Click on the below link to go to download page:

Firefox 3.6 Beta Revision 4 version download

Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 Is Out

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Mozilla has released the latest  beta 1 version of Firefox 3.6.This latest Beta version of the upcoming Firefox version was built on the Gecko 1.9.2 web rendering engine, which includes many improvements for web developers over the previous versions.

The Features:

  • Built-in support for Personas, so now your Firefox can be personalized fully.
  • Built-in Plugin-Check feature to alert users about outdated plugins , Web version of which was announced recently.
  • WOFF font format support
  • Enhanced JavaScript performance that improves browser overall responsiveness and startup time.
  • New CSS, DOM and HTML5 web technologies support.

Download Firefox 3.6b1 (Windows):

Firefox 3.6b1 windows download

via Mozilla Blog Post

Download Google Chrome 4.0.206.1 Beta

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Google Chrome has been updated to version 4.0.206.1 (Beta) with fixing some minor issues with earlier versions (You can find more about the issues that are being fixed here ).

google-chrome 4.0.206.1 Beta

The installation latest version of size 11.2 MB was released on September 5, 2009.

You can find the download page for Google Chrome 4.0.206.1 here:

Download (Google Chrome 4.0.206.1 Dev / 3.0.195.6 Beta / 2.0.172.43 Stable / 1.0.154.65 Stable)

Previous Versions:Google Chrome 2.0.172.2 Beta