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How To Disable Multiple Tab Previews of Browsers in Windows 7 Taskbar

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Tab preview feature in Windows 7 is very helpful. But sometimes if your Internet browser has the facility of tab preview for each tab opened, then it may be annoying. It is actually better to have only one preview of the tab which you were active last to avoid all kinds of confusion in selecting the tab previews. An example of multiple previews of each tab in the taskbar is shown below:

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This kind of previews is normally seen in Internet Explorer 8 as it comes with this feature by default.

You can disable multiple tab previews for the popular web browsers like IE8, Mozilla Firefox, Chrome etc. Follow the steps below for each browser.

Internet Explorer 8

To disable tab previews IE 8 go to Tools->Internet Options->Tabs->Settings

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In the Tab Settings Uncheck Show previews for individual tabs in the taskbar. Click OK.

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Now restart the Browser, you will find the multiple previews gone.

Mozilla Firefox:

To disable tab previews in Firefox, open a new tab. Enter in the address bar as:

about:config

This will open the configuration page.Now in Filter Type:

browser.taskbar.previews.enable

Make the value to false by double clicking on it. Now your previews will be only one for the currently active tab.

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Google Chrome:

In Chrome there is no settings to disable multiple tab previews. But you can change the shortcut compatibility settings to disable previews.

Go to any shortcut of Chrome like in the Start menu or desktop. Right click on it and select Properties.

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Go to Compatibility Tab and check Run this program in compatibility mode for: and select Windows Vista (Service Pack 2). Click OK.

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Now you have learnt how to disable multiple tab previews feature in the World’s most popular browsers. If you want to enable them back, follow the reverse process.

How To Auto Refresh A Web Page In Google Chrome ?

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If you have following our blog posts regularly, you must have read about the post we have written on ‘How to Auto Refresh a Web Page in Firefox’ using ReloadEvery add-on for Firefox.

Now let’s see how the same feature can be implemented in case of Google Chrome browser.

By saying auto refresh or auto reload, what we mean is that the page should automatically refresh itself at regular intervals of time.

Thanks to ChromeReload extension for Google Chrome, developed by nick.lothian.The extension when installed provides the users with options for selecting various time interval for auto-reload.

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The reload interval may be from 5 seconds to 30 minutes or you can specify your own time interval in seconds if you want to enter custom reload rate for the web page.

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Download ChromeReload extension for Chrome.

Install Google Dictionary in Google Chrome

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Now a days we like a lot of things to be inbuilt. What about a inbuilt dictionary on your browser? Just double click on the word you want to know the meaning, zoom..the meaning comes up! This miracle is possible in Google Chrome installed with the Google Dictionary Extension.

The installation of Google Dictionary is very easy. It is just and extension in Google Chrome and takes very less time to install.

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See the steps below:

Step 1: Go to the Google Dictionary Extension link below from your Chrome Browser:

To Download Click Here

Step 2: Click on the Install Button. Click Install again to confirm. That is it, is installed. You can see the installation confirmation.

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Now, while visit any website and if you find any word which you want to know the definition. Just double click on it. The meaning will be displayed. If you want to know more, click on More>>

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By default the settings will be to display the definition on double clicking the word. if you want to change the settings to the language see the steps below:

Go to Settings Tab and select Extensions.

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Click on options button.

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Set the settings as you want.

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This extension is a very useful one. You don’t even have to open the online or offline dictionary and search for the words. What you have to do is just double click.

Reopen or Recover Recently Closed Tabs in Google Chrome

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Google Chrome is a very fast and light browser.

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It has many advantages. But it lacks one of the most basic feature. That is, if you accidentally click the close button with multiple tabs open, Google Chrome will not prompt you to verify your action. But other browsers like Mozilla and Internet explorer asks once more as shown below.

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Now, in order to compensate this feature, Google Chrome allows you to open the last closed tab or Window once again easily.

So if you accidentally or unintentionally close your tab or the whole Chrome browser, you can simply reopen what you want easily.

This can be done in three ways:

1 Choose what you want to open:

Open Google Chrome. You can see the recently closed tabs section below the most visited pages thumbnail. Choose the one you want to open.

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2 If you have closed the whole window and you want to reopen all the tabs at once then open Chrome, right click on the window and select Reopen Closed Tab(s) or Reopen Closed Window(s) as shown below:

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3. By Using the shortcut key (For lazy people like us):

Open Chrome And press

Ctrl + Shift + T

That’s it, you don’t need to worry about your closed tabs anymore and use Chrome as freely as you want with no worries.

Extension Focus: Google Buzz Updates in Google Chrome

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Google Buzz was launched a couple of days ago, and many Gmail users all over the world are still in the process of exploring the various features of it.

And the app developers are busy developing Buzz-based applications just like we are flooded with lots of Twitter apps ever since its launch.

If you have become a fan of Google Buzz and want to have easy access to it, well here’s some good news for you.If you are using Google Chrome, you can make use of the extension called “Chrome Buzz” from the Google chrome extension gallery.

When you install this, you can see all your buzz notifications right from an icon that’ll be placed next to the address bar in Google Chrome.Well, you can just read the buzz updates, but there’s no way you can comment on the updates, make a note.

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Google Chrome Mac Version Gets Extensions, Bookmark Synchronization

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Hello there, Mac OS folks, there’s a good news for you.Google Chrome has just released it’s beta version for Mac OS with the support for Chrome extensions, Bookmarks sync between computers and lots more other features.

Chrome has just announced the release of Google Chrome beta for Mac.

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With this new version, you’ll be able to install any of over 2,200 extensions currently available in Chrome’s extensions gallery.You can manage your extensions by clicking on the Window menu and choosing "Extensions."

Download Google Chrome Mac Beta [version 5.0.307]

More tips:You can learn how to use Greasemonkey in Chrome, How to download YouTube videos from Chrome, How to remove most visited sites from Google Chrome.

GreaseMonkey Gets Official Support For Google Chrome

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If you are an enthusiastic fan of  GreaseMonkey user scripts in Firefox browser and haven’t switched to Google Chrome for the only reason that Chrome doesn’t support GreaseMonkey user scripts, well probably you need to think again.

Either you have missed our elegant tutorial on how to enable GreaseMonkey user scripts in Google Chrome, or you haven’t been following the news off late.

Well, Google Chrome 4 now officially supports GreaseMonkey, according to Chrome official blog.If you still use an older version of Chrome, may be it’s the right time you should update your browser to the latest version.

Google Chrome Greasemonkey According to Aaron Boodman, Software Engineer in Chromium project, (who is also incidentally the original author of Greasemonkey Firefox add-on),  as of now there over 40,000 scripts available on userscripts.org alone.Keep in mind that Google Chrome may not yet support all the user scripts, he expects that 15%-25% of scripts may not work in Google Chrome browser.That’s understandable since Chrome is no Firefox and that most of the scripts are written for use on Firefox.Install Greasemonkey scripts normally as you do in Firefox and enjoy the browsing in your own style.

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

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 ).

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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

Is Google Chrome OS Virus Free? A Review

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It has been a very exciting news for all of us with the announcement of the Google’s first Desktop Operating System last week. This has been filling up good hopes for all of us as this OS is said to be free, I mean Open source. Moreover the Google Chrome team has claimed it as virus free. We will check the validity of their claim and will this OS will be a hit or will be lost in the air in the near future.

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Google has already launched the light weight Chrome Browser nine months ago. They have claimed that already 30 million people are regularly using it. Google Chrome OS will be an open source OS which will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. But they have not made the code open source yet. It seems the code will be available for us later this year.

Well coming to the point we will have a brief discussion whether it is going to be possible to make a virus-free Operating System. Well we have different views over this one. Some say that this claim is idiotic and it is not possible to make a virus-free OS. Others claim that it may be possible that if we take into account the various security concerns in the developing stages.

In my opinion, if Google has been redesigning an operating system from scratch, taking security into account all the way bottom up, they could make for a more secure OS than ones that  have been developed so far. As they have promised that users won’t have to deal with viruses or malware, we have to assume that they have addressed all the security concerns. Anyhow we have to hope for the best. Well nothing can be labelled virus proof but lets hope that the Chrome team is making the OS more tougher to be attacked.

Another thing is that this will be available for free to everyone and everyone can take part in the development process. The Chrome team has intimated that after the release of the source code later this year they are looking forward to work with the Open Source community and make the OS better to be used. We have been told that the Google Chrome OS team is currently working with a number of technology companies like Acer, Adobe, ASUS, Freescale, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, and Toshiba.

Well talking about the coming OS and its future, there are a lot of tough competitions to be taken care of. The OS giant Microsoft had already seen Google as a potential threat when it emerged a decade ago. They have been trying to beat Google and introduced Live search, now Bing! In order to survive in the market they need to make better products, name and provide better services than others. Seeing the current condition like Google had recently taken off their Beta tag off the Non search services, the OS will also be available to us for testing like Beta. But testing an Operating System in the Beta format is not an easy job over web services.

To summarize, there are a lot that can be done in an OS to reduce the threat of viruses and malwares. If the Chrome team started from scratch and took security seriously all through the design and development process, they have to potential to develop something really secure. And if they have done so, and they have developed a n OS really secure then I am sure that their effort will never go to vain whether the competition is tough or not.