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If you try to export your bookmark list from Firefox to Windows Internet Explorer you will face a nasty problem. As a matter of fact, due to an incompatibility issue between these two browsers you won’t be allowed to perform such an operation (export). Anyway, thanks to this simple trick you will be able to export incompatibility bookmarks files in a few easy steps. Here is the procedure to follow.

Firefox

1. Open the bookmarks menu and select Organize Bookmarks.
2. Click File menu and hit Export (if you use Firefox 2). If you are in Firefox 3, click Import and Backup and hit Export HTML.
3. Save the HTML file containing all of your saved bookmarks in a location of your choice.

Internet Explorer

1. In Internet Explorer 8, press the ALT key in order to display the classic menu bar.
2. Once the classic menu bar appears, click File and hit Import and Export…
3. A wizard windows will appear, click Next.
4. Now check the radio button or just select Import/Export form a File or Address. Click Next.
5. Now locate the Firefox HTML bookmark backup and click Next.
6. Select a Folder and click Next. At the end of the process just hit Finish and you are done.

No time to lose? Always in a hurry? Want to spare yourself from typing the whole URL of a website? If so, then these little tricks are what you have been looking for a long time. As a matter of fact, thanks to a simple combination of two buttons on your keyboard, you will be able to save time and a lot of keystrokes! Modern web browsers such as Internet Explorer and Firefox have, among their  features, a kind of auto-completion which is able to add the www. and the .com part of the URL. Let’s see an example:

1. Let’s say that you want to  visit Web Talk (what a chance!).
2. In the address bar of your browser type: tlk
3. Now press CTRL+ENTER and the browser will add www. and .com before and after tlk, respectively.
4. Here you can find other combinations:

Ctrl + Enter WebAddress *.com address
Shift + Enter WebAddress  *.net address
Ctrl + Shift + Enter WebAddress  *.org address

If you use Internet Explorer 7, after a while or right away if you are particularly paranoid, you may want to delete all the junk which the browser has gathered while surfing and that, most of the time, may reveal other people what you visited and what  did while you were at the computer. The classic solution is to delete all the temporary Internet files in IE7. If you want to make this procedure automatic you can use these nice pieces of codes, called batch files, which clean everything in one click. Here are the most important codes:

• Delete temporary Internet Files (all of them): RunDll32.exe InetCpl.cpl,ClearMyTracksByProcess 8
• Delete Cookies: RunDll32.exe InetCpl.cpl,ClearMyTracksByProcess 2
• Delete History: RunDll32.exe InetCpl.cpl,ClearMyTracksByProcess 1
• Delete Passwords: RunDll32.exe InetCpl.cpl,ClearMyTracksByProcess 32
• Delete everything. Don’t leave any footprint in my computer: RunDll32.exe InetCpl.cpl,ClearMyTracksByProcess 4351

To run these batch files it is sufficient to:

1. Click Start.
2. Copy and past the code in the Search Bar (right under All Programs), press Enter.

The codes provided work on Vista and XP

Google has just released a nice API application that lets you display maps and all the nice functionalities available on Google Heart directly on your preferred browser. Here is a brief excerpt: ” The Google Earth Plug-in and its JavaScript API let you embed Google Earth, a true 3D digital globe, into your web pages. Using the API you can draw markers and lines, drape images over the terrain, add 3D models, or load KML files, allowing you to build sophisticated 3D map applications. If you have an existing Maps API site, you can 3D-enable your page with as little as one line of code.” To download it, visit this page

Differently from other famous web browsers (i.e. Firefox), Internet Explorer 7 just allows you to download two files at the time. If you are one of those guys always downloading stuff from the Internet this can be a real annoyance without speaking about how much time this limitation wastes. A little hack can fix this issue once for good. Here is the step-by-step procedure:

1. Click Start.
2. Write regedit in the Search Bar.
3. Find this Key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ Software\ Microsoft\ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ Internet Settings
4. Right click on that part of the window which is empty.
5. Create a new DWord (32-bit) Value.
6. Name the new DWord: MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server
7. Double click on the new DWord and modify the value to 3
8. Create a new DWord and name it MaxConnectionsPerServer
9. Double click on the new DWord and modify the value to 3
10. Restart Internet Explorer.
    

If you have been following Web Talk for a while you should know something about the famous browser war which has been going on for some years. Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari and Opera are fighting hard to persuade more and more users to change browser and download their latest versions, which promise to enhance our surfing experience to new and wonderful levels. So far Firefox is winning this tough competition, even if its competitors are trying their best to beat it up. But lets see together the most important features and the latest news about the most important browsers. Continue reading »

If you have a blog and you want it to run on Internet Explorer smoothly, you could have a nasty surprise. In fact, depending on what version of Internet Explorer your visitors are using, you blog could not be rendered in a proper way on their screens, making you loose a lot of readers and hours in the vain attempt to understand what it is wrong with your site. Don’t worry, it is not your fault but Microsoft’s and its nasty attitude not to respect HTML standards. To avoid this kind of surprise it could be nice if you could have a way to test your blog on the different Internet Explorer versions before putting it online. Well, IETester is the reply you are looking for. As a matter of fact “IETester allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE8 beta 1, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE in the same process.” If you want to download it, click here.

Apple has just released the all-new Safari browser which has reached its 3.1 version. Along with this new release, Apple states Safari is the fastest browser in the world, since it is 1.9 times faster than IE 7 [Internet Explorer 7] and 1.7 times faster than Firefox 2. Personally speaking, I believe the guys at Apple, but I would also like to hear other independent reports since, before playing the big trumpet to the world, it is always better having some more solid facts at hand, and possibly coming from indipendent sources, right?. But let’s see in details some of the most important Safari’s features:

• Better bookmark organisation.
• Pop-up blocker.
• Integrated Find banner, to look website and whatever you want directly from the browser.
• Multi-tab functionality.
• Auto-fill, to fill-in form in a breeze.
• Built-in RSS.
• Private Browsing, to keep your surfing private.
• Better security
• Javascript is also reported to be faster (up to 6 times)
• “And best of all, Safari supports the latest audio, video and animation standards for an industry-leading Web 2.0 experience.”

If you want to download the new Safari version, click here.