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Disable Tabbed Browsing

Personally I’m a huge fan of tabbed browsing in Firefox and now Internet Explorer, but for some reason people out there want to know how to disable them - so here you go;
Firefox
You need to install and add on from Mozilla called Tab Killer, by running this you will completely disable the ability to use [...]

Download More Than Two Files in Internet Explorer

You may not release this but in Internet Explorer you can only download a maximum of 2 files at once, so if you have a good internet connection you may want to up this for faster downloading.
This is a registry tweak so backup your registry.

Open regedit
Navigate to this location;

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings

Create a new DWORD;

MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server
Set the value [...]

Disable F3 Search Key

Some of you will know it as the F3 search button and some of you will know it as the ctrl+f button but whatever you use it does the same thing, search the page in IE and explorer for certain letters/words.
Now personally I love this feature and use it daily (I’m still a ctrl+f man), [...]

Move Temporary Internet Files in IE7

Internet Explorer 7 stores all its temporary internet file in a special folder located here;
Windows XP - C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\
Windows Vista - C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\
Now some some reason you may want to change the location of the temporary internet file folder, you can easily do this by doing the following dot points;

Open [...]

Replace the Menu Bar in IE7

Anyone who is using IE7 will probably thinking “where is that menu bar at the top”, well just like all the other million people out there I also thought it was an odd move to hide the menu bar.
You can do 2 things that will permantely bring the menu bar back to your browser, and [...]

Internet Explorer 8 Released

It finally been released!! (I’m not that fussed, I’m a firefox user)
After what seems like years of beta testing (it was needed!) and speculation Microsoft has finally released their latest browser, Internet Explorer 8.
Some of the supposed new features of IE8 include;

Accelerators
Enhanced Navigation
Increased Performance
Improved Favorites and History Management
Instant Search
Web Slices

But you guys can make up [...]

Internet Explorer 8 RC1

Microsoft has plans to deliver the first release candidate of the newest version Internet Explorer on Monday.
“We’re about to release [IE8 RC1] for Windows Vista and Windows XP,” said Microsoft’s Frank Olivier, a user experience program manager. “Over the past months, our compatibility team has been hard at work, finding and fixing bugs that cause [...]

Using Internet Explorer 7 With Windows Vista

If you are using Windows Vista then you probably have already seen the new relationship between Vista and Internet Explorer 7. But why is using IE7 on Vista so much better than other browsers with XP;
Better security protection
IE7 offers dynamic security protection with Vista which provides a much safer arena for you to surf the [...]

New Vista Patches

In the first month following the release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008, Microsoft is already serving up a number of fixes for both operating systems, as it has issued eight security bulletins covering a total of 10 vulnerabilities.
The critical fixes remediated flaws in Microsoft Office, Windows and Internet Explorer (IE) [...]