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Mozilla Firefox

A community portal about Mozilla Firefox with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Mozilla Firefox is a free, open source, cross-platform graphical web browser developed by the Mozilla Corporation and hundreds of... [more]

A community portal about Mozilla Firefox with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Mozilla Firefox is a free, open source, cross-platform graphical web browser developed by the Mozilla Corporation and hundreds of volunteers. Started as a fork of the browser component of the Mozilla Application Suite, Firefox has replaced the Mozilla Suite as the Mozilla Foundation's flagship product. Firefox is often abbreviated as FF ; officially it is Fx or fx.

Google chrome a new revolution in world of web browsers

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Google chrome a new revolution in world of web browsers

Why Chrome?

Users to like the Google chrome because of its superior features find out some examples are as under.

1. Task Manager for Websites

Press Shift Escape and it will open up a ‘task manager’ with a listing of all websites currently open inside Chrome.

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This will give you a proposal about how much memory is consumed by different websites and if any particular page is causing your system to crawl, you can do an “end process” to close that tab directly from Task Manager.

2. Visual Browser History

This is a feature Chrome borrowed from Google Desktop / Google Web History. Type Ctrl H to open your browser history and search for a term.

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In addition to matching pages, Google Chrome will also show you a small thumbnail image of that web page in the history results. No need for any extensions.

3. See Memory Used by Different Browsers

Open a new tab inside Chrome browser and type “about: memory” (without quotes) - somewhere at the top, you’ll see a list of browser processes that are currently running on your system and the amount of memory they are using.

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4. Reopen Website tabs that you closed by mistake

Firefox 3 has this “Undo Closed Tab” option in the menu while you can open closed tabs in Opera via the Ctrl Z shortcut.

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To re-open a closed tab in Google Chrome, just hit Ctrl T and you’ll see an option that says “Recently closed tabs” - click the one you closed by accident.

5. Launch Websites from the Start Menu / Quick Launch Bar

Desktop shortcuts for web pages are possible with other browsers as well but Google Chrome makes the whole flow very easy. Open any site and choose “Create application shortcut” from the File menu.

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Explore Google Chrome Features: Keyboard shortcuts

Window and tab shortcuts

Ctrl+N

Open a new window

Ctrl+Shift+N

Open a new window in incognito mode

Press Ctrl, and click a link

Open link in a new tab

Press Shift, and click a link

Open link in a new window

Alt+F4

Close current window

Ctrl+T

Open a new tab

Ctrl+Shift+T

Reopen the last tab you’ve closed. Google Chrome remembers the last 10 tabs you’ve closed.

Drag link to tab

Open link in specified tab

Drag link to space between tabs

Open link in a new tab in the specified position on the tab strip

Ctrl+1 through Ctrl+8

Switch to the tab at the specified position number. The number you press represents a position on the tab strip.

Ctrl+9

Switch to the last tab

Ctrl+Tab or Ctrl+PgDown

Switch to the next tab

Ctrl+Shift+Tab or Ctrl+PgUp

Switch to the previous tab

Ctrl+W or Ctrl+F4

Close current tab or pop-up

Alt+Home

Open your homepage

Ctrl+O, then select file

Open a file from your computer in Google Chrome

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