Since Firefox 3, a virus scanning feature has been built-in to protect downloaders from malicious or infectious files. The auto file scanning feature is only available in Windows platform and only if an anti-virus application is installed on the system. The Firefox web browser’s virus scanner scans downloads automatically once the file has been completely and fully downloaded to the local computer.

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There are various utilities that can keep track of your web browsing activities but none of them is much simpler than this tiny add-ons released specifically for Mozilla Firefox. Named as About:me, it is an add-ons enhancement to existing Firefox web browser so that users can easily figure out how much time have been spent in browsing activities in daily life.

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Do you need to find out where an image displayed on a site comes from? Or need to look for a photo in a higher resolution? TinEye, a reverse image search engine which can give you the answer is now available in Firefox. Users who want to search for an image’s origin or information about the image, identify which web pages make use of the image, locate the modified or edited version of the image or look for replacements with higher resolution can add TinEye Firefox Plugin to their browser to get quick results.

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If you are a frequent user of YouTube website and would like to play media clips repeatedly, you may realize the inconvenience of the need to manually replay them once the playback is finished. Now with the new add-on targeted for Firefox Web browser, users no longer need to repeat these steps and yet able to make the media clips fully re-playable at any selected portion of the clips.

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A mouse wheel or a scroll wheel is created for easy scrolling and better navigation. It is very handy and helpful especially when you scroll up and down long pages. By default, the mouse wheel move up and down three to four lines each time you roll it through a webpage. You might get frustrated due to the slow scrolling speed and perhaps a faster pace will be ideal. If you are using the Firefox browser, Mozilla offers users a simpler way to adjust and modify the browser’s default scrolling speed.

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When saving an image using Internet Explorer 8 (IE8), the IE browser may or may not “remember” or “save” the full path or location to the folder which the image or picture was last saved to, within the same IE browsing session, especially when there are many tabs been opened or closed. Normally, IE will always remember the directory that user saves an image to until the user exit or close all IE browser’s window frame completely.

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When running Internet Explorer 8 (IE8), there will be more than one iexplore.exe processes that are been spawned and launched with every additional tabs or IE window frames. The behavior is due to the fact that IE8 now implements a new feature called Loosely Coupled IE (LCIE) that uses separate instances of the iexplore.exe process for IE frame window and tabs. LCIE provides benefits such as enhance isolation of browsing session and reliability so that IE can restart or re-open an individual tab without losing all IE sessions when problem occurs or crashes.

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Opera Software has released Opera Mini 5 beta which is the latest update to its mobile web browser. According to the company, Opera Mini is claims to be the world’s most popular web browser for mobile devices. Opera Mini 5 has been incorporated with several new features for improving the mobile browsing experience.

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