Posts Tagged ‘Browser’

Quick BlackBerry Security Check

March 29th, 2011 No Comments »

 

Want to run a Security Check on your BlackBerry? Click this link in your BlackBerry Browser


Firefox Memory Tuneup

December 28th, 2010 No Comments »

Popular Firefox is not a light browser as many thinks, with number of ADDONs loaded and multiple tab opened it can eat up all the available memory. More and more you open tab/website more your memory is consumed and progressively stir your processor.

But by this memory tune-up you can improve performance of Firefox. Please follow steps:-

Open firefox. To config firefox at address bar type about:config

1. Limit Capacities of Cache Memory

The more and more you opens the web/tabs, Your computer memory progressively used up. To limit it add new option: browser.cache.memory.capacity.

  • Right Click in the Firefox Windows, New > Integer. Type “browser.cache.memory.capacity” then Press Enter,
  • Put into number 2048. 2048 here mean using maximal memory cache only 2 Mb.

2. Limit Capacities of cache history

  • "browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers", alter value -1 to 3.

3. Limit Capacities of Cache Disk

  • "browser.cache.disk.capacity", alter the value 50000 become 2000

4. Disable unused extension/addons

  • Disable Add-Ons you which do not use.

5. Disable download history

  • Select Tools menu > Options > Privacy. Then uncheck at “Remember what I’ve downloaded”.

 


What fingerprints does your browser leave behind as you surf the web ?

October 24th, 2010 4 Comments »

How Unique – How track-able, is your browser

Traditionally, people assume they can prevent a website from identifying them by disabling cookies on their
web browser.  Unfortunately, this is not the whole story.

When you visit a website, you are allowing that site to access a lot of information about your computer’s
configuration. Combined, this information can create a kind of fingerprint — a signature that could be used
to identify you and your computer.
Some companies are already using technology to try to identify individual computers.
But how effective would this kind of online tracking be?

EFF is running an experiment to find out. Read the rest of this entry »