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How to Use Netscape Navigator With America Online

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You can run Netscape Navigator while signed on to AOL. Browse with both of them by alternating screens... more »

How to Use Netscape's Security Features

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One of the most talked-about features of the newest version of Netscape is its dedication to safety. For anyone who needs regular security scans and thorough popup blockers, Netscape 8.1.2 may be a great Web browser to use... more »

How to Use Opera Mini

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Many cell phones on the market today enable the user to access the Internet. Instead of using any old Internet browser, upload Opera Mini to your phone and be able to surf the way you want. With Opera Mini you can subscribe to your favorite RSS ... more »

How to Use Personas With Firefox

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The Personas Firefox add-on from Mozilla is designed to allow users a little more pizzazz on their browsers. While we are generally limited in how we can design the visual interfaces of software, with the Firefox browser, Personas enables what ... more »

How to Use PicLens With Firefox

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Piclens from Firefox turns your images into a three dimensional viewing experience. Go to any site with enabled images and use this add-on for an extraordinary experience. You will see all the images displayed in a 3D wall--just "scroll and pick" ... more »

How to Use Quotes in a Google Search for Better Results

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When you need search results having the exact phrase that you enter in the Google search box, use the quotes operator. The quotes operator narrows down your search results to only those pages that contain the keyword as is. Here’s how you can use ... more »

How to Use Safari's Security Features

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These days, it is important for your Web browser to provide you with a safe and secure environment in which to surf the Internet. Whether it is protecting your children from online predators or just protecting your computer from unwanted viruses, ... more »

How to Use ScribeFire With Firefox

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Scribefire is a handy blogging tool that patches into your Firefox browser as an add-on. Scribefire allows you to quickly create blog posts through your browser without navigating and signing onto the blogging website you use, making your ... more »

How to Use SeaMonkey's Phishing Filters

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Phishing, a process by which predators can empty your bank accounts and steal your identity, is among the newest high-tech crimes on the Internet. With SeaMonkey's application suite, phishing filters are automatically enabled in your email ... more »

How to Use SeaMonkey's Security Features

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As a Web browser with email capabilities, SeaMonkey's application suite recognizes the importance of security features. It offers many types of security, from encryption options to managing security certificates as well as cookie and password ... more »

How to Use SquidGuard for Web Filtering

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For public institutions, like schools and libraries, it's not only imperative but also a requirement of the Children's Internet Protection Act that Internet access be filtered. Web filtering, while not foolproof, helps to ensure that children ... more »

How to Use Tabbed Browsing in Firefox

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Firefox is well known for its use of tabbed browsing. Before tabbed browsing, if you wanted to have multiple web pages open, each had to be in its own window. This would clutter up your computer and make it hard to switch between pages. By ... more »

How to Use Tabbed Browsing With Internet Explorer

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Tabbed browsing is available starting with Internet Explorer 7.0. With tabbed browsing, you can open up multiple Web pages in the same window. Each Web page will have a tab associated with it at the top of the browser, enabling you to switch from ... more »

How to Use Tabbed Browsing With Netscape

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Netscape uses a tabbed browsing system to keep your Web pages accessible and organized. You can open many tabs at the same time, and even bookmark them all together to save them on your computer and access them later... more »

How to Use Tabbed Browsing With Safari

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Tabbed browsing can be an extremely useful feature for a Web browser to have in that it can cut down on the clutter of having multiple windows open at the same time. When tabbed browsing is enabled, new Web pages are displayed as tabs on your ... more »

How to Use Tabbed Browsing With SeaMonkey

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Tabbed browsing is among the many conveniences that come standard with SeaMonkey when you download it. The luxury of tabbed browsing allows you to open multiple pages of your browser without having to open and entirely window, and enables you to ... more »

How to Use the (+) Sign in Google for the Best Results

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Google search ignores many common words like "the"’ and "I" to speed up the search listing. However, if you want any word specifically included in the search, you can do so by using the + operator... more »

How to Use the Channels Folder in Explorer

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Use channels to "subscribe" to a Web site. You can view the channel online or offline at your convenience... more »

How to Use the Dogpile Toolbar in Firefox

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Firefox comes with lots of really cool add-ons and plugins that can make your online life easier and more efficient. What's even better is that most only take a few clicks to get them up and running. If you want to use the Dogpile toolbar, for ... more »

How to Use the Firefox Cookie Manager

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Firefox's Cookie Manager allows users to advise Firefox of their cookie preferences. It also allows users to view cookie information and manage cookies by removing one or all cookies. Use the Firefox Cookie Manager to take control of the way ... more »

How to Use the Firefox HTML Editor

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The HTML editor Firebug is an add-on, or extension, for the Firefox Internet browser. Firebug was written by one of the original creators of Firefox and provides a lot of editing features easily grouped so even HTML amateurs find it comfortable ... more »

How to Use the Firefox Profile Manager

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Mozilla Firefox allows you to create a unique profile that stores your personal settings, extensions, themes and additional user data. If you want to adjust any of your settings on Firefox, you'll want to use the Profile Manager, found on your ... more »

How to Use the Google Search Box to Search only the Titles of Pages

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Google search lets users search only the titles of Web pages. In other words, you can search for a specific keyword in the title of a Web page rather than its content... more »

How to Use the Google Search Box to Search only the URLs of Pages

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Google search allows users to focus their search only on URLs. Simply put, you can search for a specific keyword within a URL of the Web page rather than the content of the Web page... more »

How to Use the Opera Pop-Up Blocker

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You no longer need to worry about annoying pop-up advertisements while you're surfing online. Opera has a blocker you can put to use that will prevent your computer screen from being filled with these excess windows. You also have several options ... more »

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