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I’m paranoid. When it comes to malware & spyware. So much paranoid that I run anti-spyware every 2nd day, irrespective of whether new updates are available or not.

Today was one of those 2nd days and the results that I saw, gave me quiet a shock !! Tracking Cookies on Firefox !! First I thought that [...]

For past 2 weeks I’ve been playing around with Firefox 2 - Beta 1 & Beta 2. Undoubtly it is a good step forward compared to 1.5.x.x in every way. Be it speed, memory useage, features, solidity [crashed just twice].
But now I’ve finally decided to take a step a back to installing Firefox 1.5.x.x, because [...]

Ladies and Gentleman …. Flock Beta is out !!
After 8 months since developer release, Flock release the Beta version along with a stunning looking site. I’ve been using Flock since October and now it is my default browser. And I have never regretted my decision to move to flock ever since, also thanks to all [...]

I’m been unable to post anything on my blog off-late, partially due to lazyness and partially due to the time my other blog is taking. So here are a few quickies for this week:
» Windows Vista Beta 2 release to the public today. Go and download your copy. You’ll also need a key for using [...]

Going through the article on ZDNet Web 2.0 Explorer , I really found some interesting tid-bits.
“On behalf of Microsoft and the IE team, we messed up - and we’re sorry”. [ Tony Chor, Group Program Manager of Microsoft's Internet Explorer team]
First thing they wanted to do with IE7 was “make everyday browsing easier […] make [...]

Few day’s back a friend of mine asked me about the Firefox extensions that I use. So below is the list for you dude:
Must Have’s
These are the extensions I just can’t live without:

Google Toolbar for Firefox 2.0
Download Statusbar
Google Preview
Del.icio.us
Down Them All !
Deepest Sender
Greasemonkey
Fission
Tab Mix Plus
GMail Space [...]

Few days back, I sent a mail to Netvibes dev team regarding creating a bookmarklet for Firefox/Flock which could ease the process of subscribing to feed of a blog on Netvibes [those who are using Netvibes knows it's quiet a long process].
Well, the good people didn’t replied to my mail. So finally I thought of [...]