Last updated June 13, 2008.
And even more. Here are some great Google search tips.
Other search engines to try here.
Note on Firefox, I found it not so good on Vista. Once 3.0 is out and stable, I’ll try it.
It is much better than MS Explorer in my opinion even IE 7. Though the problem is some sites don’t work well with it. Mostly banking, airlines and such.
Plugins to have are:
For everybody:
- Adblock or Adblock plus with autoupdates of the blocked list
- Aardvark
- PDF Download
- Session Manager
- DownloadHelper
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For web developers:
Note:
If pages don’t load right in IE or Firefox, press shift and reload at the same time. This will force a reload on the server side. ISPs cache pages for better performance but may not upload if there are recent changes.
Breaking news!
Opera is also cool but doesn’t have the wealth of plugins. It also seems to load faster than MS IE and perhaps Firefox.
There is a lite version that runs on my iMate Windows Mobile 5 smart phone. It is great, loads pages much much faster than the MS IE and the pages look better. Opera advertises some kind of special page optimization for small screens and it seems to work well.
