browsers

My First PC and Internet

Back in about 1994 my sister and I were lucky enough to own a state of the art IBM PC (for those too young to remember, IBM used to make PCs and then sold this side of their Business to Lenovo). This hardcore PC had a massive 64MB RAM with an Intel 486 DX4/100 processor. [...]

How Browser History Sniffing Works

Browser history sniffing is nothing new however continues to prompt debate; is it a black-hat, white-hat or grey-hat technique at identifying specifics of visitors to Websites? Browser history sniffing uses JavaScript and CSS (or Python) to identify Sites that the visitor has been to. This information may then be used for a multitude of purposes [...]

Three Indispensible Firefox Extensions

Due to it’s open source and collaborative origins as well as its standards compliance, the Firefox Internet browser is very easily extensible. This is hugely beneficial for users of Firefox as the already powerful core Firefox application can be extended to perform all sorts of additional functions. As the creators of Firefox extensions have substantial [...]