Even though there are a lot of Google Chrome and Firefox users, there is still a large number of people that are still using the Internet Explorer web browser by Microsoft because it is built-in to Windows operating system. Newer versions of web browsers offers better security and features, for example IE 9 and above only started to have full support for data URI which is very useful to reduce the amount of requests. IE 8 and below may need to use a fallback method or else the logo or images will not be loaded. Since Microsoft does not force their users to upgrade to the latest versions of Internet Explorer from the Windows Update, this means that it is important to make sure that the website design works even on an older version of Internet Explorer.

The problem is we can only have one version of Internet Explorer installed in Windows. Moreover older Windows operating system such as Windows XP can only support up to Internet Explorer 8. One way to have access to multiple Internet Explorer versions on your computer is by using virtual machines but here are 6 easier ways that allows you to load and test websites on different versions of IE.
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Thanks to the tab features implemented on most if not all web browsers, we are able to open multiple websites from one program window without the confusion of switching between running programs and opened webpages. It is common for some people to have a lot of tabs opened because of constantly opening new hyperlinks from the webpages in a new tab but does not close the previous ones.

When the amount of tabs increases, so is the memory usage of the web browser and sometimes it can cause the web browser to hang or crawl. A frustrated user may continuously press the CTRL+W hotkey multiple times in attempting to close a few tabs hoping to reduce the memory usage but they can end up accidentally closing the important tabs that they want to read at a later time.

One way to reopen the closed website is by checking the history where you can find a list of all the visited websites pulled from the local database. The easier way is of course to use the built-in method in reopening closed tabs either through a hotkey or from a few mouse clicks.

Here is how to undo closed tabs in Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera, Maxthon, GreenBrowser and Avant Browser.
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Most of today’s web browsers try to help save you a little bit of time and effort here and there. One of the areas they’re doing this is completing a URL address for you if you have typed it in previously into the browser address bar. If you typed in and went to “ishouldnotbehere.com” last week, when you start to type in letters such as “ish” into the address bar, the browser will detect you have typed this in before and show the full address as an option to try and save time typing the whole thing in again.

This might be all well and good, but there are times you might not want a specific address to be kept in the history and certainly don’t want it showing up when someone else starts typing a few letters into the bar so they can see where you have been! What you want to do is without completely deleting all the auto complete entries, just delete all traces of the ones you don’t wish to keep around.

Each of the most popular web browsers Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera and Google Chrome each have different methods in deleting individual entries from the address bar. Here we’ll show you how for each browser.
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The usage of Internet Explorer has always been in the lead because it is installed in every Windows operating system by default and the shortcut icon is always placed somewhere that is visible such as pinned to taskbar in Windows 7 that encourages basic computer users to use Internet Explorer. Multiple people using Internet Explorer on the same computer that is logged on with the same user account will have some privacy issues because the last 25 visited URLs can be easily viewed by anyone on the computer by clicking on the drop down icon at the address bar or simply pressing the up/down arrow key from the keyboard.

You can easily clear the history which is the list of websites that you’ve visited by pressing Ctrl+Shift+Del but that would only trigger the attention of someone monitoring the computer. Although you can selectively delete the visited URLs from the address bar but that might also trigger the attention because Internet Explorer only keeps the latest 25 URLs on the address bar. Deleting a few URLs from the history reduces the number of saved history. What we can show you is the possibility of editing, changing or modifying the addresses from the history which will cover your tracks pretty well.
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Microsoft Internet Explorer has always been a rather curious program in the way it works, not least because of the small fix I’m going to talk about here. It may not seem like such a big deal, but a lot of users prefer to have Internet Explorer when it opens, display in a full screen, or maximized window.

This doesn’t sound too difficult to achieve on the face of it, simply click on the Internet Explorer icon in your Start Menu, Quick launch or on the Desktop. Then click the maximize button and close your browser. When it’s started up again, the window will be maximized. Or so you would think…
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