Ravi Shankar

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What is Caret browsing in Internet Explorer

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Caret Browsing is cool feature available in Internet Explorer from version 8 onwards.

Rather than using a mouse to select text and move around within a webpage, you can use standard navigation keys on your keyboard-Home, End, Page Up, Page Down, and the arrow keys. This feature is called Caret Browsing and is named after the caret-or cursor-that appears when you edit a document.

You can press F7 to turn On or Off Caret browsing.

Turn on Caret Browsing

If you want to enable Caret browsing for new tabs or new windows then Enable Caret Browsing for new windows and tabs check box needs to be selected in Internet Options -> Advanced Tab.

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How to start new browser session in Internet Explorer 10

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I just came across a New Session feature on Internet Explorer 10 Consumer Preview. Generally we had to close the browser to start a new session and this would mean that all the open web pages has to be closed. But now using the New Session option, users can keep all open tabs and start a fresh session in a separate browser window.

You can start a new session by clicking the File menu then selecting New Session from the menu list.

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Create Shortcut for Google Chrome Extension

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In this tutorial we will cover the steps required for creating a shortcut for a Google Chrome Extension. If you like a chrome extension and you intend to use it quite often then you can create shortcuts to access the extension.

Open a new tab page in Google Chrome and right click on the extension for which you want to create a shortcut say for extension like Google Docs. This would display the following list of menus.

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Now select the Create shortcut option from the menu list.

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In the Create application shortcuts window, select the places where you want to create shortcuts like Desktop, Start menu and Quick launch bar and click on the Create button. And now you could see the shortcuts getting created in the selected places.

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How to unhide menu bar in Safari

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The Safari browser has a menu bar with menus such as  File, Edit, View, History, Bookmarks etc.. and it is available on the top of the browser as shown below.

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But if your Safari browser does not display the Menus then you can un hide menu bar using the Safari General Settings menu option.

Click on the General Settings menu available at the top right hand side of the browser. From the list of displayed menu, select the menu with label as Show Menu bar.

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This would display the Menu bar at the top of the Safari browser.

How to unhide the menu bar in Opera

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In Opera browser, you can unhide the menu bar using the menu options.

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To display the Menu bar, click the drop down arrow available next to Menu. Scroll down and select Show Menu Bar from the list of available menus.

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After selecting the Menu bar option, then menu bar would appear at the top of the browser as shown above.

How to import a certificate in Google Chrome

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A SSL certificate can be imported in Google Chrome using option menu. Click on the wrench icon –> options –> Navigate to Under the Hood tab

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Scroll down to Security section and click on the Manage certificates button

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Click on the import button and use the Certificate import wizard to import a certificate

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Click Next and using Browse button locate the certificate file with a .cer or .cert as file extensions.

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Click Next to continue with Certificate Import Wizard

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Specify the location of the Certificate Store

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And click Finish to complete the process.

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How to turn off pop up blocker in Google Chrome

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Google Chrome has an inbuilt pop up blocker feature. The default option is set is Do not allow any site to show pop-ups. You can disable pop up blocker in Google Chrome using Options menu similar to ie8 pop up blocker

Click on the Options menu

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And navigate to Under the Hood tab and Click on the Content settings button

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In the Content settings window, navigate to Pop-ups tab and select Allow all sites to show pop-ups under the Pop-up Settings.

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