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What is Caret browsing in Internet Explorer

July 28, 2014 By Ravi Shankar 15 Comments

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.

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.

How to make Internet Explorer 11 as default browser on Windows 8.1

June 12, 2014 By Ravi Shankar Leave a Comment

Windows 8.1 users can make Internet Explorer as the default browsers using Internet Options. Windows 8.1 comes with IE 11 as the default browser but if you have changed this setting then you can follow the below mentioned steps to revert the changes.

How to set Internet Explorer 11 as default browser

Step 1: Launch Internet Explorer and click the Settings icon available on the Top right hand side.

Step 2: Navigate to Programs tab in Internet Options window.

Step 3: Click “Make Internet Explorer the default browser” link under Opening Internet Explorer section. This should launch the Default Programs window as shown below.

Step 4: Select Internet Explorer under Programs section then choose “Set this program as default” option.

If you want to make Internet Explorer as default programs for only selected file types then click Choose defaults for this program option. Now select the extensions for which you want to have Internet Explorer as the default program.

Also See: How to disable the default browser check for Internet Explorer

How to create rules in Yahoo Mail

August 29, 2013 By Ravi Shankar 1 Comment

Yahoo Mail has a feature that lets users to create filters to move the incoming messages to specific folders. This is similar to rules feature available in Microsoft Outlook that can be used for blocking emails based on subject.

Let us consider the scenario where you have subscribed to daily newsletter of a blog and want to move these emails to specific folder.

Creating filters in Yahoo Mail

Step 1: Login in to Yahoo Mail account and click Settings icon then select Mail Options from the drop down list.

Step 2: In the Mail Options screen, navigate to Advanced Options and click Filters.

Step 3: Click the Add button available on the Filter screen.

Step 4: Enter name for the filter as “newsletter”

Step 5: Then enter the email address of newsletter for Sender with Criteria as “contains”. Navigate to “Then deliver the email to following folder” drop down and create new folder for newsletter.

Step 6: Click Save button to confirm and save the changes.

Now this would move all emails from “[email protected]” to specified “newsletter” folder.

Later if you want to delete this filter then you can use the Remove Filter option available next to Add button.

How to start new browser session in Internet Explorer 10

March 10, 2012 By Ravi Shankar Leave a Comment

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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