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How to import a certificate in Google Chrome

July 8, 2010 By Ravi Shankar 3 Comments

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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Filed Under: Browsers, Google Chrome Tagged With: Browser, Certificate, Google Chrome, Import

How to turn off pop up blocker in Google Chrome

July 5, 2010 By Ravi Shankar 2 Comments

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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Filed Under: Browsers, Google Chrome Tagged With: Disable, Google Chrome, ie8 pop up blocker, Pop up blocker

How to clear or disable recently closed tab section in Firefox

June 15, 2010 By Ravi Shankar 4 Comments

Firefox displays the recently closed tabs under History menu –> Recently Closed Tabs.

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If you want to clear or disable the recently closed tabs section then you can do the following

  • In the Firefox address bar type about:config
  • If you get the below warning message then click on the I’ll be careful, I promise button

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  • Type browser.sessionstore.max_tabs_undo in Filter text box

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  • Set the value for browser.sessionstore.max_tabs_undo to 0 and click OK to confirm the changes

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Now if you navigate to History menu –> Recently Closed tabs section will be disabled as shown below.

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Filed Under: Firefox, Technical Tagged With: Clear, Closed Tabs, Disable, Firefox, Recently

How to turn on/off pop ups in Internet Explorer 8

July 8, 2009 By Ravi Shankar 2 Comments

Internet Explorer 8 has settings for blocking pop ups that appearing while accessing a website. Using this setting you can turn on or off a pop up, specify the sites where you want allow pop up to appear. To access Pop-up Blocker, click on Tools menu -> Options -> select Privacy tab in Internet Options dialog box.

popup blocker in Internet Explorer 8

On checking/un checking the Turn on Pop-up Blocker you enable or disable Pop ups. And on clicking settings button the following dialog would be displayed

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Using IE8 Pop-up Blocker settings you can specify the listed of sites that can be allowed Pop-ups and also provides options for changing the Notifications and blocking level.

Filed Under: Internet Explorer, Technical Tagged With: IE8, Tips

How to find/kill the locked objects in an oracle database

March 5, 2008 By Ravi Shankar Leave a Comment

The below query can be used for determining the if any object locked in an oracle database.

select   c.owner,  c.object_name,  c.object_type,  b.sid,  b.serial#,
   b.status, b.osuser, b.machine
from
   v$locked_object a , v$session b, dba_objects c
where
   b.sid = a.session_id
and a.object_id = c.object_id;

And if you need to kill any session you can use the below query to do the same.

alter system kill session sid,serial;

Filed Under: Technical

How to find out maximum open cursors and no of cursors open in Oracle

March 4, 2008 By Ravi Shankar Leave a Comment

The maximum number of open cursors in an oracle database can be determined by the following query

select name, value
from v$parameter
where name like ‘open-cursors’

the value for open_cursors parameter refers to maximum number of open cursors allowed.

The below query can be used to determine number of open cursors for the current session.

SELECT
sid,user_name, COUNT(*) "Cursors per session"
FROM v$open_cursor
GROUP BY sid,user_name

Filed Under: Technical

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