Internet Explorer 6 and Content Advisor

As a parent you may have concerns about the content your children encounter as they surf the Web. Microsoft has addressed this parental nightmare with Content Advisor, which lets you control which sites users of your computer can view. Internet Explorer 6 helps you safeguard your family's browsing experience with Content Advisor, which can be used to control the Web sites that your family can view. Content Advisor is set to the most conservative controls when you first activate it. With Content Advisor, you can give your children access to a specific list of Web sites that you allow and prevent them from accessing others.

Activate Content Advisor

To activate Content Advisor, you set yourself up as the Supervisor of Content with a password. Don't lose it!

1.On the Internet Explorer Tools menu, click Internet Options.
2.Click the Content tab, and click the Enable button.



3.In the Content Advisor box, click the General tab, and then click the Create Password button.
4.In the Create Supervisor Password box, type the password you want to use. For solid advice about making a secure password, read this article on how to create strong passwords.
5.In the Confirm Password box, type the same password again. Internet Explorer requires this to make sure you haven't made a typing error.
6.In the Hint box, type a hint to help you remember your password, and then click OK. Make sure the hint is one your child won't know the answer to. If you can't come up with something, leave it blank. (But then, of course, you're on your own if you forget the password!)



7.Click OK in response to the message about Content Advisor, and then click OK once more. Now every time you bump into Content Advisor's protective walls, you'll need to type the supervisor password to get through.

Firefox & IE Prompt You To Remember Passwords - Do You Say Yes ?

When you type a password into any web form, both Internet Explorer and Firefox prompt whether you would like them to remember your password.
If that’s a personal computer, chances are high that you will click Yes and the password is then saved in the web browser.





This “Remember Me” option in web browsers is useful but it actually puts your login credentials at serious risk especially in Firefox.
View stored passwords in Internet Explorer:
Though IE stores your passwords in encrypted form in the Windows Registry database, anyone can easily view your passwords using a free 35kb tool called IE PassView.
The tool automatically displays a list all auto-complete entries saved inside IE. See screenshot.



View stored passwords in Firefox:
With Firefox, it gets much simpler and anyone who knows how to use a mouse can see all your passwords stored inside Firefox.
The route is Tools -> Options -> Security -> Show Passwords. And there you have all the passwords that you ever asked Firefox to remember for you.



Even that short visit to a nearby coffee vending machine could leak your identity as all it takes is few seconds for anyone to view your secret passwords.
To keep yourself safe, uncheck “Prompt me to save passwords” in Internet Explorer and “Set Master Password” in Firefox.

Disable Tabbed Browsing in Internet Explorer 7

Here at Teak Mode, I will show you how to disable tabbed browsing in Internet Explorer 7. Prior to Internet Explorer 7, I was a loyal Firefox user. I played around with Maxthon a little bit, and with Opera, but nothing more. Otherwise, I inconsequently used a range of browsers, out of curiosity.

I was using Firefox mainly because of the tabbed browsing capabilities. There are other reasons, of course, but this was the core motivation for the usage of Firefox. In this regard, Maxthon, being an IE shell, also added the tabled browsing feature to Internet Explorer. You must understand that it is not unusual for me to have 50+ websites opened at any given time. Internet Explorer 6 and earlier made navigation impossible.

In this context, I must confess that the one thing that I always felt was missing from Internet Explorer was tabbed browsing. This is why I am currently using both Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2.0 in tandem. It's a case of strange desktop cohabitation, if you ask me, but I simply love IE7 and I still support to the best extent of my abilities Firefox 2.0.

Recently, I got to talking with a friend of mine. He is an IE user. And he won't have it any other way. But there is a catch. You've guessed it... tabbed browsing. As much as I cannot do without it, my friend cannot stand the sight of the thing. He was very happy when I showed him that he could disable the feature.

From the Menu Bar choose Tools, Internet Options and in the Tabs section toward the bottom click on the Settings button. The first option at the top is Enable Tabbed Browsing. If you unchecked it and restart Internet Explorer 7 the tabs will be gone.

Tying of Internet Explorer: Microsoft has the support of ACT

Legal - To avoid the removal of Windows Internet Explorer, Microsoft has secured the support of ACT. The lobby, known for its hostility to open source, has already committed to the editor in its antitrust trial.

In the case opened by the European Commission about the tying of Internet Explorer with Windows, Microsoft will rely on a partner for its defense: the Association for Competitive Technology (ACT).

In a statement, ACT attack the merits of the complaint filed by Opera to the European Commission. According to the association, the fact that Internet Explorer is no longer the dominant browser in Europe (partly quoting figures StatCounter) seems to justify the purpose of prosecution.

Support that did surprising since the lobby was founded in 1998 following the antitrust action brought in the United States against Microsoft. The ACT was also involved in Microsoft's favor in Europe in 2004 in proceedings for abuse of dominant position.

The withdrawal of IE could hurt developers under ACT The withdrawal of IE could hurt developers by ACT

The ACT believes that removing Internet Explorer operating system would harm the developers working on Windows platform, integrating IE functions operated via API. A sanction requiring the withdrawal of IE in the OS would force developers to review their applications, argues she said.

In addition to the complainant, Opera, Microsoft and its allies are opposed in this case, Mozilla, Google, FSF, and recently the European Committee for Interoperable Systems. comprising companies like IBM, Adobe, Nokia, Red Hat and Sun.

Meanwhile, ACT's members include companies such as eBay, Oracle, VeriSign and has never made any secret of his hostility towards the Open Source. In 2006, its president, Jonathan Zuck, had also criticized the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and its decision to oppose DRM in the GPLv3 license.

After being granted additional time, Microsoft has until April 28 to answer the charges of the European Commission.