Internet Browser Showdown (For Windows)

It is already 2nd day of February of 2015. Have you kick-start any of your resolution? I have dump resolution method few years back. I don't create a few resolutions on New Year day, but then regret that I never do anything about it. I just don't do that anymore. Nowadays I only focus on the work on the life goal that I have. Some are big goals, so that need a few years to complete.

For Internet Browser Showdown post, I only compare on Windows. I might be doing for Android, maybe, hahaha.

I used peacekeeper from futuremark to do the comparison. This is just a data only, it is the daily experience the matter the most for you.
peacekeeper will do many tests and at the end it will give the total score. Many of the test are focusing on HTML5 (which youtube have moved to) as well as playing different kind of video (codec) on the fly.

In this post I also focus on the total score with some personal experience on these browsers. Bracket is the version that I used for the test.

So who is the champion? Let's start from the bottom of the packs.

1. Internet Explorer (11.0.9600.17416)- score=2602
The worst score must be coming from Internet Explorer! The version that I used is IE11. It only has 4 out of 7 HTML5 capabilities. Maybe people stuck with IE because that is the only web browser approve by their company. Personal laptop/desktop would just leave the IE alone from the moment Chrome or other web browser being installed. The only IE being use is to download Chrome or other browsers. That's what happen to my 1 year old HP laptop.

http://peacekeeper.futuremark.com/results?key=AIMc&resultId=5675035


2. Pale Moon (25.2.1 x64) - score=2873
Pale Moon supposedly the better FireFox. It is the lighter and faster FireFox, at least claimed by Pale Moon and many people. I was surprised by the result. HTML5 is 7 out of 7. But other tests drag the total score low. I like the speed of Pale Moon on android, so far I feel it is the fastest. I might do an android web browser showdown in future.

http://peacekeeper.futuremark.com/results?key=AIYe&resultId=5677212


3. Chrome Production (40.0.2214.91 m) - score=3883
This is my daily driver, I basically do all my online surfing on this browser. This caught me surprised as well because it score lower than other popular browsers. One of the thing to get this browser run smoothly is to have at least 8GB of RAM on your Windows8 and above.

http://peacekeeper.futuremark.com/results?key=AILq&resultId=5674921


4. Opera (27.0.1689.54) - score=4070
Even though it is fast, some people stay away from it because lack of add-ons choices that we enjoyed on Chrome. If you are just purely surf net, Opera is always a good choice.

http://peacekeeper.futuremark.com/results?key=AIMn&resultId=5691269

5. Chrome Canary (42.0.2289.0) - score=4113
For those who don't know what is Chrome Canary, Chrome Canary is like beta of Chrome Production. Google let people try out new features on Canary and after getting feedback and fixes, the features then push down to Chrome Canary. Not too long ago, there was a bug that the Chrome Canary keep on running with high CPU usage even though just one website page (any site) being loaded. Recent update has get rid of the issue.

http://peacekeeper.futuremark.com/results?key=AIM0&resultId=5674949


6. Vivaldi (1.0.83.38 Developer Build) - score=4221
Vivaldi is the new creation of the original creator of Opera. The creator of Opera left Opera because Opera no longer going to the direction he desire, therefore he left and created Vivaldi. Indeed it is quite fast, putting Chrome and Opera behind.
created by the creator of Opera

peacekeeper.futuremark.com/results?key=AILh&resultId=5674895


7. FireFox (35.0.1) - score=4445
The number one of this showdown is FireFox. FireFox was my daily driver until I feel it is too slow. That was few years back, when they haven't switch to Chormium. It was memory hog back then because of memory leak issue. I seldom use it nowadays but only use it for the DownThemAll add-ons. It is still the best downloader.

http://peacekeeper.futuremark.com/results?key=AIMn&resultId=5675064


There you go, the speed showdown of Internet Browser. Which one is your pick? Let me know the comment.

p/s: I don't do for Safari, because I don't like Safari, that's all.


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How To Download Torrent with Chrome

Not too long ago, I posted a post on how to download torrent without torrent client, just using put.IO:
How to download torrent without torrent client

put.IO however is limited to 1GB of disk space and 1GB of download per day, for free account:
Limitation of Put.IO

If we have some files that is bigger than 1GB, then we are unable to download them. Luckily now there is another alternative, which is download torrent with Chrome.

No, I am not talking about direct download, which the words "direct download" always appear in torrent sites, but it usually takes you to some malicious or dangerous or NSFW sites.


BitTorrent Surf is a Chrome extensions that acts as a torrent client.

To install BitTorrent Surf, you need to have Chrome installed on your system. I didn't try on Chrome of MacOS or Linux, but I think it should works as well.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ibpbofogepkkeoockhkfcgngjkimndlp

After you install it, you should able to see BitTorrent Surf icon on right of address bar just like other extensions' icon.


Click on the BitTorrent Surf icon, will bring up a small windows like this:

Key in for files that you want to search for. Example here is Toy Story 2. By hovering the mouse over the icon, name, and bars, it will show you the address that actually has the torrent, how big is the file (in whole package, it didn't show if there is more than one file), and how many sharing.
Click on the arrow down icon will start the downloading, and it will change to a tick icon.

If you don't like the default search setting, you can add sites. The default search are using either google, yahoo, or bing. As you can see here, I added 3 more sites, eh-hem, eh-hem and eh-hem. And you can turn on or off each of them to fine tune the search.


The icon in middle of icons are just notification.


As for streaming function, I didn't try it. Somemore it says stream music library. Probably some new apps the developer trying to sell.


During the installation of the Chrome extension, another program also will be install on your system, which is Torque. So I might have to say it might not works for MacOS and Linux. You will have to try first if you on these system/OS.

Anyway, torque.exe is the one responsible do the P2P works. If you kill it, BitTorrent Surf will stop working.

After the download complete, it should have a button on the same line of the download that you can open the folder that contains the files.

Since BitTorrent Surf is still in alpha, do expected some flaw/bug/error. There was some moment that I cannot add more than one download, but the problem goes away after a while. I didn't reboot or anything.

Okay, it to install it, make sure you are on Chrome and click on this link:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ibpbofogepkkeoockhkfcgngjkimndlp

Note1: It is might be completely illegal to P2P movie/songs/files in your country.

Note2: Do not enable this on your work computer/laptop. Your boss going to find out! You can disable the extension on Chrome (setting -> Tools -> Extensions) and then kill torque.exe manually. I wrote a batch file to kill torque.exe and others processes that I lazy to close individually.

Note3: I noticed that emule is slowed down (until zero) whenever I switch on BitTorrent Surf. It might be co-incident, but I suspect both processes are competing with the ports. I shall continue monitor and update this post if I find anything.


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Facebook Timeline Remover

Facebook Timeline, like it or hate it, it is here no matter what you think. While most of the Facebook users has been forced to change to Timeline, some still at older Facebook interface. I am lucky that my personal Facebook page still using old Facebook interface, while this blog's Facebook Page has been forced to change to Timeline not too soon after it was being setup.

TimeLineRemove is something you can try if you want to get rid of the TimeLine for now. What actually happen in background is timeline still being loaded, but TimeLineRemove change the look of the TimeLine to become old and good Facebook interface. So you can look at your friend's Facebook profile on old Facebook interface.

TimeLineRemove is available for FireFox, Chrome, Safari and Internet Explorer. All you need to do is go to it's website and install the add-on or extension (allow permission if needed), reload the Facebook and then you are on old and good Facebook interface.

picture source: http://www.timelineremove.com/

To disable Facebook TimeLine, visit this link and download the add-on/extension:
http://www.timelineremove.com/


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How to Fix Cannot Install Apps on Chrome Problem

Recently I wanted to install JoliCloud on Chrome, so I go to the JoliCloud page on Chrome Web Store, and click the "+ ADD TO CHROME" button, the button changed to "CHECKING..." and there is a pop-up asking for confirmation, I clicked on "Install" button to proceed. However nothing happen after I clicked the "Install" button. I keep on waiting and waiting and waiting for quite a while. So I quite the page and try again, and it showed that "+ ADD TO CHROME" again, meaning the apps was not being installed. How could this happen?

So I go to ask Google, and after some trial and error on a few solutions being offered by nice people out there, finally I found the solution and it is very easy.

The solution:
1. Go to My Documents.
2. Create a new folder or directory called "Downloads" (without the double quote).
3. Go back Chrome to install apps, you should able to install apps now. :-)

No restart PC/Windows is needed. I have confirmed this again by removing the "Downloads" directory and I cannot install apps on Chrome again.

This solution is for Windows (XP until 7) only, I am not yet confirm for Mac.

When the Downloads folder is missing from My Documents, it keep on waiting for the folder to be created. As soon as the folder being created, it can proceed. I checked on the folder during downloading the crx (Chrome apps file format), the crx has to be downloaded into the Downloads before being install into Chrome and the crx will be remove after installation completed.
Obviously this is something that Google Chrome engineers should fix it in seconds. 

If you have move to another PC, to check what apps you have added previously on Chrome (provided you login using google account on Chrome on older PC), you can do this on your Chrome on new PC:
1. Start a new tab
2. Switch the Apps if you always using "Most visited"
3. Click on Chrome Web Store
4. On top right, click on the setting button next to your google login name (usually an email).
5. Click "Your Apps"
I found out on old PC I installed some Chrome apps that I never use or just use once right after I installed them. :P

p/s: I removed that Downloads folder at first place during hard disk clean up, thinking that this folder have no use since I changed Chrome default download folder to somewhere else.


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source: I wrote this, found the solution at http://www.google.ms/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=66a6d85590718eb0&hl=en&fid=66a6d85590718eb00004b5c4b41c5dc8

What if Web Browser were celebrities

Running a series sometime can be very boring. So to break away from rare keyboard layout series for temporary, I found an interesting infograph regarding web browser. I had run a series of rare browsers last year, click this link to see them.

I use a few web browsers everyday. Here is the list in usage chronology:
1. I use FireFox the most, I tried to move to Chrome some time back, but seem likes Chrome does not fit into my need yet. I like Firefox because of the add-on, but there is one add-on the FireFox don't have but Chrome has, that is Angry Birds! I am using FF5 btw.
2. The second most browser that I use is Chrome, part of it is Angry Birds add-on or Chrome apps to be exact. Another one is the Anti-like apps for Chrome, which I use it to view those pages that locked with Facebook like button, why do we need to like it first before we can read it?
3. The third one has to be IE, duh. I have to use IE in the company that I work with because some in-house tools still need IE.
4. No.4 should be Rockmelt, because of Facebook. Boy, I am so hardworking, coz I seldom login to Facebook. :P
5. Safari is No.5, because I use it just because I feel that I want to use it. But somehow I don't have that feeling a lot. Hence it is at No.5. :D

Okay, now to relate the web browser with celebrity. I like the last one, which is Keanu Reeves. And yes, Samuel Jackson is seems everywhere. :D
Click on the image to see it in full size.

Have a nice day!

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What can Internet do to make the world a better place?

I have said this many times, but I want to say it again. Internet is amazing place!
You can do a lot of amazing things with Internet and with the speed that we cannot imagine 10 years ago.

Even though this video is Google Chrome advertisement, but look at the story, you will be amaze that how Internet helps to make the world a better place to live.



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Angry Birds for Chrome

Angry Birds fans, now you have another choice of where to play your favorite Angry Birds game, which is on Chrome. This is a very good news for PC/Windows user because the Windows version of Angry Birds is not being updated like the one for iOS/Android/etc mobile OS. So now I can play the Angry Birds on my Windows.

Keyboard shortcut for most used Windows software

Keyboard shortcut always save time, especially when you need to repeat the command for many times. Here is a list of keyboard shortcut for most used Windows software.

• Internet Explorer:
• Control + Shift + P to open an InPrivate browsing window
• Control + E to go to the Search box
• Firefox:
• Control + 1 to 8 to select the exact tab you want [counting from left]
• Control + 9 go to the right most [last] tab
• Chrome:
• Alt and click a link to download its target, such as a picture or PDF file.
• Word 2010 [and 2007]
• Shift + F7 to open the Thesaurus
• Excel 2010 [and 2007]
• Control + Shift + : to enters the current time. 
• Control + Shift + & adds a border around the selected cells immediately
• OneNote 2010 [and 2007]
• Alt + Shift + up- or down-arrow to move the current paragraph or selected paragraphs up or down in a document
• Outlook 2010 [and 2007]
• Control + Shift + I to go to your Inbox
• Control + Shift + O to go to your Outbox
• Thunderbird:
• F8 to toggle the message pane on and off
• T to jump to the next unread thread
• Windows Media Player:
• Alt + Enter toggles full-screen video.
• Adobe Photoshop:
• You can either use theirs or build your own shortcuts right in the program.

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Google Chrome 8 is out!

hey people, Google Chrome now is 8!

Running IE8/7/6 or Firefox3.5/3/2 or Safari4/3 or Google Chrome or Opera10/9 without installing them

Running software without need to install is getting more popular, well, at least I like it, very much, very very much. Because there will be no hassle or worry if want uninstall it. Sometime some software are too stubborn to be remove even though you use the “legal” uninstall process that come with the software. I have been using some software that just can be run from a thumb drive, it is kinda cool coz I could run them on almost all desktop/laptop as long as the OS support them. :)

I found this thing call “Browser Sandbox”few days ago. It actually available since Q1 2009 by a company that famous in virtualization technology called Xenocode. It is not 100% no-installation yet, you still have to install the sandbox for the first time, so that you can launch the browsers from the webpage.

What you need to do is to go to the webpage (link at below), click any of the browser you want to use, install the sandbox for the first time. (I think there was 2 stuffs you need to install, but I might be wrong). After sandbox being install, it will start to load the browser from the server. So it will depend on the network speed, I would not do it at my home, because I am OutdatedPenangUncle that uses the very famous (and always down) Streamyx and the most I get is 512k (actually is 64kbytes, coz 512k is in bits)…… Okay okay, I am too stingy not to upgrade to 1M or 2M, 512k is enough for normal surfing.

The process:

Anyway, I can run IE8, IE7 and Opera10 at same time with the sandbox. I have these below installed, so don’t bother to try on the sandbox:
1. The very outdated IE6 that came with the Windows (many links in my company still have to use this guy)
2. The very updated Firefox3.5.3 (the most use)
3. The long time no use Safari4 beta (coz I fall in love with Firefox…ooppssss, Honey, this kind of love is not the same love that I have with you ya :P)
4. The long time no use Chrome (this guy is too slow, going to uninstall it)
5. and yes, Maxthon (this guys is not a real browser, it just use which ever IE engine in your window, the usage come back up due to a web that still have to use either IE6 or this)

Opera10, IE8 and IE7 in action, the background is the sandbox webpage:

Why need to open so many type of web browser you might ask, because I am a geek, I just want to try out. But I don’t want the trouble to uninstall them in case I don’t like it. Also IE6/IE7/IE8 wouldn’t co-exist if you choose to install any of the newer version.

Oh ya, not to forgot the link to access the page to launch it
http://spoon.net/Browsers/