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2007 Dec 18

Removing the built in search bar on IE7

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The search bar in IE7 will become redundant if we install another toolbar for like the google toolbar. we could then use the extra space for our address bar. To disable the built in search bar in internet explorer 7 :

1. Start -> Run -> regedit -> OK
2. Navigate to
* HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
* Software
* Policies
* Microsoft
* Internet Explorer
* Infodelivery
* Restrictions
3. Right click on an empty space select: New -> DWORD value
4. Rename New Value #1 to NoSearchBox : Right click on New Value #1 -> Rename
5. Double click on NoSearchBox name
6. On the Value data textbox change it to 1 from zero
7. Click on OK

Your Search bar in IE7 will be gone, to enable it back again, just change the value data 1 back to 0.

2007 Mar 29

IE7 always keep a cache of the visited pages

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The new version Internet Explorer 7 has a problem in caching of the displayed specially if you are using some ajax applications. Even if you have use the meta tags that specifies no cache, the IE7 would ignore them.

<meta name="pragma" content="no-cache">
<meta http-equiv="Expires" content="-1">
<meta http-equiv="cache-control" content="no-cache">

The above code does not work on IE7. You could force the browser to remove the cache by manually deleting it or by using the following code below in PHP:

// choose a date in the past
header("Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT");
// set the last modified date to today
header("Last-Modified: " . gmdate("D, d M Y H:i:s") . " GMT");
// if the browser supports HTTP/1.1
header("Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate");
header("Cache-Control: post-check=0, pre-check=0", false);
// if the browser supports HTTP/1.0
header("Pragma: no-cache");

Another way is to add the meta tag code below in between your end body tag and your end html tags. It does not conform to the w3c standards, but it works. :D

</body>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="PRAGMA" content="NO-CACHE" />
</head>
</html>

2007 Mar 13

IE7 Keyboard and Mouse Shortcuts

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Most of us started using IE7 because of its tabs support. While using it we would just maximize its use. Here's a list of common Internet Explorer Shortcuts:

Keyboard shortcuts
Open links in a new tab in the background CTRL+click
Open links in a new tab in the foreground CTRL+SHIFT+click
Open a new tab in the foreground CTRL+T
Open a new tab from the Address bar ALT+ENTER
Open a new tab from the search box ALT+ENTER
Open Quick Tabs (thumbnail view) CTRL+Q
Switch between tabs CTRL+TAB/CTRL+SHIFT+TAB
Switch to a specific tab number CTRL+n (n can be 1-8)
Switch to the last tab CTRL+9
Close current tab CTRL+W
Close all tabs ALT+F4
Close other tabs CTRL+ALT+F4

Mouse shortcuts
Open a link in a background tab Click the middle mouse button on a link
Open a new tab Double-click the empty space to the right of the last tab
Close a tab Click the middle mouse button on the tab

2006 Sep 6

Firefox Friends Wall in Firefox 2

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I assume you have already seen this small icon in firefox startup page. It lets you invite another friend to download Firefox. When Firefox 2 is released, both of your names will be posted on the Firefox Wall. Your friend should download firefox on or before September 15, 2006 to be included in the list. In any case, you wish to remove your name on the list, just visit world of firefox day website and click on the remove your name link.


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