GRAND OPERA

The new Opera version 10.5 is lightning fast with fun features.

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A SIGN OF THE TIMES

Firefox overtakes Internet Explorer 7.

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FREE FIREFOX ADD-ONS

There are hundreds of free Firefox add-ons and you can see all of them at addons.mozilla.org. Bob likes Scrapbook, Screengrab and Cool Previews.

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GLOBAL AD REMOVAL AND EXTERMINATION

Adblocker is a Firefox add-on that removes animated ads. For Internet Explorer, there’s “InPrivate.”

SAMFIND

Samfind puts a bookmark bar at the top of your Firefox screen.

THE YAHOO NOTEPAD

The search engine Yahoo.com has added a useful “Search Pad” feature that lets you takes notes as you search the web and automatically saves the sites you visited.

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WHO’S MESSING WITH MY BROWSER?

Joy downloaded the new “Chrome” web browser from Google and loves it. It’s faster than other browsers and has more handy shortcuts for finding sites you’ve visited or files you’ve downloaded. And the best news of all is that hackers hate it.

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CHROME SHINES

A ton of copy has been written about Google’s new web browser, “Chrome,” so we’ll restrict ourselves to just a few more grams.

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INTERNUTS

Spacetime.com and AddOns.mozilla.org

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FLOCKING TO FACEBOOK

A new way to use Facebook has people flocking to it, so to speak. That way is called Flock, a new Web browser, like Mozilla’s Firefox or Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. What this one does is let you bring Facebook friends with you as you surf the World Wide Web.

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