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FireTune for Mozilla Firefox was developed for an optimization of your browsing experience with Firefox. It is based on a collection of popular and well working optimization settings used and tested by the experts. Usually you have to optimize Firefox manually, which can be time consuming and difficult for the novice user. FireTune helps you here--it includes all the performance optimizations.

Page Update Watcher is a program that helps you monitor your favourite web pages for updates. You can choose different types of update alerts (pop-up/sound/e-mail). Pages can be monitored manually or automatically by individual schedule. Keep updated and start saving time with Page Update Watcher.

WebBot is a simple application designed to open the default web browser to a user-defined web url on a timer determined by the user. This application is useful if you have a free website that needs a specific number of hits to stay active.

The AB Extension Pack is a collection of extensions written for Avant Browser that provide added functionality to an already wonderful browser shell. The extensions available can all be used from the browser's right click context menu and where applicable, are also available from the favourites. Extensions currently include webpage and text translation, search/meta search engine lookup, dictionary/encyclopedia lookup, domain verification, referer verification along with our sURL, vURL, Multi-Search services and much more, with new extensions being added on an on-going basis.

BhoScanner lets you see the BHOs (Browser Helper Objects) installed on a local or remote PC, tells you by coloured icons (green = safe, yellow = unknown, red = harmful) whether a specific BHO is known to be safe or harmful. The program determines browser helper objects accessing remote computer registry information, so you need to have remote computer registry access rights and provide appropriate administrator (or user) username and password, or use your current credentials or null session if it allows you to access local or remote computer registry information.

This program will automatically maximize new Internet Explorer and Outlook Express windows. Includes a function for hiding/closing all IE windows with a userdefined hotkey, open new IE windows and automatically have them sent to the background, it is also capable of closing popup windows.

Great for clobbering runaway pop-ups, or quickly closing multiple IE windows! IE Kill is a simple utility that closes all running instances of Internet Explorer.

InjectURL is a simple application designed to do only one task and do it well - to help you keep a reference to the Web document you have downloaded to your local computer. The task that InjectURL performs is automatically adding ("injecting") the URLs into HTML and plain-text documents you have downloaded and saved, using the browser's "Save As..." feature. This way you can always know where that particular document came from without having to keep the URLs somewhere else or manually editing the document.

IE mate allows you to customize Internet Explorer without having to directly update the registry. You can use it to remove AOL or your ISP branding logo or customize the Window title bar; Spinning logo; Static logo; Toolbar background; Start page URL; and more. In addition you can access the Internet Options, Organize Favorites, Reset Internet Explorer to the default settings. There is even a Search for Files and Folders feature to quickly locate BMP files stored on your computer.

WebGrabber is a topic-centric version of a web site copier. It is implemented in Java and can operate on many platforms, however, its unique characteristic is that it imports only the web pages/files that you specify from Internet shortcuts and that you view as sharing a common topic. These web pages/files may come from various web sites. WebGrabber is fully documented.

Closes all occurences of IE with the push of a button on the IE toolbar. Closes all instances of IE except for the one you are viewing. Even catches re-spawning windows from taking over your desktop. Requires IE v5+ 0r v6

Welcome to BrowserSpy! Here at BrowserSpy you'll find all the information possible about your current browser. BrowserSpy will tell you detailed information, like version and support, of your Browser, JavaScript, JVM, Java, Plugins, Components, Language, Screen, Hardware, etc.... Since most of the information is collected through JavaScript, your browser must support JavaScript and have JavaScript Enabled.

The CommonName Agent software provides users with various tools, each with the objective of enhancing the usability of the web. The core functionality allows users to navigate to web sites by entering a 'CommonName' into their browser's address bar, rather than a URL. Similarly, users can send emails by typing a 'CommonName' into their email client's address field, instead of an email address. CommonName also has many other features, including: when visiting web sites be notified of related, alternative or international versions of the current site; conduct searches from the browser's address bar using multiple search engines; maintain bookmarks and web notes online.

Sponsor popup windows driving you nuts while you are browsing the web? SIP takes them OUT with extreme prejudice! Very low CPU useage, you won't even know its running. Dumps its kill list out to a text file so you can distribute it to friends. Comes with a working initial list as a starting example. Windows to automatically close can be determined by name (including wild cards), size range, or a combination of both. SIP does not modify any existing winsock dll's or internet settings/registry or otherwise. No typing required and has configureable aggressiveness levels. Now with Netscape 4.0+ and IE 4.0+ Support!

If you're a power browser, or are just looking to try browsing in a different way, then AnalogX PowerBrowse is for you! It allows you to have only one window visible in the system, while others are hidden in the background; to switch easily between windows from a menu with their full titles, it even lets you enter in exact pixel dimensions to resize your browser window to! All this and more is just one click away...

A simple utility, just run POW! while browsing on the net, and when one of those nasty popups appears, POW! will automatically close it for you... It's that easy! And that's not all... You can configure POW! to close any new popups that you run across, so if it doesn't close them already, you can easily add/remove them at any time. This is an absolute must for anyone who spends any reasonable (or unreasonable) amount of time surfing the web.

As you may have noticed, many Internet sites love to open additional browser windows (so called "popups") with advertising contents. KillAd assists you to close all undesirable popups automagically. Being a phairly sophisticated sophtware phull oph pheatures, it is highly customizable, small in size, undemanding to system resources, fast, and (I hope) reliable.

Download Utilities include several handy tools for anyone who downloads software from the Internet: File-splitter: take that huge file home from work on floppy disks File-restorer: recreate that huge file after you get home CRC calculator: verify that a file has been downloaded without errors System profiler: simplify tech support by generating a description of your system hardware

Downloads HTML pages with images, sounds, videos etc. Changes all links in the downloaded HTML files, so you can look through them even off-line. Supports auto login into pages protected by password. When program finishes its work - find main.htm and open it in your browser.

Collect and store dynamic Web pages, images and all. You can create presentations and distribute them as 'exe' files.

Before you upgrade to the free version of Netscape get TakeAIM. The purpose of TakeAIM is to Stop 'AIM' (AOL's Instant Messenger) from loading when you start your system or Netscape. If you've already upgraded to the Free Version of Netscape you know you want this program.