There are a variety of ways in which you can customize Visual Explorer to suit your needs. I’ve described a selection here to get you started.
Tab Views
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You can arrange web page tabs and tile or cascade web page windows using the tab options. From the Window menu simply click Use Tab Groups to disable this option. All of your existing tabs will then be re-arranged as cascaded windows – you can re-position these windows to suit your needs. Alternatively, on the Window menu select Tile Horizontally or Tile Vertically to automatically re-arrange the windows.
For more information see ref=”http://www.visual-explorer.com/feat_user.htm”>http://www.visual-explorer.com/feat_user.htm
Menus and Toolbars
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You can customize the menus and toolbars in Visual Explorer for faster access to commonly performed tasks. Some menu commands have icons next to them so you can quickly associate the command with the icon. Most menus are located on the Menu Bar, which is the toolbar at the top of the screen. Toolbars can contain buttons, menus, or a combination of both. Toolbars can be moved to any position within Visual Explorer, except for the Tab Bar, which can be docked at the top or bottom of the screen.
For more information see http://www.visual-explorer.com/feat_cus.htm
Media Filter
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The Media Filter in Visual Explorer lets you instantly block a variety of web page content from images, Flash animations and sounds to potentially harmful scripts and ActiveX applications. To block specific media content from displaying, select the Filter menu and click on the media item shown in the drop-down menu list to block it.
For more information see http://www.visual-explorer.com/feat_priv.htm
The full list of content that can be blocked is as follows:
– Images
– Flash Animations
– Animations (e.g. GIF animations)
– Sounds
– ActiveX (applications)
– Scripts
– Java Applets
Cloaking Device
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This unique and innovative feature is designed to help ensure your privacy when browsing secure web pages. When enabled, the Cloaking Device will make Visual Explorer semi transparent so that casual observers cannot snoop on your browsing activities, particularly useful when entering personal or credit card related data online.
You can quickly turn the Cloaking Device on at any time by using the shortcut Ctrl+Enter or by selecting View menu, Toggle Transparency. Note the current transparency level will be applied (set to 75% by default). Note that a transparency value above 75% is not recommended if you want web pages to remain legible! Download the user guide for more information http://www.visual-explorer.com/downloads/Vexplore_User_Guide.pdf
Search Bar
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You can quickly and easily search for web pages on a particular topic just by typing a few words into the Visual Explorer search bar (located on the right of the Navigation toolbar).
For example, if you want to find information about Spanish villas:
– Click in the Search Bar
– Type the keywords Spanish villas (your typing will replace any text currently shown in the search bar)
– Press Return on the keyboard to perform the search
Search results for Spanish villas appear in a new Visual Explorer tab.
For more information see http://www.visual-explorer.com/feat_search.htm
Themes and Skins
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The appearance of Visual Explorer, in terms of its Graphical User Interface (GUI), can be modified to suit the different tastes of its users by applying a custom skin. Applications such as Visual Explorer, which are capable of having a skin applied, are referred to as being skinnable and the process of writing or applying such a skin is known as skinning. Some skins merely make the program more aesthetically pleasing, but others can rearrange elements of the interface, potentially making the software easier to use.
In addition to the default skins that may be found on your computer (commonly found in C:\Windows\Resources\Themes or similar), any Microsoft based .msstyles visual style file or CodeJock based .cjstyles file can be loaded and used within Visual Explorer making the possibilities endless with how the application can be skinned.
Keyboard Shortcuts
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You can quickly accomplish tasks you perform frequently by using shortcut keys – one or more keys you press on the keyboard to complete a task.
For example, pressing Ctrl+T creates a new web page tab, just as clicking the New Tab button located to the right of the last tab or selecting File menu, New Tab.
Mouse Gestures
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The mouse-oriented equivalent of keyboard shortcuts is mouse gestures. A mouse gesture is a way of combining mouse movements and clicks which Visual Explorer recognizes as a specific command.
For example, with mouse gestures enabled, you could navigate to the previously viewed page by pressing the left mouse button, moving the mouse briefly to the left, then releasing the button.
Add-ons
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Add-ons, also known as ActiveX controls, browser extensions, browser helper objects, or toolbars can improve your browsing experience by adding additional functionality to Visual Explorer. They can also provide enhanced interaction with associated websites, such as the Google Toolbar add-on and the Google website.
Visual Explorer has been designed to support Internet Explorer add-ons.
There are thousands of Internet Explorer based add-ons available from resources such as http://www.download.com and http://www.ieaddons.com but please be aware – some add-ons can cause your computer to stop responding or display content that you don’t want, such as pop-up ads. Therefore, it is always a good idea to read the user reviews about a particular add-on before deciding whether to install it or not.
Summary
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Visual Explorer is the free full-featured web browser from BlueG. It includes advanced phishing filters, true WYSIWYG web page printing, plus instant Google searches with a single click. You can download Visual Explorer from http://www.visual-explorer.com
Author – Darren Bond, Creative Director, BlueG
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I have two types of web browsers..quick question.?I have both interenet explorer and mozilla firefox, they came with the computer.
When I open up any link that leads to the internet it automatically opens with firefox. How do I change that it automatically goes to internet explorer?
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Darren Bond is the author of Visual Explorer and creative director at BlueG. His passions include creating software that is both enjoyable to use and does what it should. He has a varied design background covering software, product design and architecture.
January 24th, 2009 on 8:05 am
firefox hands down!
January 24th, 2009 on 8:05 am
let me just say, i feel your pain, as do millions of other people out there…
coding a site that will look good on all the different browsers is tricky business. as you mentioned, different versions of IE will display things differently from each other, and differently than FF. it really depends on what you're trying to put on the site. IE and FF render styles from CSS differently, unfortunately. however, you can do conditional styles…which ease your pain a little bit.
if you make a style sheet for each browser, one for IE, one for FF, you can by default load the stylesheet that works well with FF, but you can override it with something like this:
<!–[if IE]>
load your style sheet
<![endif]–>
can you post anything specific you're trying to put on the site?
January 24th, 2009 on 8:35 am
the shit firefox
January 24th, 2009 on 8:55 am
Use the Import/Export features.
January 24th, 2009 on 5:32 pm
I assume you mean without registry editing
Open IE, Tools, Internet Options, Programs Tab, Click "Make Default"
January 24th, 2009 on 10:54 pm
When you make a request to a Web browser, it responds with a file.
At the very beginning of its response is a header. The header is a few lines of text that tells the Web browser all sorts of things about the file being sent back. Among the things sent back is the content type.
Content-type tells the browser what the Web server thinks the file is. The browser uses the content-type response to determine how it will handle the file: Try to display it, ask another program to open it, prompt you to save it to your disk drive, etc.
What the content-type line sent by a server contains depends on how the server is set up. Most Web servers have a "default" content-type list; what is sent is usually dependent on the file name / extension, but not always. Also, the Web server's admin can change what content-types are sent for specific file types.
You can also forge content-type information from a programming standpoint. It is very common, for example, for Web programmers to "dynamically" create data files (such as comma-delimited files), or even images, on the server, and then feed a person's Web browser a content-type specific to that file, overriding what the Web server would have sent.
A previous answerer stated the server sends a MIME type. That's not correct.
MIME is a methodology for e-mail programs to handle attachments. Both MIME and HTTP 1.1 have Content-type attributes, and they use the same format. They are very closely interrelated, but not the same thing.
January 25th, 2009 on 2:46 am
Unfortunately, no. That is, not without jailbreaking your phone first. The iPhone's "security features" give applications limited freedom to save to the file system and give you limited freedom to access files saved, and therefore Safari doesn't support it.
January 25th, 2009 on 9:37 am
google chrome (statisticly the fastest, but no security)
Mozilla Firefox (the best and also very fast)
Internet Explorer ( the worst)
Opera (decent but not great)
Apple Safari ( very fast, not very popular except with MAC users)
There are a few other ones too but are not even worth mentioning
January 25th, 2009 on 4:00 pm
Firefox took about 200,000 meg of ram from my pc
January 26th, 2009 on 8:04 am
opera
January 26th, 2009 on 3:05 pm
FireFox is the best
January 26th, 2009 on 7:10 pm
This is a HUGE subject, far too big to deal with here. The first thing that you should do, if you are serious about making your web site as accessible as possible, is to download the major browsers so that you can check your design in each one. So you want IE (unfortunately, you can't have IE 6 & 7 on the same computer!), Firefox, Netscape and perhaps Opera. If you can get it right in these, you will satisfy the vast majority of people.
The secret to compatibility is to make your pages compliant with the standards laid down by the w3c. The majority of browsers work to those standards. In the past, it was necessary to include a number of "tweaks" on the page to allow for the peculiarities of some browsers (particularly earlier versions of IE) but this is becoming less the case.
As well as checking your pages yourself, there is a validator available for your HTML through the w3 web site – first link below.
The second link takes you to a series of tutorials which I'm sure you will find helpful.
Incidentally, it's not just browsers that you have to satisfy. Users have a wide range of screen resolution and, unless you are careful, you may find that a page which looks perfect on one PC will break up on a smaller screen.
Really, it's a minefield – good luck!
January 26th, 2009 on 8:43 pm
Safari owns
January 27th, 2009 on 3:30 am
i use firefox
January 27th, 2009 on 7:18 am
browsershots as said above is ok, but has limitations.
Personally, I have the latest issues of IE, FF, Opera, Chrome and Safari. These cover 99.5% of ww users: enough for me…
I test my sites on each of them, at different resolutions.
January 27th, 2009 on 1:18 pm
Google chrome
January 27th, 2009 on 1:36 pm
i use lunascape
January 27th, 2009 on 2:10 pm