Internet Explorer

The web-browser war is once again going to get interesting with Internet Explorer 9 Preview now available for public download promising impressive upcoming features, boasting 100% support for W3C Web Standards (see comparison table after the jump) IE9 will support hardware assisted page rendering, background compiled JavaScript and GPU-powered HTML5 graphics for superior performance.

The Internet Explorer vulnerability used to accomplish the recent cyber-attack on Google in China is now public, the yet-to-be-patched Internet Explorer vulnerability dubbed “Aurora” is still a threat as no solution is yet available to prevent it. Taking note of attack severity Microsoft officially posted the Microsoft Security Advisory (979352) and is actively monitoring the situation taking actions to protect there customers, a patch to plug the Internet Explorer security hole is also in progress and will get released before the usual cumulative “Patch Tuesday" scheduled release date.

The public release of the exploit code has increased the risks of widespread attacks especially deadly on computers running Windows XP and Internet Explorer 6, the only solution to avoid being hacked is to use alternative web-browsers like Mozilla Firefox, Opera and Google Chrome instead of Internet Explorer until a patch is released to address the issue.

At times you may want to delete a specific website address from the web-browsers location bar to preserve your privacy, in Firefox you just need to move your mouse over the website entry and press Shift + Delete key combination to delete the desired address from history.

For Internet Explorer follow the steps exactly as described below, do keep in mind this trick needs editing the registry and you need to be very careful with it:

1. Close any open Internet Explorer window.
2. Goto Start -> Run and Type regedit.exe press enter to launch registry editor.
3. Navigate to the following key : HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TypedURLs
4. Delete the desired URL.