A Complete Guide on How to Extend Your Laptop's Battery Life

For many of us our laptop is an indispensable part of our lives and is carried to work and back every day. However, nearly everyone knows the frustration of needing to do three or four hours' worth of work and only having an hour's worth of battery life left without a charger in sight! There are some ways to prolong the life of a laptop's battery, especially if your laptop is one of the new sleek and simple design, yet exceptionally powerful modern laptops, such as the new range of Samsung laptops.

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How to Reset Google Chrome, Opera, Internet Explorer ,Mozilla Firefox to their Default Setting's

Every one in the world use browser's to surf internet , some times we are required to do changes in the browser setting's according to our needs as in one of the post on our blog we shown you How to Increase Mozilla Firefox Browsing and Startup Speed in that post we have done some changes to browser's setting's but what will happened if  we do some changes and that went wrong in that position we will think to re-install our browser , if we do re-install we will lost all our saved data like bookmarks , saved passwords any more things.So in that case there should be a way to reset our browser to its original setting's without affecting the browsers data.So in this post we will see how to reset all the four major browsers.

How To Reset Mozilla Firefox

Mozilla Firefox is one of the most popular browser of all over the world ,  it provide many great addons which can used to enhanced the capability of the Mozilla Firefox.It is the most customisable browser , but some time customisation can went wrong , so in that case we need to reset it .Let see how to do that. 1.) First click on orange button on the top left most then click to help then finally click on reset with Add-Ons disabled (See the below image).

It will ask you that you are sure that you wan to restart disable all Add-Ons and restart click Restart . 2.)Now firefox will restart ,and two option will pop up to either start mozilla firefox in safe mode or reset firefox , so choose reset firefox .

That how you can reset Mozilla firefox setting's now let see how to reset opera setting's.

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How to Check if a Website is Down Just for you or Everyone

• Sometimes you notice many sites not opening in your browser.This commonly happens with the popular social networking sites like Facebook,Twitter ,Stumbleupon etc.But you might be in a doubt whether if the particular site is down for just you or else everyone?
• Whether the site which you are trying to open not opening just for you or else everyone?

To find this there are some online tools readily available.In this article I will be sharing couple of them to check if the site is down for all or just you.

1.IsItDownRightNow.COM:

• Go to isitdownrightnow.com
• Put the url of the website in the check box and hit the search button.

• Now this will show you a message if the website is up or down.

Twitter lookup using isitdownrightnow

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How to Reveal Hidden Passwords (Asterisks) in Web Browsers

Remember the situation, signing into your account with just a single click because browser is saving all your passwords for you. We know this is convenient but since you’re not typing your passwords any-more, eventually you’ll forget your password in a few days.  For security reasons, the password field in all browsers is masked with “asterisks” which won’t allow any third person (even you) to read the origi-nal typed password. But, what if you want to reveal the string behind the asterisks? There is actually few workaround for revealing the original passwords behind the asterisk and over the entire course of this article we’ll be discussing some known ways to reveal the characters behind the asterisks in different browsers.

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A Complete Guide To Laptop Operating Systems

When you buy a laptop these days you are not just buying a machine. You are buying the software that runs the machine. Years ago, there weren't many choices. Almost all consumers went with a Windows laptop. Some loyalists would choose Mac, while hardcore computer users might choose Linux. Through the years that has changed drastically.

More people than ever are buying Mac laptops. Windows comes in many forms, including the new Windows 8. There are tons of different Linux builds. Then there are the specialty operating systems. Google has released the Chrome OS for its Chromebook line. Android, too, powers many laptop-like devices. The choices are no longer straight forward.

If you're looking to buy a laptop, or just want to become more familiar with the options available, this guide will show you the way.

List of all Major Laptop OS with their PROS and CONS:

Mac OSX

While it runs on less than 10 percent of all personal computers, Mac OSX has grown drastically in the last ten years. Fed up with Windows, many people have turned their attentions to Mac OSX on both desktops and laptops.

Pros:

• Ease of use. Everything in OSX is relatively straight forward, making it easy to understand even for novice computer users.
• Efficiency. OSX is designed to correct itself, reallocating memory in order to run in the most efficient manner.
• Security. While there have been more malicious attacks on Macs in the last year than ever before, the incidents are still very rare compared to Windows PCs.
• Media. Macs were made to work with high-resolution video and audio media.

Cons:

• Software availability. Since about 90 percent of computer users run Windows machines, developers create more software for them. While Mac software availability has improved in the last ten years, there is still a lot more software for Windows.
• Closed environment. PC users switching to Mac will notice that they have a lot less control over the computing experience. Macs are known for their uniform user experiences.
• Price. Apple prices its Mac computers considerably higher than Windows laptops. Even their low-end devices cost $1,000US. Decent Windows laptops can be had for half that price.

Windows 8

The newest release from Microsoft, Windows 8 is all about cross-platform compatibility. It is meant to run not only on laptops and desktops, but also smartphones and tablets. The results have yet to be seen, but Windows 8 could be the OS that unites all of our gadgets.

Pros:

• User interface. The user interface of Windows 8 is one of the best Microsoft has ever created. For touchscreen laptops, there is the tile view. For traditional laptops there is the classic Windows view.
• Improvements. Since Windows 8 was just released, it will undergo many changes in the near future. Bugs will be fixed, and problems will be solved.
• Security. Windows 8 is the most secure version of Windows yet, which will increase its appeal.
• Range of devices. Windows 8 runs on all kinds of devices, including standard laptops, laptop-tablet hybrids, and the sleek new ultrabooks.

Cons:

• Buggy. While improvements are coming, Windows 8 still contains many bugs that hinder the user experience.
• Compatibility. There is some software not yet designed to run on Windows 8.
• Gaming. While most software runs well on Windows 8, games are not quite up to speed yet.
• Pricing. Microsoft ran a sale in late 2012, but Windows 8 pricing is back to its normal levels. You can, however, get a 90-day trial of Windows 8.

The good news is that many of the cons will go away as Windows 8 develops. It should be the best Windows by a long shot by the end of 2013.

Windows 7

After many failed releases, Microsoft finally won over the market with its Windows 7 operating system. Even though it has recently released Windows 8, Windows 7 remains a functional operating system that many users perfer.

Pros:

• Universality. More users run Windows 7 than any other computer platform. That allows users to share tips and tricks, as well as software.
• Gaming. While Windows 8 isn't quite up to speed yet, gamers love Windows 7. Many will not upgrade because of gaming issues.
• Customization. Windows 7 is the most customizable version of Windows.
• Efficiency. While not as efficient as Mac OSX, Windows 7 is an efficient operating system.

Cons:

• Support. Since there is a new version of Windows to support, Windows 7 won't receive the same level of support from Microsoft that it has in the past.
• Development. With more and more people installing Windows 8, developers will start focusing on that OS.
• Upgrading. Again, it will cost a lot to upgrade to Windows 8. Buying a Windows 7 laptop now means paying that upgrade cost in the future.

Chrome OS

In 2009 Google announced a new OS, called Chrome OS. It is based on their Chrome web browser, and it runs web apps instead of traditional apps. While Chromebooks got off to a slow start, they made progress in 2012. Google recently released the Chromebook Pixel, its most advanced model yet.

Pros

• Speed. Because Chrome OS contains few bells and whistles, it runs web apps faster than traditional laptops.
• Simplicity. Everything in Chrome OS is straight forward and easy to use, even for novice PC users.
• Essentials. Chrome OS contains essentials for web browsing and web use, even for heavy and pro web users.

Cons

• Power. Chromebooks are underpowered by design, since they require few resources. But they are sometimes underpowered, leading to issues.
• Limited capabilities. If you want to do anything that doesn't involve direct web use, you're out of luck. Chrome OS is severely limited in what it can perform.
• Clunky interface. Some Chromebooks feature touchscreens, but the OS doesn't seem to be designed for a touchscreen interface in the same way Android is.
• Price. Even the low-end Chromebooks are priced too highly for what they bring to the table. The new Pixel costs $1,300US, which is more than the MacBook Air.

About Author:Joe Pawlikowski writes, edits, and consults for several tech blogs across the web. He writes about mobile gadgets and technology at his site, MobileMoo.

How to Clear Cookies on Internet Explorer,Mozilla Firefox,Google Chrome

We spring clean our homes every once in a while to keep it free of clutter. It provides us a cleaner environment to live in. Somewhat similar to spring-cleaning your house is cookie cleaning the browsers that you use on your computer.

• Also Check:How to Boost Mozilla Firefox Speed.

For the internet dummy, here’s what an Internet Cookie is: Whenever you browse a particular site, a “cookie” (or a file referencing that site, gets stored on the hard-disk of your computer. The next time you visit that site, say an online poker site for example, the browser sees that cookie and loads that website faster. You would think that this is a great function and very useful too. However, over a period of time, you surf numerous websites and web pages. The result of this is that literally cartloads of cookies get stored on your computer resulting in a slowdown. 

Thus it is important to clear out the cookies along with the internet history and the cache. Different people use different browsers to access the internet on their computers. Outlined below are the steps and screen-shots of how to delete cookies on different browsers:

Steps to Clear Cookies on Internet Explorer 9: 

• Open browser>click the gear at the top right to access “settings” >Select “Safety”>Delete Browsing History.

• Alternatively, press Ctrl+Shift+Delete to open the Delete Browsing History window.
• Select “Temporary Internet Files”>uncheck all other boxes, in particular the “Preserve Favorites website data” (checking this option will delete objects from the websites that are in your Favorites folder. This is required to clear your cache completely).

• Click the ”Delete” button at the bottom of the window.

The computer will work the request for a moment and complete the action.

Steps to Clear Cookies on Mozilla Firefox:

This browser has different steps for clearing cookies from a single site and for deleting all cookies:

Deleting cookies for a single site:

• Click on the “Firefox” button at the top of the Firefox window( Tools menu in Windows Explorer)>Options>Privacy>Firefox Will dropdown menu>Use custom setting for history

• Click “Show Cookies”

• The cookies window will appear >Type the name of the site whose cookies have to be deleted(a list of cookies will show up)
• Select the cookie that needs to be Deleted >Click on “Remove Cookie”

• To select all the cookies Shift +End.

Deleting all cookies:

• Click on the “Firefox” button at the top of the Firefox window( Tools menu in Windows Explorer)>Go to the “History” menu>select “Clear recent history”>Set the time range to clear all>click on arrow near details(expand history list)>Select “cookies” (deselect other boxes).

• Click “Clear Now”>Close Recent History window.

Steps to Delete Cookies on Google Chrome:

• Open Browser>Select the “Wrench” (settings menu located at top right corner) icon>Tools>clear browsing data.
• Alternatively you can also access the “Delete Browsing History” window by pressing Ctrl+Shift+Delete or click on [chrome://settings/clearBrowserData]

• Select “Empty the Cache” checkbox>Uncheck all other options

• In the “Obliterate the following items from” dropdown box select>Beginning of time>Click the “Clear browsing data” button.
• Chrome will process your request for a moment and the action will be completed.

Final Words:

Sometimes maintaining the Internet history on your browser can be helpful in that you are able to view the actual terms that were used to access a particular site. There are lot of Browser versions and the ones listed here are the latest. You can find information related to deleting cookies on specific browser websites in the “help” section. Remember that your computer is a machine and needs to be cleaned regularly to ensure optimum performance. Happy surfing!

How to Increase Mozilla Firefox Browsing and Startup Speed

• Are you experiencing slow speed and lagging web experience from your favourite browser- Mozilla Firefox? This generally happens after using Firefox over time. 
• Restarting browser doesn’t help and neither restarting the computer. So how can you improve and refurbish Firefox’s declining speed and efficiency?

Well, over the due course of this article we’ll be discussing on the topic how to speed up your Mozilla Firefox? We’ve gathered some tricks and tweaks that will put your Firefox again into efficient and balanced position. And we believe, if you’ll carefully follow this guide and apply all the methods together, you’ll experience a 100% of speed increase, be it a web browsing experience, Firefox start up time or browsing speed.

Tweaks to Speed Up Mozilla Firefox Browsing:

• Before moving on to some Tweaks on increasing mozilla firefox speed, check out the article on - How to Increase Internet Speed.

Configuring settings in Firefox’s “about:config” option:

1) You can increase the speed by Reducing RAM required by Firefox for its Cache Management.

Follow the steps:

• Open Firefox browser and type “about:config” (without quotes) in the address bar.

• In the search field, look for: “browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewer” and change its value to “0”.

2) By default at a time, Firefox makes only one request while opening a web page for you but by increasing and allowing Firefox to make several requests at a time, we can increase the page loading speed and this can be achieved by enable pipelining.

1. Open Firefox browser and type “about:config” (without quotes) in the address bar.
2. In the search field:

Find:  “network.http.pipelining” & change to “true” by double clicking on it.
Find: “network.http.proxy.pipelining” and change it to “true”.
Find:  “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” and change it to 10.

Now browser will make 10 requests at once.

3) This trick involves in changing the amount of time assigned to browser it uses to act on received information and it works effectively if you’re using a broad band connection.

1. Open Firefox browser and type “about:config” (without quotes) in the address bar.
2. Right Click anywhere in empty portion and click New> Integer. Name the new Integer as:  “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and assign it a   “0” value.
3. Similarly you can create the  following values to increase speed of Firefox:

Create a new Boolean: “network.dns.disableIPv6” and set value to “false”.
Create a new Integer: “content.notify.backoffcount” and set the value to 5.
Create a new Boolean:  “plugin.expose_full_path” and set the value to “true”.
Create a new Integer:  “ui.submenuDelay” and set the value to 0.

4) Finally the last method with which you can reduce the RAM usage of Firefox when it is minimized to taskbar. This little hack will help you to free up some RAM for your system when you’re not browsing.

1. Open Firefox browser and type “about:config” (without quotes) in the address bar.
2. Right Click anywhere in empty portion and click New> Boolean. Name the new Boolean in the pop up as:  “config.trim_on_minimize” and assign it “true” value.
3. Restart the Firefox.

Using Firefox extension- FasterFox:

There’s another way to increase the browsing or Internet speed in Firefox with the help of an extension/add-on for Firefox called FasterFox. It works pretty cool for me and I was able to notice some significant improvement in browsing speed. However, it won’t work well on my old computer with basic configuration.  So I won’t recommend it to users with low-configuration systems.

How FasterFox works?

• FasterFox recycles all the useless or ideal bandwidth and utilizes it to load web pages much faster. 

Download Fasterfox Here.

Basic ways to speed up Firefox:

Remove Unwanted Addons and Pugins:

• To decrease the start-up Firefox loading time, remove unwanted add-ons or extensions.

• All add-ons lower the start-up loading times by fraction of seconds, therefore more the add-ons higher will be start-up loading time.
• The add-ons or extensions that used Internet connection can lower the browsing speed, so we’ll suggest you to avoid those add-ons that use Internet connection.

Disable Unwanted Addons,Plugins and Extensions.

Clear Cookies from Time to Time:

• Cookies, cache, history and other temporary files are also responsible for Firefox’s declining speed and efficiency. We’ll suggest them to remove all these files 2-3 times a month.

You can remove these files by going to: options>Security. Choose “clear your recent history” to wipe history and “Remove cookies” option to remove cookies. Also delete the unnecessary bookmarks.

• There’s another small effective trick to decrease the start-up Firefox loading time. Right click on the Firefox icon and choose properties.

• Select the target field and in the end of url “C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe”, give a space and type “/Prefetch:1” (without quotes). Remember to put space as without specifying space this trick will not work.

All the above mentioned tweaks and tricks are fairly easy to apply. We believe these tricks will make your favourite browser at least 2-3 times much faster. Although some tricks may not work for you as some of them depends upon the configuration of your system and some upon Internet connection. Anyway, if you have any interesting working trick to speed up the Firefox, do share it with us through comments.

Some more Features Articles:

• Increase Internet Speed.
• Speed up Windows Performance.
• Increase youtube Buffering Speed.

How to Boost and Increase your Internet Speed

We already discussed "How to Speed Up a Windows PC Performance ",in this article we will be looking at some important tweaks and few software's which help us in optimizing the Internet speed.There are many tweaks which help you in increasing the Internet speed but here we will be discussing some important tweaks.

Tweak: Un-reserving bandwidth:

By Default, Windows reserves 20% of bandwidth for it’s own use.This should be undone immediately to optimize your net speed.To do so you need not install any extra program,you can do this with a simple setting given below.

• Press "Windows key + R"(shortcut key for RUN).
• Now type gpedit.msc.This will give access to Group Policy Editor.

Group Policy Editor

• Then Navigate to Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/Network/QOS Packet Scheduler using the pane on the left side.
• Now in the right panel you will notice a option called "Limit Reservable Bandwitdth".Right click on it and choose "Edit" option.
• A new window will pop out where you find Bandwidth Limit is set to 20% by default.Now click enabled and change Bandwidth Limit to 0 then apply the changes.

Limit Reservable Bandwidth

• Hit ok the close the group policy editor.

Few Software Programs which helps in optimizing Internet Speed:

1.Boost Download Speed with Internet Download Manager:

Internet Download Manager(IDM) is the best download manager that has ever made.No matter on which kind of protocol you are working on,you could use Internet download manager.

Few important features of Internet Download Manager:

• You can limit the download speed of the download program or application.
• You can stop or pause the download at any time.
• Helps you in downloading various videos,pdf files,music files,softwares with a single click.

Download Latest Version of IDM.

2.Optimizing TCP/IP settings with SG TCP Optimizer:

SG TCP Optimizer is a freeware which helps you in optimizing the manner in which you want your pc to send or receive packets.

• Download SG TCP Optimizer.This application doesn't require any installation ,you just have to double click it to run the application.
• Now we wont touch any settings under General Settings Tab.Just choose optimal Settings Tab and click apply changes.

• As soon as you click Apply Changes a windows will pop up.
• Here also we dont touch any settings.Just check(Tick) Backup option.

• Now all you have to do is to restart your PC.As soon as you restart these settings will effect your PC.

Note:After you reboot your PC surf around in a while.If you notice that these settings had a negative impact then don't worry you can revert settings to default.When you click restore settings to default a .spg extension file will open with date.Choose the date to which you want to revert the settings. 

3.Use cCleaner to clear Cookies and Browsing History:

cCleaner is a free software which is also a must software for every PC.Whenever you notice slow browsing then just open cCleaner and clear all the browsing data.This will remove all the cookies ,saved passwords etc thereby boosting your browsing speed instantly.

Final Words:

The above tips will surely optimize your Internet speed but the speed of your net connection doesn't exceed your bandwith.To get good speeds you have to upgrade to a good Internet plan.

• Also Read:Tweak Utorrent Settings to Increase Speed.

How to Speed Up a PC-Tips to Increase Windows Performance

Microsoft windows operating system has been designed to deliver better speeds.Especially Windows 8 is far better than its predecessor.However, as time passes ,the laptop/PC might tend to get slower.There might be many reasons behind slow PC performance but you can optimize the speed with some simple tweaks and using few software's that clean your PC to increase its speed.

PC’s performance will slow down at 3 Instances:

1. At the time of BOOTING
2. During normally usage.
3. While Shutting Down.

Tips to Speed Up Windows Performance:

Use a Good Antivirus:

If you are not using a Good antivirus then the chances for your PC getting infected are pretty high.In this present world of Internet nothing is safe online.As windows is the most widely used operating system,many new viruses/trojans are created daily to exploit windows os.

• Check out Best Antivirus softwares.
• You can also use some good free antivirus software as well.

Removing unwanted Startup Applications:

Sometimes even after the pc starts, few programs keeps on loading thereby stopping you from performing your operations.In some cases, you might come across a strange WINDOWS error known as “Blue Screen Of death”.To avoid this you have to limit the number of startup programs.Lesser the number of startup programs greater will be the pc startup speed.

•  Press” Windows key + R”(shortcut key for RUN)
• A RUN box will open .Type “Msconfig” (without quotes) in the RUN box and hit ENTER. It will take you to the “system configuration”.

• Select “START UP” from the Tab’s at the top and uncheck all the unwanted programs that you don’t want to get started along with startup. Now click “OK” and then “APPLY”.Restart the pc you will definiately notice an improvement in startup and booting speed.

Delete all the Temporary files and folders:

Windows stores some temporary files which are created while you are running any sort or applications. Deleting those Temporary files will helps you to increase your PC Performance during normal usage. Follow the steps below to delete the temporary files

• Press” Windows key + R”. 
• In the RUN box type “%temp%” (without quotes) and hit enter.

Temporary Files and Folders

• It will take you to a Folder where all the Temporary files are stored. Select and delete all the files. You may not delete all the files there, just skip those files which are undeletable.

Disk Clean Up:

Disk cleaning will delete all your temporary files from any drive of your Disk. Here is the Procedure

Press” Windows key + R”. 

Type “cleanmgr” (without Quotes) and hit enter.

Select the particular Disk that you want to Clean and click on “OK” and now you can delete all the temporary files. Repeat the same procedure for all the drives and it will really free some amount of memory in every drive.

Defragment Disk:

For Defragmenting the Disk follow the steps below:

1. Right click on any drive and select PROPERTIES

2. Click on TOOLS and select DEFRAGMENT NOW

3. ANALYSE the dick first and then DEFRAGMENT it.

Delete ”Old Windows” Files:

Normally your files of OLD version of windows can be removed easily using DISK CLEAN UP. So you can follow the same procedure to delete the files of OLD WINDOWS

Reduce Files on Desktop:

Move all the files on your Desktop to any other separate drive.Every shorcut on desktop consumes 20kb of your RAM.If there are too many shortcuts then it is definitely going to effect the performance speed of your computer.You can use shortcuts on the desktop for easy navigation (Shortcuts are less in memory). 

Using Proper Cooling System:

Make sure that your Cooling fans are working fine. Try to clean the Dust from the surface of the fans to make it work properly. Provide good ventilation for PC’s and try to maintain the room cool so that Pc can perform better.

Removing Visual Effects:

Follow the steps below to disable unwanted Visual effects

1. Go to CONTROL PANEL > SYSTEM AND SECURITY > SYSTEM >ADVANCED SYSTEM SETTINGS ( A box will pop up)

2.  Click on SETTINGS of PERFORMANCE section.

3. There check all the visual effects and remove those which are not need for your and save those settings

Deleting Internet Cache

There are many software’s available on internet to Delete internet cache but, CC Cleaner is the free software and its very effect in deleting the file temporary files.

Use Revo Uninstaller to uninstall programs:

Completely uninstall programs and applications using a program like Revo Uninstaller. It will get rid of registries left behind by normal uninstalls.

Repairing Registry Files:

There are many Good software’s available on internet to fix all your registry errors. You can pick anyone of them. I will suggest you to use TUNE UP UTILITIES as it perform better than much other software.

Using Ready Boost:

Connect a USB stick to a Windows computer – even on Windows 8 – and it will ask if you want to speed up your system using ReadyBoost. ReadyBoost was introduced in Windows Vista, where it was a heavily promoted feature.

Upgrade your Hardware:

Last but very important thing is to upgrade your hardwares.If you are still using old hardwares then its time for you to replace then to boost pc speed.

If we missed out any important tweak let us know in your comments.

Sai Charan

About the Guest Author:

Sai Charan a passionate blogger who enjoys writing articles on Computer Tricks,Facebook Tricks,Tech Updates etc.He is our Gold Star Contributor and co-author of AllTechBuzz.He Blogs at Tech Glitter.

How to Change Default Search Engine in Your Browser

• Are you unhappy with your Default Search Engine in your Browser?
• Did you recently install some software or extension or addon and your default Search Engine in your browser got changed  and now you want your old default search engine?

If any of the above questions are true then I have a solution for you.Sometimes we may install few softwares/extensions and our default search engine gets changed.I generally prefer Google as default search engine in my browser.If I am not wrong most of the people will prefer Google as their default search engine.

Change Default Search Engine in Google Chrome:

• Go to wrench icon at the top right corner of the browser and click it.

• Then choose Settings Tab in the drop down menu.
• Go to Search and click on Manage Search Engines.When you will click on ‘Manage Search Engines’ a new window will pop up,there you can see many search engines lined up.

• The very first column will show the default search engine for your browser.

• Now choose the search engine that you want to assign for your browser.Then hit OK and close the window when you are done.

Change Default Search Engine in Mozilla Firefox:

Firefox Search Box doesn't have any default search engine.All you have to do is to click the drop down arrow next to search box and choose your search engine.Once you select a search engine,Firefox will remember it and from the next time it will open the search engine which you have chosen.To do so just follow the below steps.

• In Firefox click on the Top Right Inverted Triangle and go to Manage Search Engines.

• Now just choose the one which you want to apply for your browser and hit ok.

• From the next time you open it will show the default search engine which you have chosen.

Change Default Search Engine in Internet Explorer:

• Like the wrench in Google Chrome, you have a Sprocket icon in Internet Explorer at the top right corner of the browser.

• Clicking on this icon will open a new window of settings for your browser.
• You can see a tab ‘Manage Add-ons’ there. Select it and then go to ‘Search Providers’ in the list.
• You can then see all the available search engines in a column on your right window.
• Mostly the default browser in Internet Explorer will be Bing.
• If you don't find other search engines to choose just go to Find More Search Providers button from the bottom of the settings windows.Then a new windows will pop up showing various number of search engines.

• From there you choose the search engine you want then add it to Internet Explorer and then choose it as your default search engine.

I hope you found this article helpful.If you have any trouble in changing your default search engine just leave a comment.