How to View and Disable Installed Plug-ins in Any Browser

Browser plug-ins like Flash and Java add additional features web pages can use. However, they can also slow things down when in use or add extra security holes, particularly in the case of Java.

Each web browser has a built-in way to view your installed browser plug-ins and choose which are enabled, although this feature is hidden in many browsers.  To remove a plug-in completely, you’ll need to uninstall it from the Windows Control Panel.

Google Chrome

Google Chrome has several hidden chrome:// pages you can access. To view the plug-ins installed in Chrome, type chrome://plugins into Chrome’s address bar and press Enter.

This page shows all the installed browser plug-ins enabled in Google Chrome. To disable a plug-in, click the Disable link under it. You can also click the Details option to view more detailed information, such as the location of the plug-in on your computer’s file system.

By default, many plug-ins can only run with your permission. This helps prevent websites from exploiting plug-ins like the vulnerable Java plug-in. The Always allowed check box allows you to bypass this protection for an individual plug-in, but it’s unchecked by default for a reason.

Mozilla Firefox

Firefox makes your list of installed plug-ins easier to access. To view your list of installed plug-ins, open the Firefox menu, click Add-ons, and select Plugins.

You can disable individual plug-ins by clicking the Disable button. To view more information about a plug-in, such as its file name, click the Options button. You won’t actually find any options you can use to configure the plug-in from here, only additional information.

Internet Explorer

Internet Explorer lists its browser plug-ins along with other browser add-ons you have installed. To view them, click the gear menu at the top-right corner of the Internet Explorer window and select Manage add-ons.

Browser plug-ins are displayed under the Toolbars and Extensions category, along with any browser toolbars and other type of ActiveX add-ons you have installed. Note that many are hidden by default – click the Show box at the bottom-left corner of the screen and select All add-ons to view them all.

You can disable add-ons by selecting them in the list and using the Disable button at the bottom-right corner of your screen.

 

How GPS works:

*When people talk about “a GPS,” they usually mean a GPS receiver.

**The Global Positioning System (GPS) is actually a constellation of 27 Earth-orbiting satellites (24 in operation and three extras in case one fails).

** The U.S. military developed and implemented this satellite network as a military navigation system, but soon opened it up to everybody else.

**Each of these 3,000- to 4,000-pound solar-powered satellites circles the globe at about 12,000 miles (19,300 km), making two complete rotations every day.

** The orbits are arranged so that at any time, anywhere on Earth, there are at least four satellites “visible” in the sky.

**A GPS receiver’s job is to locate four or more of these satellites, figure out the distanc­e to each, and use this information to deduce its own location.
This operation is based on a simple mathematical principle called TRILATERATION.

GPS receiver has to know two things
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**The location of at least three satellites above you
*The distance between you and each of those satellites
*The GPS receiver figures both of these things out by analyzing high-frequency, low-power radio signals from the GPS satellites. Better units have multiple receivers, so they can pick up signals from several satellites simultaneously.
**You can use maps stored in the receiver’s memory, connect the receiver to a computer that can hold more detailed maps in its memory, or simply buy a detailed map of your area and find your way using the receiver’s latitude and longitude readouts.
** Some receivers let you download detailed maps into memory or supply detailed maps with plug-in map cartridges.
**A standard GPS receiver will not only place you on a map at any particular location, but will also trace your path across a map as you move.
* If you leave your receiver on, it can stay in constant communication with GPS satellites to see how your location is changing.

JAMSETH JI TATA

9 facts about Bill Gates.

9 Interesting Facts About Bill Gates.

1) Bill Gates earns $250 Us Dollars every second, that’s about $20 million a day and $7.2 Billion a year!

2) If he drops a thousand dollars on the floor, he wouldn’t bother to pick it up because in the four seconds he attempts to pick it up, he would have already made his money back.

3) The US national debt is about 5.62 trillion , if Bill Gates were to pay the debt by himself; he will finish it in less then 10 years.

4) He can donate US$15 to everyone on earth but still be left with US $5 Million for his pocket money.

5) Michael Jordan is the highest paid athlete in US. If he doesn’t drink and eat, and keeps up his annual income i.e. US$30 Million, he’ll have to wait for 277 years to become as rich as Bill Gates is now.

6) If Bill Gates was a country, he would be the 37th richest country on earth.

7) If you change all of Bill Gate’s money to US$1 notes , you can make a road from earth to moon, 14 times back and forth. But you have to make that road non-stop for 1,400 years , and use a total of 713 BOEING 747 planes to transport all the money.

8) Bill Gates is 54 this year. If we assume that he will live for another 35 years, he has to spend US$6.78 Million per day to finish all his money before he can go to heaven or hell.

9) If Microsoft Windows’ users can claim US$1 for every time their computers hang because of Microsoft Windows, Bill Gates will be bankrupt in 3 days!