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Just as the time when lots of applications on the web are running on Adobe Flash (e.g watching videos on youtube.com), Microsoft so-called flash based web application named “Silverlight” is gaining momentum as more and more web-based mash-ups/applications are based on that.

Question ….. what has it gotta do do with me?

Well, it actually has an effect on users and a techie guy like who is always on the internet; it definately does.

As more and more web applications run on silverlight, internet browsers like Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Google Chrome and many others will be affected.

How it affects the user, is when a website prompts “You need the latest version of Silverlight” message box appears on the desktop and it will be a complete disaster if your web browser does not support Silverlight.

Till now linux based browser Konqueror and cross-platform based browser Opera has yet had official support for Silverlight. Whether is it a Microsoft tactic to kill Adobe Flash or web browser competition is yet been known.

Websurfers, like you and me however, can enjoy the rich and dynamics of websites that is being displayed on our desktop.

As I was working on my Lenovo laptop yesterday (running on Windows Vista Home Basic) , I was prompted to install the new Internet Explorer 8 browser via the automatic Windows Updates. Well my question to install or not to install?

Well since its coming from Windows Update, I just install the updates.

Guess what …..

This is consider to be one of the fastest Windows installation update.

Well let me explain …..

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Hi everyone, welcome to the 1st post of 2009 from Laptop Info Today.

I’ve been busy with my studies and quite frankly, I’m stealing my time right to blog to you guys .

Anyway this post is something I want to do for quite a while a what better to start off with the first post on 2009.

Well, Firefox is extremely fast and furious if you were to compare with IE7 (IE8 beta 2 is even worse ). But if you want to make it even faster you can try these tips and see for yourself whether it works for you.

Let’s go though the steps:-

1. Open up your browser and type about:config on the address
2. Look out for “network.http.pipelining” and “network.http.proxy.pipelining”.
3. Change both default values from FALSE to TRUE.
4. Next right click at anywhere from the browser and click “Create New” > “Integer”.
5. Type nglayout.initialpaint.delay as the name.
6. Insert 0 (that is zero is numeric) as the default value.
7. Restart Firefox.

What the steps actually does are :-

1. It helps to load streaming videos faster
2. No lag in online games
3. Increase the speed of browsing and downloading