Repair Winsock LSP Corruption

Internet connectivity can be faulty if the Windows Socket (Winsock) get corrupted due to faulty installation of network software.

It could also due to malware/virus attack.

The easiest way to determine this is to open up a Command Prompt.

Ping to a well-known address, such as yahoo.com. If your Winsock LSP is OK, most likely, you would be getting something like this:

Pinging yahoo.com [206.190.60.37] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 206.190.60.37: bytes=32 time=313ms TTL=44

If your Winsock is corrupted, you would getting something like this:

Pinging yahoo.com [uiQ] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 206.190.60.37: bytes=32 time=313ms TTL=44

In Windows XP SP2, issue the command netsh winsock reset and restart your PC.

Cheers!

Managing Multiple Cookies In Firefox

If you login to a website and want to check more than 1 account simultaneously, chances are that you might be using IE, Firefox and Opera to do this.

Say for instances, you need to check 2 of your Gmail accounts at the same time to compare things. Chances are that you open 1 session of IE and another session of Firefox.

This is where CookiePie plugin for Firefox comes in.

Read this impressive plugin at their site.

You can search for other cookie management plugins using the Google.

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Firefox 3 and HTTPS

Since Mozilla Firefox 3, the HTTPS URL will not be displayed in the yellow background.

To turn on this feature back again, read the post from lifehacker.com.

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