WebWait lets benchmark your website or test the speed of your web connection with the website timer which is the amount of time it takes to load the page completely in the browser.The tools timing is more accurate when compared to other tools because WebWait pulls down the entire web site into your browser, so it takes into account Ajax/Javascript processing and image loading which other tools ignore.

Test your blogs wait time and benchmark it @ WebWait

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Every Browser has a cache, but the cache is not easily accessible, so here are 2 tools to access Cache of Opera and Google Chrome and both  the tools work out of the box, and require no installation.

Opera Cache Viewer : The tool reads the cache folder of Opera Web browser, and displays the list of all files currently stored in the cache. For each cache file, the following information is displayed: URL, Content type, File size, Last accessed time, and last modified time in the server and the files from the cache can also be saved.The tool works on all Windows OS.

It can be downloaded from here.

Google Chrome Cache : Similar to the Opera Cache Viewer, This tool also reads the cache folder of Google Chrome Web browser, and displays the list of all files currently stored in the cache. For each cache file, the following information is displayed: URL, Content type, File size, Last accessed time, Expiration time, Server name, Server response, and any file can be saved to another location from the cache.

By Default The cache folder of Google Chrome is located under

[User Profile]\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Cache

The tool is no-install app, and can downloaded from here.

Google Gmail is great with its easy to use interface, speed, features.Here’s another reason you’ll love GMail, because you can now change the GMail interface of your Gmail Account using a Firefox extension called Gmail Redesigned by Global Designs Inc,which would fully redesign the look and feel of your Google Gmail service. This is done by overwriting the GMail’s default Cascading Stylesheet (CSS) with a CSS file which is loaded on the client’s browser stored on the clients machine.

GMail Redesign, while your inbox loads

This is how your Inbox looks while using the plugin.

Note : Before you install this plugin, Make sure you have Stylish plugin for Firefox installed.

GMail Redesigned : HomePage |

Google’s very own browser Chrome, has become popular with its speed and memory consumption.The incognito mode can be even well used if the browser is portable.

This portable Google browser can run directly from the USB stick on any Windows computer and all user settings including web history, cookies, etc. will also get saved to the same folder on the stick.

To use the portable version of Chrome Just download the ZIP, extract and run

You can now download Chrome’s Portable version from the following locations.

1. Rapidshare
2. Download Link 2
   — Portable Chrome HomePage

If your a web developer, you need to check for cross browser comparability. But IE has a good number of versions and many users use different versions like IE 5.5, IE 6.0, IE 7.0.IETester is a free web browser specifically designed for testing web sites and have the rendering and javascript engines of the installed Internet Explorer including IE 8 beta, IE 7, IE 6, IE 5.5 on both XP and Vista.

The latest version provides scope for a Search box and customizable Homepage.

A special feature that allows you to launch new tabs which render the web site in different versions of IE.There are still a few problems and limitations which the author states.

System Requirements :

Windows Vista or Windows XP with IE7 (Windows XP with IE6 has some minor problems and IE7/IE8 instances do not work under this config)

Check out the screencast of IETester here.

IETester : HomePage || Download || Screencast