Well not really… it’ll happen only if you have kept the security settings on Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7 to their most paranoid level.

This problem is not with Firefox, Firefox is just honoring your Windows security settings for downloading applications and other potentially unsafe files from the Internet.

According to Mozilla -

Starting in Firefox 3, downloads of executable files (e.g., .exe or .msi) may fail and the Firefox Downloads window will contain this message, under the filename:  This download has been blocked by your Security Zone Policy.

Lot of users won’t be facing this problem if they haven’t played around the security settings. But if you have changed the security settings then — open Internet Options (via Control Panel or from Internet Explorer -> Tools) and click the Security tab. With the Internet zone icon highlighted, click the Custom level… button. (which is default setting) A list of security settings for the Internet zone will appear. Find the “Launching applications and unsafe files” setting (under Miscellaneous) and select “Prompt (recommended)”.

Google Docs has added full screen feature to documents which hides the menus and the toolbars. just go to view—> full screen mode or type Ctrl-Shift-F to go into full-screen mode.

Knowing the keyboard shortcuts would be helpful as you no longer have access to the menus.

hmm…. five continues Google related posts.

First it was Google reader then Google Docs and now it’s gmail and Google calendar.

Andrew Fogg a preview of the integration at Google’s offices and found that Gmail and Google Calendar will add offline support in approximately 6 weeks.

With gmail offline you probably can read mails, create new mails, star and search mail.

With Google Calendar you can add and edit details for the next 3 months.

It’s really tough to make documents from scratch when you haven’t got time and are in hurry and Google comes to the rescue with 309 templates. You can use the templates from the new Google Docs directory as a starting point for your timesheets, resumes, invoices, photo albums or party invitations.

What is a template

A template gives you a quick start towards creating a document, spreadsheet, or presentation. Each template has boilerplate content and preset design styles that are meant to be reused. To get started, click use this template, which will create a new document that is a copy of the template. You can then edit the document, replacing boilerplate text and images with your own.

Sadly the option to create a new template is not available, you can save them as regular documents and use File > Save as new copy (Copy spreadsheet) to create duplicates. If you publish a spreadsheet, append &newcopy to the URL to obtain a template link.

Gmail has a bad habit of considering the person you’ve mailed a few times as a contact. For instance I usually mail to the persons who have commented in this blog. After 2-3 such mails they are added to my contact list and appear in the chat window as well and  even if those 3 mail were all I sent. Then I have to go to the contact manager and manually delete the contact.

An updated version of Gmail’s contact manager has a separate section for the people you’ve emailed: “suggested contacts”. The persons you mail are added to “suggested contacts” and from there you get the option to move the person to your contacts list “My Contacts”.

This feature is currently being rolled out and will soon be seen in everyone’s contact manager.

[via Google operating system]

Google notebook team has released the Google notebook bookmarklet which lets you clip notes from the page without installing extensions, which is helpful incase you are using your friends computer or are working on safari.

The bookmarklet is a little buggy and doesn’t always work the way it should. You can get the bookmarklet here.

The personal start page of yahoo is out of beta and now you no longer can go back to classic page. It would be rolled out to all the users by July 14.

New in My Yahoo! 2.0 -

• Modules are easier to reorganize and modify.
• Custom-designed modules from New York Times and Wall Street Journal etc.
• Third party services like Netflix, Gmail, Facebook and POP mail.
• New page layout options.