With its built-in privacy/security mechanisms, the Chromium-based Brave browser is widely regarded as the most private and secure browser available. Built-in privacy/security features include anti-tracking and ad blocking, HTTPS upgrading, script blocking, global “shields” with per-site shield settings, and at the time of writing, is …
Recently, I was working on my computer, and all of the sudden the address bar showed the Yahoo! icon. This was at the front of the address bar of my Google Browser. What this meant was that it was using Yahoo to search when I …
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Opera has a new feature that, in theory, will help sharpen videos and pictures on the websites that you visit. It’s called “Lucid mode“. To access it, go to the “Easy setup” menu – three stacked lines in the top right-hand corner. When the side …
I had an unusual problem. I wanted to read an article called, “PicPick Adds Delayed Capture Functionality” by John Durso – you can read it here: PicPick Adds Delayed Capture Functionality But the page was displaying weirdly. The first thing I saw was what I …
Edit Images Directly In Edge In the latest release of the Dev and Canary channels, you can start editing web images right in your browser. Simply hover over the top right corner of any web-based image. Beneath the familiar four corner icons are two hidden …
Edge Preview Channels In the last year Microsoft’s flagship browser, Edge, has had a phenomenal market share growth of just over 1,300%. Some of the growth has to do with the retirement of Internet Explorer on June 15 this year and some has been the …
A man called me because he was having trouble with a streaming news website. The video would play for a while and then crash with the error message: The video file cannot be played. (Error Code: 232011) From research, this is more than likely a …
You are trying to connect to a website and having an issue. Is the problem with the website, or is it with your setup? This just happened to me. Here is the error I received when trying to log into a bank account. Here is …
If you are like me, you have bookmarked your favorite websites in your Google Chrome browser. You may have been doing this for many years. Over time it might have become very disorganized and in my case it is now chaos. Since I like to …
Most browsers send anonymous data to the parent company, often with the explanation that this data is used to improve the browser experience. Fortunately, in Edge, the user has at least some control over what data is sent to Microsoft. In this article, I’ll show …
Google has announced the end-of-support date for its Chrome browser in Windows 7 and Windows 8/8.1. As of February 2023, Windows 7/8/8.1 will no longer be supported by Google Chrome. The browser will continue to work okay but no security updates will be released for …
Overview One powerful feature that browsers have, but many people do not know about, is a browser profile. All Chromium-based browsers and Firefox have profiles. Profiles can improve the browser experience. So, what is a browser profile? When installing a browser on a computer, it …
Brave is a relatively new Chromium-based browser that has quickly gained a following due to its enhanced privacy features. The latest Brave builds include a new “translate” feature which, when you visit a foreign-language website, will automatically identify the correct language and offer to translate …
(Ed note: JD is a new writer for DCT. Welcome!) Browser extensions are great for adding features and functions to a browser and enhancing the browser experience. But what if a website is misbehaving? What happens if your browser is crashing? Perhaps your browser is …
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