I received this message from my Opera browser on two separate computers. The message read: “The extension upgrade requires additional permissions. Go to the extension manager to accept the upgrade.” Then, an option to click reads “Go to Extensions”. Clicking on it sends you to […]
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Background After a recent update to my Brave browser, I noticed that visited links no longer appear visited (i.e., the link is not displayed in a different color, commonly referred to as “purple links”). I opened Chrome and it was present there, too. This makes
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Mozilla, the parent company of Firefox, just changed its Firefox FAQ. The old Firefox FAQ included a promise that Mozilla would never sell a user’s personal data. But Mozilla removed that promise in its new FAQ. The Old FAQ If we go to the Internet
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Last week I jumped off the subject of How-to’s and shared my top 10 gift ideas. If you missed that fun article, you can find it here: Top 10 Tech Gifts For The Family This week we are going to get back to teaching you
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The end of websites as we know them? I came across an interesting article recently wherein the author predicts that search results will no longer include links to websites and the dire consequences of that transformation. The author believes that with the advent of AI,
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Did you know you can apply different page colors in the Edge browser? Unfortunately, you cannot apply different page colors for different sites, once a page color has been set it is universal across all websites and pages. That said, a couple of the color
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For the last couple of weeks, I have been covering Google topics. If you have missed those, here they are: How To Find Accounts Linked To My Gmail How To Change Google Chrome Theme How To See Past Google Doodles This time, I thought I
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Last couple of weeks I have been talking on the subject of Google. From, ‘How to Change Google Chrome Theme,’ to, ‘How to See Past Google Doodles.’ If you missed either of those you can find them here: How To Change Google Chrome Theme How
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Last week I showed you how to change the theme of your Google Chrome Browser. If you missed it here it is: How To Change Google Chrome Theme This time I wanted to stay on the Google subject. When I was playing around searching on
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Last week we talked about how to opt out of Ad Privacy Choices on Amazon. If you missed it, here is the link to it: How To Opt Out Of Ad Privacy Choices Amazon This week I wanted to change it up to something more
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Should You Block Ads On Websites? Most online services rely heavily on revenue from advertising to keep their site profitable. But to me, I have always viewed it as a two-way street. I am willing to sit through ads on a site that provides me
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OperaGX recently updated and the thumbnails for the speed dials are just letters. They select the first letter of the website address and make it the thumbnail. So, davescomputertips.com gets a D. Facebook.com gets an F. Youtube.com gets a Y. And so on. So, the
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Here is a very simple way to help increase online security in Edge and Chrome. Most experienced users will most likely already be aware of these settings. However, it won’t hurt as a reminder and less experienced users might not even be aware of them.
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A woman called me because her games were not loading on Facebook. She also wanted her computer cleaned out. She was using Chrome in Windows 10 on a Dell desktop. When I used the computer it didn’t seem slow or anything. I opened up Chrome
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