Browsers accumulate a lot of data over time and, while some of this data can be useful, it can also impact negatively on performance. I choose to trade-off the potential usefulness of some data for a pristine browser and so always set my browsers to […]
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I had a bunch of tabs open and when I switched to some of them they were just blank. I was thinking at first that the last update broke the browser but then I remembered reading about a new feature in Opera concerning snoozing tabs.
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Here you will learn how to use browser tabs in Chrome and Microsoft Edge. You can set up websites to always pop up when you open your favorite browser. I will be showing you how to do this in Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge browsers.
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In this article, I’ll be showing you how to set up Firefox to clear browsing history on closing, including cookies, while still retaining log-ins. The article is in response to a question received from one of our readers who wanted to know how to set
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Remember the Menu Bar in Internet Explorer? Even if you did not have it turned on all you needed to do was tap the Alt key and: Many like having that ability– having the pull-down menus. With Edge, it no longer exists. This is not
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Chromium-based browser Edge incorporates quite a few useful features and Microsoft is constantly adding more. Not so sure about the usefulness of Edge’s latest new feature, however, which allows users to switch between horizontal and vertical tabs. Nevertheless, here is a quick guide on how
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We test Edge vs Chrome vs Brave vs Vivaldi vs Opera vs SRWare Iron We recently published an article testing various aspects of the three main browsers’ performance– Edge, Chrome, and Firefox: Which Is The Fastest Browser?. In response to a reader’s request, I have
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We test Edge vs Chrome vs Firefox to see which is fastest. There is always much discussion about which browser is the fastest. Personally, a half a second here and there doesn’t bother me at all and, as far as I am concerned, there are
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You may not know that the most current version (March 2021) of Windows 10 pre-installed on Windows 10 PCs comes with three browsers: Internet Explorer, the original version of Microsoft Edge (legacy version), and the latest version of Microsoft Edge (a Chromium-based browser). The Edge
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Malwarebytes Browser Guard is a free extension, available for all major browsers, that helps protect users from scammers, malicious pages/websites, browser hijackers, and more. What impresses me about this extension is that it blocks access to tech support scams. I’ve published warnings previously about the
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A company that rents out access to more than 10 million Web browsers so that clients can hide their true Internet addresses has built its network by paying browser extension makers to quietly include its code in their creations. This story examines the lopsided economics
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If you have your browser set to save passwords, then it’s possible to go into the browser’s settings to retrieve them. You can also use a free program called WebBrowserPassView from www.nirsoft.net/utils/web_browser_password.html I’ve used this in the past and wasn’t sure if it would work
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Refers to Chromium Edge, Google Chrome, and Firefox In this article, I’ll not only be showing you how to export login details to a Comma Separated Values (CSV) file but also how to password protect that sensitive information. There are a number of reasons users
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Years ago tabs were not a part of any browser. When we wanted to look at a website we would open the browser and locate that one website. If we wanted to view a different site and keep the other one open, we would open
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