Recently, Brave Search announced that it has removed the last remnant of Bing from its search engine, achieving 100% independence. With 22 million daily queries, Brave Search is the fastest-growing search engine since Bing – which launched in 2009. When it launched in June 2021, […]
I’m a long-time supporter of Opera but the latest update destroyed my browser. My background wouldn’t work. The interface was too large. Normally, I would adjust it through the DPI settings in the shortcut but even that wouldn’t work. Is Your Opera Interface Too Big?
Microsoft has integrated a fantastic AI-powered image creator dubbed “DALL-E” into its Bing chatbot. DALL-E is available in Edge for Windows 10 and 11 users who are signed in via a Microsoft account. All you need to do is ask DALL-E to create an image
Mozilla recently announced that its anti-tracking feature, known as “Total Cookie Protection”, is currently being rolled out to all Firefox users. Total Cookie Protection has previously been included as an experimental feature available only in the “Strict” mode of Firefox’s “Enhanced Tracking Protection” and in
Update 6/23/2023 This article explains how to whitelist a website with an ad blocker running at the browser level, where most have an ad blocker set. However, an ad blocker can also be set elsewhere. Some Windows security software packages have an ad blocker included.
Mullvad, the reputable Sweden-based VPN provider, has partnered with the Tor project team to develop a brand new free and open-source ultra-private browser. Firstly, let’s get one common misconception out of the way – VPNs do not seriously improve a user’s privacy. Sure, using a
Improvements In Edge A Quick Look Back With the 2015 release of Edge, I was eager to compare it to Chrome and Firefox, my most used browsers at that time. I was glad to see Microsoft move away from IE, a browser with an exceptionally
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
