At our November seminar, I briefly answered the question: Should you use the DuckDuckGo browser? In this post, I'd like to expand on that question. Also, I want to share some setting suggestions should you decide to use it. Privacy DuckDuckGo's claim to fame is that searches are more private. Therefore, when you search for …
Category: Browsers
Google Chrome Lab
Are you familiar with the Google Chrome Lab? Chrome Labs is a feature in Google Chrome that makes it easier for you to find new features that Google wants you to test and provide feedback on. In fact, when you look at the Lab features, you'll see they have expiration dates. Let's look at what …
A.I. in Microsoft Edge
A.I. in Microsoft Edge! It's only the beginning! Soon, Google Chrome will have Bard. (I'm testing it now.) Welcome to the new world of computing! Remember What I Did? If you're a 4KCC Blog dedicated reader, you may recall my post from February 13, 2023: "The History of Artificial Intelligence: A Timeless Journey." You might …
Read Aloud – Extension Of The Month
Read Aloud is just one of the many extensions I use in my browsers. If you've never heard of it, let me introduce you to it! Read Aloud - Where Do You Find It? Read Aloud is an extension that you can find in the Google Chrome Extension Store which means it can be added …
Even More Browser Features You May Not Be Using – Firefox
Today, we're going to look at even more browser features you may not be using. This post is a continuation of the series called "Browser Features You May Not Be Using." This is the third post. You'll find the first one which was all about Microsoft Edge HERE. The second one was about Google Chrome …
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Malicious URLs
Malicious URLs are found in emails, in searches, on Social Media sites, and in texts. In this post, let's explore ways to avoid being fooled by these hacker tricks. What Is A URL? Before we look at malicious URLs, we need to know the definition of the acronym URL. A Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is …
Five Important Videos You Need To Watch
I want to share five important videos from our YouTube Channel. I realize this post will sound self-promoting but I promise you, it's based on what we are seeing in Remote and hearing over the phone. Why Do I Have A YouTube Channel? There are a number of reasons I have a YouTube Channel. At …
Tab Groups – Let’s Make Them!
Let's make tab groups in Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome! Yes, you can do just that. Why Group Tabs? People often log in to Remote Technical Support with a ton of browser tabs open. Often, when they want to show us an issue on a page they have open, they can't easily find the tab. …
More Browser Features You May Not Be Using – Google Chrome
Today, I continue the series called "Browser Features You May Not Be Using." This is the second post in the series. You'll find the first one which was all about Microsoft Edge HERE. Reader Unlike Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome's Reader is (strangely) not turned on by default. Here's how to turn it on: Open Google …
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Browser Features You May Not Be Using – Microsoft Edge
Today, I start a series called "Browser Features You May Not Be Using." In each of these posts, I will select a particular browser and show you some features of which you may be unaware. We'll start with Microsoft Edge. Immersive Reader This feature doesn't show up when you're searching or on a page with …
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Let’s Talk About Browser Extensions
Let's talk about browser extensions. You need to know what they are and why you might want to use them. With this in mind, let's dig in. What Are They? You know what browers are, of course. Whether you use Safari, Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, Firefox or Opera, there are extensions available for each of …
Pin A Tab Or Group Tabs
Pin A Tab Did you know you can pin a tab in your browser? What does that mean? It means if you have a webpage that you use often but you don't want to make it your Home Page, you can pin it to the left of all of your tabs. (In the picture above, …
5 Important Blog Posts
Today, I want to share 5 important blog posts from the 579 I've published thus far. You might wonder why I would do this. Simple. A new reader of my blog asked me, "John, I don't have time to read all the posts I've missed. Which posts would you say are most important?" We have …
A New Firefox Browser
A new Firefox browser is coming June 1, 2021. Here's what Mozilla has to say about it: A new Firefox is coming your way on June 1 with a fresh look designed for today’s modern life online. We pored over the browser’s user interface pixel by pixel, measured the value users were getting from our …
How To Delete And Control Cookies In Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera and Vivaldi
I promised you in my post "What Is The Cookie Pop-up I Keep Seeing On Websites? GDPR Cookie Consent?" that I would create a video showing you how to delete and control cookies in Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Firefox, Opera and Vivaldi. Well, this is it! First Party and Third Party Cookies When I told …
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What Is The Cookie Pop-up I Keep Seeing On Websites? GDPR Cookie Consent?
What are those pop-ups you're seeing on a lot of sites, including ours, that ask you to accept cookies? (If you click on either of the two pictures above, you'll see larger images so that you can make out what each image has in text.) The messages have to do with General Data Protection Regulation …
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A Vertical Edge
If you use Microsoft Edge as one of your browsers, you might want to know about a recently updated feature - vertical tabs. You're already aware of tabs - all browsers have them now. Tabs allow you to have multiple websites open in one window. You might recall that, in the old days, we used …
Chrome Profiles
STOP HERE You might not want to read this post. In fact, you'll be wasting your time IF: You don't use the Google Chrome browser.You only have one Google account. If either statement one or statement two apply to you, may I suggest you read a different post? Or, click on SHOP above or PRODUCTS …
It’s Alive! It’s Alive!
https://youtu.be/0VkrUG3OrPc You're right. I'm not talking about the monster in Young Frankenstein! Instead, I'm talking about a new feature in the Google Chrome browser. It's called Live Caption. It will give you live captions for both videos and audios. Perhaps the most impressive feature of this option is that it will even do so for …
A Capital Idea
If you know anything about us, you know that Joyce and I buy from Amazon almost on a daily basis. (KCC sells on Amazon, too.) We're Prime Business Account holders which gives us free deliveries and lots of other benefits. While great deals are often found on Amazon, I've recently added Capital One Shopping to …
Ignore Microsoft and Google
In my recent post, "Delete Now!," I explained through verbiage and a video the importance of NOT saving passwords in your browsers. I based my narrative on my own experiences; those opinions of well-known hackers and cybersecurity analysists; and the NZ Bankers Association which said in a post: "A common mistake that users make is …
Delete Now!
In my final Question of the Week email, I addressed the issue of saving passwords in a browser. Is that safe to do? I explained that I used to say "Yes." to that question but that answer is no longer correct. Why have I changed my mind? Because I recently attended several webinars conducted by …
Why You Need More Than One
Granted, you don't need as many browsers as I have but you definitely should have more than one and, in particular, you might make sure you have an extra browser that isn't based on Chromium. Currently, the only popular browser used on a Windows machine that is not based on Chromium is Firefox (FF). (On …
Zoom In, Zoom Out…
Not The Meeting Software When you first saw the title of this post, you might have thought I was going to talk about the online meeting app, Zoom. However, that app is not the subject of this writing. Instead, I'm going to talk about zooming the display in and out when using certain programs and …
Is Yahoo A Browser?
This is our second post this month about terminology. (The first was "Speak The Language.") Today, we're going to just focus on one term - browser. Whenever we deal with people on the phone or in Remote Technical Support, THE most confusing term for them seems to be the word "browser." Let's see if we …
Updating
If you're a Remote Technical Support subscriber of ours, you know all about our Quarterly Updates. (For those of you who are not RTS customers, let me explain: every three months, we send an email asking RTS members to log in to us so we can make sure their computer is up-to-date; that their anti-virus …
Edge New Tab: Make It Your Own
Like most browsers, Microsoft Edge has a New Tab setting. The image above is my New Tab which shows a picture I took of a FEC (Florida East Coast Railway) train. (You can click on the picture to see a larger image.) Edge now offers you the ability to use one of your own pictures …
Sure, It Sounds Good
I received this in email today. It's legitimate but it reminded of something we see often in Remote Technical Support. Customers log in and when we look at extensions in Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome and other browsers, we find package tracking add-ons. Although it sounds like a good idea - being able to track a …
Il Buono, Il Brutto, Il Cattivo
In a January 24, 2019 post entitled, Extensions: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly, (Click on Clint Eastwood to read the post!) we talked about browser extensions. We described what they are and that there are good, i.e., safe, useful extensions and there are ones that are bad and maybe even ugly. In this post, …
The Tracks Of My Fears
Here's a familiar scenario on the Internet: You go searching for some product. After you've finished, you go to email or go on Social Media and you are bombarded with ads for that product. This happens to me all the time. It even happens when I actually bought the product the first time I went …