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 to Chrome and Microsoft Edge. […]
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 them. An extension is a […]
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, the pinned tab is the […]
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 massive library of features, and […]
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 you about the GDPR Cookie […]
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 to have a single window […]
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 my computer browsers and to […]
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 saving their user-id/password in their […]
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 major security companies. One of […]
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 a Mac, you have Safari […]
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 browsers. I just had a […]
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 can’t end this befuddlement. The […]
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 is current and working; and, […]
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 package in your browser – […]
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 searching for it. To quote […]
For most of us, when we use a browser and download something, our download goes to the default location. (You may recall that “default” means how something performs when it comes from the manufacturer or the software creator without the user making any changes.) Usually, there is a folder labeled “Downloads” which resides under the computer user’s account folder. By […]
In my post, “It’s A Chromium Day,” I promised I’d share a few more browser keyboard shortcuts for the new Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome. I also said I’d let you know if the shortcut works in Firefox, too. So, here are a few more. No matter where you are on a web page, if you use the keyboard shortcut […]
