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 …
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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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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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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, …
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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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 …
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 …
Download Location?
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 …
Chromium?
You may have heard some talk about Microsoft's new version of Microsoft Edge. Originally, Microsoft Edge would only work on Windows 10. The new version, now based on Chromium, can work on Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10 plus on the Mac OS, iOS and Android. Is Chromium the same as Google Chrome? Not exactly. Chromium …
More Chromium Shortcuts
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 …
It's A Chromium Day
With the release of Microsoft's new Edge browser two days ago, I thought we should look at some Chromium keyboard shortcuts that will work in the new Edge as well as in Google Chrome. As a bonus, if the shortcut works in Firefox, we'll tell you that, too. Want to get to your browser history …
So, This Just Happened…
There I was this morning just reading an article on a jury trial. I was on a legitimate news website and I had not clicked on anything. Suddenly, the window you see above popped up on my screen. Yes, I was in Google Chrome so the heading fits. However, this is a prime example of …
Google Chrome Warning
In a previous post, I talked about the Google Chrome password checker. Google Chrome also has an extension called "Password Checkup." This extension will check passwords when you go to log into a site. If the password has been exposed in a data breach, a warning will appear in the upper right-hand corner of Chrome …
Google Password Checker
Do you use the Google Chrome browser? If your answer is "No!" this post won't really apply to you. However, you should read it anyway because "knowledge is power." If you do use the Google Chrome browser, go to the address bar and type in "passwords.google.com" - without the quotes. Click the Enter button on …
Suspicious Site?
Starting yesterday, Google is offering a "Suspicious Site Reporter" extension for its Google Chrome browser. When you install this extension, a small green flag will appear in the upper right-hand corner of Chrome. If you come upon a suspicious site, you can click the flag and a menu will appear: For instance, I went to …