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Question from Renée: I hope you can help me with a problem I’m having.
Sometimes when I’m on the Internet the Bookmarks bar will just disappear and I have to go into the browser settings to put it back.
Have you ever heard of this? [Read more…]
Most folks have their favorite websites/pages bookmarked on their browser’s “Favorites” bar.
That makes it easy to quickly launch once of those sites with a single click without having to go through the hassle of using Google or typing the site’s URL into the address bar every time.
There are times when it helps to launch a bookmarked page in a new browser tab to prevent it from replacing the page that’s already displayed in the browser.
If you’ve been using a computer to browse the Internet for a while you’ve probably accumulated several browser bookmarks (aka favorites) that take you to a favorite web page with a single click.
For example, there are about 30 pages that I visit on a regular basis and I have them all bookmarked in my favorite web browsers.
Not all pages are bookmarked in every browser however because some pages simply look and respond better in one specific browser.
I also tend to change computers fairly often, and if I had to re-bookmark all those pages every time it would be a major hassle and a serious time waster.
But as luck would have it, all the major web browsers make it easy to transfer your bookmarks from one computer to another… [Read more…]