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Question from Peyton: I recently dropped my old Yahoo email address and switched to Gmail.
But every time I load a page with Chrome the old email address keeps popping up in forms that ask for my email address.
I can delete the old address and type in the new one but I’d prefer not having the old one to pop up at all.
How can I fix this? [Read more…]
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Question from Danielle: Hello, Rick. I’ve been reading your blog for a long time now and it seems that I remember reading a post where you explained how to reopen a browser tab that was closed by accident. Am I right?
I close the wrong tab ALL THE TIME, and I’d really like to know how to open it back up!
I mostly use Chrome if that makes a difference. Thanks!!!! [Read more…]
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A while back I wrote a post explaining why it’s a bad idea to let your web browser store the passwords you use to log in to your online accounts.
If you don’t have time to read that post, here’s the gist of it…
Allowing your browser to store your passwords is very dangerous!
This morning I received a message from an astute reader asking me how to remove passwords that have already been stored by Google Chrome.
That’s a great question, and I decided to answer it by providing instructions here. [Read more…]
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Question from Helen: Several times a day my web browser will pop up a little box on my computer telling me the website I’m visiting wants to show notifications.
I always answer no because I don’t want to receive notifications from ANY website.
It makes no difference whether I’m using Chrome of Firefox. It happens with both of them.
Is there a way to prevent those browsers from asking me if I want to receive notifications from ANY site?
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Question from Jennifer: I have a question about pop-ups asking if I want to save the password when I log in to a website.
I never say Yes and want to disable those pop-ups. How do I disable them?