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Do you use Google’s popular Chrome web browser to shop online?
If so, Chrome’s auto-fill feature has probably stored your credit card and/or debit card information in the browser.
Allowing Chrome to store your card info can be a real time saver if you do a lot of online shopping, but unfortunately it can also be a huge security risk.
Did you know Google keeps a record of all the passwords you have stored in your Chrome browser and your signed-in Android devices right on their website?
Well, they do, and there’s an easy way to view all of those stored passwords at one time. That makes it easy to quickly retrieve a password that you might have forgotten. [Read more…]
A while back I published a “Quick Tip” in this issue of my Rick’s Tech Tips Newsletter explaining how to set Firefox to always launch with the previously-used tabs open.
That tip prompted quite a bit of feedback from folks wondering if you can do the same thing with the Edge and Chrome browsers.
As you might expect, the answer is yes. Just follow the steps below for the browser you’re using. [Read more…]
Question from Mona: My 20 year old son came in to visit me for the weekend and he borrowed my computer while he was here.
After he left I noticed that the default search engine in my Chrome browser had been changed from Google to Bing.
I really prefer Google so I’d appreciate it a bunch if you can tell me how to switch it back. What do I need to do? [Read more…]
Rick’s Tech Tips Newsletter
There are tons of ways to customize and tweak most current web browsers to make them behave more to our liking.
And in addition to the changes we make on our own, many downloads and browser add-ons take it upon themselves to make changes to our browsers’ settings without us even knowing about it.
These changes add up over time, and eventually your favorite browser might become extremely slow and unstable due to all the changes.
Throw a browser hijacker or malware into the mix and it can even become unusable. If that happens, what should you do? [Read more…]