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I don’t know about you, but I hate it when a video begins playing automatically just as soon as I load a web page into my browser.
Plenty of sites allow you to toggle a setting to disable autoplaying videos, but most of them don’t.
And even in the ones that do, it’s a major hassle having to wade through a site’s settings in order to figure out how to disable autoplaying videos, especially on sites that you don’t visit all that often. [Read more…]
A new report from the security firm Otto details a very serious data breach situation that’s playing out daily with millions of unsuspecting computer users, and it’s quite possible that you are affected by it.
Otto’s research discovered that both Chrome’s “Enhanced Spellcheck” feature and Microsoft’s popular “Microsoft Editor: Spelling & Grammar Checker” browser extension for Edge capture every bit of data you enter into any web form and transmit it back to Google and Microsoft’s servers. [Read more…]
If you’ve been using the Internet for any length of time you probably know how important it is to keep your web browser(s) updated with the latest security updates.
Security holes that can allow hackers and scammers to cause all kinds of grief for innocent users are “patched” via security updates on a regular basis, so we’re all used to installing those updates as they are released.
Unfortunately, hackers are once again taking advantage of our familiarity with security updates to trick us into downloading dangerous malware onto our systems.
A while back I explained in this post how to quickly change the text size in your browser using your mouse wheel and the Ctrl key on your keyboard.
In a nutshell, that procedure changes the text size by altering the browser’s “zoom” level, which also changes the size of the images, text boxes and any other elements that are displayed on the page.
Today I’m going to explain how to set a new default zoom level in Chrome that will force Chrome to always open at that desired zoom level. [Read more…]
Do you use Chrome, Firefox or Edge for your web browser?
If so, you probably know that you can either click the “Star” icon on the right side of the address bar or press Ctrl+D to bookmark the web page you’re currently viewing.
Those are the methods most people use to bookmark a page, but there’s an even better way because it only requires a quick click and drag. Here’s how to do it: [Read more…]