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Question from Julia V.: I have a question about passwords Rick.
I use pretty long passwords that contain special characters. I often make a mistake when typing a password and have to re-enter the password again. That’s very frustrating to say the least.
Is there a setting in Chrome that will let you review a password you typed before pressing the Enter key or clicking the Login button?
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Question from Oliver: After reading your post about replacing Windows with Linux I decided to give to try it on an old Windows Vista laptop that I haven’t used in a while.
I took your advice from that post and installed Ubuntu. The installation went fine, and just as you predicted that old laptop now runs a LOT faster than it did with Windows!
Since I’m the only person that will use this machine I removed the password in the user settings and set it to boot into Ubuntu without having to enter a password.
Now the laptop boots up without asking for a password to log in, but every time I load Google Chrome I get a message telling me to enter the password, and I can’t do anything with Chrome until I enter the old password that I deleted from my user account. This is the message I get:
“Enter password to unlock your login keyring“
How can I stop Chrome from asking for a password?
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Hello again everyone. I hope you all had a great week!
Facebook has approximately 1.5 billion active users, making it by far the most popular social media community in the world.
As I’m sure you already know, the numerous features of the Facebook website make it easy for that vast community of users to share photos, news and information with one another, and indeed with the world.
Unfortunately, all of those features tend to make the Facebook user interface both non-intuitive and frustrating at times.
As luck would have it, there are several fantastic extensions for the Chrome web browser that can help mitigate some of Facebook’s biggest annoyances. I’d like to take this opportunity to tell you about three of my favorites. [Read more…]
Question from Carl: Hi Rick. I hope you can help me with something that’s driving me nuts because I can’t figure it out.
My wife and I both use Chrome as the default browser on our phones. It used to have a really handy feature where we could search for a word on a web page just by tapping on it.
Now something has happened and that doesn’t work anymore. Do you know if there’s anything we can try to get it to work again? We really miss it!
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Question from Elise: I hate it when I’m trying to type a comment or status update on Facebook and a tooltip pops up and won’t let me see what I’m typing.
I use Facebook with both Chrome and Firefox and the problem shows up in both of them. Is there any way to disable the annoying tooltips in those browsers?
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