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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?
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
There are times when it would be nice to be able to fire up your favorite web browser and continue browsing all the sites you were visiting the last time the browser was open.
Have you ever clicked “Refresh” to load the latest version of a web page, only to receive the exact same info even though you knew the page had been updated?
All major web browsers maintain a list of the web pages you have visited in the past. This list is called the “Browser History”.
A while back I answered a question from a reader asking how to prevent websites from tracking their location with Firefox.