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Have you ever had two or more tabs open in your web browser and closed one of them by accident?
Whether it was caused by an errant mouse click or by simply closing the wrong tab, it’s quite frustrating to say the least.
I do it all the time, and it used to frustrate me to no end. But now I simply work a quick bit of magic and the accidentally closed tab instantly reappears!
Well, truth be told it isn’t really magic, but rather a “trick” using the keyboard… [Read more…]
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.
This morning I received a message from an astute reader asking me how to remove passwords that have already been stored by the browser.
That’s a great question, and I decided to answer it by providing instructions for removing stored passwords from Google Chrome and Firefox via this blog post. [Read more…]
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.
Question from Rose: Hi, Rick. First of all let me say that I love your tips!
I hope you can help me with a problem, and I’m sure you can.
I have a total of five Yahoo email accounts that I use for different purposes and it would be a big help to me if I could log into all of them at the same time.
The problem is the only way I can log in to a different Yahoo account with Microsoft Edge is to log out of the current one first. Is there any way to log into all of them at once? [Read more…]
Question from Marc: Beginning last Tuesday, every time I load Firefox it opens the page that was open when I quit the previous session. It’s really irritating.
I must have done something wrong, but I don’t know when or how. Can you tell me how to get Firefox to always open my home page every time it loads?
Rick’s answer: Marc, somehow a key setting has been changed that’s causing Firefox to behave that way, but luckily it’s very easy to fix. Here’s how: [Read more…]