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Q&A: Is it possible to sign into multiple accounts on the same website at once?

Posted on May 30, 2025

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Question from Rose: Hi, Rick. First of all let me say that I love your tips. They have helped me out of many jams over the years.

I hope you can help me with a new problem I’m dealing with right now.

I have three different Yahoo email accounts that I use for different purposes and it would be a big help to me if I could stay signed into all of them at the same time.

The problem is the only way I can sign in to a different Yahoo account with Edge is to sign out of the one I’m currently signed into first. Is there any way that I can sign into all of them at once? [Read more…]

How (and why) to remove all stored passwords from your Chrome browser

Posted on May 3, 2025

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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.

If you don’t have time to read that post, here’s the gist of it…

Allowing your browser to store your passwords is very dangerous!

This morning I received a message from an astute reader asking me how to remove passwords that have already been stored by Google Chrome.

That’s a great question, and I decided to answer it by providing instructions here. [Read more…]

How to reopen a browser tab you closed by accident

Posted on January 23, 2025

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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…]

How to quickly search the web for any term on a web page

Posted on July 19, 2024

Have you ever been reading something on the Internet and encountered a word or phrase you wanted to learn more about?

If so, you probably did something like this to do a web search on that term:

1 – Highlight the word or phrase.

2 – Copy the highlighted text to the Clipboard.

3 – Launch a new browser window and use it to visit your preferred search engine’s website.

4 – Paste the copied word or phrase into the search box.

Truth be told, I used to do it that way myself, but I eventually learned that there’s a much faster way when using any major web browser: [Read more…]

How to quickly delete your browsing history in any browser

Posted on July 2, 2024

There are many benefits derived from deleting your Internet browsing history on a regular basis.

As an example, I receive frantic emails and messages all the time from people who are having strange browser issues.

In every one of those situations I always recommend that they try clearing their browser history before trying anything else. [Read more…]