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Most folks have their favorite websites/pages bookmarked on their browser’s “Favorites” bar.
That makes it easy to quickly launch once of those sites with a single click without having to go through the hassle of using Google or typing the site’s URL into the address bar every time.
There are times when it helps to launch a bookmarked page in a new browser tab to prevent it from replacing the page that’s already displayed in the browser.
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…]
Have you ever visited a web page that was difficult to read because the text was either too small or too large?
Most of us have, and it can be rather frustrating.
If you have a “wheel” mouse (and you really should get one if you don’t!) it’s extremely easy to change the text size to a more easily readable size. Here’s how: [Read more…]
Do you frequently have several browser tabs open at the same time and find yourself switching back to one certain tab a lot more than any of the other tabs?
If so, it’s often more efficient to simply separate that tab from the others and place it in its own window.
I do that a lot, and it really makes it a lot easier to concentrate on the contents of that one tab while (mostly) ignoring the others. [Read more…]
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Question from Garry: Rick, I was a faithful Internet Explorer user for years (I guess you can say I’m a creature of habit) but after switching from Windows 7 to Windows 10 I decided to give Chrome a try.
Now that I’ve tried it for a few weeks, I have to agree with all the good things I’d heard about Chrome because it doesn’t crash all the time, and it seems to really be a lot faster than IE too.
I knew there’d be a learning curve, but it wasn’t all that bad really.
But there’s one thing I just can’t figure out. How the heck do you display a web page’s HTML source code? [Read more…]