If you use Chrome bookmarks a lot then it can be a real nuisance to lose them There can be several reasons why you might wish to back up your Chrome bookmarks Amongst them are: If Chrome has problems and you need to re-install it then you will probably want to re-install your bookmarks as …
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Category:Browsers
Posts focused primarily on different browsers. This includes how to use them, new functionality, and tricks for using them more effectively. .
The default search engine in Microsoft Edge
You can’t change Edge’s “new tab” search engine away from Microsoft’s Bing Well, that’s not completely true. You can change the default search engine that is invoked when you type your search term into the address bar, but you can’t change the default search engine that is invoked when you use the search box in …
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Deleting browser data upon exit
Chrome may no longer be deleting data when you close the browser I’m sure that there used to be a setting in Chrome that was relatively easy to find for deleting browser data when closing the browser. It’s just taken me fifteen minutes to find where they’ve now buried this setting. If you …
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Different browsers for different things
Using different browsers for different things has many uses. Keeping Google in its place Recently, I have been visiting Google’s AI offering – Gemini – several times a week. I’m still curious about it and it has helped me out several times. However, to use Gemini you have to log into a Google account. Fair …
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Use a browser to open pdf files
Even the name has become bloated – “Adobe Acrobat Reader DC” Are you fed up with the complexity and bloat of Adobe Reader and no longer wish to use it to view pdf files? There are other pdf readers available, but there is a simpler alternative. You can use a browser to open pdf files. …
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Copy a web page address (URL) with a QR code
It’s easy to open the same web page on a mobile device that is open in Chrome on a computer. Just copy the URL with a QR code Suppose you have Chrome open on a computer and the web page address (also known as its URL – Uniform Resource Locator) is long, complicated, and quite …
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