Different browsers for different things

Making life a bit easier for the privacy-conscious and separating different internet uses into different “boxes” Recently, I have been visiting Google’s AI offering – Bard – several times a week. I’m still curious about it and it has helped me out several times. However, to use Bard you have to be logged into a …
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Are browser password managers safe?

This is definitely high on the list of questions frequently asked by my IT Support clients Some people would struggle with the internet if they suddenly couldn’t use their browser password manager. Others wouldn’t touch them with the proverbial barge pole. Where do I stand on this? Until now I’ve always been with the latter …
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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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What pages open when you start Chrome?

Google Chrome has about 63% of the market for internet browsers* So, there’s a good chance that you use it and, judging from my experience with my own IT support clients, there’s a good chance that you haven’t made many changes to make it behave more how you would like. So, here are just a …
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Chrome – saving and opening groups of web pages

Do you have different tasks that need different sets of web pages to be opened regularly? An example might be that you buy items of a particular type online from the same few sources – eg John Lewis, Amazon, Argos, Currys. Quite separately from these websites, you may have other tasks that require a completely …
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The Binary Chop

The “binary chop” (or “binary search”) is a very useful computing technique Suppose that you use Google Chrome as your internet browser and suppose that it has been playing up recently – perhaps appearing very slow at times or freezing altogether. If you try googling for a potential solution, you may see suggestions that you …
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Some Chrome Basics

The most popular website browser isn’t always obvious in how it works According to Statista, Chrome had 69% of the browser market in September 2019. Most people find it fast and secure. However, there are some basics that some people miss. This is possibly because Google attempts to keep Chrome looking as “clean” and uncluttered …
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SSL and HTTPS

If you use Chrome you may have noticed it flagging up websites as “not secure” In the past, most connections to websites have been unencrypted. In other words, anyone capable of “listening in” to such a connection could have understood everything that passed between the user and the website – in both directions. Clearly, this …
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