Are you fed up with browser popups that tell you the website you are about to visit “wants to know your location”? I find this really irritating. It reminds of the irritation I feel whenever I go into a Nespresso shop. Actually, there are several things that annoy me about Nespresso shops, but the …
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Importing Favorites into a Different Browser
Want to move to a different browser? You may have thought of trying a different browser, but can’t face the thought of starting afresh with your collection of internet favorites (known as bookmarks in some browsers). Well, don’t let that stop you. It’s fairly easy to copy your favorites from one browser to another (technically, …
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Stop your Browser from Trying to Save Passwords
Do you get hassled by your browser offering to save passwords? All major browsers can be configured to save the username and password of your account at the website you have just accessed. That’s all very well if: You don’t use a password manager (such as LastPass) to handle this for you and You trust …
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Deleting Cookies Automatically
Unless you are a Safari user, you can set your browser to delete any cookies set by websites during the current session (ie cookies set since you opened your browser) According to Wikipedia (source): “An HTTP cookie (also called web cookie, Internet cookie, browser cookie or simply cookie) is a small piece of data sent …
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Saving and Viewing Passwords in your Browser
Following on from last week’s blog, how do you go about saving usernames and passwords for websites, and how do you go about seeing what has been saved in your browser? All of the following instructions are for the latest version of the browser (as at 29/10/2015) when viewed on a Windows 10 PC. The …
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Changing Your Browser’s Home Page
Has something hijacked your home page? It is quite common for both malicious and benign software to decide (rather arrogantly) that it’s going to replace your browser home page with something else and that it’s not going to ask your permission or even tell you about it. This blog explains how to put it back …
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Animated Gifs
Do animated gifs drive you potty? I think it’s been a while since I adopted full-blown “grumpy old man” mode in these blogs, but I’m going for it this week because I’ve just encountered umpteen instances of one of the internet’s most annoying features – animated gifs. Thank you, Google (not). The trite, childish static …
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Running and Saving Downloads
What is the difference between “saving” and “running” files downloaded from the internet? Actually, probably not much in most circumstances. When you “run” a file from a website, it is downloaded to your own computer and placed in a temporary folder. You probably can’t easily see where that temporary folder is and you probably won’t …
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Time to un-install Java
Java is a security risk and is now of very little use What is Java? Java is a programming language that is often installed (free of charge) onto computers. It works via an “add-in” to the web browser. A browser is the program you use to view and interact with websites (eg Internet Explorer, Chrome, …
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AdBlock Plus
From time to time, clients ask me which browser I use, and I reply “Firefox”.. I started using Firefox just because it wasn’t the leading browser (which was Microsoft’s Internet Explorer at that time). However, there were a few substantive reasons as well – it was faster, more secure and (most relevant for this blog …
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