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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…]
Have you ever tried visiting a website and have it refuse to load, yet find out later that your friends could get to it just fine?
That happens more often than you think, and it’s quite frustrating to say the least.
There are several reasons why your browser might not be able to load a given web page, some of which are completely out of your control. Here are some of the most common reasons why a page won’t load: [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…]
I’ll admit it, I love the Firefox web browser.
I really like the look and feel of Firefox’s browser window, and I LOVE all the great extensions that let me do things with Firefox that I can’t do with any other browser.
But as much as I love Firefox, there’s one thing that has kept me using Google Chrome as my primary web browser instead of Firefox: Firefox can be as slow as cold molasses while viewing some websites. But I have good news… [Read more…]