When you are trying to share the same Firefox profile across different platforms (such as Windows or Linux) or across different versions of Firefox, you will see a warning – “You’ve launched an older version of Firefox“. The message goes on to explain that using an older version of Firefox for the same profile might Read More …
Even though Chrome has made is very hard for websites to automatically start playing any media (sound or video) as soon as you visit these sites, some of these websites use workarounds and still manage to annoy the visitors with auto-playing sound. Fortunately, Chrome has also provided a quick method to stop the sound being Read More …
Yesterday my old faithful Logitech B100 wired mouse stopped working and this is when I realized how difficult life can be without a good computer mouse. I quickly ordered another Logitech mouse through Amazon. In the meanwhile I tried working with the touchpad of the laptop but it is not the same as using a Read More …
When you are using a web browser, it stores files downloaded from website such as HTML code and images into a folder on your local hard drive. This offline storage of website files is known as cache. It is used to loading of a previously visited website faster. Instead of downloading everything all over again Read More …
Earlier this week, this website ran into a problem of a database mess and we had to restore the database from backup. Since backend was inaccessible, the restoring was done directly through phpMyAdmin interface. When we tried to upload the 60 MB SQL dump, phpMyAdmin simply failed because there were too many SQL queries to Read More …
Microsoft’s new Edge web browser is based on the open-source Chromium browser project which also serves as the base for Google’s Chrome web browser. Because of this the two browsers have similar features, similar shortcuts and hotkeys. Just like in Chrome, you can also make Edge web browser automatically clear all the web browsing data Read More …
Suppose you have just stumbled upon a very interesting article or image on a website and want to save it as PDF file. Which steps will you usually take to save it as PDF? Perhaps you will first save the webpage or image to your local hard drive, then use a PDF converter app like Read More …
Sometimes, we make undesired changes to web browser settings and then we cannot figure out what happened to the web browser as it stops working the way we want. In these situations, we have to reset the web browser to return it back to the “freshly installed” state so that we can start all over Read More …
Even though Microsoft has released the new Chromium Edge web browser through their website, it is not yet available through Windows updates and it does not come bundled in Windows 10 ISO. The new versions of Windows 10 still come with the old Edge browser pre-installed. The new Chromium based Edge has similar features as Read More …
Microsoft introduced Notepad in 1983 when it was just a MD-DOS program. It went many updates before appearing in Windows 95 but after that Microsoft basically forgot about adding any new features to this popular editor. As a result users started to look elsewhere and as a result demand for the third party software like Read More …