Managing Extensions in Chrome Recently, Emsisoft released a new anti-phishing extension for Chrome and Firefox. We have been receiving email from some Chrome users who say that the Emsisoft plugin is slowing down the Chrome browser on their computers. So far, we have not noticed any slowdowns after we added the Emsisoft extension, everyone’s computer is different. You… Read More »
Beware Browser Extensions For Package Tracking ‘Tis the season to be jolly – and the season when all the miscreants crawl out from under their respective rocks. More packages are shipped during December than at any other month of the year. Perhaps you’re expecting some packages soon. Be careful: This is the time when spammers flood inboxes with… Read More »
Microsoft Gives Up: Microsoft Edge Browser Will Soon Be Chromium-based Microsoft has always bucked the trend. They didn’t want to use Adobe’s Flash, so they created Silverlight which really never caught on. They didn’t want to modernize Internet Explorer and ended up losing the browser wars to Chrome and Firefox. Now they’re throwing in the towel and going… Read More »
How to Recover Missing Bookmarks in Chrome After a Chrome Update Marjorie, one of our Cloudeight subscribers, alerted us to this problem that has plagued many Chrome user. It seems that when Chrome updates it sometimes removes all the user’s bookmarks. We checked on this phenomenon and found that’s it more common than we thought. Luckily, Chrome automatically… Read More »
How to Set a Home Page in Your Browser This tip has been updated. You can use this tutorial to set a home page in Chrome, Firefox, and/or Edge. One of the questions we are asked the most is how to set a home page in a browser. It’s a fundamental question and something we answer often. So… Read More »
How to Change the Default Download Location in Chrome Chrome, by default, does not ask where you want to save your downloads like some other browsers do. Instead, it automatically saves files you download to your User account Downloads folder (C:\ Users\Your user name\Downloads) . But you do have options.to customize Chrome’s default download location or even set… Read More »