Sans is unique in that he’s the most popular character in Undertale while also providing one of the most frustrating boss fights the game has to offer.Read more… Continue Reading at https://kotaku.com
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Share and Receive Files Anonymously with ‘OnionShare’
Whether you’re a spy or a geek, there are plenty of ways to share and receive files with others without revealing anyone’s identity. Whatever your reasons for needing this secrecy, whether as the host or the submitter, it’s easy to set up a virtual dumping ground for your data—top-secret or otherwise mundane.Read more… Continue Reading […]
Share and Receive Files Anonymously with ‘OnionShare’
Whether you’re a spy or a geek, there are plenty of ways to share and receive files with others without revealing anyone’s identity. Whatever your reasons for needing this secrecy, whether as the host or the submitter, it’s easy to set up a virtual dumping ground for your data—top-secret or otherwise mundane.Read more… Continue Reading […]
Ditch ‘The Great Suspender’ Before It Becomes a Security Risk
I’ve been a fan of The Great Suspender extension for years. Even when Google would drop new features into its Chrome browser to reduce the resources inactivate browser tabs eat up, I still trusted The Great Suspender to “inactivate” them for me to lessen the load on my system. But The Great Suspender has recently…Read […]
Ditch ‘The Great Suspender’ Before It Becomes a Security Risk
I’ve been a fan of The Great Suspender extension for years. Even when Google would drop new features into its Chrome browser to reduce the resources inactivate browser tabs eat up, I still trusted The Great Suspender to “inactivate” them for me to lessen the load on my system. But The Great Suspender has recently…Read […]
Our Favorite Updates to Chrome 87 and Firefox 83
New versions of Google’s Chrome and Mozilla’s Firefox browsers dropped yesterday, and if you haven’t yet updated, now’s as good a time as any: Visit the “About Chrome” or “About Firefox” portion of your browser, both under each browser’s help menu, and it will start updating automatically. While that’s chugging along,…Read more… Continue Reading at […]
Our Favorite Updates to Chrome 87 and Firefox 83
New versions of Google’s Chrome and Mozilla’s Firefox browsers dropped yesterday, and if you haven’t yet updated, now’s as good a time as any: Visit the “About Chrome” or “About Firefox” portion of your browser, both under each browser’s help menu, and it will start updating automatically. While that’s chugging along,…Read more… Continue Reading at […]
How to Block ‘Address Bar Spoofing’ Attacks on Your Mobile Browser
We write about web browsers at lot at Lifehacker—so much that I feel as if talking about the latest Chrome, Firefox, Edge, or Safari features is a weekly kind of a conversation you and I have. I confess, even I get a little fatigued, but it’s important that we keep chatting, because having a browser […]
How to Change Your Default Browser on iOS/iPadOS
Tired of Safari on your iPhone or iPad? You can install plenty of other great alternatives from the App Store—no problem there. But if you want to use them as your default browser on your device, you’ll have to jump through a few extra hoops.Read more… Continue Reading at https://lifehacker.com
How to Change Your Default Browser on iOS/iPadOS
Tired of Safari on your iPhone or iPad? You can install plenty of other great alternatives from the App Store—no problem there. But if you want to use them as your default browser on your device, you’ll have to jump through a few extra hoops.Read more… Continue Reading at https://lifehacker.com
Our 12 Favorite Chrome Extensions
The Chrome Web Store is a mess, sure, but that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t use legitimate extensions to improve your browser experience—whether that’s on Google Chrome or the resource-friendlier alternative, Microsoft’s Edge Chromium.Read more… Continue Reading at https://lifehacker.com
How to Keep Edge Chromium’s Address Bar From Crashing the Browser
I thought I was losing my mind yesterday, but sometime around the afternoon (California time), I noticed that typing anything into Edge Chromium’s address bar was causing the browser to crash after a few keystrokes. Microsoft claims it fixed the issue, but it just happened to me again earlier today, so it’s time to…Read more… […]
How to Create a Bookmark That Jumps to Specific Text on a Website
Chrome: I always appreciate a good anchor link—that thing you can click on that zips you off to another portion of the very web page you’re viewing. However, Google is now one-upping this classic navigational element with a new extension that lets you create hyperlinks to specific text within a website.Read more… Continue Reading at […]
You Can Finally Join Zoom Calls in Firefox
A quirk of Mozilla’s Firefox browser is that it lets you join a Zoom call via the web, no separate app downloaded needed, but you can’t say anything on the call. Or at least, you couldn’t before the latest update.Read more… Continue Reading at https://lifehacker.com
These Chrome Extensions Will Declutter Your Overflowing Gmail Inbox
The deluge of emails never ends. Even with ample quarantine time, tidying up your Gmail account and reaching inbox zero feels like a far-fetched fantasy, but it doesn’t need to be one: There are a number of excellent (and mostly free!) third-party browser extensions that will help you sift through that…Read more… Continue Reading at […]
How to ‘Force’ a Chronological Feed in Facebook’s New Design
New Facebook is here, but a new chronological News Feed is not—not without a clever little hack, that is.Read more… Continue Reading at https://lifehacker.com
How to Enable DNS Over HTTPS in Your Web Browser
Mozilla has started rolling out DNS over HTTPS for all Firefox users, a solid security change that’s meant to address the issue of third parties spying on the websites you’re visiting. Normally, when you type a website into your browser’s address bar and hit Enter, your browser uses DNS to map the domain name to […]
How to Unlock Chrome’s Hidden Bottom Toolbar in Android
Most mobile web browsers keep the URL bar and UI controls at the top of the screen, but this layout isn’t great when using a device with a large screen or certain accessibility restrictions. Some browsers—notably Firefox Preview and Vivaldi mobile—have easily accessible bottom-screen UIs that make the app much easier…Read more… Continue Reading at […]
Block Internet Explorer’s Latest Vulnerability With This Workaround
Microsoft disclosed a troublesome vulnerability in Internet Explorer last week, affecting various permutations of Internet Explorer 9, 10, and 11 across Windows 7, 8.1, and Windows 10 (as well as various editions of Windows Server). The bad news is that Microsoft won’t likely patch this problem until February—when the…Read more… Continue Reading at https://lifehacker.com
Firefox’s New Voice Controls Make It As Good As a Smart Speaker
I’m used to yelling at my Google Home and Amazon Echo, not so much my web browser. However, Mozilla is now testing voice-control capabilities for its Firefox browser, and you can join me in screaming at your screen—which is actually a little more fun and useful than it might sound at first glance.Read more… Continue […]