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Your search history within the browser could easily communicate where and at what time you have been browsing the internet. It is like leaving remnants of information about your browsing activities by your browser on your device's hard drive. This history does not only include the websites or webpages you …

Pop-ups can often be distracting, annoying and dangerous at the same time, especially if they have malicious media or links. It, thus, becomes essential at times to block the pop-ups in the browser for a safe and pleasant browsing experience. While Chrome leads the consumer market, Internet Explorer still leads …

When Microsoft released Windows 10, they replaced Internet Explorer as the default web browser with the new Edge. This new browser has a great look and feels and is known to be more secure and faster. However, a lot of users still prefer to use their old, familiar browser they …

The default setting in the Microsoft Internet Explorer browser is to hide the menu bar. Though the menu bar contains all the primary features of the browser such as File, Edit, View, Favourites, Help, and Tools, Hiding them restricts easy accessibility to all these features. The sole purpose of hiding the menu …

Whenever you visit a page or you get on the internet with your computer, your computer will automatically save a copy of every single page visited by you. This automatic saving of the pages visited by you is called your Browsing History. Browsing history is defined as a record of web pages that …

Any web browser you install comes with a few default search engines to choose from. It is, however, possible to add more. Even when the browser does not offer an official search plugin, you can always add custom search engines with a few tricks. Depending on which web browser you …

A common problem that Windows users are all too familiar with is the torturous, mind-numbing lagging that has gotten steadily worse over the time they have been using their systems. This is most noticeable when trying to open your faithful, yet slow working, web browser, Internet Explorer. This means your …

The Safari web browser on your iPhone always keeps a log of all the web pages that you visit. Though this feature is indeed really helpful at times when you need to revisit a particular website, you should also know how to clear this information for privacy purposes. You can …

The web appearance of a browser is very essential for some of us. For various reasons, some people would prefer a full-screen view instead of the windowed mode of the Internet Explorer, and by default, most of the Windows applications open in Windowed mode. Like many other modern web browsers, the …

The purpose of Protected Mode in internet explorer is to prevent malicious software from exploiting the vulnerabilities of the internet explorer and to protect your computer from hackers, who can easily gain access to your computer. The importance of using protected mode cannot be denied but many times people have …