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How to enable Compact Mode in Firefox

Posted on April 29, 2025April 27, 2025 by Martin Brinkmann

Mozilla’s Firefox web browser supports two display densities by default. These determine the size of the toolbar and the elements that are displayed on it. The two options are normal and touch. Normal is the default value, unless Firefox is used on a touch display. Firefox supported a third for a very long time officially….

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How to take high quality screenshots of YouTube videos

Posted on March 13, 2025 by Martin Brinkmann

There are quite a few ways to take a screenshot of a specific scene of any YouTube video. Sometimes, I need to get a screenshot for work, for instance to use an image as a teaser for an article. Other YouTube users may have different reasons for wanting to capture a specific frame. Maybe because…

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Vertical Tabs in Firefox

Firefox: give vertical tabs and tab groups a try in Firefox Stable

Posted on February 20, 2025 by Martin Brinkmann

Mozilla is working on two highly requested features, tab groups and vertical tabs, for its Firefox web browser. These features are still in active development at the time of writing, but that does not mean that you can give them a go already in stable Firefox. This guide provides you with everything you need to…

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Opera

How to disable Opera browser’s splash logo on startup

Posted on December 28, 2024December 28, 2024 by Martin Brinkmann

If you have used the Opera browser recently, you may have noticed that the browser displays a splash logo on start. It may also play sound while it is at it. While that may look cool to some, others might feel that it slows down the start of the browser or find it outright annoying….

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Essential Black Friday Tips to survive the day

Posted on November 18, 2024November 18, 2024 by Martin Brinkmann

Black Friday is almost here and a lot of pre-Black Friday events are already happening. It seems like that single day of discounted shopping has turned into a nightmarish weeks-long event that does not seem to end. Businesses portrait Black Friday as the day to get the most for your money. Huge discounts or upgrades….

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Chrome

How to remove Google Lens from Chrome’s address bar

Posted on October 30, 2024October 30, 2024 by Martin Brinkmann

If you still use Google Chrome, then you may have noticed that the browser displays a Google Lens entry in the address bar. It is still rolling out I guess, but more and more installations get this. With Google Lens integration, Chrome users may run searches for anything that they see on the page. So,…

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Brave Shields Down

Brave: if a loaded webpage does not react to your input, try this

Posted on October 2, 2024October 2, 2024 by Martin Brinkmann

When I use Brave Browser, I sometimes encounter websites that do not react at all after load. Scrolling does not work, clicking on links does nothing, and you cannot even copy text. The site appears crashed, but the rest of the browser works fine. Here is one reason for the issue: Brave reacts to cookie…

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Copilot key laptops

You can remap the Windows Copilot Hardware Key to something useful

Posted on September 8, 2024September 9, 2024 by Martin Brinkmann

Many Windows devices will ship with a new hardware key. The Copilot key is a new key on the keyboard that activates the core AI feature of the operating system when pressed. If that is all it does, it is probably the most useless key on the keyboard. Yes, it is worse than Scroll Lock….

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Share

Fixing OneDrive’s “Creating shareable link…” error loop that never ends

Posted on September 7, 2024September 7, 2024 by Martin Brinkmann

Microsoft OneDrive is a popular file cloud hosting, sharing, and to a degree editing service. This is especially true on Windows, as Windows users who sign in with a Microsoft account have OneDrive automatically. Like any other file hosting service, OneDrive supports the sharing of files. You have a few options there. Notable options include…

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X Data Sharing AI Grok Setting

X’s AI Grok uses your data for training by default – here is how you can turn that off

Posted on July 26, 2024July 26, 2024 by Martin Brinkmann

If you use X, you may have heard about the AI Grok already. Currently, xAI and Grok are playing catch-up with the current AI allstars. Plans are to push Grok to first place by the end of the year. Whether that is going to happen or not remains to be seen. What is clear is…

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