For some Flickr photos, the “Save image as” option in your browser right-click menu may be missing and no download option provided. It’s because the owner of the photo has restricted users from downloading the images locally. You’ll also see the line “The owner has disabled downloading of their photos” for some photos.
This post tells you how to download Flickr images which the owner has disabled for downloading.Read more
Occasionally, Google Chrome may not start correctly due to Chrome user profile corruption, a rogue extension or even due to malware. When you launch Chrome, the Task Manager may show chrome.exe as running but no user interface may be visible. This post tells you how to fix Google Chrome web browser when it fails to launch.Read more
On certain Android devices especially Xiaomi devices, WhatsApp messaging application may cause the following error:Read more
From time to time, you may have to clear your old posts on Twitter to remove any obsolete information. Business houses, for instance, may need to clear their old tweets to remove any outdated product information or promotion campaigns. This is also necessary if you had posted some undesirable series of tweets earlier, or want to erase tweets that contain a certain word or phrase.Read more
Autoplay of video content when you visit a news site or computer magazine portal is one of the most annoying things that can happen to users. Every time we need to pause those videos or move the slider to the end of the video to stop it from playing. It’s not just a nuisance but also an unnecessary wastage of network bandwidth and traffic.
This article tells you how to stop automatic playback of audio and video content on websites when browsing in Google Chrome.Read more
Mozilla Firefox Nightly 57.0 build introduces an option where you can configure bookmarks to open in a new tab by default. This feature has been requested by many Firefox users, and Mozilla seems to have listened to them.Read more
Google has announced that starting with Chrome browser version 62, ‘Not secure’ warnings will be shown for HTTP pages with user input fields and all HTTP pages in incognito mode. Going forward, ‘Not secure’ warning would be shown for all HTTP pages even in normal browsing mode.
When you download any web browser setup file, they are usually online installers. To install the browser in multiple systems, you may opt for the offline setup package (offline installer). Here are the full download links for Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Opera browsers.Read more
If you’ve been using your web browser’s autofill on every website you visit, then here is some important news for you. It has been found that the web browsers such as Chrome, Safari or others that support multi-form autofill can be tricked into giving away your information, even the Credit Card numbers, their expiry dates and the CVV codes to websites.Read more
First, thank you very much for reading my articles. I’ve been posting tips, fixes and customization ideas online for Windows, since 2003 when I was given free hosting by the generous folks at MVPS.org, as I was a Microsoft MVP then (2003 to 2012).Read more
