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How to Install Desktop Chrome Extensions on Android

The desktop version of Google Chrome has thousands of extensions to supercharge your browsing, from adblocking to grammar correction. Mobile Chrome users aren’t so lucky – the official mobile Chrome browser doesn’t support them. If you want to install and use Chrome extensions on your Android device, there is a workaround that we detail below. Install Kiwi Browser To get started, you’ll need an alternative to the default Chrome browser. Kiwi Browser is based on the Chromium project that Chrome itself is based upon, and it looks a lot like it. While there are a lot of similarities, there are some differences you’ll need to… Read more

How to Download and Install Microsoft Edge Preview on macOS

For those of you who are frequent users of Microsoft Edge on Windows and also own a Mac, you’ll be happy to know that Microsoft has recently announced their intentions to bring Edge to macOS. This macOS version of Microsoft Edge is built on Chromium and will be officially available for downloading soon. In the meantime, the developer previews of Microsoft Edge are available to download from the Microsoft servers, so if you want to test it, you can download and install it by using the guide below. Microsoft has released two builds for the macOS version of Edge: the Canary build and the Developer… Read more

Are Browser Extensions Slowing You Down?

There are a few different reasons why your browser might be starting up or loading pages more slowly than usual – you have three million tabs open right now, don’t you? But browsers out of the box should work pretty well across machines. If you use a bunch of extensions, however, you’re changing the memory/CPU footprint of your browser and possibly how it interacts with webpages. This can often be a culprit in browser slowdowns, so it’s one of those things you should check if your browser has suddenly started moving with all the speed and grace of a slightly concussed sloth. How can extensions… Read more

How to Restart Chrome without Losing a Single Tab

You’ve been using Chrome for a while now, and the extension you just installed tells you that to complete the installation you need to restart Chrome. You might delay restarting Chrome since the tabs you have open are too essential to close at that time. Thanks to a trick Chrome has, you’ll be able to restart Chrome without the fear of losing all your tabs. Even if the tabs you closed are from a previous session, Chrome still offers the possibility of recovering those as well. Related: 13 Chrome Flags You Should Enable for a Better Browsing Experience How to Reboot Chrome and Not Lose… Read more

How to Use Opera Browser’s Free VPN for Android

In today’s digital world, those of us who conduct business online need to be diligent about monitoring the data that we send out on the Web. Every time we go online, that traffic goes through Internet Service Providers, and they have access to everything we do online. They track your Internet history and location and hand that data over to third parties, including advertisers and government agencies. Using a VPN One way to reduce the chances of your information getting into the hands of someone shady is to use a VPN to redirect your traffic. A Virtual Private Network hides your IP address and encrypts… Read more