Tag Archives: tabs

The Keyboard Shortcut I Promise You’ll Use Even More Than Ctrl+Z

I spend more time in the Google Chrome browser than ever these days, and my laptop screen is almost always cluttered with dozens of open tabs. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve accidentally hit the “X” on a tab I was just trying to switch over to. It seems to happen on a daily basis. …

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The Keyboard Shortcut I Promise You’ll Use Even More Than Ctrl+Z

I spend more time in the Google Chrome browser than ever these days, and my laptop screen is almost always cluttered with dozens of open tabs. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve accidentally hit the “X” on a tab I was just trying to switch over to. It seems to happen on a daily basis. Maybe my mouse speed isn’t …

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This Google Chrome Trick Organizes All Those Open Tabs

If you’re looking for a way to clean up your many, many open browser tabs, Google has a helpful grouping feature in its set of Chrome tools. The feature, called tab groups, lets you group open websites together with one click, and label them with a custom name and color. You can even move and reorder the groups to your …

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Apple drops radical Safari tab changes in new MacOS Monterey beta

Apple on Wednesday stepped back from overhauling how its Safari web browser handles tabs on MacOS. The company released a third beta of its new MacOS Monterey software that separates the address box and the tab strip by default, moving back to same design that’s in the existing MacOS Big Sur version. The change shows how difficult it can be …

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The three best things in the MacOS Monterey beta so far

I’ve had a little while to play around with the MacOS Monterey public beta, and so far there are a handful of things that really blow me away. That said, like almost every OS update, from Monterey to Windows 11 to iOS 15, most of the new features are things you’ll probably never use, or even find. So much of …

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Microsoft peps up Edge browser speed with sleeping tabs, startup boost

Microsoft Edge will get a speed boost with version 91 this week thanks to a feature called sleeping tabs that gives computing priority to the tabs you’re actively using while pausing others in the background. The new web browser version also will start up faster, the software giant announced at its annual Build developer conference on Tuesday. The changes will …

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Windows 10: You need to try these 3 new features

The latest major Windows 10 ($144 at Amazon) update began rolling out to desktops, laptops and two-in-ones in late October, and should be available for you to download now. (Learn how to download the Windows 10 October 2020 Update here. If you still haven’t upgraded from Windows 7 ($5 at Target), you may be able to use this trick to download Windows …

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Too many Gmail accounts? Try this desktop app to bring them all together

Since moving to a work from home setup last March, my laptop and monitor have become a bit… unwieldy. I’ve got at least three different windows open for my professional Gmail, Google Drive and personal Gmail account, each with a variety of tabs. Add on to that a new Outlook account for work and things are getting a little crowded …

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7 hidden Gmail features that might even help get you to inbox zero

If you use Gmail daily on a computer for work or personal use — or both at the same time as I do — are you making the most of Google’s email client? Gmail has a host of features that can help you better manage the constant flow of messages to and from your Gmail inbox.  I lay out my top seven …

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Google gives Android TV new Discover, Home and Apps tabs to make it more like Google TV

Google is giving Android TV an update to make it look more like its new Google TV software, adding three new tabs to its home screen interface. Rolling out from Wednesday, the update will revamp the interface to feature tabs for Home, Discover and Apps.  Similar to the layout of Google TV, all three tabs will be located at the …

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