Monday, December 4, 2023

Using the Brave Browser How to's

when you install the Brave browser you will notice the toolbar on the top is small and also the tabs are small.....no one seems to have the answer to make it bigger and easier to see.

well here is what to do


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go into "display" in your Windows settings.

you will see "scale and layout"

change the text and apps and other items to 125% 

that will make all things bigger and easier to read in the very fast and good Brave Browser

if the wording is too big but you want the toolbar and icons to be bigger to into the  "hamburger" in upper right corner - slick on it

go down to zoom and use arrows to adjust zoom size to suit you

Thursday, October 26, 2023

 Here's a tidbit.

If you want to use Microsoft Office for free online

(and as always you have the option to buy it, but you get 5 GB of space for free

if you create an account. )

The entries on your keyboard are

Ctrl > Shift >Windows key >Alt

It will pull up the page MS Office  

Happy Day on the World Wide Web!

Monday, July 31, 2023

 To rid your PC of "recents"   here's the trick

W + R

type in "recent"

CTRL + A

then hit Delete

Monday, July 24, 2023

Error Code 232011 How to Fix

 If you  get this on a web page that you are viewing:    ERROR CODE 232011

Simple fix on Firefox

CTRL SHIFT DELETE

EMPTY HISTORY

LAST HOUR

HIT ENTER

Refresh page

Basically its a video problem and cache file issue...

by clearing this out the error is gone...



Friday, June 16, 2023

Simple Screenshot Access

 Want to take a screenshot in part or whole of what you are looking at on your desktop?

Press Win + Shift + S simultaneously to see options to instantly screenshot your entire workspace, just one window, or a free form selection drawn with your mouse. Your screenshot is then copied and ready to be pasted into a web form or image editor.

Thursday, June 1, 2023

How to change the bookmark toolbar size and fonts in Firefox-(for those who need to see better!)

 

To increase the text size in the user interface parts of Firefox, we (Mozilla) currently only have one setting option, which is the global scaling factor. Here's how you can adjust that if you want to give it a try:

(1) In a new tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter/Return. Click the button accepting the risk.

More info on about:config: Configuration Editor for Firefox. The moderators would like us to remind you that changes made through this back door aren't fully supported and aren't guaranteed to continue working in the future. We have had this setting for a long time so I feel comfortable mentioning it.

(2) In the search box in the page, type or paste layout.css.devPixelsPerPx and pause while the list is filtered

Firefox should list one preference with the value -1.0

-1.0 means to follow the system level scaling. You can enter new (positive) values here to set your own scaling. Please note that the values will be doubled for a Retina display.

(3) Double-click the preference to display an editing field, and change the value to either

  • 1.5 for non-Retina display
  • 3.0 for Retina display

Then press Return or click the blue check mark button to save the change.

That should scale the entire browser to 150% of the default size.

You can adjust upwards or downwards as needed. Please be very careful not to use a value below 1.0 or it may become too difficult to read/fix. In case of emergency, click the reset button at the right end of the row.

Can you find a size that is comfortable for the toolbars/sidebar? Hopefully so. Then you can tweak the page zoom setting on the Preferences page to make the content area a comfortable size. 

(courtesy Mozilla Firefox Moderators)

Sunday, May 21, 2023

 Do you want to check to see if a website you are on is up and running?

Here is a very useful site for that






Saturday, April 22, 2023

 Hello finally I am getting up to posting on my blog again  Has been a busy year with health recovery etc...I have updated some things on the blog also.


For those of you (like me) who have an IPAD/IPHONE and have had a problem getting your G mail contacts to transfer over the to them ....I  have the answer....

Courtesy HOW TO GEEK

Full on instructions with photos!