Often I want to screen capture something from the browser and annoyingly many times it goes beyond the size of my screen. Previous I may have had to take multiple screenshots and stitch them in a document. FireShot enables you to screen capture the entire browser window including the material that may be off-screen. Really… Continue reading #663 FireShot screen capture
Sometimes you may need to view a website in a mobile mode but don’t want to leave a desktop in order to do it. With developer tools you can quickly switch a website into mobile view. This video shows this in Opera and Safari but you can also do this with Chrome and Firefox. Photo… Continue reading #498 Mobile view in desktop browser
In this post we will look at how you can mimic a mobile experience within a browser. In this example we will look at Instagram. If you’ve accessed Instagram via a web browser you may have noticed you would not normally be able to post and can only post from a mobile device. Here are… Continue reading #448 Mimic Mobile in a Browser
Need a host of features built into your browser to enhance your security and speed of browsing? Opera may be a good choice. It has inbuilt privacy, an ad-blocker, malware protection and the ability to enable private browsing and VPN browsing. Photo by Dayne Topkin on Unsplash
Fast, private mobile browsing?? What’s not to love? Do you want to control what the website you visit collects about your browsing? Well now you can with Firefox Focus. Available on iOS and Android using Firefox focus allows you to block ads, location trackers and browsing trackers built into the websites you visit. You can… Continue reading #403 Want fast, private mobile browsing? Try Firefox Focus
If you are trying to do a screen shot of a full webpage, Print Screen just might not cut it. Often much of the the web page is hidden off the screen, so your screen shot can be missing it’s lower half. Not anymore! Full Page Screen Capture is a Chrome Web browser plug-in that… Continue reading #270 Print Screen not showing the full page? Try this little trick!
If like me you find that you have so many tabs open when you’re working on the web, here’s a top tip to close lots of tabs all at once and restore order to your browser! Watch how to here… Featured image: “closed” by throgers is licenced under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Now that you know what a browser is, this short video will how you how to refresh those browsers. This is especially useful when you’re creating online resources and you can’t view your changes immediately, sometimes you just need to hit the refresh button. Watch how to here… Your Browser How to… Continue reading #189 How to refresh your browser
Here are a few handy shortcuts that you should definitely try on your PC. They work in Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. Ctrl +T is already one of my firm favourites, but I think some of these will come in handy in the future… Ctrl + L – Highlights text in the… Continue reading #181 Handy browser keyboard shortcuts for your PC
If you need to keep the same tabs open every day, why not try pinning your tabs? This is a really easy way to keep your tabs organised. Additionally, you can’t accidentally delete a tab when you’re working on it as pinning it removes the ability to close the tab. You can unpin at anytime… Continue reading #177 Pin your favourite tabs in Google Chrome
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