Tag: chrome

  • Favorite Chrome Extensions (Nov 2022)

    Google Chrome continues to be my preferred web browser in late 2022. For the past couple years, I’ve been using a school-provided MacOS M1 MacBook Air laptop as my “daily driver” computer. Back in June 2015, I wrote the post, “Seven Indispensable Google Chrome Extensions.” This is my update for November 2022, seven years later!…

  • Friends Don’t Let Friends Use the Edge Web Browser (or Bing for Search)

    This past week at school, I accidentally clicked a bad link while setting up a fresh installation of Windows10. This dramatically highlighted how easy it is for someone today to accidentally install malware or adware on a computer, and why friends shouldn’t let friends use the Edge Web Browser or the Bing search engine by Microsoft.…

  • Make a Windows Laptop Into a Chromebook with Chromixium

    We have two new Dell Latitude 3150 laptops at school, which we initially purchased and setup with Windows 10 as an operating system. I learned this week that the hardware of the Latitude 3150 is the same Dell is using for their Chromebook line. If you order with Windows, you pay more for the OS licensing.…

  • Seven Indispensable Google Chrome Extensions

    For many years I’ve used multiple web browsers on my laptop computers because each one offers different advantages. My two primary browsers today, on both my Mac laptop as well as my iOS devices (iPhone and iPad) are Google Chrome and Safari. Since Safari is the default iOS browser, I end up using it the…

  • Web Browser Options #gct

    I have shared the following information as a resource page on my “Technology 4 Teachers” curriculum wiki. Internet Explorer is NOT the only software option when it comes to viewing websites on the Internet. Websites SHOULD be designed to be standards-compliant, but sometimes they are not and display content differently in different web browsers. The following 69…