Everyone loves privacy, and nobody wants for their browsing history to be seen by the next person using their computer. If you happen to browse sites whose history you would not like to be saved, then what you can do is browse your websites in the private mode of the browser that you use on your computer. Almost all the […]
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How to Get Rid of Annoying Push Notifications Popups from Safari and Chrome on Mac
One of the things that I have been noticing while browsing through websites in recent times is that these sites ask me to enable push notifications. Well, if you are new to this, you might wonder what this jargon is. Push notifications are a kind of notifications that appear natively on your Mac, and the websites that you have allowed […]
How to Change Downloads Folder in Various Browsers on Mac
By default, every browser on your Mac has a pre-specified folder that it uses to save all of the files that you download using it. Usually, it’s the main downloads folder on your Mac where these browsers save the files that you download from various websites. While saving files to the default downloads folder is not an issue, some users […]
How to Remove Extension from Safari on Mac
While Apple has built Safari with all of the required features, the company has kept a door open for third-party developers to add new features to the browser using the so-called extensions. An extension helps you extend the functionality of a browser on your computer. For instance, if your browser doesn’t have the ability to view document formats, you can […]
How to Use Image as Homepage of Safari on Mac
The homepage of a web browser is the page that you see whenever you launch the browser on your computer. Whether you are using Chrome, Firefox, or Safari, you always see the homepage when the browser is opened. Some browsers come with a default home page that opens up when the browser is launched, and they also offer you the […]
How to Prevent Safari from Launching iTunes When Visiting App Store Webpages
In order to make the downloading stuff task easier for you, what the Safari browser on your Mac does is open the iTunes app when you visit an App Store web page using the browser. So what happens here is that if you are only looking through the items list and you don’t intend to download them to your Mac, you will still […]
How to Change User Agent in Various Browsers on Mac
The user agent in the web browsers on your Mac tells websites what browser you’re using to access the website so that the website can serve you the content that is compatible with your Mac’s browser. For example, some features of a site may only work on a desktop browser so the website will first check if you’re running a […]
How to Enable and Disable Adobe Flash in Safari 10 for macOS Sierra
For some security reasons, Apple just doesn’t like Adobe Flash as it’s easily exploitable and Apple takes the security of its users very seriously. While Apple’s Safari browser does let you see the Flash contents on the websites, the Flash just doesn’t come turned on by default. You need to go in the settings panel of the browser to enable […]
How to Change Homepage in Various Web Browsers on Mac
The homepage is the web page that you see when you launch a web browser on your Mac. For example, if Google opens up when you start Chrome on your Mac, then Google is the homepage of the Chrome browser, and so on. Sometimes you may wish to change the homepage of a web browser on your Mac, and there […]