Shhhhh: You’re in a meeting and one of your browser tabs starts playing a video. Right-click on it and select Mute. Yep, you don’t even need to open the tab.
The best browser setting you’ve never checked
Every day is full of choices. I’m not sure we need 30 flavors of chips lining grocery store aisles, but it’s nice to have options when it comes to tech. The trick is knowing what you can customize.
Take your browser and all those tabs. Whether you hate clutter and want to start fresh each time, or you like everything exactly where you left it and want all your tabs to reopen when you turn on your computer … both are possible.
Too many tabs?
Ever pause in the middle of a project and look up at a dozen browser tabs? Yeah, me too. Makes sense that you’d want to be able to take a break and come back to all your tabs open. (Just know this can slow down your computer a bit depending on how many tabs are open.)
Other people prefer a blank slate. You can direct your browser to open up to one specific page or a few URLs you always use.
Steps for Chrome
To open Chrome with a new tab:
- Open Chrome and click the three vertical dots, then Settings.
- Click On startup and select Open the New Tab page.
To open Chrome and continue where you left off:
- Open Chrome and click the three vertical dots, then Settings.
- Click On startup and select Continue where you left off.
Steps for Safari
To open Safari with a new window:
Tech Tip: Set your browser to start fresh or reopen your tabs on startup
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Simple trick to clear up your browser tab clutter and speed up your computer
You might be a tab hoarder and not even know it. According to the internet lexicon, a tab hoarder is someone who has too many browser tabs open at once. But how many are too many? Well, the answer will differ depending on who you ask.
Snooze your tabs so you can easily go back to them later
We’ve all been here before, right? A bogged down computer due to too many open browser tabs. Your browser, notorious memory hog as it is, uses up your resources and before you know it, your computer freezes and you struggle to gain control. Thankfully, there are browser extensions you can use to temporarily suspend your open tabs to get back to them later.