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Ideas for getting past issues with your browser(s).

This from Kim Komando 12/5/2024. (Sign up for free newsletter and I might get rewarded!)

• Go to https://optout.aboutads.info. WebChoices will scan your browser settings and computer to find out whether first-party and third-party cookies are enabled, along with a list of companies creating targeted ads for you.
• Click Continue. At the bottom of the page, you’ll see an option to Opt out of All. Click that.
• After the site processes your selection, click View Updated Results to see how it turned out.

You may need to repeat the process as some of the sites need a second request.
The WebChoices tool works in whatever browser you have open at the time, so be sure to run it for each browser you use.

You're on a page and you want to download a file, quietly and in the background. But Firefox pops up this large panel to show you the current downloading file and several other files. How do you get rid of this, and keep download simple and non-obtrusive?

1. Browse to about:config
2. Accept warnings
3. Find setting browser.download.alwaysOpenPanel
4. If it was set True, that was the problem. Toggle its setting to False.