browser tweaks

[How To] Undo Clicking Never Save Password For This Site In Google Chrome

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Google Chrome:

google chrome logo

Google Chrome by default offers the option to save password for any webpage that requires the users to be logged in.You can see the classic “Do you want Google Chrome to save your password?” alert whenever you enter username and password for any website.

google chrome save password

The users will have two options they can either choose “Save password” or “Never for this site”.If the user clicks “Never for this site”, no matter desirably or accidently, Google Chrome will no longer offer the prompt to save password for that login page.

Considering that you have clicked it accidentally and want to undo it, you can follow the steps given below to remove the site from save password prompt exception list.

Steps:

1. Click the Toolschrome tools menumenu.

2. Select “Options”

3. Click the “Personal Stuff” tab.

4.Click on “Show saved passwords”

chrome show saved passwords

4. Click on the “Exceptions” tab

5. Select the site that you want to remove from the list

chrome remove site exceptions list

6.Click “Remove” (or use “Remove All” to clear the list) and click “Close”.

Access Firefox Bookmarks Easily via Bookmark Keywords

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If you have been using Mozilla Firefox for sometime, you will definitely love the was how Firefox makes it easier to add and manage all of your bookmarks.You can always access your bookmarks easily from the bookmarks menu present in the Firefox.If you need to open a particular webpage from your bookmarks quite often, you may wish you have a better way to open it more quicker.Well, you can do this via a a feature “Bookmark Keywords” available in Firefox.You just need to assign some short keywords, typing which in the address bar immediately gets resolved to your original webpage URL that is stored under your bookmarks.Follow these steps to know how to assign bookmark keywords in Firefox.

1. Open the particular bookmark for which you want to add keyword from the Bookmarks menu.Right click on the “Properties” tab.

firefox bookmarks properties

2. In the properties window, add the keyword through which you want to access this bookmark in the filed “Keyword” and click save.

Add Bookmark keywords in Forefox

3. Once you have saved this, you can access this particular webpage by just typing the keyword (“tdn” in my case) in the address bar.

Add Bookmark keywords in Forefox

That’s it, access your favorite bookmarks more quickly using this.This is actually not a new feature in Firefox, it has been there for a while in Firefox but for some reasons this is still not very much used to that extent by the users.

Remove Most Visited Sites from Google Chrome on new tabs

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Google chrome,the much settled browser (has been taken out of Beta recently) by now from search engine giant Google boasts of many features.’Most Visited Sites’, which brings all under one tab is mostly discussed among those.Even though many people liked it, but as users were not provided with a feature to remove this feature from their browser, hence it may be annoying at times.Most Visited Sites from Google Chrome

However there’s a little trick to open blank pages in new tabs instead of most visited sites [Even though it may not remove Most Visited Sites].

[UPDATE: There is a much better solution available than this one that makes use of GreaseMonkey user script, check it out at Hide or Remove Most Visited Sites from New Tab in Google Chrome in Easy Steps]

The tick to remove appearing ‘Most Visited sites’ when you open new tabs goes like this:

first type [about:blank] or [javascript:window.open(“about:blank”);void(0)] in your address bar of the browser.

Click on the Star icon on the left hand side right next to the address bar to add this as a bookmark.

Now use Ctrl + Shift and Click on the bookmark to open a new tab with a blank page.google chrome_blank page

You may also edit the home page of the browser in the ‘options’ (add this about:blank as homepage) menu so that a blank page opens instead of annoying most visited sites each time when you start the browser.