Web User - UK (2019-07-10)

Issue 479

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How to view a side-by-side

comparisonof a website to

see how it’s changedover time

page 6

2

How to celebrate

the 50thanniversary

of the Apollo11 space

mission in real time

page 14

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How to use a floating Start

menuto openprograms

from anywhere on your desktop

page 28

4

How to discover whenyour

housewas built and who has

lived there in the past

page 50

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How to reset a router so that

you can use it safely after it’s

beenhacked page 69

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beast altogether – and one that shows

Google’s increasing disdain for its users and

third-party developers. We don’t expect

you to uninstall the browser forthwith, and

we won’t be scrapping the Chrome page of

our Best New Browser Tools section, but

we hopeyou’ll evaluate our case against it,

and consider our alternatives. And if you

already ditched Chrome a while ago, then

you’re smarter than we are!

Why Chrome has lost its shine

I

t’s always difficultto give up something

you’ve become accustomed to over the

years, whetherit’s eating red meat,

watchingEastEndersor wearinga spotted

cravat, so your first reactionto this issue’s

cover may be “why shouldI?”. After all,

Chrome is a perfectlygoodbrowser, with

thousandsof usefulextensionsand smart

syncingabilities,so why give it up for a new

browser you’re less familiarwith?

Well, as we explain in our feature on page

40, Chrome is no longer the trailblazing

browser that arrived to save the web from

Internet Explorer in 2008, but a different

Robert Irvine, Editor

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