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Hi All, Good day to you. I'm using Windows 10 on a desktop, with Internet connected through LAN. Whenever there's no internet connection, specially when I'm starting the PC, the default browser will open and it redirects to some pages. I think it tries to show the standard MSN page but since...

I have no idea why this is happening but it has been happening in every game I play (elden ring and BF1 recently). Unless I have my firefox browser open on my 3rd monitor, my performance is completely [language redacted] (literally 30% of the usual FPS) Just tested with BF1 and my fps went from...

For a long time I have regular crashes of all browsers Microsoft Edge, Chrome, Opera, Firefox, Waterfox , Brave, Vivaldi. Everywhere I get the error STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION I have tried probably all except safari browser which is souped up non-functional for me. Which is for me completely...

The original PNG image is 1294px wide, but when I view it on the website, the image becomes larger. Even when I open the image in another tab (so no HTML) it's still bigger, so it can't be an HTML or CSS setting. When I open it in an image viewer or Photoshop, the size is ok. Using the...

Every time I play a game in fullscreen or borderless window the video I'm watching starts to lag but if I launch games in windowed mode it fixes the issue.

Just a PSA for everyone to not click “Got It” on Google Chrome’s new privacy features alert. Go to settings and turn them all off. EDIT: imgur does not seem to work with the forum’s image proxy (at least on my system). The links are still clickable to load the image. But you probably don’t...

So sites like https://www.fnb-online.com/ and https://www.ea.com (specifically when I click login for ea). I've tried everything I can think at this point, different browsers don't work (other devices on the network work), firewall turned off, updating drivers, clearing cache, using google dns...

Hello, So today I went on Google chrome, and I first of all noticed that my profile on chrome was completely signed out. I was able to sign back in, however my chrome background picture had disappeared. There was nothing on the home menu apart from my bookmarks and favourites. I checked on the...

ASRock B365m Pro4 i7 9700f GIGABYTE RTX 3070 32 GB DDR4 RAM 980 Samsung NVME 1TB So I recently had some hardware issues, my PSU fried itself, took the motherboard with it. Got it repaired, all good to go. Games work perfectly fine, audio is okay, etc. HOWEVER, on my current not-fresh install...

So this is happening yesterday and its going on now, But my laptop has been facing a problem recently and the problem is that the screen has been flickering pink, I don't know how this happened but the way that it started was I was browsing around firefox, Till I found out that one of the...

Greetings Recently chrome has been updated and after the update a particular site when opened in chrome shows that web page is blocked. Initially I thought it was an issue with my pc so I tried on another pc but same. Then I tried to open the same site on other web browsers, Edge, Opera and...

Hello! I'm on Windows 11 v21H2. I've switched from Google Chrome to Vivaldi Browser. I love the way I can organize this browser. However, it starts very slowly (4~6 seconds loading time). Chrome was visibly faster! Question: Is there a way to speed up Vivaldi?

Graphics Glitches In All Web Browsers So I've had this major issues in Web browsers, On normal youtube videos I have graphics glitches, On Twitch or other live streaming sites I get weird beeping sounds as seen in the video. As well as this any browser other than the brave browser crashes...

Hello. Can someone tell me for how long does Google Chrome keeps your history? Is the history kept forever, meaning you can have access to your past browser history at any time, or does old history get erased after X time? Is there a way to make Chrome keep my browsing history for as long as i...

Hello, Not sure if this is the place to go for this kind of help or not. I am working on a project but the website is not loading fully on any of my browsers, but it loads perfectly on my mobile phone. I've been having this problem with all of my browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Safari) not...

I use several browser extensions on Chrome and recently realized that one of them is responsible for installing a malicious search engine called "SearchNet". For obvious reasons I want to get rid of the extension, but removing them one by one while reseting all my browser preferences is not a...

So-called privacy browsers are not enough. They still keep my browsing info and search strings I typed on my personal computer. You might say "Just use Chrome and, to turn off browsing history, change settings as in https://www.wikihow.com/Turn-Off-Browsing-History-on-Chrome" But that's...

this just started. i am guessing with one of windows 10 updates. my version is 21H1 (build 19043, 1466) when i boot up my laptop.. microsoft edge starts up automatically and the browser opens. up. it is not listed in startup programs. in settings under accounts.. and sign in options.. i have...

Hello, I have a problem with slow browser download speed. I tried to change browsers, but the speeds were the same, so i switched to linux on virtualbox and download speed went from 1 mb/s on windows to 5 mb/s on linux. Anyone know what can cause a problem on windows and how to fix that?

I'm on Microsoft edge. I know clearing history can help protect your information and refresh some pages that are having issues loading, but other than that do you really ever need to clear browser cache/history? Does browser history itself take up space/resources somehow? Say for example over...

Hi everyone, since I installed Windows 11 I seem to have an issue with downloading anything over browsers. Every download gets stopped, and I get message "Download failed - network error" so I have to resume it 5/10/50/10000 times (depending on the file size) until it's finally downloaded. I...

I am upgrading our PCs from 78esr to 91esr. I have a set of about 70 preferences I need to import I don't want to visit 250 PCs one at a time and make the changes one at a time via about:config I can't just use a single default prefs.js because any or all of the PCs can have preferences specific...

Hi all, A single instance, with a single tab open, on the Chrome homepage, is showing as 20+ incidences of chrome simultaneously in task manager. I thought it was malware, but have reinstalled with no luck. Thanks for the help/ideas! Tom

Sometimes when using my computer, especially when I'm just watching videos in a browser or just browsing in general, my computer will soft lock. I'm not able to close the browser, open any other programs, use the start menu or the taskbar. Attempting to shut off the computer through software...

Recently I've switched back to using automatic page filing on my 1TB HDD with 8GB of RAM. I didn't want to worry about setting the right page file. However, I've noticed in task manager that my browser is all over the place rather than being compiled in one list (the 15 one) Is this normal or...

I have a RTX 3070 for almost 3 months and since the first day i notice lag on all browsers i try (Edge, opera GX, mozilla, chrome) when scrolling down on videos, pages etc... Disabling HW Acceleration helps but not fix the issue, also changing the Angle Graphics Backend to OpenGL or D3D9 or...

I got a PC a few months ago, at first everything was fine but about two weeks ago i started noticing that the perfomance of several browsers is slow, in the sense that when i scroll i noticed some kind of lag, like im scrolling down and the scroll stops for a second before continuning, o when i...

If I watch any video from any platforms (youtube, twitch, heck even here on tomshardware when the video playback isnt muted (if theres a video)) whatever the browser is (tried on chrome and firefox), theres a tinnitus-like really high pitch ringing from the headset. Its loudness is consistent...

Hello, i am currently experiencing an issue with all my browsers, this includes edge, firefox, and chrome. the Performance is ok, but when i try to move my tabs around, they stutter and lag the application, everything else works fine however. Specs are: Fx 8320 8 core gigabyte single fan gtx...

Im working on someones pc and Ive got an issue that's stumping me. Google chrome will not open at all. When google chrome is clicked the circle on the cursor spins then nothing happens. Ive checked task manager chrome opens then closes instantly. Ive re-named the user data folder in chrome to...

Hi, im trying to troubleshoot which services i can disable to tweak my system a bit. I cant tell for sure if it is 100% related to the services, but i dont get this issue on a testing installation which i just installed. Basically some websites give the NET::ERR_CERT_INVALID response on my opera.

So I have 100mbps wifi internet connection which means I should get around 10-12 mb/s which is true as every speedtest showed the same results .While this is true for most of my platforms,I get a download speed of arounnd 0.2 - 0.4 mb/s which is very less comapred to what should I get.I checked...

Most of the games on browser which I want to play for childhood feels lag on my computer. Components: GPU: 1070 dual CPU: i5 7500 16gb ram 2tb hd and 300ssd i think

Hello, I am from australia and i just got vpn to access american netflix. i am using vpn but is there any way to integrate my vpn's proxy onto my browser? i don't want vpn to take all over on my pc.

I've had this issue ever since I first got this PC, so I figured it's about time I try get it fixed. In every single browser I've ever used, I have found that certain scripting functions just blatantly will not work. I'm not technically knowledgeable enough to know which functions, I just know...

I don't understand why but all of my games, online games won't work. From LoL to PUBG or CS"go on steam, the steam, Riot games launcher or any game launcher won't connect to the internet. I tried to turn off the windows firewall and it's still not working. Now I'm stuck with a pc that can only...

I've been having this issue for a long time now which comes like this, whenever i try to download something lets take MySQL server the Workbench as example from the official website, the max download rate im getting was 750kB/s while my download speed is 20Mbps(Speedtest). I've tried on Chrome...

[Moderator edit to break up "wall of text".] I am trying to help an elderly couple out and they're using the old aol email. Anyways, when I try to sign them in with their username and password, the url address keeps getting redirected to Guce advertising site. I have tried a lot of things...

Hey there . I'm not sure it is the right place to post this thread, so please move it to the correct thread if I've a mistake. So the problem is pretty simple, videos on any browser stutter and lag for a few milliseconds , and it is noticeable - especially on YouTube. I've tried many things -...

I would like to know if 128gb SSD is large enough to run windows 10 and other progras like virtual machine, browsers, skype etc