Is Microsoft Edge Really Safer than Chrome or Firefox?

Did You Know? Astronauts in Earth orbit experience up to a three percent increase in height as their spinal column, free from the pressure of Earth’s gravity, expands slightly. Naturally, once they return to Earth, the slight height gain vanishes soon thereafter. Geek Trivia In The Original Batman TV Show, Batman’s Utility Pouches Were Made Of? 8-Track Cases → Surplus Ammo Pouches → Kitchen Sponges → Empty Film Cassettes → Advertisement Download Interview Errors Don't make these costly mistakes during the interview process. Sitting down with the employer of a job you sincerely desire often is intimidating. Hundreds of different thoughts may be racing through your mind, and when you walk into the interview, if you are not prepared for that, you will be anxious.Click here to download Want to Change Your Email Preferences? At some point in the past you subscribed to the How-To Geek newsletter, but if you'd like to change the frequency or unsubscribe, you can do so by clicking the button. Change my Subscription (or unsubscribe) Today's How-To Geek Articles By popular request, we're including a quick list of the daily articles at the top of the daily email as well as the regular format near the bottom. How to Prevent Windows Users From Changing the Screen Saver How to See Who's Viewed and Screenshotted Your Snapchat Story Is Microsoft Edge Really Safer than Chrome or Firefox? How to Run Android Apps on Your Desktop the Easy Way with BlueStacks How to See an Image’s EXIF Data in Windows and macOS How to Get Rid of AVG’s Notifications and Bundled Software How to Disable and Edit Safari's AutoFill on macOS and iOS How to Cancel or Delete a Stuck Print Job in Windows How to Pin and Unpin Tabs in Chrome and Firefox with a Keyboard Shortcut How to Enable Google’s “Material Design” in Chrome How to Color Correct Old, Faded Photos How to Install macOS Sierra in VirtualBox on Windows 10 Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Graymail Graymail is a term used to describe email from a company or website (like newsletters, product offerings, etc.) that is unwanted at the present time, but was signed up for and wanted in the past. Graymail can also refer to email that is able to bypass a spam filter because it was unable to sufficiently analyze it to determine whether it was legitimate or not. What We're Reading This section contains what we're reading from around the web, along with commentary from our editors. Think of it like your daily digest of the most interesting things online. Five States Are Considering Bills to Legalize the 'Right to Repair' Electronics Lawmakers in five states have introduced legislation that would enshrine the "Right to Repair" electronics, meaning manufacturers will have to sell replacement parts to independent repair shops and consumers and will also have to make their diagnostic and service manuals public. [Motherboard] Google and Netflix join fight against municipal broadband restrictions Internet companies and advocacy groups battle Virginia anti-muni broadband bill. [ArsTechnica] What's the future of interaction? - The Verge Gadget makers finally reached their breaking point. After being forced to put what amounted to bad Android tablets in their devices for years, they're ready to move beyond the screen. [The Verge] Geometric Shots: a fun way to explore composition patterns from famous movies and TV shows Geometric Shots breaks down the geometric patterns found within iconic movie and TV compositions in a way that will have you looking at film differently from here on out. [DIY Photography] How to Prevent Windows Users From Changing the Screen Saver There may be times when you want users of a computer not to be able to change the screen saver. Here’s how to prevent it from happening. Read This Article → How to See Who's Viewed and Screenshotted Your Snapchat Story Snapchat is all about transparency. You can always see exactly who's seen your Story and, most importantly, if anyone has taken a screenshot of it before it disappears. Read This Article → Is Microsoft Edge Really Safer than Chrome or Firefox? Microsoft is heavily pushing their Windows 10-exclusive browser, Edge. Ads built into Windows 10 are now claiming that Edge is “safer” than Chrome and Firefox. How did Microsoft determine that, and is it really true? Read This Article → How to Run Android Apps on Your Desktop the Easy Way with BlueStacks If there’s an Android application you really love and wish you could run on your computer, now you can: there’s a dead simple way to run Android apps on your PC or Mac without the fuss of moonlighting as an Android developer. Read This Article → How to See an Image’s EXIF Data in Windows and macOS If you want to look up more information about a photo you took, like when exactly it was taken and on what camera, there’s a quick way to look up the EXIF data in both Windows and macOS. Read This Article → How to Get Rid of AVG’s Notifications and Bundled Software AVG Antivirus includes browser extensions, notifications, and other features sure to distract you. If you just want an antivirus to silently protect your system in the background, here’s how to slim AVG down. Read This Article → How to Disable and Edit Safari's AutoFill on macOS and iOS Safari’s AutoFill will automatically complete information for contacts, passwords, credit cards and more. Today we’re going to discuss how to turn off or edit those AutoFill entries on macOS and iOS. Read This Article → How to Cancel or Delete a Stuck Print Job in Windows Sometimes, documents you’re printing get stuck in the printer’s queue, preventing further documents from being printed. Here’s how to fix it when that happens. Read This Article → How to Pin and Unpin Tabs in Chrome and Firefox with a Keyboard Shortcut If you tend to open a lot of tabs in your browser, it can become difficult to find the tabs with your most used websites. Pinning tabs in your browser moves those tabs to the left and shrinks the tabs to only show the favicon, and you can do it with a simple right-click. Read This Article → How to Enable Google’s “Material Design” in Chrome Over the last couple of years, Google has been moving towards a unified user experience with its Material Design interface. It started with Android, and we’ve seen many Google Apps—like Drive, Docs, and Sheets—get this clean, modern makeover. Chrome (and, by extension, Chrome OS) has seen touches of Material Design here and there, but many of these design remakes are still in testing. Read This Article → How to Color Correct Old, Faded Photos Over time, old photos fade. The blacks become washed out and the whites go to grey. If there are colors, they fade too, turning different shades and making the photo look more like an antique than a representation of anything real. Read This Article → How to Install macOS Sierra in VirtualBox on Windows 10 Whether you want to occasionally test a website in Safari, or try out a little bit of software in the Mac environment, having access to the latest version of macOS in a virtual machine is useful. Unfortunately, you’re not really supposed to do this—so getting macOS running in VirtualBox is, to say the least, tricky. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Interview Errors Don't make these costly mistakes during the interview process. Sitting down with the employer of a job you sincerely desire often is intimidating. Hundreds of different thoughts may be racing through your mind, and when you walk into the interview, if you are not prepared for that, you will be anxious.Click here to download