Skip to content
Tech Orbiter
Tech Orbiter
  • Contact
  • Advertise
☀ ●

Apps

How to Uninstall Optional Windows 10 Features (like Internet Explorer and MS Paint)

Ashutosh

Mar 26 2021

Quick Tips, Windows

leave a comment

Windows 10 has come a long way since its release back in 2015, but it still ships with some legacy apps (or “features”) for backwards compatibility. They are optional and can be easily removed. While removing these features is not really going to free up a ton of space, it will make the app lists …

read more

How to Use WhatsApp in Stealth Mode

Ashutosh

Mar 24 2021

Apps, Privacy, Quick Tips

leave a comment

Some tips to use WhatsApp in a privacy friendly manner.

read more

Firefox Logo

How to Substitute Fonts in Firefox for Windows Without Extensions

Ashutosh

Jan 10 2021

Apps, Browsers, Quick Tips, Windows

leave a comment

Update on July 25, 2021: Firefox 90 has re-introduced the problem. You can fix the issue by following steps mentioned in this Firefox support thread. Update on June 19, 2021: Firefox 89.0.1 has FIXED whatever issue was introduced in Firefox 89.0. Below steps are working again! Update on June 5, 2021: These steps no longer …

read more

How to Disable Rewards, Tor, Enable Sync, and Other Tips Regarding Brave Browser (Desktop)

Ashutosh

Jan 9 2021

Apps, Browsers

leave a comment

Brave is one of the more privacy friendly browsers out there today. It’s based on Chromium (the same project that powers Google Chrome), but offers many perks like automatic tracking protection, decentralized syncing, support for Chrome extensions, etc, on top. While Brave gets a lot of things right, you could do without a few of …

read more

How to Change Search Engines, Enable Secure DNS, and Others Tips Regarding Microsoft Edge (Desktop)

Ashutosh

Jan 7 2021

Apps, Browsers

leave a comment

Microsoft’s Edge browser is now based on Chromium, the same project that powers Google Chrome, Opera, Brave, and pretty much every major web browser not named Firefox and Safari. Edge is one of the better Chromium browsers, however you could do with changing a few of its default options. Switch a different search engine Edge …

read more

VLC player logo

How to Stop VLC Player from Automatically Resizing to Fit Video Resolution (on Desktop)

Ashutosh

Dec 3 2020

Apps, Quick Tips

6 comments

When you open a video in VLC player, the app automatically resizes its window to fit the video resolution. The exception to this case is if VLC was maximized before, in which case it will continue to open in maximized state. If you’d rather have VLC remember its window size and not resize every time …

read more

Pocket logo

How to Disable #Pocket in #Firefox Browser for Desktop

Ashutosh

Dec 2 2020

Apps, Browsers

leave a comment

Pocket is a “read-it-later” service that’s built into Firefox. It allows for saving web pages for future reading, and for surfacing articles it thinks you may find useful or interesting. This is good if you’re a Pocket user, but it’s a bit unnecessary for people who have no use for the service. There are two …

read more

Older posts
Newer posts
← Previous Page1 Page2 Page3 Page4 Next →
Advertise on Tech Orbiter

follow @techorbiter

  • rss
  • Twitter

popular posts

How to Disable the News Feed in Microsoft Edge
How to Add a Windows-Like Taskbar and Start Menu to Ubuntu
VLC player logo
How to Stop VLC Player from Automatically Resizing to Fit Video Resolution (on Desktop)
How to Exclude And WordPress Script from Cloudflare Rocket Loader
How to Restrict Background Activity of Apps in Android

recent comments

  1. Ashutosh on How to Restrict Background Activity of Apps in Stock Android

    While that'd be nice, it's better to have this than not have any option imo. A one-click option would also…

  2. Mr Crispy on How to Restrict Background Activity of Apps in Stock Android

    That's real nice of them to make you do this individually for each app instead of providing an option for…

  3. Ashutosh on How to Exclude Any WordPress Script from Cloudflare Rocket Loader

    Rocket Loader doesn't lazy load images, it only deals with JavaScript. You might be using something else that's lazy loading…

  4. George on How to Exclude Any WordPress Script from Cloudflare Rocket Loader

    Hello Orbiter, how I do exclude images from being lazy-loaded with Cloudflare rocket-loader since I don't need it to be…

  5. Stan on How to Stop VLC Player from Automatically Resizing to Fit Video Resolution (on Desktop)

    I fixed this by quitting and re-opening VLC after changing and saving the settings. It works now.

Tech Orbiter © 2015-2023 | Terms | Privacy Policy