Auto Clear Downloads Extension, Chrome Web Store

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A Brave browser extension to clear all completed downloads and hide the downloads icon in toolbar after two minutes. The Auto Clear Downloads Extension was cloned from the Always Clear Downloads 2 Extension which would auto clear downloads after 5 seconds. Like my 30 second version better? [Buy me a cup of coffee].

I published the Auto Clear Downloads Extension source code on GitHub. Feel free to review the source materials and provide me with your feedback. As for me, I love it! But hey, I am biased.

 

 

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How to Use Brave Search in Microsoft Edge

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In my opinion and research the Brave Search engine is the industries best privacy focused search engine. In fact, Brave Search is my default search engine knowing full well that if I have to, I can still use pop into Google or Bing.

This article will show you how to quickly and easily add and use the Brave Search engine within your Microsoft Edge browser.

 

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Uninstall a Webpage App in Brave Browser

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In the address bar of your Brave browser (the one at the very top where you enter web addresses) type (or copy and paste) in the following: brave://apps

Next, right click on the App you wish to remove and select “Remove from Brave…” from the drop down that appears. You’ll be asked to confirm this action.

This is all there is to it!

 

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Download New Tab Background Images from Brave

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A fresh install of the Brave internet browser reveals an assortment of stunning photography for its opening page and new tabs. The Brave browser can also display sponsored images which is part of their Brave Rewards program and can actually earn you their BAT cryptocurrency.

From time to time I personally find some of the photography displayed within the Brave browser to be desktop wallpaper worthy. But how do I capture this work of art for use as my desktop wallpaper? In this article I will show you how.

 

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Best Adobe PDF Reader Alternative

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If you’ve reached this article it (more likely than not) means you dislike Adobe PDF Reader and are seeking an alternative PDF reader for your Windows based PC.

I completely agree, Adobe Reader is bulky, slows down my PC and their updates (if you are not careful) can be accompanied by undesired AdWare. Those reasons are why I haven’t used Adobe PDF Reader for years.

Luckily we have a simple PDF reader alternative by just using our Brave internet browser to open PDFs. This article will show you how to setup Brave to automatically open your PDFs and make it your Default PDF Reader.

 

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Send a Tip Using the Brave Browser

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The Brave internet browser has a built in feature called “Brave Rewards“. Using that feature you can send a “tip” to online content providers and web sites using a crypto currency called BAT.

What is BAT crypto currency?

The mission of the team behind the BAT crypto currency is to fix the current digital advertising space. The present issues include the fact that online users are unknowingly tracked, publishers are having trouble monetizing content, and advertisers are constant victims to fraud.

The BAT crypto currency cuts out the middlemen from the advertising process. Online users are paid for their time watching ads and publishers directly receive the majority of the ad revenue. Additionally, advertisers gain a better return on their advertising investments and receive more accurate data.

 

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Stop Browser Download from Opening Automatically

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All Chromium (an open-source browser project) based internet browsers (such as Google Chrome, Brave, Firefox and Microsoft Edge) allow for the automatic opening of a downloaded file. For example, upon downloading a .jpg image you can select to have all future .jpg images open automatically upon download.

This may come in handy for certain file types. However, this feature is most often triggered accidentally, (at least in my case). To make matters worse, there is no opportunity to undo or reverse this option from the frontend. Not to worry, within this short article I will cover how you can disable this if you no longer need to automatically open your downloaded files upon completion.

 

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