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March 19

The Wire

Just yesterday I learned about existence of this application, which is like Skype, and allows interpersonal video communications. My son insists on using it because allegedly it is fully encrypted. Are there any good or bad opinions/comments about the Wire?

Thank you, AboutFace 22 (talk) 15:43, 19 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@AboutFace 22: Check out the article: Wire_(software), and there are lots of references there you can dig into. RudolfRed (talk) 16:03, 19 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Google Chrome - Recovering Web Sites

Previously, when I used Google Chrome under Windows 10, if I lost power, or decided to kill the occurrences of Chrome for performance reasons, then when I restarted Chrome (after restarting the machine if necessary), it would ask if I wanted to pick up where I left off. I forget the exact wording, but it would ask that on coming up, and it would normally bring up the previous web pages that I had been viewing. Now it doesn't. It just brings up the home page. I am assuming that this means that an option to recover my web pages has been lost. Where is that option set? How do I turn it back on so that it remembers what pages I was viewing? (Please don't tell me to use a different web browser instead. I know that Firefox is very robust about remembering what pages I was viewing. I like to have two web browsers open. If I can't use Chrome as one of them, I will figure out what browser or browsers to use. My question is about Chrome.)

Robert McClenon (talk) 22:04, 19 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Under chrome://settings/onStartup there's an option to "Continue where you left off" on Startup. Alternatively you can press Ctrl-Shift-T (on Windows) to reopen previous tabs. (This works after closing Chrome: I haven't tested whether it survives a reboot.) AndrewWTaylor (talk) 09:32, 20 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

User:AndrewWTaylor - Thank you. I don't know how it got unset, but things sometimes set or unset themselves for no obvious reason, e.g., attributed to sunspots and probably due to line noise. Will it save itself as set to pick up where I left off, or do I need to save it somehow? Robert McClenon (talk) 17:58, 20 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

If you log in to Chrome with a Google account, it will sync your settings and they will be available in all browser instances that log in. If you are not using a Google account, then the settings are saved in local storage on that computer and should be persistent for as long as your home directory/registry exists. Elizium23 (talk) 18:00, 20 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]