How to Change the Default Fonts in Your Web Browser

While changing your browser’s font may not be the most pressing issue, sometimes it is fun to make a change. That’s why we are going to teach you how to change the default font in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Internet Explorer.

Note: the instructions for Chrome and Firefox should work in any operating system. Obviously Internet Explorer only runs on Windows, so these settings would only work there.

Changing Chrome’s Font
In order to change the font in Google Chrome, you will need to access the “Font and Language Settings.” Begin by opening up your browser, clicking on the three parallel lines on the top right of the window, and then click on “Settings.”

 Scroll down until you get to the “Web Content” section and click on “Customize fonts.”

 Alternatively, you can just enter chrome://settings/fonts into your browser and hit “Enter.” Now you can change all your font settings.

 Change the fonts as needed and press “Done” then restart your browser.
  
Changing Firefox’s Font
If you are running Firefox as your main browser, you can edit the fonts in just a few simple steps. Begin by pressing the three horizontal bars on the top right corner of your browser, then select “Options.”

  
Next, you will need to click on the “Content” tab and select your font from the list of available fonts in the drop-down menu.

From this window you can also change the font size and colors. If you click on the “Advanced” button, you can also edit the following settings.

Note: make sure to leave the box checked for “Allow pages to choose their own fonts” or else a lot of the web will be broken. Many sites, including this one, use icons that are actually implemented as custom fonts.
  
Changing Internet Explorer’s Font

If you are an IE user, you can also change the font settings of your browser in a few simple steps. Begin by pressing the small gear on the top right corner of your browser, then click on the “Internet Options” button.

Now look to the bottom of the popup window and select “Fonts.”

 Now you can change your webpage and plain text fonts as desired.

Thats it. :) Hope you like this tutorial. 

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How to Hide the Cortana Search Box on the Windows 10 Taskbar

One of the most talked about features in the latest version of Windows 10 was the Cortana personal assistant that is integrated directly into the taskbar. But what if you don’t want to waste all that taskbar space?

Luckily they not only provide a way to remove the search box from the taskbar, but you can change it into an icon, or you can remove it entirely and then it’ll show up on the taskbar only when you open the Start Menu (so you can still search for your apps).

We’re not entirely sure if we like the idea of a digital assistant as part of Windows, but if you’re using the preview, we recommend that you test it out at least to give it a chance. If you don’t like it, then you can disable it and make the search box revert back to the Windows 8.x behavior where it searches your apps as well as the web.

Removing the Cortana Search Box from the Taskbar 

 Simply right-click on any empty space on the taskbar, go to Search, and then change “Show search box” to either “Show search icon” or “Disabled.”

If you change it to an icon, it’ll show a circle like you can see below.

 

And if you disable it entirely, it’ll be removed from the taskbar. You can also customize the start menu in windows 10

 Disabling Cortana

If you don’t want Cortana to show up in your search box, you can click on the little hamburger icon on the top left and then choose Settings.

 And then simply click the toggle to disable it.

Again, this is a new technology and if you’re using the Preview of Windows 10 you should probably leave it enabled. But since it takes up way too much space on the taskbar, it’s nice that you can customize that. :)

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