Sunday, August 14, 2022

Microsoft Edge browser add new search engine like Brave Search or Startpage

- Open Edge
- Open Settings
- In left menu click "Privacy, search, and services"
- Click "Address bar and search" at bottom
- Click "Manage search engines"
- Click Add button
- For name put in Brave
- For keyword put in search.brave.com - Put this in last box

https://search.brave.com/search?q=%s

- For keyword put in search.brave.com
- Click add button
- The search engine is now added, but not set to default yet!
- Find it in the list, click the 3 dots next to it and pick Make Default

Brave is now your default search engine in brave.

Here is the search string for Startpage

https://www.startpage.com/sp/search?query=%s

Here is the search string for Webcrawler

https://www.webcrawler.com/serp?q=%s

Thursday, August 04, 2022

Ubuntu LibreCalc freezes opening CSV file, max CPU

I've used LibreCalc to open CSV for a long time, but recently most of the time LibreCalc would not open CSV, LibreCalc would hang and CPU would max to 100% until I kill the program.

I tried to uninstall / reinstall but that didn't help. I tried to run from the terminal to see if there was any error message but there was not.

What fixed this problem of LibreCalc freezing was this :

- uninstall LibreOffice entirely
- go into File Manager
- go into hidden folder .config
- delete libreoffice folder
- then reinstall LibreCalc

After I did that LibreCalc opens CSV files again normally without always freezing.
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