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No Chrome? Easily add full-function Gmail to Edge!
Posted on August 16, 2021 at 02:44 CDT by Fred Langa • Comment in the ForumsLANGALIST
By Fred Langa
Setup takes all of about 60 seconds, and there’s absolutely zero old-school POP or IMAP mail-server arcana to figure out.
With literally a couple of clicks, you can add a permanent, utterly standard Gmail instance to Edge — or just about any other browser!
Plus: Why some restarts during an update are OK, but others are destructive; and we note a milestone as the IBM PC turns 40!
Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 18.31.0 (2021-08-16).
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