Browser is the term used for a program that's used to display web pages. It comes from the phrase "browse the Internet".
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How to open a new tab on the left end of the existing tabs in Firefox
Do you know how to make Mozilla Firefox to open new tabs (using the command Ctrl+T) at the near left end of the tabs?
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Installing Google Chrome with system wide automatic updates on Microsoft Windows
Google Chrome can be an an excellent browser for locked down public terminals, as the Windows version keeps itself and its integrated Adobe Flash plugin up to date automatically and completely ...
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ActiveX on Firefox?
I just need a browser that can run sites using ActiveX on Linux. Are there any?
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Is there a way to display the tab number on Firefox or Google Chrome?
I often cycle through tabs with the keyboard shortcut CTRL-ALT or CTRL {number} however find it difficult to select a particular tab seeing I don't know the tab number. Is there a way to number these?
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Block all third party domains from web pages
When I'm browsing the web, I'd like to not be tracked by any third party services like Facebook or Google. For instance, if I visit somepage.com I don't want my browser requesting things from ...
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Intercept windows browser system messages
I appear to have a process or application that sends messages to the OS which cause the browser to pop up with the default page. This can happen dozens of times in a few seconds, but otherwise seems ...
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Assign keyboard shortcut to pause music in website
I use saavn.com for listening to bollywood music. It's a great service but they don't have native mac app so I can't control it using keyboard media keys.
There must be a way to use keyboard media ...
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Internet Explorer 10 immediately closes after opening
I decided on a whim to give IE10 a try. I'm not terribly sad to lose all access to IE, however I would like to get it working.
As soon as I hit the shortcut it opens and then immediately closes.
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How can I see the structure of a webpage inline?
How can I see a webpage's structure "inline" with the visual representation of the actual page, all at once?
I'm trying to understand HTML layout better, but it's hard to get a feel for it, even ...
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Do I have to keep the web browser open to share folders in Tonido?
Using Tonido to share folders, it opens the web browser, which acts like a file manager. After sharing, must I keep the browser open in order to keep the share link alive, or is the Tonido active tray ...
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Is it possible to enable javascript for a specific URL?
There are many users who have JavaScript disabled and deny to enable it even for some business applications. Is there any way to allow a user to enable a JavaScript for a specific URL in order to use ...
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Prevent history deletion on Google Chrome
One of the guys I'm in charge of hasn't been pulling his weight. His productivity and quality of workmanship are way down and his computer's been getting malware infections lately. You can see where ...
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Checkmark next to website title in browser tab?
I'm developing a site on my local machine, and on every browser after the document is ready a checkmark is prepended to the corresponding tab.
There is a noticeable small delay before this ...
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Browser downloading after virus?
I have cleaned several windows 7 computers from Exploit:Java/CVE-2013-0431.
Everything is back to normal on the computers except for one thing... User downloads using any internet browser (port 80 ...
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Can a putty terminal window be made viewable in a web browser?
I often remotely connect via putty to client computers over ssh.
I would like to share my putty session so the client can see the commands I'm running from a web browser.
Is this possible to do?
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Save website containing javascript after it was interpreted
There's a website I want to save that contains javascript (if that helps, the site is vyou.com; here's a link to Andrew W. K.'s user page) which updates the contents of what the user sees on the ...
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Is it possible to start a “Private Tab” vs a “Privat Window” in Firefox 20?
I use Firefox 20 on my Nexus 7 tablet and under Linux. This is my desktop browser string:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:20.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/20.0
On the tablet, it is possible to open ...
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Why don't browser cache common JS files? [closed]
One of the big tradeoffs in web development is on reducing the total size of your JS files to maintain page load times low.
My reasonable guess is that most websites include a similar subset of JS ...
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Video in Google's Home Page [duplicate]
On Special Ocasions , like today being Mother's day , Google puts a video like animation in its webpage. The concept of the animation is intriguing. I wish to know more details about it.
So far i am ...
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caret navigation (getting a text cursor) in Google Chrome?
I use Google Chrome on OSX. Is there a way, within the browser, to get a text cursor that will allow me to navigate through text, selecting and copying text using only the keyboard?
I've looked at ...
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Importing Bookmarks from a Text File (to any browser/website)
I have dozens of text files containing around 60 url's each, accumulated over years of browsing on multiple computers. I wish to import these into any browser, to allow me to then use cross-browser ...
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Prevent white screen before loading page in chromium?
When a page doesn't load immediately, Chromium and every other browser I tried display a white screen before they get a response from it:
Even though chrome://settings/personal says it's using the ...
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The quickest way to change text font when browsing web?
I often want to set the text on my screen to some of my favourite fonts (e.g. Candara, Century Gothic, ...). To do that I use inspect element in the browser to change the css font of the element as ...
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How typical proxy works on network level?
When I use a proxy for web browsing for example, if I use firefox for common web browsing, on network level after you input a URL and click 'return', the process is:
DNS query for the URL
establish ...
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Downloaded files not launching in Chrome - Why?
Strange behavior in Chrome, in OSX Mountain Lion.
After I download a file, it appears in the bottom bar of the browser, normally I can just click on the file and it launches. Or click the small arrow ...
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Force Firefox to start a private session in the current window
I noticed that in the latest versions of Firefox when I open a private browsing session, it is always started in a new window, rather than in the current one.
I don't use this feature extensively ...
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Open some links in IE automatically when IE is not the default browser
I've set Firefox as my default browser instead of IE. But there are some URLs (Share-point portals), which I would wish to open in IE automatically. These URLs may be clicked from some word documents, ...
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Fullscreen Browser [closed]
I'm looking for a fullscreen browser for linux. It doesn't have to have any controls. It suffices if I can control the page on startup by passing a commandline argument.
If possible, I'd like to ...
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Convert responsive web page to PDF
Couldn't decide if this is a question better for Stack Overflow or Superuser, but I'll start here.
I have Adobe Acrobat 9.0 Pro, and with that, the Convert Web Page to PDF button that displays in IE. ...
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Raspberry Pi: open browser using bash and crontab
I'm trying to setup a simple bash script. I want to open the browser.
chromium-browser <url> works if I do it in the cli or in the bash script if I run the script by ./scrpt.
But if I put ...
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Which version of Internet Explorer does this screenshot display [closed]
I have a client whose browser renders my webpage really badly (and slowly).
The image below is cut out from a screenshot he sent me. I know it is IE, but can anyone see which version? And if it is ...
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Certificate issue when browsing from office. But never at home
This issue keeps on popping when I am browsing from office but never at home.
What could be the root cause and how can I fix it?
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Why do all Windows 8 Metro browsers require they have Default Browser status? [duplicate]
In order to use IE 10, FF Nightly, or Chrome in Metro mode (As a Windows 8 fullscreen, pinnable app), I have to set it as the default, immediately forcing all other browsers to only run on the ...
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How to build a password protected, web-based, proxy server?
Yesterday, I took advantage of a deal offered by a web hosting company, FatCow, to buy a year's worth of "unlimited" hosting for $1. So now I want to take advantage of that by deploying a password ...
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Confine Chrome to One website for Kiosk [duplicate]
I'm setting up a giving kiosk for the foodbank I direct to allow patrons to contribute. I have created a website in a subdirectory of my hosting account that is strictly for this purpose. There are ...
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Basic DOS terminal browser partition manager?
Last time I met some problems with my hard drive. I found the Repair your computer mode, you know, when you press F8 and you have admin rights, you can enter terminal with SYSTEM rights. So I can copy ...
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Is there a list of browser support for various video formats?
I was wondering which browsers and browser versions support which video formats? Can some one help me on this problem?
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Where does Chrome store its bookmarks in Ubuntu 11.10?
I looked at all the other posts on this but can't find the directories mentioned (~/.config/google-chrome/Default/Bookmarks, it's a JSON file.). Being a 2 day Newbie to Ubuntu/Linux I would like to ...
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How to invert web pages colour scheme in Firefox?
I use to browse web in a dark room and would prefer if the backgrounds would be dark and text would be light instead of the opposite which is much more common. I suppose this can be achieved with some ...
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Service for logging web browsing activity? (To make sure a contractor does the job.) [closed]
We hired a contractor and her job is basically to write mails and read web posts. Is there any browser, extension or software that can log browsing history and time spent on sites for this kind of ...
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Chrome Extension for Switching Locale (Accept-Languages)
Is there a Chrome Extension which can be used to quickly switch between two locales (e.g. English and German) quickly? Some websites detect the user's language using the Accept-Languages HTTP-header ...
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Thumbnails in Chrome does not show up
This is my Chrome's homepage. Whenever I start Chrome or open a new tab, this page appears.
The page thumbnails just does not show up. Although the page icons and titles are proper. I figured that ...
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How can I get Adobe Reader X (10.0.1) to save my toolbar preferences?
I just upgraded to Adobe PDF Reader X (10.0.1), and when viewing PDFs in a web browser it shows them in a new 'Read Mode' by default.
This 'Read Mode' doesn't show a toolbar (Save, Print, etc in a ...
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How to stop flash from raising my CPU temperature?
I've found that, although my laptop CPU temperature is usually 50-65C, whenever I keep running flash applications on any of my two browsers (chrome, firefox) it gradually keeps rising, to the point of ...
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Why does Chrome occasionally show the referrer URL after you hover off of a link?
Chrome has been really irritating me lately with the URL hover feature. I'll hover over a normal link, and then unhover. You would think that the URL preview in the bottom left corner would go away, ...
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Blocking Intellitxt (random ad links on browsers)
On my browsers, links are created on random words within a text and when I hover over them a small ad window pops up, which is quite annoying.
I read here that this is called Intellitxt and that ...
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Getting redirected to www.website-unavailable.com
When ever I type a wrong URL in to my URL bar, it redirects me to: www.website-unavailable.com
How do I stop this from happening? I would much rather just get redirected to Google.
This happens in ...
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How do I change Firefox's user agent via about:config?
My work has blocked Internet access with Firefox. I know how to change the value of “general.useragent.extra.firefox” through about:config, but when I try to change it to IE, I still can’t access any ...
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Chrome extension or Firefox addons that replaces text on page? [closed]
There is a web form with a submit button labeled "submit", and it will be much better that if I can change the text to something like "buy" or "order now". Sadly the site is not mine so I cannot ...
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locahost is not working in Chrome and IE with WAMP
I am using WampServer with PHP and MySQL. When I try to access the localhost I get:
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access / on this server.
The weird thing is it works fine in Opera while ...
