Questions tagged [browser]
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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Firefox 60.3.0 ESR on Debian 9.5 AMD64 zooming bug?
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I need standard zooming functionality to work properly on Firefox 60.3 ESR.
Problem description
I run Firefox 60.3 ESR. Preferences are default, about:config is default. No extensions in the ...
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Kiosk Browser in Windows 10 Enterprise LTSB 2016 (v.1607)
I bought an all-in-one monitor with Windows IOT, I want to build a browser kiosk locked in one page.
Is it possibile with this version of Windows?
I did not find Edge and moreover I did not find any ...
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Tricking website that you are using different browser or OS
For example when I look under recent logins on my gmail account or other websites it shows exact OS that I am using and exact Browser. Is there a way to change what Information I am sharing with ...
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Unable to access flash on Chrome
I know that there are a few hoops to jump through to use flash on chrome, but after having reformatted my HDD today, I am unable to get flash working on chrome.
I have the latest chrome browser (...
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Chrome autocomplete only first word in URL-bar
Is there a hotkey combination in Chrome to autocomplete only the first word from the suggestion?
E.g.
Input: jqu
Suggested: jquery search multiple classes
What I want: autocomplete to jquery and ...
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Tweek Google Chrome browser for all users
I'm preparing an install that will be used by hundred of LDAP users (classroom) and would like that when Google Chrome launches, it
doesn't ask to become the default browser
doesn't ask to send usage ...
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Qutebrowser - defining keybinds with a one-liner (instead of config file)
I'm trying to write a really simple wrapper with Qutebrowser, and I'd like to define my key binds in the same line I execute the binary; e.g. qutebrowser --target window --set content.cookies.store ...
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Can you force the window to appear where you set your default internet browser?
Is there any way you can trigger (from either the command line or some vbscript) the pop-up window to appear that allows you to select your default internet browser?
The pop-up I'm talking about is ...
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Binary file in the dock as application
I have installed qutebrowser in /usr/local/bin/qutebrowser and would like to add it to my dock.
What's the right process for adding a binary to the dock, as if it was an application?
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How do I install Widevine in the Iridium Browser?
I can't find Widevine in the Chrome Web Store,
or even a download for it.
It is required for Netflix.
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Browser says "Connecting" - pages not loading
Lately I've been seeing the status message "Connecting" in Chrome's status bar while (several) websites were taking minutes to load, often resulting in a timeout error. With enough patience, the site ...
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login to Google OK but not Google Drive
On my Linux laptop I have recently changed my Privacy preferences to never allow cookies, and then making exceptions for https://google.com and Google in my country, plus https://accounts.google.com (...
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How to change Search Engine to DuckDuckGo in Maxthon?
I'm using Maxthon (v5.1.130) web-browser on macOS and I'd like to change the default search engine to DuckDuckGo.com.
I've checked in Maxthon's Settings, but the Search Engine list is fixed and ...
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Fix Opera displaying many pages with gigantic font size?
Opera browsers such as Opera Developer 54 on my Mac are displaying many pages with huge font sizes, ten times expected size. I wonder if it is some kind of bug related to Opera misinterpreting pages ...
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Hide mouse position from websites
Some websites have functions that trigger given the position of my cursor. The one I perceive most typically, and which I find very annoying, is that a site would bring a "Suscribe to our newsletter!" ...
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Is there an easy way to achieve a multirow bookmark toolbar in Firefox?
How can I get a multi-row bookmark toolbar in Firefox without writing code? All I can find are outdated extensions and CSS tricks.
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Any way to see LaTeX Math in a text-based browser?
I'm trying to switch at least partially to text-based web browsing. Pretty everything I want to do online is available (and the stuff that isn't, like videos, I can open in external problems) but one ...
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How to get an old version of a deleted forum post from google chrome cache history?
I'm not sure whether "cache history" is the right word
What I'm trying to do is this:
I was viewing a forum page on chrome, and I refreshed the page
It turns out the author had deleted the page and so ...
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How to prevent firefox/chrome from sleeping
I use this site http://kukuklok.com/ as my alarm clock. It used to work just fine in chrome but I noticed a couple months ago that it would sometimes fail to go off at the right time but as soon as I ...
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Why does a session cookie appear to be HTTP-Only in Chrome but not IE
I have a site that stores a random session ID in a session cookie. In Chrome dev tools it looks like this...
Notice it says the cookie is http only. But in IE I see it is not set to http-only...
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Why firefox forgets my web notifications for Twitter
Why Firefox forgets my web notifications for Twitter, every-time I restart my system.
And I have failed to understand this weird behavior not less than 10 times. Just curious to know if this is a ...
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Firefox VERY unresponsive when browsing to repl.it
I'm using Firefox 58.0.2 (64-bit) and it's always pretty fast, but whenever I go to repl.it my browser becomes very unresponsive and everything. I tried using MS Edge and it worked just fine, the ...
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Font looks not clear on different websites
I have tried different browsers and changed various settings on my windows 10 but cannot figure out the solution. It also happens on other websites like geeksforgeeks.I have to zoom in to get the ...
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Downloading directly to external hdd, strange behaviour on local disk
I am trying to download directly to an external hdd, and I have noticed strange behaviour.
I'm on windows 8.1. Let's say I have 500mb of free space left on my local disk and wish to download a 1gb ...
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Browser RSS viewing mode
I have seen some websites do have the RSS mode to show content.
I was wondering if there is any special code I can add to any link of any website for always displaying in this way RSS code directly?
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Launch local Plex browser client and play some content (i.e. permalink)
On my client machine, I can query my Plex server for media matching a given string using python-plexapi and I get results.
for section in plex.library.sections():
items = section.search('Die ...
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Browsers don't respond to external link
When I click hyperlinks in some softs (Adobe Reader, unity3d, FileZilla, shadowsocksR, eve launcher, etc), the browsers don't respond at all.
The browsers (Firefox, Chrome and IE) work normally by ...
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How do I make Chrome's jump to last tab feature always jump?
Chrome has this keyboard shortcut,
Jump to the last tab Ctrl + 9
which works, most of the time. However, after staying on a tab for some amount of time, the shortcut doesn't jump to the last tab. ...
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aspx support in browsers running on Linux
Is there a plugin, configuration, etc. that allows browsers on Linux (Opera, Firefox, Chromium) to fully utilize the capabilities of aspx pages on various websites.
My specific issue is that I can't ...
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System process uses max CPU on windows 10 [duplicate]
When playing something on youtube and/or while anything using adobe flash is active, "ntoskrnl.exe" uses one whole core constantly. I tried in opera and internet explorer. It happens in both.
What is ...
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How to check which browser is primary one?
Is there any way to check what browser is a primary one on a specific machine on a Windows 10? How can I find that information programmatically? Powershell perhaps? Or Python?
Thank you for any ...
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How can I automatically adjust the brightness of my screen when switching between dark and light sources?
Often I will have my brightness set for a dark-mode website, but when I click an outside link I get blinded by the pure white background. Usually turning down the brightness by a "notch" on my laptop ...
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Where to find Firefox changelogs for beta versions?
I've been using firefox Developer edition for a while, and every now and then, I get notified of new Beta versions.
The problem is that if I use the "what's new" option (either from the notification ...
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Find text by colour in browser
In LibreOffice Writer Search&Replace I can find by format.
In advanced options I press the Format button and select a format (e.g. Font colour = green).
With Find field left empty, Find Next/...
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How to record the browsing history in Chrome indefinitely? [duplicate]
I first thought it was a bug that my browsing history in Chrome was getting lost but there seems to be a hard limit of 90 days for it: “Your History page shows the websites you've visited on Chrome in ...
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How to spoof javascript window.name property in chrome based browsers?
I was trying everything to alter the tab name property but it doesnt seem to be working with browsers using chrome API. As far as firefox is concerned, there are no problems whatsoever with ...
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How to open JavaScript "onclick" links in new browser tab [duplicate]
Some websites, for reasons I'll never understand, implement links using JavaScript in the onclick event, like this:
<div onclick="document.location='/target_url';">
This doesn't allow me to ...
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Strange character render issue browsing Google/Youtube through Firefox/Chrome
I am having issues in both Firefox and Chrome browser on Windows 10. When you browse to www.google.com it just render something like this (I took that img from Google Image not an actual screenshot ...
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Changing the decimal separator in the firefox web browser
I don't know how but the decimal separator in the Firefox web browser in my laptop changed from point(dot) to comma. I found it in the Downloads section of Firefox. How to I revert it back? Just in ...
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How do I tell my browser that I have an *equal* preference for two languages?
Apparently, the HTTP standard supports giving two languages the same preference. However, my browser (currently Google Chrome, I'm willing to switch if necessary) forces me to "rank" my languages in ...
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Convert URLs in text file to browser bookmark file
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I have a text file with quite a lot of URLs in plain text on each row. I want to import these to Pocket.
I found that Pocket provides the ability to import browser bookmark files from ...
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Is there any way to disable or adjust request timeout in Chrome or Opera like in Firefox?
In firefox it's easy to disable request timeout in about:config is there anyway to do it in chrome or opera or any chromium based browser?
There is an over crowded website I deal with daily in my job....
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Browser Video Player sometimes not Displaying Right Colors
This just started, around the same time Youtube updated their site UI. The problem only happens with media players like Youtube's, its doesn't appear to affect Netflix and sites like theirs, with an ...
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In Chrome (or a different browser), is there a way to change what is displayed when a site cannot be reached?
Note--I don't want to actually reach the can't-be-reached sites. I just want to replace the diagnostic displayed with a message or image of my own choosing.
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chrome - close browser but keep tabs synced to different device
So I recently fought down my anti-data-exposure reflex and logged myself in to Google Chrome to sync browser data.
The idea is to be able to look at stuff on Linux, reboot the device into Windows and ...
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Error Code: MEDIA_ERR_SRC_NOT_SUPPORTED
I want to watch some videos available as links on this page. I tried 3 updated web browsers and all of them give the error: Error Code: MEDIA_ERR_SRC_NOT_SUPPORTED
MY three updated browsers are:
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Disable scroll behavior modifications by 3rd party scripts in Chrome
How can I prevent 3rd-party scripts included on some websites from changing my mouse / trackpad scroll's behavior? I really don't know intentions of authors that have written scripts that for example ...
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Is it possible to block images from a specific URL using the “hosts” file?
I want to block images in a website which is often unimportant ads uploaded to their server or host.
Using inspect element I noticed the all these images was named with ad-[some number].jpg.
I can’t ...
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Access web server on Windows computer from Mac on browser which are on same Network
I have a laptop with Apache installed on Windows 10
I have another laptop with Mac installed, both are connected to same Wifi network.
I want to access Web Server of Windows from Mac's browser.
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How to block the htaccess login dialog box in pop-up ads?
Nowadays some websites won't let you use their platform without disabling your adblocker.
I was recently exposed to a new type of pop-up ad : In order to avoid being closed quickly by the user, a ...