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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How to Disable Web Page Checks for Focus, or Spoof Focus on Firefox Browser Tabs?
Problem:
Some web sites refuse to load unless the tab is active, whereas most users appreciate tabs loading in the background. This behavior may not be specific to Firefox.
Examples:
https://www....
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Chrome developer tools - network panel gaps
In the Chrome developer tools, under the network tab, I'm curious to know what is happening during the gaps. If you look at my image below, I have highlighted in orange the areas where these gaps ...
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Force Google Chrome (Or Chromium) to Manually Save VSphere HTML5 Password?
System Info: Running Chromium on various Linux workstations and often Google Chrome or Chromium on one of my work MacBook Pros. I'm only a Firefox user when Google isn't watching (that's a joke, they'...
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How to hide tab bar in chrome but still use tabs?
I use the Tabs Outliner plugin in Google Chrome because I like to see my tabs organized hierarchically. The issue I have is that tabs still display in their normal place (horizontally across the top) ...
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How to select multiple non-contiguous text lines in browsers
Is it possible to select multiple lines of text and be able to copy them?
If I hold Ctrl I expect the previous selection to remain while I add another selection from somewhere, and while I hold ...
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Limiting the size of browser's local storage
Modern browsers offer local storage to websites. Some websites use a very small amount of storage. But other websites seem to think that my local computer shall be their playground. Slack for example ...
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Remapping "browser home" media key when browser is focused
I have remapped the "browser home" media key on my keyboard through the registry in order to have it run a script rather than open the browser. This generally works fine except when a browser is ...
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Chrome reports ERR_INVALID_HANDLE for intranet sites
In Chrome (51.0.2704.84 m) and Chrome Canary (53.0.2768.0) some intranet pages are failing with ERR_INVALID_HANDLE. Some that do partially load give the same error for resource files (e.g. stylesheets)...
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Websites not loading correctly since Windows 8.1 upgrade
I finally upgraded my work PC to Window's 8.1 Pro on Monday (from 8 Pro), but since then I have been having problems with websites not loading correctly. This issue is occurring in both Firefox 27.0.1 ...
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Even though FireFox portable is set as default browser, it doesn't launch when I press the keyboard key to launch web browser
I want to use Firefox portable as my main browser. I noticed when I use the shortcut key built into the keyboard to launch the web browser, something strange happens. A version of Firefox opens up but ...
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How do I enable click-to-play functionality for HTML5 media in Vivaldi?
I've already tried:
Going to vivaldi://settings/content and enabling Content Settings → Let me choose when to run plugin content
Going to vivaldi://plugins and unchecking 'Always allowed to run' for ...
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Force browser to use local machine certificate store for client certificates
It appears that browsers are only capable of reading local user certificate store for user certificates and not local machine store.
See https://jpassing.com/2021/09/27/do-browsers-use-client-...
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How do I embed a plotly chart in a Notion document?
I have a chart that I've made with plotly in RStudio. I can host it in an arbitrary location, with github or a place like shiny apps.
I'd like to make the plotly chart available from a Notion doc. I'm ...
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Opera just imported everything from Chrome, including authentication tokens. How can I protect my Chrome profile folders?
I've recently installed Opera browser in unattended mode (using Chocolatey: choco install opera). When I opened it for the first time, Opera had all my bookmarks imported from Chrome (unwanted, but OK)...
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How to modify the color of the white transition page of firefox?
When I what to open a website. After I press enter, an all-white page is displayed for a second while I wait for the page to start loading. I understand that it's a very short time but I use dark ...
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Add WhatsApp stickers to WhatsApp web / desktop versions
How can I add my own stickers to WhatsApp desktop / web versions?
I've got other 3rd party stickers installed and they only show up on my phone. When I install one of the sticker packs provided by ...
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Force Firefox and Chrome to reload page including all graphics, even favicon
Using the latest Firefox and Chrome on macOS.
I can refresh a page using ⌘+R. This doesn't reload any images if the browser thinks its cached version is still OK (even if it isn't).
I can ...
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In Firefox, focus on "Search the Web" bar in new tabs
How can I have the cursor automatically focused onto the "Search the Web" bar in new tabs, in Firefox 57? This box appears in the middle of the page of new tabs.
Right now, when I open a new tab, the ...
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Programmatically change settings
With Firefox, you can change browser settings with the Browser Console:
Services.prefs.setInfPref('browser.startup.page', 3);
Note that this does not work with the Web Console:
> Services
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DNS lookup fails in chrome only
Trying to access certain sites fails in Google Chrome only:
ping goes through OK:
nslookup is OK:
Firefox loads the page OK
Changing between WiFi and wired network has no effect
Using one of ...
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Chrome crashes when I try to add user account
My Google Chrome (Version 55.0.2862.1 ) crashes every time when I try to login into a Google account by clicking on the Person icon present on the top right corner. I want to sync my settings and ...
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What exactly is "Browser" in Chrome's task manager, if it's not an open tab, and where is the traffic coming from?
I'm having problems loading some webpages on a slow connection on Chrome, and opened its Task Manager and saw that the "Browser" task is using up all the bandwidth to download something, but I don't ...
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How to hide all toolbars in Google Chrome without going full screen?
I would like to hide everything except the webpage content in Google Chrome. This means I want to hide tabs, omnibar, bookmarks bar and so on.
I've found out that the Presentation Mode is quite nice ...
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How to open a local file with a query string appended to it in the default browser?
I want to do something like this from a shell script:
$ open 'foo.html?foo=bar'
Sadly that fails, as it looks for a file named foo.html?foo=bar instead of foo.html before opening the browser:
The ...
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Separate a <div>'s content to print with Chrome
This is on Mac OS X, Chrome 35 (but probably should apply elsewhere, too):
I need to print the contents of a webpage/webshop that is hidden behind/under a rather unlucky div construct..
Is there a way ...
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Text indentation via Tab-key in the Windows Google Chrome browser without using extensions or a Numpad?
When trying to indent a block of text in an input textfield, for instance to emphasize Markdown code-blocks, the Tab key is already bound to a different action (switching to the next input element).
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Download stops at 99% and gives error
Some EXEs from our website are not downloading completely. (ex: "winmansoftware.com/files/WinmanCAERP_Update.EXE")
Download completes 99% and gives error. But the same EXEs are downloading ...
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Opera doesn't show me addressbar content completion for all pages. Why?
When I type something in the address bar then I sometime see Opera offering pages which have the given word in the page text. This would be very useful if it worked all the time, but whenever I try it ...
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Google Chrome - Bookmarked pages don't show URLs anymore on dropdown. Just the bookmark folder. That's very annoying! Is there anyway to restore URLs?
Chrome and other Chromium based browsers (e.g. Microsoft Edge) have a new annoying "feature" that hides the URLs of bookmarked pages on the Address Bar dropdown. Incredibly annoying! This is ...
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How to force the browser to always show images in full size?
When I load some pages that have just an image, the browser always tries to fit the image to the current window size, and to view full size, I have to click on the image with the magnifying glass. ...
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How to clear some of the search cache in Google Chrome
When you bookmark or visit a specific site, Chrome will start suggesting it when you start typing letters that that site URL starts with
e.g. I often visited, or bookmarked:
https://coolsite.com/some-...
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How do I get around resistFingerprinting setting my preferred Firefox theme to light?
In Firefox, I want to have both browser.in-content.dark-mode and privacy.resistFingerprinting set to true. However, the latter setting, as discussed in this issue, masks this setting and sets the ...
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How can I tell Firefox never to cache a certain server?
I know you can tell Firefox never to use cache at all. But - can I make such a setting on a per-server level? (There is this web-based mechanism which I know I never want to get cached results for, ...
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Browsers suddently report touch support on a non touch screen system
I am puzzled: a windows 10 system suddently reports that it supports touch, even though it acutally doesn't. There is a 2nd monitor connected - but non touch. At first I thought it was the latest ...
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Remote control graphical Firefox instance
Is there any way to control regular Firefox instance remotely? I'm not looking for automated web testing or anything else utilizing headless browser. I'd just like to make useful CLI and desktop ...
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The new Chrome won't open the development tools
I upgraded my Chrome browser 6 Apr 2019 and the new browser won't open the development tools. I have tried right-clicking on the page and selecting 'inspect', have tried
More tools -> Developer ...
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Powershell to set default browser
I created a process using PowerShell to install Chrome. What I am looking to do now is to have PowerShell change the registry for the computer and change the default browser to Chrome.
I would ...
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How Do I Block Ads In the Tor browser...?
I just started using Tor browser, and there are ads showing up on pretty much every page I've visited. I've been using Adblocker and Ghostery on my other web browsers for years, so I rarely see ads ...
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data-lynx-uri links on facebook
I've noticed a long time ago that links that are posted on facebook are somehow handled in a twisted way. If I hover with my mouse over the link or page preview, my browser (in this case, Safari for ...
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Can't load sites through all browsers (but can mostly when adding `https://` manually)
So my friend contacted me today and begged me for my help. She works at a designing company and said:
"Since last week, I can't load any site excluding google. When I type
the site name in any ...
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Is is possible to zoom beyond the limits in Internet Explorer?
Im using IE to view a large svg file and would like to see the whole image. However IE has a limit of 10% on zooming out, and at that level its still too close to see whole image. Is it possible to ...
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Where is the setting in Chrome/FireFox on Windows 10 the changes download prompt timing behavior?
We have two different PCs running Chrome 63, FireFox 57 and Windows 10 Fall Creators Update. When "Ask where to save each file before downloading" has been turned on, Machine A immediately brings up a ...
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Google extremely slow only on Windows machines
Just in the past day, I have started to have a network issue where any page from Google takes an extremely long time (>10 seconds) to load. Other websites are fine; this issue only seems to happen ...
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How does giphy detect whether the image is embedded or not?
Giphy has a pretty neat trick with its gif images:
If they are embedded within another html page, as in, say
<img src="https://media.giphy.com/media/DFqYLyMGpZ42c/giphy.gif" width="200">
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How can I enable WebCL in my browser?
I have experience with WebGL in javascript and with (py)OpenCL and both are great tools. Now I would like to put it together and do fast science/engineering demos in web browser. But I'm not sure if ...
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json view \n as newline in browser
I've been looking around but every answer I found seems to be close but not accurate.
I have a json returned by an web api ("content-type: application/json" in response header) that has newlines in ...
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How to disable “dynamic” browser title bar contents
Quite a few web sites use the browser title bar/favicon to indicate changes they think I should be aware of (the most obvious example: I get a message in facebook, and the facebook tab of my browser ...
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How to refresh Chrome remotely?
I have Chrome running in kiosk mode (it displays my HTML/CSS/JS application - so I have control over the whole stack).
From time to time, I need to refresh its static content, that is reload the HTML,...
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Vivaldi Browser storing Cookies in Chrome Safe Store
On my OSX machine Vivaldi always starts with the message
Vivaldi wants to use your confidential information saved in "Chrome Safe Store" in your keychain.
If I deny this request, all cookies from ...
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Why are previous entries removed from my history if I visit them again later on?
I've noticed with Google Chrome history that if I click on a link to a site I'd previously visited from the history or if I input the same URL in my address bar and go to it, it bumps the entry to the ...
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