Questions tagged [internet-explorer]
Internet Explorer is the web browser developed by Microsoft. Version specific questions should use a version-specific tag, as this tag is for more general cases.
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How to remove "Top sites and news feed tab" in new Internet Explorer?
After Creators Update Windows offered to show news feed tab in new tabs. Unfortunately, after accepting, it reliably freezes whenever I open a new tab. I failed to find the option to switch to ...
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Proxy problems on specific URL in IE
I have a quite weird issue:
I have to use a Proxy-Script for my machine. As usual this is stored in IE under connection settings:
http://192.168.21.114/proxy.pac
Now everything works just fine ...
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internet explorer 11 zonemap not working when using HKLM
According to this article, for all versions prior to Internet Explorer 11, it should be possible to use the HKLM hive to set Intranet/Trusted Sites zone assigments, noting:
they will not be visible ...
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Why is the "Top Stories" Blurry in internet explorer? (From google)
This is a strange question, but why is the news top stories blurry on internet explorer? I took two screenshots to compare Internet explorer and Firefox (same search, news)
Click on the images to see ...
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How does Windows find the path for executables like iexplore.exe?
If I type iexplore into the run window, it runs Internet Explorer. I presume that means C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer is in my path environment variable, but it's not. I checked both my user ...
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Force Google Chrome to check for new JavaScript files every time I access a web site
So, if I go to Internet options in Internet Explorer:
I can adjust the settings for when IE checks for updates:
Can I do something similar in Google Chrome? Right now when I change my JavaScript ...
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What is Encoding -> Unicode in Internet Explorer and Firefox?
As far as I know Unicode itself is not an encoding system. It is just a standard that assigns code point to characters. Quoting from Wikipedia..
Unicode can be implemented by different character ...
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How do I disable the security dialog alert?
I did turn off downloads on IE and would like to to turn off this secutity alert. How do I do that?
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Google - Are you sure you want to leave this webpage? null
I have recently been getting this message a lot on Google. It happens when I leave the page, click on a link or perform a search. It seems to go away after I click it and wont popup for a while but it ...
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Internet Explorer 11 Change the downloaded file name, replacing all the dots (.) with underscores (_)
Recently I've encounter this problem, each file I try to download with Internet Explorer 11, getting it's name changed automatically, by replacing the dot (.) in the file name to underscore (_). For ...
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How to create a reliable shortcut to IE and Edge?
I am using shortcuts a lot, because I find them easier to use that the start menu. Shortcuts to "normal" applications work fine, and IE used to work fine on Windows 7, too. But on Windows 10 IE and ...
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How to block IE from caching 301 redirects
I use ATT as an internet provider and a "service" they "provide" is that any page that fails to resolve in DNS is redirected to this fun url (a snippet here: http://dnserrorassist.att.net/search/?q=...
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Excel 2013 Web Query to an HTTPs page through Proxy
After countless hours spent on the Internet and various stack communities, I decided to sign up here to ask the question directly.
I'm getting a page cannot be displayed error when trying to access a ...
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Has Microsoft's Internet Explorer anything to do with an ongoing download in Mozilla Firefox?
I am using Windows 8 on my ASUS laptop. Today, I was downloading a .zip file from Mediafire.com in the Firefox browser when suddenly my Firefox started to lag and stopped responding for about a minute....
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how to add bookmarklet in IE 11?
I can't figure out the way to manually add a bookmarklet, there is no edit option for url.
I can save javascript bookmarklet embedded in webpages though.
Anyone know is it possible?
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XAP File being deleted on Internet Explorer Close
I'm having an issue where whenever I open my silverlight app, the XAP file is re-downloaded. If I do not close internet explorer and just re open the app, the file is not downloaded again as it exists ...
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Mounting Office365 Remotely - Jumping through hoops
I've managed to correctly map the user's specific drive, but when I attempt to actually use it, I get the following error:
PS J:\> echo "test" > test.txt
out-file : Access Denied. Before ...
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WPAD.dat not setting proxy server automatically
We noticed this problem when a few users could not access the interenet while they connected to VPN. We had the user try a different connection, such a hotspot from their phone, then connect to the ...
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Favourites keeps duplicating
I have 2 Windows 10 computers. Both are on a separate license but I log onto both with the same Microsoft username.
I use IE and favourites to quickly find my favourite websites. I only had a few but ...
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URL always opens in InPrivate browsing in IE11
A desktop on site has a link to our OWA.
Everytime this PC opens this link, it opens InPrivate (signified by logo next to address bar).
New browser windows don't start using InPrivate mode, and ...
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Highlight text one character at a time in Internet Explorer
Internet Explorer is doing that annoying thing that Word also does: it tries to select more text than you are highlighting with the mouse. For example, in the text below, selecting the first 4 ...
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unable to login to DVR on Internet Explorer - not being prompted for ActiveX add-on
I'm trying to access my DVR system on Internet Explorer (V 11.0.38) but i'm unable to input text in the login field, it's not prompting me to download the ActiveX add-on.
I have one PC where the add-...
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How to activate keyboard accelerator shown on Internet Explorer 11 notification bar?
So how can I press Show all content button using keyboard?
Alt+S worked in IE 10 (Windows 8), because notification bar accelerators have had precedence while the bar was displayed, but this no longer ...
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Ancient IE browser on dinosaur running xp 2003 can't connect to the internet
So I'm playing around with a fossil that I made the mistake of purchasing at a local thrift store; one which can't even run a browser in lubuntu (not enough processing power, I think). Lubuntu is ...
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bat file to tick ar untick using proxy in PC
It's that time of the day, leaving office and sit at home, turn on your laptop, you need to disable using the proxy on PC level from control panel > internet options > connections > proxy off... next ...
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User Style Sheets in Firefox
I would like to adjust the styling of websites on a specific domain in Firefox, but the instructions I found here are maybe out of date? At least they don't seem to be working for me. I have followed ...
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Website bigger in Chrome than Internet Explorer
I am viewing this page in Chrome version 55.0.2883.87 m and IE version 11.0.
http://isometricland.net/keyboard/chart-doom-doom-ii-hell-on-earth.php?gam=4&sty=15&lay=1
The page uses a lot of ...
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How does GitHub Desktop launch straight from the browser? And how can I implement this?
How does GitHub launch its GitHub Desktop application directly from the browser?
It works even when using Google Chrome. I thought that this was impossible outside of Internet Explorer.
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Is there a way to tell what forces IE 11 compatibility mode?
There is a number of ways to force compatibility mode in IE 11: using HTTP response headers on web server, special tags in web page template, using group policies/Enterprise Compatibility mode. Is ...
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Copying data with images from Word, and pasting said data with images in Internet Explorer fails to paste images
Here is the Technical information about software being used:
Internet Explorer 11
Microsoft Word 2013 (15.0.4875.1000) MSO 32-bit
Windows 7 Professional 64-bit (Service Pack 1)
I was trying to ...
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Internet Explorer 11 not displaying UTF-8 encoded pages correctly
Some pages in IE 11, that seem to be UTF-8, are not displaying correctly. The same page displays correctly in Mozilla Firefox. I first noticed this in Amazon.com on the Orders page (pretty much any of ...
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Google searches in Internet Explorer redirects to cse.google.com
In Internet Explorer under Windows 10 Pro, Google searches suddenly redirects to cse.google.com. This wasn't happening previously, and this problem does not occur with Firefox. Google searches with ...
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Where can I find a specific version of Internet Explorer 11 to test against?
I have a webapp which is experiencing problems on a particular version of IE11 (11.0.10240 and 11.0.10230) at a customer site. Due to policy, they can not easily update or install another browser.
My ...
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Saving all the tabs to HTML
I have more than tabs opened in IE (like 10-15)
Is there anyway I can save all the tabs to HTML files?
I have googled around but could not find anything
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Glary Utilities showing a lot more trash size for IE than there really is?
Glary Utilities is showing that Internet Explorer temporary internet files size is more than 6GB.
As a sane person I don't use IE. I looked up the temp folder and there are 43 files with total size ...
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Links missing in AngularJS 2 website in IE 9
I see all the links (live example) missing from https://angular.io website when I view the website in IE 9. Example shown below.
Is it just me seeing this issue or it's happening for everyone with ...
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How to attach image from webcam in the Internet Explorer (metro mode)?
I use a web application running on the Internet Explorer 11 (metro mode) and Windows 8.1 desktop version. When I try to attach a photo from my webcam, dialog appears, but there is no Camera element in ...
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Minecraft Links Open Internet Explorer, Not Chrome
When I click on a link in minecraft, and open the link it opens in internet explorer, even though I think chrome is my default browser. How can I fix this?
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Many HTTPS websites show "Your connection is not private" in Chrome and IE, but open in Firefox
I have windows7 - 64 bit and Chrome as browser.
Many https websites can't open in Chrome and IE but ok in Firefox.
I see following page in Chrome:
Your connection is not private
Attackers ...
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How do I open Internet Explorer on Windows 10? [duplicate]
I am running Windows 10 and need to be able to use Internet Explorer for some work, but I can't seem to locate it. I've already tried typing 'Internet Explorer' in Cortana search but it didn't work.
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Assistance installing IE 9
My laptop came with IE 11 on it and for my job I need IE 9 I tried uninstalling IE 11 and then downloading IE 9 but Microsoft will not allow the download. Could anyone please help me? I never had IE ...
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Internet explorer 10 download for windows server 2008 R2
Im trying to download Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 2008R2 but the Microsoft downloads page found here lists everything but IE10.
The closest I can find is an update for IE10 found here
Does ...
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Disable Internet Explorer's "A problem with this webpage caused Internet Explorer to close and reopen the tab"
This has been a serious issue with me. Oftentimes I will be doing something very important in a webpage and it freezes up (I leave my PC on 24/7 and try to restart at least once a day or so but it is ...
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Internet Explorer only works when going through a proxy
This only affects Internet Explorer, others (Chrome, Opera, Vivaldi etc) works without problems.
Internet Explorer only works when running through a proxy. That is, it works when Fiddler is open, ...
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Internet Explorer 11 - Process per tab
I've found various resources such as this one stating that in previous versions of Internet Explorer, IE can be configured to use a process per tab upto a certain number of processes by using the ...
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How to stop onload play html5 video on websites?
Anyone know how stop automatic play on page load unwanted html5 videos?
This is importnant for me because I use limited bandwith transfer, and that unwanted media eat my amount of limited transfer.
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SSL Error - Cannot Browse an HTTPS Address
In one of my computers I can not browse https://www.stackoverflow.com and both chrome and IE show SSL error page to me, while on the other computer I can successfully browse the site.
The strange ...
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Old app trying to run flash help files from local filesystem
I have an old app that needs to be able to run flash files from the file system. A URI like:
file:///C:/myfiles/doflash.html
I can't get anything (IE, Chrome) to load and run that. However, if I ...
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Corrupt iesysprep.dll in Windows 7
While trying to figure out if I have a malware problem on Windows 7 Pro, I did a sfc /scannow in both Safe Mode and from a recovery disk, but both times the shell responded Windows Resource Protection ...
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Choose certificate popup list is empty in Internet Explorer 8
Trying to solve the issue choosing certificate in Internet Explorer 8 on Windows 7 since the website I am trying to login requires a certificate. Here the popup with empty list (image link below).
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