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Firefox configure one hop (double) proxy
In my office network, all traffic goes through a squid proxy (proxy A). I have an own squid proxy (proxy B) on a vps.
I can browse internet fine using proxy A when on office network and proxy B when ...
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Firefox subpixel rendering on Ubuntu
I was reading this here blog entry and the page was driving my eyes NUTS.
Seems like it's the fault of Firefox on Ubuntu 12.04. It's had this problem before, it seems but it should be fixed.
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How to print directly to default printer in classical Linux applications?
It's kind of lost the print directly action in many applications like Firefox and Evince. This missing option is supposed to send the print job directly to the default printer with the default options ...
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Can i sync my firefox bookmarks without Xmarks or such
I am happy with the firefox sync feature. I don't want to use Xmarks.
Can I syn them locally? Why is there no chrome addon to use the Mozilla servers to sync?
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Copy and Paste, Remove Accents Automatically
I download many papers from journals as a student and most of the time the files are PDF files that have strange names like PF10001.pdf. Anyways, the website itself has a good filename beside the ...
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Firefox on Ubuntu repeatedly asks for password with HTTP authentication
I asked this on Stack Overflow and it was suggested that I ask here instead.
I have tried searching for this but nothing I find quite matches my issue. My wife and I run identical setups. We both run ...
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Ubuntu-Java not working in chrome or firefox
I installed JDK-7 on to my Ubuntu 12.10 and JDK is not running in any of my browsers but I can right click a .jar file and it will give me the option to open with OpenJDK Java 7 Runtime. I can also ...
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In firefox, back, tab close, new tab icon is not shown
I have downloaded firefox 19 tar file and extracted it. Executing firefox opens firefox without icons like close, new tab etc. as shown in figure (OS: ubuntu). Is there any step am I missing? In their ...
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Firefox spellcheck settings keep changing
The spell-check language setting on Firefox keeps changing to en_CA rather than the default of en_US. I change it back but it invariably flips... maybe in a few hours, maybe a few days. (It's hard to ...
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Weird rendering of font Helvetica in Chrome
It started happening after I installed the Helvetica font on my system (at least I think that was the trigger).
I tried to install Helvetica on my Ubuntu 12.10 system but the font viewer crashed ...
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Having trouble with some media while using Firefox in Ubuntu.
I just started using Firefox in Ubuntu today. While on Twitter, I noticed some avatars not showing up, but just their description as seen in the screen shot below. Any idea what could cause this? ...
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Firefox 17.0 doesn't load/save FORM passwords after upgrade
I'm using Ubuntu's Firefox (lucid-updates repository).
After upgrading to version 17.0 it doesn't load or save form passwords!
The problem is only with form passwords and HTTP Auth passwords are OK ...
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How to change default search engine in firefox running on ubuntu
I did similar threads on this issue, I modified browser.search.defaultenginename and browser.search.defaulturl to Google, it still comes back with Yahoo. I am stuck, not sure how to change the ...
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How to define keyboard shortcut for a url in Firefox on Ubuntu?
I’m wondering whether there is any Firefox add-on or trick to define keyboard shortcuts to URLs? For example, assigning a hotkey (in Firefox or Ubuntu) to quickly access a site. I'm using Ubuntu ...
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Is there any HTML website editor for Firefox?
There are a lot of Web Developer add-ons available for Firefox, like Firebug.
But is there a HTML editor addon for Firefox which I can use to edit my website, while viewing the edits real-time ...
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How to create a password to open firefox?
I use Ubuntu 12.04 and Firefox 15.0.1
I have some history saved in my Firefox browser.
I find it useful to have them.
But I don't want my friends or anyone to have a look at my history when they ...
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Install Ubuntu’s Web Apps Feature (12.04, FF15)
My problem is just as described in this thread - I can't install Ubuntu's web apps because it depends on FF14 (but Ubuntu comes shipped with FF15 already (at least the mentioned thread says so)).
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Am I a spambot or is it just a wrongly configured Tor?
I'm on Ubuntu 12.04 and constantly experience trouble browsing, i.e. extremely slow-loading websites. I'm fairly confident it's not just a network problem.
Sometimes I find that when Chrome ...
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Copy files using drag-drop from Firefox in Ubuntu
Usually you can save a picture from the web just by dragging and dropping it from your browser to a folder, right? I have always done that, but in my computer at work that runs on Ubuntu 10.10 I ...
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Websites: Five character string at the top left hand corner of NYTimes.com page
I hope I've got the right part of StackExchange, as this is sort of a weird question.
Lately I noticed that occasionally whenever I opened an NYTimes.com page via a link, the top left hand corner of ...
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Firefox won't scroll to start/end of this page with home/end keys
I'm using Firefox 13.0 on Ubuntu 11.10.
When accessing the following web page, with Javascript enabled, the "home" and "end" keys will not scroll to the start/end of the document (ctrl-home / ...
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Editing about:config values from commandline
Is it possible to edit about:config parameters from command-line on Ubuntu desktops ?
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Lightweight ad-blocker for firefox [closed]
On a old machine (512 MB RAM) I am currently running ubuntu jaunty and firefox 3.0.15. I tried the ad blocker addon add block plus but it eats lots of RAM (>300 MB).
Is high memory load of this ...
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Firefox doesn't recognize my “ALT” keys anymore
Ubuntu 12.04, Firefox 13.0, xfce
For some reason, my Firefox installation has stopped paying attention to ALT keystroke combinations. That is, when I try an ALT-something key combination, I get the ...
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How to exit Firefox kiosk mode?
I've set up Firefox on Ubuntu to run in kiosk (full-screen) mode. This means the user can visit only the predefined URLs. That works fine.
Now I want to set up a second machine the same way, but I ...
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share firefox/thunderbird profiles between windows and ubuntu - profile is in use
I have a dual boot PC with Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04. I want to share my Firefox and Thunderbird profiles between the to OS. I have a "DATA" partition where the profiles are located.
I have set the ...
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Ubuntu w/ KDE - Using Tahoma or Segoe UI in Firefox makes text disappear
I just installed Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and hated the new Gnome, so I installed KDE 4.8.
The default Firefox fonts are disgusting, so I tried changing them to the Windows ones. I copied the Tahoma and ...
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firefox addon Stylish gives me random error message
I'm running on Ubuntu 12.04. I installed Stylish addon today.
I write a new style:
@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);
@-moz-document domain("weibo.com") {
#pl_content_pullylist {
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Where does Spotify Beta install?
I used both locate & whereis to locate post apt-get install proc specd by Facebook, but cant the locate the helper app for firefox to use.... natty narwhal 11.04
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How can I force Thunderbird to use my preferred text color and to ignore the text color specified in incoming messages?
I use a dark theme in Ubuntu. Everything is fine in Thunderbird except for the messages that arrive where a font color is specified ( I assume Outlook forces a color to be specified). Those messages ...
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Lightest Linux Desktop supporting Firefox/graphic browser [closed]
I am on Windows and I have a remote server with Ubuntu 10.10.
I want to use Firefox or other graphic browser on that remote server.
The problem is, the server's memory is only 512MB, so I can ...
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Start Firefox in fullscreen with no easy way to exit
I would like Firefox to start automaticaly in fullscreen mode and with no menus, tabs, etc...
It's for an app, and the users should not be able to easily exit the app.
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Batch downloading available pages in Google books?
I am using Google Book Downloader addon to Firefox. It generates links to individual image per available page, but if I would like to download multiple pages' images using selecting the links and ...
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using SOCKS and still have pages blocked
On Ubutnu, Using firefox:
i set it in firefox network setting(SOCKS5) when i check my ip (i.e whatsmyip.com) it is the socks server's ip, but when trying to access youtube.com it's blocked
why?!
in ...
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Why are Firefox fonts so tiny on KDE?
I use Firefox 10 on Ubuntu 12.04, in KDE.
In for instance Chrome and Konqueror, the fonts look alright, but in Firefox the fonts are tiny, almost too hard to read.
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Where can I associate the magnet protocol in Firefox?
I am not able to associate magnet protocol in FF. I am using Ubuntu 11.10 with FF 10.0.2. Created the following in about:config and restarted FF, but still getting the below message.
Boolean
Name: ...
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Firefox gives British Spellings Despite An American Dictionary
Ubuntu 101.10
Firefox 9.0.1
Edit > Preferences > Content > Language > Choose ( reveals the en-us dictionary )
Hi. I'm running the above browser and OS combination. When I go to the above menu ...
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Should I not be using Firefox 3.6?
In Ubuntu the version of Firefox that gets downloaded through apt-get is 3.6.2.4. But Firefox is up to version 9.01 already.
Why does apt-get only get version 3.6? Why is Firefox already up to ...
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flash plugin for firefox 9.0.1 Ubuntu 11.10
Problem:
I can play flash videos locally, in chromium, and in epiphany (the GNOME web browser). For some reason support is spotty in firefox. Youtube will play most of the time but sometimes the video ...
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Password prompt appearing twice in Firefox at startup
I am using Ubuntu 11.10 with Firefox 9.0.1 with a couple of addons. Ocasionally when I start Firefox two prompts asking for the password appear. Any solution?
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Can't install Firebug in FF8, “can't modify the file”, how to fix?
I try installing FireBug in FF8, apparently it downloads it correctly, but reports an error when installing. No debug information is shown, just "can't modify the file". How can I debug this ...
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How to install old versions of Firefox on newer versions of Ubuntu
I am on Ubuntu 11.10 (which comes with FF8), and I am going to have to test an app that only supports FF3.5. I vaguely remember a page with old versions of the browser, and links to versions for each ...
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How to start Firefox maximized or fullscreen without any additional extensions?
How can I start Firefox maximized or fullscreen without any additional extensions?
If I open it, maximize and then close it, it still does not open maximised.
The OS is linux - Ubuntu 11.10 32 bit
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How can I stop Firefox from freezing regularly?
(Firefox 7.0.1 on Ubuntu 11.10 using Gnome Classic)
I had hoped my Firefox freezing issue would have been solved with the sqlite VACUUM method offered in this answer. It has helped, in that Firefox ...
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Install Firefox 5 on Ubuntu 11.10
I'm running Ubuntu 11.10, and, for web development, need to install Firefox 5 specifically. I know I can do it by hand from the Mozilla download. But I'd like a Ubuntu package. Is one available? ...
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Firefox freezing my whole desktop
I'm using Firefox 7 on Ubuntu 11.10. I am not definitely sure that this problem began since upgrading Ubuntu from 11.04, but that would be my guess.
The problem is fairly simple. Firefox freezes at ...
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Ubuntu, printing page to windows printer works except on firefox?
Just installed Ubuntu 11.04, setup a zebra label printer, and a HP LaserJet 4050t.
Both printers are set up on a networked windows computer and I am connecting to them using samba.
Both printers ...
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human input in system dialog without knowledge - is is possible to “recall”? [closed]
While I was writing email in Gmail (Ubuntu 10.10, Firefox 7) suddenly I got popup (not website, dialog box (like system/browser).
I was just pressing space, so dialog box got submitted by default ...
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Redmine contex-menu and member deletion/modification failure
I'm using Redmine 0.9.3.stable (SQLite) on my Ubuntu 11.04.
It is all ok except for the context-menu and inability of removing the members from some project. Concerning the first problem, when I do ...
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How do I transfer my Firefox profile from Windows 7 to Ubuntu?
My Windows 7 broke up and now I am on Ubuntu. I can't load Windows itself, only command line, system restore and others didn't work.
I can however access my Windows 7 files from Ubuntu.
Is it ...
