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Why do My Google Search Results Not Visit Page? [closed]
Hardware: Ubuntu 13.04, firefox-trunk
When I do a google search for "test search," the results returned don't actually link to the URL I thought it would. Instead of pointing to wikipedia, for ...
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How do I copy hyperlinks in non-encoded format in Firefox?
When I copy the following URL from FireFox
https://example.com/away.php?to=http://example.com/page/42
and then paste, I get link like:
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Why does Firefox use the “chrome://” protocol / schema in URLs?
When I want to configure an addon, for example Ghostery, the tab shows a URL like this one:
chrome://ghostery/content/options.html
What does it mean? Does it have something to do with the Chrome ...
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Firefox adding my own URL as my search engine? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to add a custom search engine to Firefox?
How can I add my own URL (with a %s as the search item) as one of the search engines in Firefox? Right now, it only allows ...
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When I enter an address with https, Firefox (sometimes) changes it to http
What I did:
I visited https://en.wikipedia.org./wiki/Main_Page (yes, there is a dot after TLD)
I got an SSL error (because the cert isn't valid for the domain name with dot)
I visited ...
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Keyboard shortcut to location bar without selecting all text
At Keyboard shortcut to quickly jump to the URL address field in Firefox James Burton asked about the keyboard shortcut for jumping to the location bar.
This is very handy; however very often I don't ...
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Firefox: given a URL, save the file without navigating to it
Say I find a link to a .pdf file on a webpage. I can right-click and "save as" to save the file without Firefox actually loading the .pdf in the browser.
But suppose I only have the text of the URL. ...
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Firefox removes http:// and treats URLs with spaces as searches
I routinely visit pages like http://trac.server/milestone/Milestone Name Here. In Firefox (11.0 on Ubuntu, but this has happened for a while), the URL is displayed as trac.server/milestone/Milestone ...
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How to prevent Firefox converting 'localhost/*' URLs into search queries?
Since upgrading from Firefox 3.6.x, my address bar has a quirk that never used to be there. When I type in, for example:
localhost/my_dir/index.php
Firefox turns it into a search query, my search ...
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How to prevent Firefox from hiding the 'http://' URL prefix?
I upgraded to Firefox 7.0.1 and the 'Google Shortener' stops working. I think this happens because in Firefox 7.0.1 the http:// URL prefix is now hidden by default.
How do I get the http:// back in ...
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How can I unhide the http:// in Firefox 7?
I've recently switched to FF7 through the Aurora PPA on KUbuntu. For whatever reason, they've decided to start removing http:// from the address bar:
Whenever I edit a link (so that I can paste it ...
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How do I tell NoScript not to freak out when the Visual Studio help system calls up an MSDN web page in Firefox?
So, I'm merrily using Visual Studio 2010 Express and it's configured to get its help from the Web. I have some doubts on how some language feature works and I press F1 with the cursor on it. VS calls ...
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Focus URL in Firefox - 100% guaranteed way
How can I guaranteed, 100% ,absolutely etc. focus URL in Firefox browser?
If there is Flash on page that focus is on it and CTR-L doesn't focus URL.
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where does Speed Dial firefox extension store user bookmarks'?
I've lost my URLs in Speed Dial.
However I have found what appears to be a backup file (extension .speedial). How can I restore my URLs from this file?
Where does Speed Dial store its user ...
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Setting Outlook Web Access as default mail client in Firefox
The company that I work for is nice enough to let me use Linux for work, but they use Outlook. I've been using Outlook Web Access (OWA) as my mail client, which is more or less acceptable.
The only ...
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GMail not autolinking URLs in Firefox 3.6
I've noticed that when I compose an email in GMail using Firefox 3.6, it no longer automatically converts URLs into hyperlinks.
On the odd occasion that I used IE, it did the automatic conversion as ...
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What Firefox functionality do I use to rewrite and open the URL of the active page?
Our university provides a proxy service that allows me to browse websites as if I was online via the university network. However, lazy as I am, I get tired of going to the URL edit field in Firefox ...
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Passing url parameters to Firefox but open urls in new windows, not tabs
I want to open around 10 instances of firefox using the command line like
firefox.exe www.google.com www.msn.com www.yahoo.com
But by default, firefox opens these web pages in tabs, i want firefox ...
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Is there a method to export the URLs of the open tabs of a Firefox window?
If I have a Firefox window open that contains 10 tabs, is there a way in Firefox or by a plug-in to get the URLs of those 10 tabs as a text file or some other format?
Right now if I want to do this I ...
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3answers
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Cross platform bookmark files
I spend my day at work on Windows XP and at home on OS X. I use Firefox on both. I have certain folders sync'ed where I like to drag and drop links to look at later. On XP the link files are saved as ...
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How Do I Disable URL Pre-Pending in the FireFox 3 Title Bar When Opeing A New Window With JavaScript?
For (understandable) security reasons, Firefox does not allow JavaScript to open a new window without the address/location bar AND without pre-pending the page's URL to the title in the title bar.
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Firefox Addon that recognize url and transform it to a Link
I'm looking for an Firefox addon that recognizes URLs on a webpage that are plain text and transform it to a real link.
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3answers
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How can I disable the file:// protocol in Firefox?
How to disable file:// protocol in firefox
I want the users not to browse the local files on the machine.
I already disabled SaveAs and OpenFile functions.
I want user not to browse the local files ...
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How to download a URL as a file?
A website URL has "hidden" some MP3 files by embedding them as Shockwave files, as follows.
<span class="caption"><!-- Odeo player --><embed ...
