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Video in Google's Home Page [duplicate]
On Special Ocasions , like today being Mother's day , Google puts a video like animation in its webpage. The concept of the animation is intriguing. I wish to know more details about it.
So far i am ...
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The quickest way to change text font when browsing web?
I often want to set the text on my screen to some of my favourite fonts (e.g. Candara, Century Gothic, ...). To do that I use inspect element in the browser to change the css font of the element as ...
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Convert responsive web page to PDF
Couldn't decide if this is a question better for Stack Overflow or Superuser, but I'll start here.
I have Adobe Acrobat 9.0 Pro, and with that, the Convert Web Page to PDF button that displays in IE. ...
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Weird font displayed on websites
I am running Windows 7 on a Dell XPS M1640
I have downloaded and installed a lot of fonts recently and I think this is were my problem began. I started to notice that some (not all) websites would ...
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Why is web text distorted?
On various websites text is distorted, this is happening in both Chrome and IE, but only to certain parts of text - the same page can show both normal and distorted text. See the two screen grabs ...
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Are there any browser limits to the length of a line in HTML?
Do any browsers (Internet Explorer in particular) have bugs relating to the length of a line in HTML source code?
Assuming the source code is being optimised for HTML parsers/renderers and not for ...
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Automatically bookmark last viewed page
This excludes RSS feed A.K.A Live Bookmark. I am looking for a bookmark[let] that gets updated automatically so that it directs to the last viewed page for a given website. I am guessing something ...
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How to invert web pages colour scheme in Firefox?
I use to browse web in a dark room and would prefer if the backgrounds would be dark and text would be light instead of the opposite which is much more common. I suppose this can be achieved with some ...
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What is meant via default Zoom level in webapp/application
I have seen options like "default zoom" in modern browsers, Which contain the options like Far, Medium,Close. I did notice the case in the page rendering but but via these word (far,medium,close) I ...
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Is there a browser based interface for running command line on your host?
I know I can manually run it through PHP's exec() command but I was hoping if there was a ready to download and deploy PHP-based system that could act as a bridge and terminal and you can run commands ...
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How to disable keyboard shortcut on web applications?
I'm a Vimium user. So I want to operate everything in vim's way. But some web application override keyboard shortcuts. For example, gmail, JIRA, most of rich text editors and so on.
It is very ...
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Weird browser behavior when opening webpage
This happens quite often in both firefox and chrome and its quite annoying.
Scenario: I middle click on a link, opening a webpage in a new tab, the tab opens.
The pages loads, saying "waiting for ", ...
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How to disable right click on certain websites
I am not asking this question from a web developer but from an end-user.
I am using several web sites (google drive, evernote and so on) that have context menu that activates upon a right click ...
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When does a cached website refresh?
If i go to example.com [placeholder for different website] it creates the numerous cache entries in the browser for different items on the page and two entries for example.com. One of which expires in ...
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Make chrome webpages available offline
I'm travelling today and want to do some work on the plane/train etc. I won't have access to the internet but there's a few web pages I'd like to have available for reference.
Is there anyway to ...
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How to refresh all my browser pages from all the opened tabs at the same time?
If I press F5 on any web browser(Internet Explorer, Firefox or Chrome) it will refresh the current page on the current tab context. Assuming that I want to refresh all opened webpages on all the ...
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Command line browser with js support
Does anybody know good command line browser with js support?
Ideally I need following ability:
some-browser http://example.com > ~/page.html
It means that cli browser download html, execute js ...
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How can I get Opera speed-dial and password management features in other browsers?
I heavily rely on Opera's speed dial and password management features. Lack of these two features is really stopping me from switching to another web browser such as Chrome or Firefox.
Opera's ...
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Lock/disable the zoom on Chrome Browser
Is there a way to disable/lock the mouse/touchpad zoom in the Chrome browser? I find myself accidentally triggering ctrl-wheel or touchpad-two-finger far more often than do intentionally.
As an ...
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Which browser does not support unicode in urls? [closed]
One time one guy has come to office and show me that polish characters in website url's path part was percentage-encoded. Currently I'm looking for browser with similar behaviour for test, but every ...
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Unicode support between different OS and browsers
I would like to develop a web application that uses Unicode. The problem is that I don't know if the user supports the full Unicode set or not.
Is the Unicode support dependent on the browser or the ...
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Easy solution to monitoring & blocking connections to non-malicious services, IP's, and tracking companies
Our family lives in the middle of nowhere, so the only high-speed internet available is Verizon's 3G mobile broadband. We have the highest package available, yet continually go over the 10GB limit and ...
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Tabs and Url bar on same toolbar in web browser
Does anyone know of a web browser that puts the tabs, url bar, back/forward buttons, etc... on the same toolbar by default? I know this is possible in Firefox but it never looks very good. Something ...
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getting pictures from a website [closed]
I am not able to get the pictures from follwoing slide show
Link
how can i get image path.So i can download it. Thanks
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OSX 10.4.11 connected usb dongle to internet but no web access, wifi ok any browser
I have a macbook running 10.4.11 and can connect to the internet using a BT dongle (ZTEUSB Modem) but cannot access any websites through any browser. I have ditched preference files, in fact anything ...
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Do web browsers cache SSL certificates?
Do any web browsers cache SSL server certificates? For example, if I change the SSL certificate on a web server, will all of the web browsers pick up the new certificate when they connect via SSL, or ...
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How to do web searches in text-only web browsers
I usually use google but whenever I load it in a text browser I have to press down several times to go to the field where you enter the search string. This is redundant. How do people use text-only ...
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Firefox add-on to record all web browsing
I am looking for an add-on for Firefox that would record all my browsing online and create an index, perhaps only the text of the main body of the page, so that I can later go through everything I've ...
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How to succeed in submitting an application on a high-traffic website
I'm curious:
Sometimes there are different events, when websites cannot handle their traffic. (usually starts at precise time until sold/booked/etc.)
For example:
Class registration at schools,
Sale ...
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Why do webpages sometimes appear as plain HTML before a refresh
this has started happening quite frequently since a week or so.
It is far from a major problem, but more of a annoyance.
Sometime, when I go on a webpage, the page seems to load as plain HTML. Then, ...
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Text renders awfully in Chrome on a PC, yet fine in all other modern web browsers
A web project I'm currently writing has awful text rendering in Chrome 15.0 on Windows and below, despite text rendering perfectly on all other modern web browsers on both Mac/PC.
Internet Explorer ...
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How can I disable arrow key hijacking on websites?
Sort of like preventing websites from disabling your ability to right click. Some websites hijack the up and down arrows on the keyboard and give them a different function than what they normally do ...
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Web fonts not displaying correctly in some browsers
When I view certain sites I get text that looks outlined like the image below:
The first font in the font-family css for this is helvetica neue. I'm on a windows machine and don't have this font, ...
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How does “Same Origin Policy” protect us?
Someone can please explain to me how does the "Same Origin Policy" feature protect us from web attacks (XSS,CSRF, etc)?
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Display invisible characters in Firefox
Is there a way to visualize hidden(invisible) characters in Firefox? (or other browser) like MS Word (or other text editors) does?
Say, I want to see (count) spaces, newlines, other invisible ...
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What is the best cross platform keyboard based web browser? [closed]
What is the best cross platform keyboard based web browser? I have tried Conkerer only so far, but would like to try others if there are any.
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Automatically save all pages from specific site in Firefox on load
I need to go through a list of pages on a specific site so that each page content I visit could be automatically saved with some filename in a specific directory. It's a survey site that only allows ...
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What happens when you enter a URL in your browser? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What exactly happens when you browse a website in your browser.
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First URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator. It will be very difficult to remember an IP address. ...
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Block all third party domains from web pages
When I'm browsing the web, I'd like to not be tracked by any third party services like Facebook or Google. For instance, if I visit somepage.com I don't want my browser requesting things from ...
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Clone web browser instance
Is there a tool/service that would allow 2 developers to browse the web on separate machines and have dev 1 control dev 2s session and the opposite, without the need for a hardcore remote access like ...
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What web browsers support non-latin hostnames 'out of the box'?
With ICANN approving the first full Internationalised Domain Names for non-latin scripts such as Arabic, Cyrillic, Chinese, etc do all browsers support these character sets out of the box?
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Utilities to view web page as text only?
I'd like to view web pages as text only on occasion, without images or fancy css backgrounds appearing. Are there any Mozilla or IE plugins that allow this? I've used Readability, and it's not bad ...
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Need a better Internet browser for Windows CE netbook
I just got a Windows CE 5.0 netbook (shown below). Despite being cheap I thought I could get somewhere with it.
Are there any Internet browsers I can download? I know regular Firefox and Internet ...
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Browser Based form designer
Anyone know of any browser based software that allows you to build a web form. We need something that allows you to place controls with absolute position, mostly text boxes but some dropdowns as well. ...
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Mac OS 9 Browsers
I have a client who doesn't want to upgrade to OS X because of licenses, and needing to update software etc.
The last time I did some browsing on his computer, using a very old version of Internet ...
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Web browsers -is there a way to disable reload on a per site basis?
Driving me nuts - I love using rich and feature-full webapps, but I hate what happens when I accidentally reload the page. And since I'm all about the keyboard shortcuts, it is just too easy for me to ...
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Internet Work; Yet Browsers Don't
My friend is having a problem with his web browsers, such as Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, or Firefox, yet he his internet is active. He is currently talking to me on msn, which kinda proves that ...
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What exactly happens when you browse a website in your browser?
What happens behind the scenes when we type www.cnn.com in a browser and how does information gets displayed on the screen?
A technical explanation would be highly appreciated.
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How can I quickly clear cookies for a specific site using Safari for Mac?
I know I can "Reset Safari". I know I can go to Cookies from Preferences and search for a site's cookies and delete those. But is there a faster/easier way to just clear cookies for one site ...
