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Is it possible to open several web pages when browser is started?

I am searching for browser option or plugin (it will be best if it is available in Web Kit browsers,Opera or Firefox - not IE) that allows me to open several web pages when it is initially started. ...
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Take a screenshot of an entire webpage in Opera

Is there some tool within Opera, or possibly an add-on, which will let me take a screenshot of an entire web page? I usually use Screengrab to do this with Firefox, but in this situation I want a ...
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Is it possible to save every webpage you visit?

Is it possible to save everypage you visit in a browser automatically? I do now want to rely on Cache as a huge cache will slow down the browser. A third party software or an add-on will be helpful. ...
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Automatically switch between different web pages

I have a large LCD mounted on my wall at my work, and I would like to display some webpage with statistics on it, in a rotating manner - switch to a different webpage every few seconds. I think that ...
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Create an RSS feed from any HTML page

Can someone recommend an HTML page scraper that can turn a webpage into an RSS feed?
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How to enter tab symbol into web form?

TAB button usualy moves focus. Is there a way to enter TAB symbols into text fields of opened web pages? For example here, on this site. UPDATE Is it possible to enter the symbol from keyboard?
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Why does a webpage miss formatting sometimes?

Sometimes, a webpage gets loaded in the browser but it is not displayed properly. All the elements of the page are there, but they are not there where they should be. for example (A,B and C are three ...
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Why do some web page URLs have no suffix?

For example the web page I'm on now is: http://superuser.com/questions/ask not: http://superuser.com/questions/ask.html http://superuser.com/questions/ask.php I've noticed this for ...
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Text in web page becomes encrypted when copied and pasted

When I try to copy and paste the text in the following web page to Notepad, the text becomes encrypted. http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/yazarlar/17887201.asp?yazarid=249 How does this happen? What ...
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Making notes on a live website to send (as a link) to someone else

Is there any way (firefox addon, javascript tool, etc) to make notes on a live webpage. For example, let's say I want to send someone a link to http://developer.android.com/guide/index.html But I ...
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Stop Safari from loading webpages preview images

Everyday, the first time I start Safari, if I go to the history tab, I get the following message : How can I stop Safari prompting this message and completely disable the webpages preview?
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1answer
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Google Chrome not loading web pages correctly unless multiple refreshes

Webpages in Google Chrome do not load correctly from time to time. I can't reproduce it, it just happens. Some times it happens when I load the browser other times it happens when I am just browsing. ...
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Ways to “download the internet” (my bit anyhow) for reading later [closed]

I'm going away for an extended period soon and I'm not really going to have access to my internet life support. What are some ways one can save webpages to read later?
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After saving a web page, what does the code in “saved from url” mean?

Every time I save a web page from Google Chrome, there's something like this: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" ...
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IE9: How to save a web page as an image (jpg, png, etc)?

I used to be able to use the IE7 Pro plug-in for IE8 and IE7 to save the entire web page as an image, but this plug-in is no longer supported by IE9. Now I have to find an alternative. Are there any ...
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Is it possible to know when was the last update of a dynamic (PHP/ASP) web page content?

Update: the question was not clear enough.... I have found a bookmarklet that give me the date of a web page last update: javascript:alert(document.lastModified) But it's not very effective ...
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What's the difference between surfing and downloading speed?

I have spent quite a lot of time searching an answer for this question but haven't found an satisfactory answer. My perception is that everything that you see in your browser is downloaded on your ...
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1answer
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Gmail page works but won't stop loading

When I open the GMail page in Chrome (9.0.597.102) on OS X (10.6.4), the page works fine and is functional, but it often remains in a "Loading" state, with the loading icon active, for extremely long ...
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3answers
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How can you take a screenshot of an entire webpage? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicates: Take a screenshot of an entire webpage Take a high resolution screenshot of a website How can you take a screenshot of an entire webpage? This would ignore the ...
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How to turn webpages into pdf?

I mean saving them as a pdf and keep them as a backup for future reference or for future reading
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3answers
356 views

How to know when a webpage is updated?

I'm looking for some way to know when a webpage is updated. This site it's really not very "web 2.0", doesn't have ajax, it seems like plain HTML. I need a way to get an instant notification when the ...
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6answers
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Testing web page speed [closed]

How can I test the speed of a web page? How can I further diagnose a page so that I can see which elements in the page take longer to load?
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2answers
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How to suspend and resume browser tab groups?

Modern browsers such as Firefox and Chrome are able to shutdown and restore the same group of tabs they had before the next time you open them, and even sometimes remember additional tab state such as ...
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1answer
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Application for creating webpages for users without skills?

Is there some kind WYSIWYG application for creating webpages for users without skills? What I would like from that? Easy to use Deployment via FTP Validate html/xhtml Without server-side scripting, ...
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What are the “static” elements of a website?

While loading stackoverflow.com ... waiting for sstatic.net While loading vark.com ... waiting for static.varkimg.com Is there some trend here? When it says "static", what all elements of the site ...
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2answers
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How can I find out which technologies were used to generate a website?

How can I find out which technologies were used to generate a website? Is it possible? E.g. PHP, JSP, JSF, ASP.NET, Ruby, Python etc.
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1answer
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I want to save a Firefox web page as “Web Page,html only” format using command line in Windows [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Windows: downloading a file from command line I want to save a Firefox web page as "Web Page,html only" format using command line in Windows. How can I do that?
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How to set a specific browser (Internet Explorer) to be default only for a specific application

We have an enterprise software that shows reports properly only in IE, but I don't want to set IE as my default browser. The application is a WPF/Silverlight based desktop application - not a web ...
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1answer
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How to view when page was last refreshed in Firefox

Is there a way to know when the last time a page was refreshed in Firefox? I always have lots of tabs open. For certain pages, it would be helpful to know when it was last refreshed.
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1answer
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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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1answer
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Cannot paste web page images in Word 2010

I am unable to paste web page images into word 2010 - Selecting some text and images on a web page and pasting into word just results in a box on the page. The following question ...
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1answer
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Firefox Add-on for Opening Pages in Separate “Sandboxes” [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to maintain different active sessions in single firefox and internet explorer? Is there a Firefox add-on that will allow someone to easily open up a page in a new ...
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2answers
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Ubuntu firefox: some web-pages stuck on loading

Just installed Ubuntu 10.04 beta, installation went fine and all programs are working smooth. Just this one weird network problem. Some sites simply are not opening and loading forever. For example, ...
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1answer
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How do you use http://toread.cc without a bookmarklet?

Is it possible to use http://toread.cc without having to use a bookmarklet? This is a website which will e-mail webpages of your choosing to you. The only way to use it though is with a boomarklet. ...
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1answer
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How do I prevent a web page from directly embedding data from other external sites?

I browse with Firefox and 50% of the time, I am behind a proxy. The proxy firewall blocks certain sites including Facebook, Pinterest, and Twitter. I am unable to obtain a complete list of blocked ...
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Capture large webpage screenshot in Chrome

The webpage is very large (a few MB). I tried these extensions and they all fail: Screen Capture (by Google) - I get a new tab with no image in it Pixlr Grabber - I get a "500" request error after ...
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Preferred method to save or print webpages for use as official documentation?

We frequently rely on content delivered via webpages as a basis for decision making. In doing so, it is sometimes prudent to document the sources of information being relied upon to later demonstrate ...
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1answer
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How do I cache slow webpages for longer?

I regularly access web pages which rarely change, but which load slowly. They are pages of notes on an internal company wiki (confluence). Is there a plugin for Chrome or Firefox which will allow me ...
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1answer
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Half-loaded pages going blank when STOP is used in Firefox

I'm sure I'm not the only person this happens to... Sometimes my browser is half-done loading a page and begins to choke on graphics or badly-written Javascript or some garbage ad crap, but the text ...
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What is actually happening when a web page isn't loading?

You know when you sometimes go to a site, and the progress bar (or the semi-circle in Chrome) is filling or spinning, but no content is being displayed? What is actually going on in the background ...
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Software to help automate clipping/printing web page?

I'm a programmer who likes to find a lot of cool technical articles / blogs on the web, but only read them on printed papers. While a lot of websites provide the "Print Article" link that nicely ...
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What WYSIWYG software can I use to create a web page? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicates: Are there any free open source HTML editors? Please recommand a tool for Html Editing I always made web pages by writing HTML code but now I would like to try to use ...
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How do I neatly save a set of webpages? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How can I download an entire website I have an index webpage, with just one level of links. I want to download all the linked webpages and have them neatly stored on my ...
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List resources like css and javascript files of page in Firefox?

In Firefox, (on normal pages) there is "Page info" in the context menu. It lists images on ("embedded"?) the page along with their full URLs. But other "external" files are not listed. Can I view a ...
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What exactly happens when you change the character encoding of a webpage?

I loaded www.google.hk and then changed the character encoding to Greek and got this What exactly did the browser do when I changed the character encoding? It looks like translation but I ...
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Utility to take daily screenshots of a webpage

I would like to have a visual history of my Tomato bandwidth graphs, so that I can roughly/manually correlate them with some other factors. Tomato can squirrel away the actual data points, but I'd ...
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How to parse a webpage into a text or excel file?

I'm trying to figure out a way to grab 4 - 5 lines of text from multiple pages of the same site, the information is always in the same place in the webpage. How would I go about getting that ...
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“Save as single web page” on Firefox

On Internet Explorer, there is an option to save a web page as single web page (.mht). I can't see that option on Firefox. How can I save a web page as single web page on Firefox?
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How can I create a redirect for Apache 2.2 webserver on Windows-7

I'd like to have a redirection web page from one page to another so that I can have two names for the same web page on my server. I tried creating a windows shortcut, but that did not work. Please ...
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Page too large for screen when on Firefox. Laptop, Win 7 HP

My friend (even less computer-literate than I) just got her first laptop. It was working fine last night, but this morning she may have hit a wrong key. When online, the page extends beyond the edges ...

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