Questions tagged [browser]
Browser is the term used for a program that's used to display web pages. It comes from the phrase "browse the Internet".
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How to force links to open in an existing Chrome instance on a specific virtual desktop in Windows 10?
I regularly use three virtual desktops in Windows 10:
Desktop 1: Code editor, console, DB manager, etc.
Desktop 2: Browser (Chrome), Slack, and other general applications.
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My browsers cannot render HTML correctly on my PC
Recently all my browsers on my PC have begun to not render parts of any HTML pages, mostly "code" attributes.
The problem does not happens on my linux machine and on my phone. An example of ...
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Is it possible to view a simple webpage outside of a browser engine?
I'm learning about web fundamentals, and I recently heard that in order to render a webpage, you have to import an entire browser engine. I doubted this, but I can't find any program that renders ...
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Why is Sinhala text appearing instead of English on some websites?
I’m experiencing an issue on some websites (ex-CloudConvert.com) where some/most parts of the interface are displaying in Sinhala instead of English.
This is especially noticeable in certain areas of ...
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how to open current tab in multiple new window [duplicate]
How can I open the current browser tab in multiple new windows? I've tried using the browser feature to move the tab to a new window, but I can only open the current tab in one new window, not in ...
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Is there a way disable browsing history in Microsoft Edge?
Microsoft Edge Version 131.0.2903.112 (Official build) (64-bit)
Is there a switch to disable browsing history in Microsoft Edge? I see how to delete history and the ability to delete it when the ...
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How to prevent my browsers from crashing and how to delete the pcdrm folder and related process that are possibly interfering with my OS?
I had to give an exam on 21.12.24 in https://smart.flexi-workspace.com/. In order to login to VDI I had to install the modules on my local system given below.
After I had done the test I uninstalled ...
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Meaning of curly brackets ({}) when a website (search) fails
I've been unable to use https://search.worldcat.org/ for the past month because every search returns the characters {}
Is there any regular meaning associated to this failure?
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http server for viewing a local git repo in browser with github/gitlab styling
is there any tool or method to start a http server for local git repo, then i can browser the code or other content in browser with github or gitlab styles?
(for a quick glance/lightweight styling of ...
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Anyway to customize tooltip colors on Microsoft Edge?
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Edge's tooltip is too light for my taste, compared to other Chromium browsers:
Edge
Thorium
So I was wandering if there's a way to "revert" its color back to chromium defaults, or ...
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Issues with deleting and reinstalling git completely after hard drive which had Git was corrupt [closed]
I have a Windows 11 system, and I have had Git for a long time. I downloaded Git on my internal HDD on my laptop. Recently, my internal HDD got corrupted, and I am not able to access any data in it ...
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Where does Chrome store these data types?
So I was checking out the types of data that Chrome stores and I came across this on Google's support page:
Cookies
Site data
Handlers
Media licenses
Where exactly does Chrome store them?
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Back button doesn't bring me back to Search Results page in Google Chrome 🫤
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I had experience using Chrome for many years, but last two years I was on Yandex Browser. Now it's a return of the prodigal son back to Chrome, but there is a nuance...
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How to view HEIC pictures on a web page in a browser?
While format support has largely been solved in general by FFmpeg, VLC, libmpv and the like, things are moving in the direction of web browsers being used as a first port of call by developers of ...
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Logging in Firefox ESR (v102.15.1) on Raspbian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
I am trying to get Firefox-ESR to log HTTP connections.
Per: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/networking/http/logging.html
I should be able to do that by:
export MOZ_LOG=timestamp,rotate:200,...
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Does the browser’s or router’s DNS cache take priority if they don’t match?
Almost all modern browsers and routers have DNS caches, which temporarily stores IP addresses of recently visited domains, essentially allowing faster access by avoiding repeated DNS lookups.
But what ...
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Is this sequence "ALTER ..." an attack of some kind?
The seqence below is a form submission on a personal site of mine and seems to be crashing the browser.
It crashes the browser tab (becomes unresponsive) of my site's backend where I approve ...
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Firefox and Chrome browsers are giving me false information about HTTPv3 over QUIC
I had a bit of a problem to properly identify HTTPv3 over QUIC support on my IIS Web Server.
When I open Firefox - Developer Tools and I access my IIS site I see that requests under "Network"...
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Moving "portable" Chromium to another computer results in "Chrome detected that some of your settings were corrupted by another program"
I use Chromium builds (from here) in "portable" mode by launching it with chrome.exe --user-data-dir=user_a. It works.
chrome-win\
|- Dictionaries\
|- locales\
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ERR_CONNECTION_RESET but only for certain websites
I have read other questions and answers on this but don't seem to find anything specific to what is happening to me. There is a bit of background to this which I'm not sure is relevant or not so I ...
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Left arrow and right arrow keys not working in google chrome search bar
Whenever I right anything in my google chrome search bar and press arrow keys, either the left or the right, the text-cursor must move one character left or right. But such thing does not happen in my ...
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Web browsers and browser-based apps keep crashing on my pc, regardless the OS
I had to buy a second hand PC with urgency. This desktop pc is presenting an odd behavior: Firefox hangs very often, sometimes the whole app and sometimes individual tabs. Also, I've observed several (...
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How to access this website? (This site can’t provide a secure connection)
I cannot find any way of accessing websites which do not support the latest version of TLS. (At least I think this is what the issue is.)
The website I am trying to access is:
https://juliaacademy....
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Why can't I pick location/search results on dsb.dk in Firefox?
I'm trying to use dsb.dk to search for train-tickets. Recently I haven't been able to use Firefox for this, since clicking a location in the location-search dropdown does nothing. I have used the site ...
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Why do I get this browser alert? 'NoScript' started debugging this browser
Since a few days I'm getting this weird alert in my browser and I'd like to know why:
" 'NoScript' started debugging this browser "
(You can look at the first image I provided below for an ...
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How can I search/replace paragraph markers in MSOffice on the web?
With the fat-client Office solution, I could always use ^p and ^l in the search and replace fields to indicate paragraph and line breaks respectively.
However, we're now using Linux as the underlying ...
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Block Specific Domains From History
Some websites create a TON of new history entries as you click around--I'm thinking social media sites like Facebook. If I go clicking around through someone's photos I can wind up with dozens of new ...
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How to avoid side effects when copying a text from a web page?
I often copy texts from a web page. I want to copy and paste what I see. However, when I copy the text, it has some annoying side effects. I use Chrome and Edge on Win 10.
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We have some web URLs ...
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Can someone explain the steps shown in this response whereby I wish to remove Wikipedia citation numbers before copying and pasting text in MS Word? [duplicate]
I saw a response to the similar question at;
response by Stuart McLaughlin
Whereby Stuart McLaughlin suggested this;
Create a new browser bookmark and copy the javascript code below into it - when ...
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Why does X server crash on certain web pages?
I'm using Void Linux.
In the recent time I have noticed, that when I open a new tab with certain link, but I do not know them a prior, everything is okay. But then, if I try to switch to that tab, or ...
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Shortcut key for adding adding http://www.<site>.com in DuckDuckGo
In Chrome & Edge when typing a website and pressing Control+Enter, http://www..com is automatically added. In DuckDuckGo I'm seeing this same behavior. Is there a key combination for this in ...
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Disable desktop browser's autocomplete pop up
In the newer version of Chrome browsers they added an extremely annoying pop-up window with words suggestion. It distracts me and annoys me to the point that it is driving me crazy and I can't find ...
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Stop MacOS apps from opening links in wrong Chrome profile
I recently used WebStorm's debugger connected to a Chrome browser. WebStorm creates its own Chrome profile.
I've since stopped the debugger, exited WebStorm, and deleted that profile.
However, now, ...
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How to stop websites from tracking a user's mouse activity?
Websites can track users' mouse activity such as clicks, movement, scrolling. This can be used to infer some demographic characteristics such as age and gender (see "https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10....
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How can I tell my Edge browser to forget about a domain?
I used to browse many locations on some webserver, https://the.dummy.server.com (not the real name). Now, for all sorts of reasons, that server is gone, and much of its content has gone elsewhere. ...
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Configure browser to display the title attribute of HTML elements as text instead of as tooltips [closed]
Some websites that I use put a lot of otherwise-unavailable information inside the title attributes of HTML elements. When I'm visiting those websites in a browser, I would like to be able to see all ...
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hotkey to move a tab from one window to another in a browser
I have 2 browser windows opened. I can drag a tab from one window to another with my mouse. Also, in chromium-based browsers there's a special button in context menu, when clicking on a tab. But is ...
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Is there a way to render a webpage in print-preview mode by default?
I'm developing HTML based smart templates for printed documents. I want to have a setup where I use hot reload of the webpage to view my changes as I'm typing them. So far, this is something I know ...
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Web server refuses connections after some time working on it
I work as a web developer, sometimes i need to create some tiny apps from scratch, so i work with a web based code editor.
My problem comes when sometimes my pc lost connection to the server after ...
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Google Chrome & Edge Crashing When Loading Browser Settings
I am using the updated versions of both browsers. When attempting to enter browser settings, especially Chrome's, the browser crashes. This has become prevalent when attempting to login to LinkedIn ...
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Carbonyl gives no usable sandbox error
I'm trying to run the latest version of carbonyl (0.0.3) via the binaries on GitHub on Ubuntu 24.04 server/minimal - I almost entirely use it for accessing local resources, so security isn't that huge ...
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How to set Firefox Portable as default browser in Windows 11? [duplicate]
I'm trying to change my default browser in Windows 11 to Mozilla Firefox Portable Edition, which is installed at D:\FirefoxPortable\FirefoxPortable.exe. Since it's a portable browser, it doesn't have ...
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Why is Brave Browser preemptively downloading files?
Sometimes, when I was downloading large artifact archives from a GitLab project (~500 MB) in my Brave Browser I was positively surprised when it was partially done already from the start (varying from ...
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Brave and Google Chrome crashing after Fedora restart
Recently Brave and Google Chrome srated crashing after Fedora restart: any tab or browser manu says : "Oh snap: ERROR" and browser does not work at all. First it started with Google Chrome ...
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Can a website serve only a subset of glyphs from a font, instead of the entire a font, on loading?
There's this Quartz article on how Chinese fonts are made with this curious claim:
This has been possible for a number of years, but Chinese always posed a particular problem: with so many glyphs, ...
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Can I reproduce curl --resolve in a browser?
I often use curl to check web endpoints via
curl --resolve thesite.example.com:5555:myproxy.example.com https://thesite.example.com
Is there a way to reproduce this in a browser?
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How can I save a Reddit page for offline viewing in HTML format AFTER the user has manually interacted with the page that has a huge comment section?
I'm trying to save a Reddit page for OFFLINE viewing as a single HTML file, EXACTLY as it's displayed on the browser and after having already manually expanded some comment threads. This issue is a ...
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Does Chrome sync website cookies and cache across devices when sync is turned on?
Does Chrome sync website cookies and cache across devices when sync is turned on? And also will these cookies and cache (images, videos, script files) sync if you mess up any settings or dev tool or ...
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How do you set up a system wide Proxy system for multiple SSH Dynamic Port (SOCKS5) Connections
What I'm trying to do is create a FoxyProxy type system wide proxy system for SSH Dynamic ports. My starting point is a OpenBSD Unix Based system, but has a lot of RedHat based additions. All of the ...
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Why after disabling adblockers in Chrome no browsers can access Google Analytics?
I had two ad blockers in chrome which I have now disabled and removed. However, they have left behind some of their instructions.
I cannot click on any google ad links from any browser which I now ...
