Questions tagged [browser-plugin]
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How to find Chrome extensions that inject ads into any webpage I browse?
I use the Google Chrome browser. Recently I noticed random ads showing up - either on the page content, or by redirection - when I click on a link an ad page opens instead of the proper page.
I ...
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How to re-enable Java plugin on Google Chrome 42 on Windows [duplicate]
As stated in NPAPI deprecation: developer guide:
In April 2015 (Chrome 42) NPAPI support will be disabled by default in
Chrome and we will unpublish extensions requiring NPAPI plugins from
the ...
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When Firefox drops Java applet support, how will I run old Java applets?
Java applets are soon to be killed off forever. I understand why we shouldn't make new ones. But what will happen to old ones? There are still Java applets that people may use, and there's no ...
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Browser plugin to resize window for brower testing
When im making a website i work on my 22" external display, which is fine, but to get a better idea of what the site will look like on smaller screens i have to resize my browser window.
At the ...
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How do I stop a website for overriding my keyboard short cuts
How can I stop websites from overriding the keyboard shortcuts in Firefox?
e.g., if you go to Youtube, Ctrl+T no longer opens a new tab, etc.
It there a plug-in that will do that for me?
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Replace only a specified font in Chrome
I find Georgia taxing, as it's become all the rage on too many websites in the last year or so. I've got custom stylesheets set up in Chrome to tweak a number of sites I like, but it becomes ...
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How can I synchronize Firefox settings between machines using MY server?
I know that Firefox plugins exist to synchronize settings between machines, but all such plugins I have seen require you to synchronize your settings to some 3rd party server. Is anyone aware of such ...
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Stop Firefox from asking to install flash and other plugins
I have absolutely zero desire for Firefox to have flash and any other 3rd party plugins installed for rendering web content.
Many times when I view web pages I get presented with obnoxious dialogs ...
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Roozz player: How to get rid of?
I keep getting this popup every now and then on my Windows 7 laptop:
I found this Roozz player in "Add/Remove programs" and uninstalled it, but the popup still appears. I do not remember installing ...
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How can I remove a website from the exceptions list for a plugin on Mozilla Firefox that is set to "ask to activate"?
I normally have Mozilla Firefox ask me before activating shockwave flash on
account of a slight bit of instability I notice when I tried to use YouTube. I
have it set to "allow and remember" on most ...
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How to run two browsers (Firefox) with Java plugins in Windows (7) having different versions (1.6 and 1.7)?
For an old KVM switch I need to run a browser with Java 1.6. But for all other cases I want to use the latest Java browser plugin which is 1.7.
On Linux I can create two profiles and put in each a ...
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Purpose of Adobe PDF Link Helper
I have an idea of what this browser add-on does.
Adobe PDF Browser Control (AcroPDF.dll)
Apparently, if I disable this one, PDFs embedded in a page with the embed or object tag fail to function ...
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How to take screenshots of a list of URLs
I need to save thumbnail-sized screenshots of about 20 intranet pages and repeat every week.
I ruled out using an online service because the screenshots are business information.
I ruled out ...
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How to dowload files with original timestamp?
Many web sites ask us to login before downloading real contents files, and restrict us to download files from it with a cli program such as wget or curl.
So we must download files with a browser, ...
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Disable parentheses autocomplete on Leetcode
The in-browser Leetcode text editor autocompletes parentheses. (Typing '(' will automatically create a ')' in the text editor.) Unfortunately, Leetcode does not provide settings that disable this ...
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PDF files are opening in Firefox, undesiredly
PDF files have suddenly started to open within the browser windows of Firefox 17. The PDF files are being displayed with the Adobe Acrobat plugin, which is odd, since I have explicitly disabled the ...
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Why Java in Chrome browser is not actual
Chrome tells me:"The Java plug-in was blocked because it is out of date." I actualise it to newest version by .exe file on refered link http://java.com/en/download/index.jsp but Chrome still tells me ...
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Is there an existing web browser/tool to search for an image on a page, by alt or title? [closed]
Similar to hitting Ctrl + F to find text on a webpage does anyone know of a tool to find images? I'd like the same text search functionality ideally i.e. highlight the results and tab through the ...
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Microsoft's Windows Media Player plugin doesn't register on Chrome (Windows)
After installing the "Windows Media Player plug-in for Firefox" (either automatically or by downloading wmpfirefoxplugin.exe manually) and running it, the WMP plugin still does not appear in about:...
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What is the difference between Shockwave Flash and Adobe Flash?
Shockwave Player and Flash Player both run "flash" contents? On my browser youtube.com... works well with only the Shockwave Flash Player installed but not the Flash Player. But why are there those ...
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How to allow outdated plugin (e.g. Adobe Flash Player) in Opera 30.0.1835.125 (or later)?
If you are interested in resolving the same issue in Opera 30.0.1835.88 (or earlier), please proceed here.
In Opera 30.0.1835.88 (and earlier) there was a way to allow usage of outdated plugins (e.g. ...
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App / Plugin to flip between active screens
Bit of an odd request, but I'm coming up with nothing after spending a solid hour searching Google.
I am looking for either a browser plugin or separate application that will periodically change the ...
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Legacy Portable Firefox to run legacy portable Java only and ignore local install of Java
I have multiple systems that require legacy browsers and Java. I need Portable Firefox to run the Portable Java JRE version and not the Java JRE installed on the OS.
One of these legacy systems is the ...
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Any Chrome's plugin for context menu modification or how to get rid of "Emoji" item
The world has gone mad about emojis. I can understand this and safely ignore.
But having "Emoji" menu item as a first of all items in context menu of Chrome's any kind of edit box is a thing that ...
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Redirection from email addresses bound to site that asks them
I would like to:
Have distinct email address for any site I register on
Quick way to generate and "bind" random address to a site
Automatic forwarding from these addreses to "main" address
Block any ...
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How to allow outdated plugin (e.g. Adobe Flash Player) in Opera 30.0.1835.88 (and earlier)?
If you are interested in resolving the same issue in Opera 30.0.1835.125 (or later), please proceed here.
There is a plenty of stone age machines, where the modern versions of Adobe Flash are just ...
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How to find a tab in Firefox, that runs certain plugin right now?
If the Plugin Container running, then how to determine, which tabs need it, and, if possible, which plugins the tabs utilise?
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Right click in Flash, why does it crash?
This has been bugging me for so long that i already learned to accept it as something unavoidable. I had this problem on Windows 7, 8, 8.1 on different hardware and Firefox- and Flash player versions. ...
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Change java plugin for a single user on ubuntu
I need to use a specific version of java plugin in firefox to use VPN software.
I would prefer not to change the default version of java as that would affect other users of the system. To further ...
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Java issue in Google Chrome
So I updated Java 7 Update 9 (Which was working fine) to Java 7 Update 10, and now I can't use Java in my Google Chrome browser, I get the error message "Java(TM) is required to view some elements on ...
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Is there a way to save and restore web browser tabs INCLUDING THEIR HISTORY (and other possible tab data) to a text file?
Upgrading from Linux Mint 18 came with loosing all my navigator tabs. Luckily I had a backup of my old distribution. However, I'm now stuck with it and more and more things stop working.
I know there ...
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In Chrome (or a different browser), is there a way to change what is displayed when a site cannot be reached?
Note--I don't want to actually reach the can't-be-reached sites. I just want to replace the diagnostic displayed with a message or image of my own choosing.
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What are /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/ and ~/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/ for?
I see a lot of old crufty stuff in /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/ and ~/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/. Doesn't each browser manage its own plugins in independent application-specific directories?
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When Firefox loads, is code for "Ask to Active" Plugins loaded?
When Firefox loads, does it load Plugins that are set to "Ask to Activate"? Or is the code for any such Plugin only loaded once it is manually activated?
Note the question is specifically asking ...
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How to only allow a custom subset of plugins in Firefox?
I keep the Firefox setting plugin.scan.plid.all set to false, since too many programs automatically add their own invasive Firefox plugins to the Windows registry whenever they are installed and/or ...
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Can't install Google Earth plugin in Chrome on OSX
This is weird. A few months ago I had the plugin running just fine in Chrome. Now it's not showing up (OSX 10.9.5, Chrome Version 40.0.2214.111 (64-bit)).
When I go to http://www.google.com/intl/en/...
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Possible to trick plugin by "faking" a website?
This one seems like a long shot, but I'll try anyways.
I have a web videogame that I downloaded from an old website. Now that website has gone down. I have the game and all the resources the game ...
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"Couldn't load plugin" - Google Chrome
I am trying to watch a video on Google Chrome and I got this error below.
Could anyone tell me how to solve this problem?
I can view videos normally on Youtube but with this page I have the problem.
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how to inspect the footer of a website with Firefox GCLI plugin?
How do I use GCLI to view the footer for a wordpress blog? Typically, the footer isn't viewable because as you scroll down, older items are loaded to the page. While not infinite, for practical ...
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Acrobat plugin not working in Waterfox
I'm using Waterfox 10 browser in Windows 7 Home Premium and I just installed Adobe Acrobat X Pro but there is no browser integration for PDFs. If I click a PDF link while browsing, it always asks me ...
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save website when creating a bookmark
I'm saving lots of bookmarks but the websites change when I revisit them days or month later.
Is there a way to save the entire page automatically when making a bookmark so that I will get an option ...
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Disable autoplay of BBC videos [closed]
In the UK the BBC News website (and many others of course) have dropped Flash and use HTML5 to play videos. Unfortunately they also use a continuous-play plugin which can not be disabled, only turned ...
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Windows 7: files acting hyperlinks
This may be a somewhat silly question, but have you ever wanted to write a text file
whose only contents were a hyperlink, such that when the user clicks on this file,
the web browser of choice ...
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How to disable VLC plugin for Firefox?
How do you completely remove and/or disable the VLC plugin for Firefox?
Standalone VLC is great, but for some reason, it never works in Firefox. It takes forever to load and then it doesn't play ...
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not sure if click to play is functioning in firefox
Yesterday, I installed java from here. I set firefox click to play. about:config click to play - true. I restarted(just in case).
That same day I tried to go to this verify page on java.com FF ...
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How can I set Foxit as the default plugin for handling PDFs in Firefox?
I recently installed PDFArchitect, which replaced the Foxit reader plugin in Firefox.
How can I set Foxit's plugin as default for handling in-browser PDF files?
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How to make Internet Explorer support Java applets?
I have set JAVA_HOME and put JAVA_HOME/bin to PATH variable.
But Internet Explorer still doesn't support Java applets. Why?
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Screen Reading Browser add-on or Application
I need a good screen reading app that can read text in a browser window out loud to me quickly and clearly.
I am looking for preferably a Firefox plugin but any browser will work...
If it must be an ...
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How to start the copilot sidebar in Edge?
For this Windows ID, regardless of computer, regardless of network, navigating to copilot.microsoft.com gives basically a blank page. On the same PC, just switching to Firefox, and not logging into a ...
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Is there a way to modify how webRTC works so to not leak my IP? (tfor example through plugins in the browser?)
question is in the headline - I just want to webRTC not leaking my IP, but I still have to use it. Is there any way through plugins - I have installed and tested a few, but I can't wrap my mind around ...
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