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The Downloads folder is not updated
The problem appears on Windows 10 in Chrome and Firefox browsers. Reproduction steps:
Open the Downloads folder in Explorer.
Download any file in the browser.
Open the list of downloads in the ...
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Add header for requests to particular domains for browser in Windows kiosk mode to supply auth token
Is there any built-in way to provide headers to add to requests for a particular domain in Edge? Or Chrome - or any browser that can be used with Windows Kiosk mode?
I need to authenticate the machine ...
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IndexedDB error
I'm using the Tab Session Manager extension.
I get an "IndexedDB is not available in your browser" message
All the tabs I have saved in the past have disappeared.
https://github.com/sienori/...
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IndexedDB is not available in your browser
When using the add-on Tab Session Manager, an error stated IndexedDB is not available in your browser. I was able to use Tab Session Manager correctly until yesterday, but now I am having trouble with ...
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Can't widen Chrome or Firefox with vertical monitor
I work with my monitor in a portrait/vertical orientation. One site I need to use has a button on the top-right which is invisible/unreachable, and there is no scroll bar. When I enter windowed mode, ...
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New Gmail fonts looks fuzzy
Anyone knows how to "fix" the blurry font in the new Gmail UI without enabling Clear Type for the whole OS?
Chrome:
Firefox:
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How do I get my browser to say which one it is?
I have two browsers on my Windows machine: (1) Firefox and (2) chrome. In my case they look very similar except that Firefox can't display some pages directly. Can I add a title-bar to my browser ...
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Windows forgets self-signed certificate after reboot
I have a self-signed website certificate. When using it I have two Windows 10 machines that forget the self-signed certificate every time after windows reboot. It only happens in those two machines. I ...
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web browsers are not picking up my web server via the hosts file, but they pick up my web server on 127.0.0.1
I run a web server e.g. python -m SimpleHTTPServer 80 or python -m http.server 80(which of those depends on python version), and I do echo blah >index.html to write an index.html with the text ...
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Windows - Cannot Insert Emoji
When inserting any emoji into Google Chrome, the emoji renders using the plain black/white icon. This happens for any website, in any text box, regardless of whether it was inserted using the Windows ...
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Allow access to only one website for standard user
On my Personal Computer (Windows 10 Pro), I've two local accounts.
John - Admin
Doe - Standard User
The thing I'm trying to enforce is that when John logs in, allow him access to any and all ...
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How would I open certain links from Mozilla Firefox in Google Chrome?
I want to open certain links, like https://firebase.google.com/docs/ in chrome, since Firefox(my default browser) seems to have a problem rendering these webpages. When I open it in Chrome, it ...
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SSL_ERROR_BAD_CERT_DOMAIN / NET::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID on mismatched site
I am having a problem where sporadically, I start getting SSL_ERROR_BAD_CERT_DOMAIN errors in Firefox and NET::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID errors in Chrome on the same sites (so it must be something ...
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How to turn off application minimization and keep it running in backgroud
How to turn off application minimization. I have an application that must run in the background (logitech screen share, never mind) but it deactivates when it is minimized and it breaks my other ...
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Lite mode in browser on Windows
I mostly read a lot on web. I badly need browser with lite mode because recently I got my machine terribly slowed down frequently. I checked windows task manager and chrome task manager and found that ...
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youtube and primevideo full screen issue with windows power setting
I am using firefox developer edition 72.0b6 (64-bit) and window 10 operating system.
Let me explain the configuration and issue.
I have set my window power setting "Turn of the display" to "1 minute"...
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How can I make Firefox or Chrome ignore the system time?
I'm setting Windows' time to 6 months before the current time, but when I try to visit any website I get the "Your clock is behind" error and SSL certificates not valid error.
How can I make Firefox ...
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Save a file with a dot prefix from within a Windows web browser
Does anyone know how to save a file with a name like '.apirc' from a web browser such as Firefox or Chrome in Windows?
The only way I can see to do it is to save the file with the wrong name from the ...
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Problems with reading two pages with Chrome and Firefox on Windows 10
When I visit two different url the pages I get the message:
Aw, Snap! Something went wrong while displaying this webpage.
Sometimes the page is visible for a second, but then it disappears. . ...
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Some fonts are difficult to read in Google Chrome, Firefox, Opera, while MSIE works fine
I noticed that on my computer, some fonts are difficult to read in Google Chrome, Firefox, and Opera. However, Microsoft Internet Explorer works fine.
For example, on https://www.overleaf.com/...
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Browsers don't respond to external link
When I click hyperlinks in some softs (Adobe Reader, unity3d, FileZilla, shadowsocksR, eve launcher, etc), the browsers don't respond at all.
The browsers (Firefox, Chrome and IE) work normally by ...
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How to take a screenshot of an entire scroll element?
I searched the Internet to find a way to do it,
but I didn’t find anything that works.
I use the web version of Tinder app. There's a chat section inside a div and I want to take a pic of the entire ...
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How to get a browser that supports Java?
All the major browsers seem to have dumped Java. I frequent some sites such as 2draw.net that allow you to use Java applets to create art on the web, but some of these seem to be failing with recent ...
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Weird login page on Facebook
When I try to access Facebook I receive this login page:
This happens only in Firefox and Chrome.
Things I have done:
Disabled my firewall.
Cleared my cookies and temp files.
Run a virus scan.
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Unable to access google.com with FireFox Windows
I can ping google.com and it's dns servers but I just can't seem to open google.com/ncr on Windows 10 PC but I'm able to access it with Chrome (same PC) and also OSX's Firefox (same build) (macbook on ...
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Passing http link to vlc as command line argument
When I type vlc http://192.168.1.2/new video.mkv into cmd, vlc tries opening two files. The first is http://192.168.1.2/new and the other is video.mkv. Is it the space in the file name that is causing ...
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Google chrome and Mozilla firefox automatically displaying to unwanted web page whenever I find www.google.co.in
I'm using Widows 8.1, in that Google chrome and Mozilla Firefox automatically displaying to unwanted web page whenever I search www.google.co.in. I tried to uninstall both the software and reinstalled ...
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Window 10 freezes when open any browser
Few days back I got issue with all browsers. Whenever I open any browser window fully freezes. But when I close browser it works normal. I tried with safemode but problem still there. Only Microsoft ...
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How do I search within all assets associated with a URL in Firefox or Chrome?
When one loads a URL in a browser, various supporting or referred assets are also loaded like stylesheets, .xml, .js, media files..etc, besides the base URL document.
How do I perform a substring ...
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Is there a plugin for Firefox that forces Firefox to request the system password to view the passwords it stores? [closed]
I left my computer open (didn't lock it), and it very likely that someone living with me went to see what passwords were there given that I am the one that told them how to do so. I wish Firefox were ...
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Chrome and Firefox not working in RDP session
I have a server and many low end laptops at home. I'm using a single user login ([email protected]) to access the server from all laptops using Windows RDP (like the one in this case).
I'm using ...
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Any active browser intermittently freezes after using it for a while - how to diagnose?
I have a really weird issue that I have no idea how to diagnose. I'm a developer and have both Chrome and Firefox installed. I primarily use Chrome, but for a while now Chrome has had an intermittent ...
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Flash player crashes in every browser
I have searched the whole web to fix this issue but not a single solution worked for me. I was using windows7 I have never faced such issue that might be some issue with windows10. I not sure.
No ...
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Flash crashing across all browsers
I just fresh installed Windows 10 and downloaded the latest Flash. However, any page that uses Flash, like YouTube, crashes. This goes for all browsers.
Chrome gives me this error:
Firefox gives me ...
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Certain Windows 8.1 desktop apps will not start
I'm using a 64-bit Acer laptop running Windows 8.1.
When I try to start certain desktop apps, I get the error message (translated:)
This application could not be started because the Side-by-Side
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Text box selection drag direction
Often I am in a program or web page and need to drag-select text in a one-line text box - say to remove part of a search query and replace it with another. What often happens is I'll select, type the ...
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Firefox and IE render pages larger than chrome
When viewing a page in firefox, it appears much bigger than it does when opened in chrome, as if it has been zoomed in.
Other machines using firefox display the page in the smaller state.
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Web pages narrow on 1080p screen
I have recently bought a laptop with a 1080p screen. Although i have no issues with the text and image size, the web pages with text are very narrow and have quite a lot empty spaces at the sides. Is ...
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All browsers can't (normally) open a specific website
I don't know why but all of my Windows 8 browsers (Firefox, Chrome, IE) fail to open a specific website and all its sub-domains.
How can I find the problem ?
Observation:
I can open this website on ...
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Firefox — How to open a link (to any text-based file) in Vim?
Rather often, I see web pages with links to files that I want to open directly in gVim (when browsing with Firefox on Windows). Chrome-specific answer — also good to have.
Attempting to get this ...
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Roaming Profile Favorites
Is there a way to have your favorites roam from machine to machine with web browsers like Firefox and Chrome for example? Now, I assume you can edit the application so it saves the favorites to a ...
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change selection behaviour of windows address bar
Is there any way to change the behaviour of address bars in windows (especially in web browsers such as Chrome and Firefox) such that a single click will place the cursor, and a double click will ...
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Starting multiple Chrome full screen instances on multiple monitors from (batch) script
My goal is to show different web content full screen on multiple monitors automatically after booting from a single computer. The browser I would like to use is Chrome. If Chrome does not support this ...
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How to force browers to store favorites in C:\Users\John\Favorites
IE use C:\Users\Jhon\Favorites to store favorites of user named John. If other browsers use this folder in a similar manner, my favorites are sync across all installed browsers and there is no need ...
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Windows 8.1 upgrade problems
I have just upgraded from Win 8.0 to Win 8.1 (64-bit Dell desk-top, Intel i7, 8GB memory, 2x500GB HD)
1) A previously installed Chrome browser that was working stopped working.
So, uninstalled and ...
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How to automatically sync chrome and firefox history, bookmarks in windows seamlessly?
Don't mark as duplicate before reading, as i read the posts and didn't
found the solution.
I need to know i there anyway by which i can synchronize the browsing history and bookmarks between chrome ...
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Cloning browser data to another computer [closed]
I have 5 different browsers on the same computer. Is cloning the passwords/usernames and other data as easy as copying over the information under App Data for Windows?
Edit: As mentioned below, are ...
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Ugly fonts on several Google sites in Firefox and Chrome
On several Google sites the fonts are rendered ugly in Firefox and Google Chrome under Windows 7 and 8:
I turned off Clear Type because most of the fonts are ugly with it.
Firefox and Chrome have ...
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Is there a way to make modern browsers not "download" files?
Is there a way to prevent downloading files from the web by just blocking them?
Are there add-ons for any of the major browsers out there that could work or is this not possible to block files from ...
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Browser: Randomly Opens Pages in New Windows Without Reason?
This is a very strange thing I've noticed on my computer and past computers over this past year or more. I know when page are meant to open in a new Window and know which settings to use on my browser ...
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