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3 votes
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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 ...
Jordan's user avatar
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3 votes
4 answers
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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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8 answers
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Crop and capture screen software/plugin for Windows 7 [closed]

Does anyone know of any software or a browser extension that lets me capture what's on my screen and crop it by ratio? I have Photoshop but don't want to keep opening it just to capture a simple ...
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21 votes
5 answers
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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 ...
Eduardo M's user avatar
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14 votes
2 answers
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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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11 votes
6 answers
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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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11 votes
1 answer
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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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3 answers
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Disable Tabbing in Firefox 3, Chrome 4 and IE8?

Tabbed Browsing may be nice for reading news sites in one sitting, but I still think they are a usability nightmare if you need to keep the page open for a long time, e.g., for testing it while ...
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3 votes
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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 ...
Evgeni Sergeev's user avatar
1 vote
1 answer
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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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1 answer
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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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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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