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How to tell firefox to render simple html white on black?

I am no browser expert nor web-dev. I read simple websites and they blind me if use anything more modern than lynx or w3i. However, sometimes these new modern websites require the operating systems ...
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Is it possible to view HTML source auto-formatted in Firefox

I am writing a Web site in PHP, and the HTML it renders is not well formatted and hard to read in Firefox (most of it is on a single line). I don't want to mess up my PHP code by adding loads of ...
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Web site does not show ads - GoogleSyndication.com Server not found [closed]

I put a Google Ad in a MOST BASIC web page. <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> &...
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Do Chrome and Firefox show Inspect / Inspect Element in their context menus by default?

I'm writing some instructions on how to work around a broken modal on Duolingo by deleting some HTML. I'm trying to write it so non-techy people can follow along. On Safari I found I had to go to ...
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Can I block HTML elements system-wide?

I know there is a hosts file that allows me to block entire domains. 0.0.0.0 blockthissite.net :: blockthssite.net I'd like to block particular elements for a website. I can do this today with ...
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Looking for workaround for Firefox login autocomplete behaviour

This question is related to the explanation on how Firefox handles autocompleting stored logins: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10738090/why-firefox-autocomplete-even-with-different-input-name I'...
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Understanding CSS for user styling in a browser

I want to make a specific change to the appearance of a specific site in my web browser. This site uses CSS, so I think what I should do is write a user CSS override (please correct me if this is ...
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Firefox en_GB HTML5 date fields are in MM/DD/YYYY

On macOS Catalina, I've installed en_GB Firefox, my language preferences are 'Choose languages for menus messages etc' is "English (United Kingdom)", in "language for displayed pages" I've remove ...
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Firefox tries to open HTML files when trying to access web pages

Recently I've been getting this weird behavior on Firefox 73.0 (win10) where as I'm trying to open a web page, the page itself won't load but I'll get a prompt to open an HTML file instead. The reload ...
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How can I print a large web page to a single-page pdf with custom dimensions?

I am trying to convert this page to a single-page, 19 x 13 pdf file. I am running Firefox under Ubuntu and trying to use the Print To File option, but it is splitting the web page into multiple pages....
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Can I make marquees stop scrolling, in my browser?

While rare these days, some websites, annoyingly, use marquees (<marquee>...</marquee>) - pieces of HTML content scrolling across my browser viewport. This is annoying and distracting. ...
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Advertisement suddenly appearing on top of almost every page

Since this morning strange advertisement is appearing on top of many pages I open in webbrowser (see screenshot at the end). It's happening in any browser (tested FF, IE and Chrome), on any of three ...
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Pure HTML document apparently has some JavaScript running in the background in Firefox

I had to make asimple Pure HTML Document with no CSS and no JavaScript, to see how some Unicode Characters look like. While viewing this Document in Mozilla FireFox, it showed the Unicode Characters ...
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Firefox: H.264 Video Support

I have Firefox 34 and OpenH264 Video Codec provided by Cisco Systems v1.1 addon installed and enabled. The problem is that Firefox can not play H.264 video. I used this page for testing and here is ...
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Saved webpage has images that only open in Chrome

I right-clicked a webpage in Chrome and saved as "Webpage, Complete". This webpage opens fine in Chrome, but some images don't load when I try to open it using other browsers like Firefox. I checked ...

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