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New Firefox ... too much white space in left margin?
Just accepted installation of new version 125.0.2.
The ideal of any FF upgrade is that nothing new should be noticeable. However, I notice what appears to be irksome excessive white space in the left ...
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How to save Microsoft (GitHub, etc.) webpage so it will render properly using Chrome or Firefox-based web browsers?
A few months ago I noticed that webpages from Firefox, Chrome, and some other web browsers do not display properly, as if the CSS files which are saved are not what is used for rendering in the web ...
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How to permanently change Firefox new tab page CSS?
So when I open a new tab page in Firefox, or the private browsing new tab page, I can edit the CSS if I go into inspect element.
I want to change the CSS permanently, so that when I open Firefox again,...
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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 can I force Firefox to load stylesheets mis-reported as "text/html"?
I'm visiting a website whose stylesheets have reported MIME type text/html rather than "text/css". Otherwise, they're just fine. I can't control the webserver or fix this problem - but I ...
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Underline text in web page?
When reading web pages it would be a nice feature to be able to underline text from a page. Is there any possibility to achieve this in browsers (Firefox, IE, Chrome etc.)
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Save edited HTML in Firefox
I load a page in Firefox. In the developer panel I edit some content.
I change some contents (some paragraphs, some bullet points) eventually removing some nodes or adding a new one.
I want now to ...
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"Save as webpage, complete" problem?
I have a problem when I am trying to save web page from browser using "Save as Webpage, complete" some of CSS/Javascript/Image are not saved, thus when I reopen saved page offline webpage can't ...
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How to change colors on webpage (non-owner) so chart elements can be distinguished ? (Firefox)
Is there a way to change the colors on one of the elements in ESPN's game flow chart, so it's easier to tell the two teams scores apart? (Why the colors are so close is mystifying.) Maybe there's a ...
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Firefox disable extension on local files
Is it possible to disable selected firefox extensions from acting upon local files starting with file:// as this might be security issue?
Any suggestions?
Google Chrome has this feature, unfortunately ...
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Different text-search results between Chromium and Firefox
I'm searching for the string global rule on this page: https://help.obdev.at/littlesnitch4/ref-rule-properties
Chromium finds the text; Firefox does not.
Firefox
Abbreviated HTML (as rendered by the ...
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Capture text from website that's disabled copy-paste, printing and viewing source
I'd like to capture text from a website (for personal usage, not business) but unfortunately they have disabled copy-paste, printing and viewing the source.
Is there another way of capturing the text?
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Downlolad from link pointing to file
When I google for a i.E. a PDF, then it frequently happens, that google presents me direct link to a PDF like this example MIPS Programming. Now clicking on the link, the PDF opens in the browser (...
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Get Firefox to ignore HTML 5 autocomplete tag setting?
With HTML 5 there is a new attribute called autocomplete. If it's set to autocomplete=off, then the browser does not store the password.
How can I override this setting, short of modifying the ...
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Link in webpage to local file
I made a webpage in apache server, and added the link <a href="file:///home/user/page.html>Link</a>. This does not work. Why, and is there a way to make it work? If instead i added ...
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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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