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What does the mortar and pestle Safari address bar icon indicate
The "pestle and mortar" icon is a Chinese character. It is apparently the Chinese character for "text" or "article".
The icon represents one person speaking English while ...
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How can I force Safari to perform a full page reload, without using the mouse?
The shortcut has now changed to OPTION + CMD + R. (Safari 11.1)
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Paste Without Formatting won't work safari
Try Cmd + Option + Shift + V its working for me
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High Resolution Screenshot
This can be achieved in Chrome as of v59:
Announcement in the developer blog
Video tutorial
Summary of steps (if you prefer text):
Open Developer tools
Toggle the device toolbar
Set the desired ...
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How to delete specific HTTP authentication credentials from Safari (for Windows)?
If you are on Mac OS X and you are wondering how to remove a basic-authentication credential from a website, you won't find the password in Safari preferences. The answer is in the Keychain Access ...
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What is the "blob:http://" prefix and where can I learn more about this?
I copy and paste the answer from StackOverflow because of background info about blob in URL string.
A URL that was created from a JavaScript Blob can not be converted to
a "normal" URL.
A ...
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Paste Without Formatting won't work safari
This happens because Safari and Google Doc Shortcuts are clashing with one another. We cannot change Google Doc Shortcuts but we can change Safaris.
Just go to system preferences, then select ...
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Is it possible to run a custom script whenever loading a web page on web browsers?
Yes, it possible to inject custom scripts when the page is opened. Many browser extensions are available for this like tampermonkey, violentmonkey, requestly.
Using requestly extension you can run ...
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How to move all open tabs from Safari to Firefox?
You could use the following AppleScript:
tell application "Firefox"
activate
set newTabURLs to takeSafariTabURLs() of me
repeat with tabURL in newTabURLs
open location tabURL
...
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Safari: How to switch between tabs using a keyboard shortcut
Window Menu -
Show Next Tab Ctrl ⌃ Tab ⇥
Show Previous Tab Ctrl ⌃ Shift ⇧ Tab ⇥
Additionally, Cmd ⌘ [number] will go directly to tabs 1 through 8, & Cmd ⌘ 9 = 'right-most ...
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Safari developer tool search
Once in inspect mode you can use the shortkeys CMD + SHIF + F or use the search button.
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local .pac-file URL format that works with IE and Safari (Windows)?
On Windows 10, IE/Edge do not support reading a PAC file defined through the file:// syntax, even with EnableLegacyAutoProxyFeatures turned on:
This issue occurs because Internet Explorer and Edge on ...
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Safari cannot connect to localhost but can connect to 127.0.0.1
Note: This might not solve everyone's problem.
I am a MAMP user and noticed in my hosts settings that 127.0.0.1 localhost was removed somehow. Type sudo nano /etc/hosts, type in your password, and ...
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What is the "blob:http://" prefix and where can I learn more about this?
MDN is a good resource for understanding things in plain language. I would also suggest https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/URL/createObjectURL as a good resource. They also show the W3C ...
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Unable to access website on Safari (iPhone) after renewing SSL certificate
Recent certs from StartSSL are suspect because of misconduct by its new owner WoSign and Firefox 51 is scheduled to distrust them in a few weeks. Google says the same for Chrome 56.
Apple's ...
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How can I quickly clear cookies for a specific site using Safari for Mac?
As @user6297 says in his comment, the above answer no longer works as of El Capitan. You now need to go to Preferences > Privacy > Details as shown in the image. Note that the Details button might ...
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Command Backtick isn't working to cycle through windows in some apps (including Safari)
For those who have an international keyboard, the command might be assigned to a key combination that is not produced by the Cmd + ' (i.e. the button to the left from key "1"). This even if the ...
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Safari cannot connect to localhost but can connect to 127.0.0.1
You probably installed something on your machine that acts as a web server and uses HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) to make sure your browser knows it should always use TLS (HTTPS) when ...
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ffmpeg encoded mp4 won't play in safari, works in chrome & ff
As @Gyan said in a comment, -profile:v main apparently matters for Safari.
Just came from adding -pix_fmt yuv420p to get things working in Firefox. Firefox also seems to care more about whether the ...
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Slow website loading times on Mac, possible DNS issue?
192.168.86.1 is probably an okay setting if it's the LAN IP address of your home gateway router, but it sounds like either your router's DNS relay process is going slow, or your router's DNS relay ...
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How do I get 1Password to work in Safari Technology Preview?
Currently, in order to use 1Password (or any Safari App Extensions) with Safari Technology Preview, STP needs to be set as your default browser:
Click the Apple menu in the top left corner of your ...
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Mac Os: How to open url in browser incognito mode from the command line?
From this answer:
"Open a new window in CHROME in INCOGNITO Mode from terminal with specified URLS"
open -na "Google Chrome" --args -incognito example.com
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Why don't Firefox and Chrome respect my local DNS resolver?
This might be related to DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH).
Chrome and Firefox are now pushing DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH). Never heard of it? Well, Wikipedia describes DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH):
DNS over HTTPS (DoH) is a ...
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What is UtilityParze?
Have you tried running e.g. launchctl list | grep Utility in a Terminal to see if a launch agent is running that in turn keeps the application running? If so, you should probably run launchctl unload ...
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How to pause TTS in Mac Safari when not using full VoiceOver mode?
This is one other way. You can save the entire document as txt file and open it with any browser of yours, tested on chrome or safari. Select all and right click, then "add to itunes as spoken track." ...
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How to prevent/close duplicate tabs in Safari?
I can't find any extension that achieves this, but (9 years after question was asked), Safari does have built-in tab sorting in the Window menu ("Arrange tabs by"). So, that might be a good-...
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How to move all open tabs from Safari to Firefox?
Minor changes to preserve windows. I put a gist of this as well...if others want to improve it. see https://gist.github.com/amanuel/81e70673b057687e904a248218c50ce2
tell application "Firefox"
...
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Bookmarks - sync OS X Firefox with iPhone / iPad Safari
Firefox now provides sync functionality on multiple devices, which also includes open tabs.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/sync/
There are a few things that currently don't work well with ...
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How do I stop autoplay videos (CNN, Yahoo) on a Mac, running Safari?
Check out Click2Plugin
https://hoyois.github.io/safariextensions/clicktoplugin/
And make sure "Load Plugin if HTML5 Conversion Fails" is untoggled (off).
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