Questions tagged [safari]
A WebKit-based web browser designed by Apple. The default browser on OS X.
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Can Safari 5.1 for Mac OS display favicons for bookmarks in the Bookmarks Bar?
When bookmarking a web site, most contemporary browser will display the site's favicon next to the bookmark, both in the bookmark view and the bookmark toolbar.
This is a useful feature. In the ...
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Command–Grave accent (⌘`) not switching between Safari 17 windows on mac OS Sonoma
On Safari 17 (mac OS Sonoma) the Command–Grave accent (⌘+`) is not switching between Safari windows. It works fine on every other app, except for Safari. I've tested on two different Macs and I see ...
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Why don't Firefox and Chrome respect my local DNS resolver?
I have a local DNS set up in OSX (192.168.1.100) which is configured to return the IP address of servers on my local network for specific domain names (they're all hosted on a NAS, which also hosts ...
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How can I make the Page Up and Page Down keys scroll a full screenful in browsers?
For as long as I can remember I have been frustrated by the browser behavior whereby using the Page Up and Page Down keys on the keyboard doesn't scroll the web page by a full screenful. Whenever I am ...
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Ways to confirm 4K Netflix video playback on macos safari browser
I was finding ways to confirm that Netflix videos are streaming at 4K frame rate because it seems they somenhow don't show the "Ultra HD 4K" icon when displaying on monitors even though 4K ...
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Safari open a web page from cache offline
I want to open a web page which i could see in safari's history offline. At-least i want to get the html contents out of it.
It would be of great help if anyone could help me do it.
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Captive Portal Behavior of Safari on iOS
For a Raspberry Pi without Internet connection that provides a WiFi access point so that it can be controlled through a Web interface, I set up Bind9 to connect all domains to the one IP address of ...
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Trackpad gestures stop working in Safari on MacOS Yosemite
I cannot tell what is the reason that the trackpad gestures stop working but here are the symptoms:
Trackpad gestures would be working fine. For instance: smart zoom (double finger tap) or Swipe with ...
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Strange issue with YouTube user agent being stuck [closed]
Every time I login to YouTube, webpage switched to mobile layout with related video below player with description and comments on the right side. Page seems to expect finger touches making it harder ...
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Mac OS - Any way to make Firefox/Chrome/Safari play/pause video (BetterTouchTool key trigger)? F8 not working
my F8/PlayPause key on Mac OS Catalina (10.15.6) only opens and controls the Music app. Previously, it used to play/pause the active video on Chrome or Safari. This is especially useful for doing ...
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How can I quickly clear cookies for a specific site using Safari for Mac?
I know I can "Reset Safari". I know I can go to Cookies from Preferences and search for a site's cookies and delete those. But is there a faster/easier way to just clear cookies for one site (...
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Closing duplicate tabs in macOS Safari
There's a tonne of questions about how to duplicate Safari tabs but I can't find a single one that helps with the opposite - closing duplicates.
I have nearly 300 tabs open and going through them by ...
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Safari doesn't respect -F when opening with 'open -F -n -a Safari <url>' on the command line
Reading the man page for 'open' the -F flag should open an app in fresh mode.
However if I have already an instance of Safari running with 3 windows open and invoke
open -F -n -a Safari <url>
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How to hide HTTPS URL scheme in Firefox title bar
Right now Firefox shows the full URL in the title bar for visited sites. There is a browser.urlbar.trimURLs preference in about:config which hides the http:// prefix but not https://. Other browsers ...
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local .pac-file URL format that works with IE and Safari (Windows)?
Say I want to use a proxy auto-config file that is stored at C:\proxy.pac. To make Internet Explorer use this configuration I have to specify the pac-file in the LAN settings in the following way:
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