Questions tagged [browser]
Browser is the term used for a program that's used to display web pages. It comes from the phrase "browse the Internet".
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Why don't websites immediately display their text these days?
I've noticed that recently many websites are slow to display their text. Usually, the background, images and so on are going to be loaded, but no text. After some time the text starts appearing here ...
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Clear cache for specific domain name in chrome
I want to clear the cache for a specific domain name in Chrome. Is there an extension or other method that I can use to do this?
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How to reload the page by emptying cache in Google Chrome?
I don't know what exactly it's called, by cache refresh I mean, refresh the page after clearing its cache. I don't want to clear the entire browser cache.
I can't seem to cache refresh my pages. In ...
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How to connect to a website that has only IPv6 addresses without a domain name?
If a server has only IPv6 addresses without a domain name, how can I connect to the server from my web-browser?
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Is there a modern browser that runs on Windows 3.1? [closed]
Simply put, is there a modern browser that runs on Windows 3.1? Sometimes there's situations that restrict the ability for an environment to be upgraded, and web browsing is a must these days. The ...
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How can this website reidentify me even after deleting all of my browser's history and using a VPN?
The website dropmail.me is able to successfully reidentify me (and offer my last used temp mail addresses via. "Restore access") despite doing the following:
Delete all my browsers history which ...
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Why do file URLs start with 3 slashes?
HTTP starts with two slashes. E.g. http://example.com.
Same goes for FTP. E.g. ftp://example.com.
However, file "URLs" start with three slashes. E.g. Reading a pdf file using chrome, the URL would ...
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Why does putting a dot after the URL remove login information?
Consider:
When I put a dot after the Super User URL, https://superuser.com., it acted like I wasn't signed in. Why is this happening? What does a dot symbolize in the URL?
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Remove auto-complete field entries in Google Chrome
Is there a way to stop the gmail address field (on the login page) from displaying all the gmail addresses that you have ever typed in it?
When logging in with Google Chrome or trying to set up a ...
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How do I change the character encoding for a webpage in Chrome?
Google Chrome, like almost every web browser in recent memory, used to have an option to change the character encoding for the webpage being viewed by going to Menu › Tools › Encoding (or some similar ...
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How to disable Google One Tap sign-up prompts?
I've recently begun seeing common pop-ups on sites on which I do not have an account.
The pop-ups prompt me with my real name and Google sign-in email, which is being provided either by being signed ...
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Why does my browser think that https://1.1.1.1 is secure?
When I visit https://1.1.1.1, any web browser I use considers the URL to be secure.
This is what Google Chrome shows:
Normally, when I try to visit an HTTPS site via its IP address, I get a security ...
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How do websites block selecting text and how do I unblock that?
There's a website (example) that somehow blocks selecting text. Also it blocks Ctrl+A to select everything, there is also no “Copy” in the popup menu.
What I have tried:
Some sites use JavaScript to ...
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How can I enable WebGL in my browser?
I'd like to be able to use WebGL-based sites like Shadertoy, WebGL Earth, etc…
But those sites tell me that WebGL is disabled in my browser.
How can I enable WebGL so I can view these sites?
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How do these icons work: 🌍🌎🌏✅️?
I can see these characters as colored icons:
🌍🌎🌏✅️
It only works in Firefox for me. If you can't see the characters in color, it looks like this on my system (it's probably font-dependent):
I can ...
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Typing the tab character in browser text boxes
A lot of the time, when I want to format text within a web page's text box I'll hit the Tab key.
Unfortunately, that doesn't insert the tab character but instead moves the control to the next form ...
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Is there an "about:config" (Firefox) In Google's Chrome?
Anything similar to "about:config" (Firefox) In Google's Chrome ?
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Is "HTTPS Everywhere" still relevant?
HTTPS Everywhere is a browser extension, a collaboration between The Tor Project and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, that automates rewriting requests for HTTP URLs to the secure HTTPS alternative ...
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How can I take browser screenshots at a higher resolution than my browser supports?
I need to take a screenshot of a website as it would appear on a very high resolution monitor... say 4000x3000 pixels. My laptop's screen has a native resolution of 1400x768. Basically, I need to ...
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How to get WYSIWYP (print what you see) in a web browser?
When I print a web page from my browser, I expect to get on paper exactly the content I'm seeing in the browser.
To be precise: I expect the browser to render the same page contents the same way, ...
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Chrome address bar no longer shows protocol or www subdomain
A couple of days ago I noticed that for all websites, chrome omits from the address bar the protocol and the subdomain if it is www. My co-workers report that they are not seeing this. Chrome version ...
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How do I delete previously entered items from Google Chrome Omnibox?
Chrome's Omnibox keeps sites that I most frequently visit - and this is good. However, one of my most visited pages has its URL changed, and I want to remove this from the Chrome Omnibox suggestions, ...
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How can I hide the most visited sites on Chrome?
Since the last update it has been impossible to hide the most visited sites. I don't know if it's some temporary sick joke by the chrome team but I need to remove it.
I have tried changing my home to ...
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Why do some downloading files not know their own size? [duplicate]
Occasionally, when downloading a file in a web browser, the download progress doesn't "know" the total size of the file, or how far along in the download it is -- it just shows the speed at which it's ...
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How to quickly change user profile in Google Chrome?
Is there any keyboard shortcut for changing it? Google couldn't solve my problem.
I'm using too many different profiles for my blog and their social media profiles etc.
Sometimes it's getting ...
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How can this Stack Exchange site have an animated favicon?
Yesterday I was browsing on https://stackexchange.com and noticed that the list of all Stack Exchange has an animated favicon:
How is this possible? I thought favicons were static ICO files, ...
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How to know if a site is gzipped?
I am accessing some web sites which are really really slow, and I would like to know if those sites are gzipped. Is there an easy way to find this out?
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How can I launch a browser with no window frame or tabs/address bar
I am looking for a way to launch Chrome, Firefox, or IE9+ (any one will do) from a script or command line without any window frame, address bar, or tabs section.
Illustration:
For instance, I'd like ...
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How to refresh bookmark favicons in chrome
I updated favicons for a bunch of my websites.
Refreshing the website does indeed show the updated favicon in the browser tab, however the bookmarks for those websites still have the old favicon.
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Disable auto-refresh tabs in Chrome Desktop
Since a recent update in Chrome (Windows, desktop) if I change to some tabs, which haven't been opened for a longer time, Chrome automatically performs a refresh on the page. It only happens, when the ...
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How can I force my css styles when I visit a website?
Imagine I want to visit webmaster.stackexchange.com (or an other website) everyday but I want to change the blue color of header (change it to red for instance).
Is it possible to force personal css ...
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Open browser in host system from Windows Subsystem for Linux?
I have a ruby script that does contains this line:
system("open '#{html_path}'")
html_path is the path to a local .html file. So the script opens a browser where I can normally inspect and view this ...
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Force-refreshing only JavaScript files in Firefox and Chrome
I want to clear only JavaScript files from my web browsers (Firefox and Chrome). I am doing JavaScript debugging, and it's annoying that my JS just won't get updated whenever I change my JS files. The ...
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In modern webbrowsers is there any point in putting www infront of a url that uses it?
When going to www.facebook.com or www.cbc.ca is there any benefit or difference made by omitting the www?
EDIT: so it could be a problem if www is omitted but not automatically added, could it ever ...
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Do web browsers use different outgoing ports for different tabs?
In a web browser that supports having multiple tabs, such as Firefox, do different tabs that go to different website domains use a dedicated port for each domain?.
Or does the browser use a single ...
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Open http:// links from Notepad++ to default web browser
Can I open http links from a notepad++ document directly to my default web browser? Like textpad: CTRL + Click ?
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What exactly happens when you browse a website in your browser?
What happens behind the scenes when we type www.cnn.com in a browser and how does information gets displayed on the screen?
A technical explanation would be highly appreciated.
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How can I block the “Sign in with Google” prompt on websites? [duplicate]
On many websites that require login, those annoying Google login prompts appear:
There are several tutorials on the Internet on how to avoid this, for example, this one on How-To Geek, which suggest ...
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How do I print with the screen stylesheet?
A number of websites that I use have really bad stylesheets for the print media, but their screen stylesheets are quite good.
Is there any way to tell my browser to ignore the print stylesheet and ...
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Disable ALL cookie warnings and hints
What might be an effective way to universally block or auto-accept common cookie warning banners before the web browser shows them to the user?
Eg. does a userscript (Greasefire/Tampermonkey) exist ...
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Force Chrome to open new pages in new window, not tab? (when opened from a program)
Whenever I click a link from something like outlook or a program opens a web page (not when I click a link from within chrome). It opens up in Chrome since it is my default browser but if I already ...
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Prevent automatic redirects in Firefox
Firefox used to prevent automatic redirects and have a button you could use to opt-in to a redirect. However, a update a couple of months ago eliminated this feature and now Firefox (version 35) ...
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How can I get a new browser session when opening a new tab or window on Firefox/Chrome?
When opening new Internet Explorer window, a new browser session is issued. Therefore you can login with two different accounts on the same service (let's say Gmail). The same does not apply when ...
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How to convert a webpage to PDF with preserving its look (exactly as on web browser) and text/links?
I'm looking for a way to convert a webpage to PDF, but preserving the webpage's look. Also preserving webpage's text (being selectable), searchable [Generating image screenshot for the webpage would ...
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Copying PNG with transparency from browser shows a black background instead
When I copy a PNG image with transparency to the clipboard and subsequently paste it into Photoshop, Paint, etc. - the transparency turns to black.
Is there any workaround for this? Is this a ...
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How to stop Firefox update notifications?
I have Firefox 56, the last good version of the browser, where things I need in terms of performance, and functionality both still work. I'm not going to update, EVER. There are other browsers out ...
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How can I copy nytimes.com slideshow images to the clipboard?
Slideshows on the New York Times website seem to have used some trickery to* cause a right-click in Firefox (and IE/Chrome) then "view image" or "copy image" to return a 1 x 1 pixel. The images also ...
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How to track url redirects in the browser?
When I type http://example.com/load/ in my browser and press ENTER, this website redirects me to http://example.com/load/1/, from there to http://example.com/load/2/ and then I finally landed on http:/...
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Why can't old PCs view modern sites? [closed]
The reason for this question is that many times clients, friends and parents ask me why their perfectly working old PC cannot be used online anymore.
I am looking for a good answer to those people ...
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How do I diagnose not being able to reach a specific website as an end user?
If I can generally reach web pages on the Internet but can't reach a specific one, how do I troubleshoot what the cause is as an end user?
This question was a Super User Question of the Week.
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