Questions tagged [browser]
Browser (or Internet/Web browser) is a software application for retrieving, presenting, and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web.
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What is Integrated Windows Authentication and what does it mean for me?
I was looking through my Chromium browser settings and stumbled upon something called AuthServerAllowlist, which was set to the value https://*. Digging a little deeper, it looks like this is tied to ...
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How to remove tii.la cookie in Linux?
I'm using Brave browser ver 1.56.20 in MX Linux 21.3 (Debian 11 based), how can I remove cookies in Brave? Tried to use remove icon, it does not work, seems it's a known bug in Brave (over a year old ...
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Is there any chance to recover my Chrome Boomarks?
Yesterday I uninstalled and installed Chrome again. I lost all my bookmarks.
My .config/google-chrome contents
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drwx------ 28 joaoh joaoh 4096 јул 12 10:21 ./
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link cursor changed to hand for all browsers: how to change back
mate-desktop 1.26.1-1
6.3.9-arch1-1`
Mozilla Firefox 114.0.2
Brave Browser 114.1.52.129
Chromium 114.0.5735.198 Arch Linux
When hovering mouse over link on web page the cursor switches to hand. ...
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What are Lynx CGI scripts?
In lynx.cfg, it contains:
.h1 CGI scripts
# These settings control Lynx's ability to execute various types of scripts.
.h2 LOCAL_EXECUTION_LINKS_ALWAYS_ON
.h2 LOCAL_EXECUTION_LINKS_ON_BUT_NOT_REMOTE
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LibreWolf browser unable to remember view settings
I'm using NixOS version 23.05.885.bb8b5735d6f under GNOME. I installed LibreWolf — using Flatpak. The problem I'm facing is that any time I open any site and set the zoom level, for instance, to 120 %,...
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Unable to find directory using chrome/firefox
I don't know if this is a permission thing or what, but I have a directory in root / that is not showing up in neither firefox nor chromium and I don't know what's up.
Basically, when I go to file:/// ...
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How to join a Microsoft Teams meeting with video just from the Meeting ID and passcode?
There seem to be different kinds of Microsoft Teams links. For example, when I generate a link using the Teams For Linux app, they're of the form:
https://teams.live.com/meet/55366767345647
But some ...
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Browsers use monospace font for the ui (tabs, settings etc.)
After updating my system (Arch linux x64) and installing some font packages, (I'm unsure what exactly caused this issue) all of my browsers (chromium, firefox, librewolf) started using the default ...
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How are some websites able to detect on which OS I am running the Tor Browser?
Tor Browser conceals the user's operating system by spoofing user agents. Currently it is Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/102.0. I decided to test whether the function ...
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Website doesn't work under Linux, but works under Windows/Mac
I'm trying to buy a product on https://qinao.de/ with my (Arch) Linux laptop and different Browsers (Chrome, Firefox). But I can't add products to the Cart (and some images don't load).
It works fine ...
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Is it safe to install brave for AUR? [duplicate]
I've always used either windows, macOS or linux distros that have brave to be downloaded through official means, but now I'm planning to switch to arch linux and I'll have to download it from the AUR.
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Is it safe to install brave from AUR?
I'm planning to switch to ArcoLinux but I use brave and I was a little bit worried about having to install a program that is maintained by some random person that might corrupt the package itself. Is ...
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Why doesn't Brave resolve DNS rewrites?
I have set up AdGuard Home and pointed my router to the AGH instance in order to block ads etc.
I have created a couple of DNS rewrites so that I enter an address to my liking and one of these is ...
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Looking to provide remote access to a single PC but *only* its web browser?
Essentially I would like to be able to navigate to some custom domain that I own, log in to some basic front end, and then have access via a Remote Access Tool to my Linux computer (which would only ...
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How can I display this pdf correctly in firefox?
I am trying to open https://www.sec.gov/info/edgar/specifications/edgarfm-vol2-v60.pdf.
My OS and firefox info:
$ uname -a
Linux debian 5.10.0-20-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.158-2 (2022-12-13) x86_64 GNU/...
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Can I set a different "default" browser for each workspace on Cinnamon?
I am running Arch Linux with Cinnamon as my desktop environment. I have set up a few workspaces, and use workspace 1 for work and workspace 2 for non-work stuff. I use Chromium as my work web browser ...
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How to use vim in textarea in 2023? ItsAllText like
I remember how it was simple to edit textarea back in the dayZ with itsalltex browser addon, now I searched quite an hour which addon can replace this well known utility.
I found ghostext (recommended ...
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w3m does not show Figures at Fedora Server 36
In Ubuntu Server, I can install in peace w3m through:
sudo apt install w3m w3m-img
Therefore with w3m <url> is possible render a web page and see the Figures - it thanks to w3m-img.
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how to pass all traffic through a vpn extension?
how to pass all traffic through a vpn extension?
extension source is written in Java, I use manjaro and chromium.
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Why accessing 0.0.0.0:443 gets redirected to 127.0.0.1:443 on Linux and how to disallow it?
tl;dr: accessing 0.0.0.0:port (eg. curl http://0.0.0.0:443) gets redirected(internally) to 127.0.0.1:port (where port is any port number) (eg. the previous curl command is the same as curl http://127....
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Simple text browser website access BUT PROTECTED by CloudFlare - JavaScript problem
EDIT on 13-11-2022 (DD-MM-YYYY) to clarify things a bit:
I, a human, want to simply read the text contents of a website, which happens to be protected by CloudFlare protection. Yes, I know that such a ...
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Browser (Opera, Chromium...) start causing Permission denied (13) error for shared memory
Using Manjaro / Arch linux, I wanted to install another browser. However, no matter whether I installed Opera or Chromium (via pacman) I always get an error when executing it (from both Application ...
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Gigabyte G5 browser freeze on Ctrl+s
I have a problem with my Ubuntu 22. When I open Firefox or Chrome and press Ctrl+s to save a page, the window for saving keeps opening, thus filling up my RAM completely and making my laptop freeze. I ...
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Browsers redirect from local "index.html"-file to "file:///"-root
I downloaded the website https://www.untools.co/ with
wget --mirror --convert-links https://www.untools.co/
and have respective pages on my filesystem:
When I open untools.co/index.html with Firefox ...
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Exit browser in full screen
I'm trying to find a way to exit kiosk mode or to exit a full screen chromium.
So I'm running a Raspberry Pi 4 with raspbian and have Netflix, Disney+ etc. working as a link on my desktop. I add the ...
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How to wait for pulseadio before running chromium?
I'm developing an embedded board (Tinkerboard) based on Linux Linaro (Debian) OS 9.3.
The board is basically a (webpage) kiosk where the browser is run by a sh script included the automatic scripts on ...
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Permission Denied When Opening Local Files in Web Browsers
I've run into a bit of a weird issue: If I try to open a file-local .html file
inside of a directory starting with a dot (.) the browser claims that it does
not have permission to view it, e.g.:
mkdir ...
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Change default browser screen font size
Running Fedora 34, Xfce desktop.
When I run Firefox, the screen is always too small and I find that I'm constantly hitting the Ctrl+ combination to set the screen size to 133% of the default so that I ...
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Firefox flatpak does not work with Slack flatpack link
How does Slack flatpak find the application for a URL?
I have xfce4 on Debian Linux.
I noticed that Libre Office is smart enough to open Flatpak Firefox so how does slack find the default browser (and ...
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Unable to play videos in browsers on Fedora 35
I upgraded from Fedora 32 to Fedora 35 in last December. Lately I have found out that I am unable to play any videos on web browsers. The video loads but never starts. It's stuck at 00:00. If I move ...
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Set firefox developer edition as the default browser in VS Code on Linux
I have installed firefox developer edition on my MX-Linux. When I tried to configure the live server of VS Code to run it as default, I failed. I followed this link to set up, but ultimately it is not ...
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How can we stop Opera from usurping /usr/bin/gnome-www-browser?
While Firefox is of course my browser of choice, I have a few others, for reasons, including Opera.
In XFCE's "Settings Manager", in "Default Applications", Firefox is duly ...
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Cannot set Brave as default xdg-open browser in Kubuntu 20.04
I am running Kubuntu 20.04 with KDE Plasma. I have recently switched from Google Chrome to the Brave Browser, version (taken from brave://settings/help) 1.34.81 Chromium: 97.0.4692.99 (Official Build) ...
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Messenger call does not work in any browser on Linux
I am using MX-Linux 21 KDE. Whenever I try to make a call on messenger, the connection times out automatically after 3 to 4 seconds, this happens even in troubleshooting mode. I have tested this on ...
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What is the webkitwebprocess in linux?
So the other day I was looking for a ultra light weight browser. Midori was the first option as per internet. But this was the RAM usage of it.
RAM USAGE
though midori took only around 100MB, the ...
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Open any Linux Desktop in the browser
Is there anyway to open default Ubuntu GUI ( or for that matter any Linux GUI like KDE, GNOME etc) right from the browser ?
All I can open is HTTPs port , We cannot open any other port (VNC or RDP) to ...
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How to run web-ext with Firefox DE under linux?
web-ext is a command line tool designed to speed up various parts of the browser extension development process.
When I try web-ext run -t firefox-desktop, I got the following error:
Running web ...
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Prevent notifications from being dismissed when clicked?
On all the desktop environments I've used, clicking a browser notification makes it disappear. Is there some way to prevent this behavior to make it more in line with Windows/macOS where clicking a ...
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Why does Linux need DRM (Digital rights management) for audio and video? [closed]
Hope this is the right place for this question:
Linux requires DRM (digital rights management) to be enabled in firefox to support popular streaming services. Why is that? Is it to with the fact that ...
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Running my desired file manager from within the web browser
I would like to run Nemo instead of Xfce's default file browser, in my browser.
Per Clean way to run proper file manager from Firefox on Linux I tried to do:
$ mkdir --parents ~/.local/share/dbus-1/...
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Install browser inside LXD container and run it on host OS
I am trying to install Brave browser inside an LXD container (Voidlinux - preferably, or linuxMint), create a shortcut for that app inside my host OS and launch it as any other linux app with the ...
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Jupyter seems to connect fine, but I cannot access it in a browser
I'm trying to open Jupyter notebook in a browser. Jupyter seems to have connected just fine:
[I 20:38:02.663 NotebookApp] Serving notebooks from local directory: /home/user/.jupyter
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Firejail not hiding files with Brave browser
If I run the following:
firejail brave-browser
And then try and access files in the browser (such as when uploading a file), Brave still has access to my entire home folder.
Usually this doesn't ...
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Opera in arch can't play some videos
Problem:
Opera in arch Linux can't play some youtube videos.
pacman -Q opera
opera 78.0.4093.184-1
uname -a
Linux arch 5.13.13-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu, 26 Aug 2021 19:14:36 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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Any way to fix chromium hang that eats up all mouse clicks?
So I have been running into this weird issue where Chromium would hang, and pretty much lock out mouse clicks. The mouse can still move, I can navigate using my keyboard all non-chromium windows like ...
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Skip the browser page when opening https URIs for Zoom, Teams, and other native apps
Android has a convenient feature: certain https links that have associated local apps installed are opened directly in these apps, skipping the browser page. How do I achieve this in Linux?
I have ...
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Which linux browser + password manager can ask for master password every time
I want to find a Linux browser that can store passwords ant doesn't cache the master password. That is, I want to be asked for the master password every time a password is to be filled.
Thanks
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Is there a lightweight tool for web-browsing automation from terminal?
I'm aware of Selenium python library or headless chromium webdriver but those solutions are heavy and clunky to interface from a shell session (bash, dash, etc).
Is there a minimal and lightweight ...
