Questions tagged [web-browser]
Web browser software and web browser add-ons. If you are specifically looking for a Firefox or Chrome add-on/extension/plugin, please use the tag [firefox] or [chrome] instead.
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SAAS option that acts like a web browser in a browser?
I recently moved a service that manages VMs into an AWS VPC, so all of the servers are in the cloud but not directly internet accessible. We access them with Apache Guacamole, so users can get to the ...
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Free/fairly basic web browsers for Android TV
I'm trying to get a TV set up for my dad - it's running Android TV 11 - and I'm trying to essentially run something like Chrome without sideloading it, for accessing websites with media that don't ...
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Is there a Web browser extension to isolate or delete page elements?
Many years ago, I remember I had found a Web browser extension which allowed you to go on a visual edit mode on a page, highlighting the different elements as you hovered over them, and allowing you ...
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Software for reading 2 pages of PDF side by side
I'm not sure if this is the correct place to ask this kind of questions (and if anyone know the right place, he can let me know). Anyway I'm asking here because maybe somebody has (had? hopefully) my ...
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Pure text web browser for Android?
On Linux I used to use pure text internet browsers in the terminal. I need one for Android, perhaps in an app. From the US, I'm trying to access the Russian internet like http://en.kremlin.ru/ and all ...
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Annotation Protocol compatible annotations?
I am looking for a browser extension that allows for W3C Web Annotation Protocol compatible annotations on locally stored HTML pages. My favourite browser is Firefox, so add-ons for Firefox would be ...
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Finding an android app <1.6MB I can download and run scripts against web servers
I'm looking for a browser on Android that is scriptable and lean—basically a Kiwi Browser that is much leaner, ideally <1.6MB.
Bonus points:
works without lag on cheap/old Android devices.
can ...
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Is there any cross-platform browser bookmark syncing plugin reminiscent of xmarks.com?
A number of years ago there was a cross-platform bookmark plugin called xmarks.com. It was great, but it was subsequently shut down and since then, I've been unable to find anything comparable.
What I'...
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Is there a FireFox extension which blocks new (blank) tabs when opening a file from link?
This functionality used to be in the old Tab Mix Plus:
Click on a URL that is a PDF on the web. The download occurs and a file was opened inside my PDF default reader (Acrobat reader). As that ...
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Is there a browser which encrypts completely the user data?
Is there a browser that encrypts all user data? I am thinking about computers used at work where several people like company administrators may have access and could potentially access these files.
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Microsoft Edge's "Improved copy and paste of URLs" feature in other browsers
There is a feature in Microsoft Edge browser described here which makes copied and pasted URLs formatted, not in a plain text. For example, when you go to the Wikipedia's homepage and copy its URL and ...
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Unhook key shortcuts on websites
There are websites that react on certain key combinations. For example certain websites intercept Ctrl + 1 ... Ctrl + 9 key combinations. I have those shortcuts set up in browser for tab navigation: ...
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Saving all responses from a specific URL to disk while browsing
I am looking for a versatile solution that allows me to capture and save all the responses from a specific URL to disk while I am browsing, with no restrictions on the browser, external programs, or ...
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Windows web browser which supports offline migration of all stored data
I'm on Windows and am using a lot of google-chrome instances with --user-data-dir and tried to transfer all of them to a new pc (settings, open tabs, saved passwords, cookies, history, ...) and a ...
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Edge (or other browser) extension to notify if a site I'm trying to open is already open in another tab and make it quick/easy to switch to that tab
I'm looking for a browser extension (ideally for Edge) that will notify me if I try to load a new tab on a site that is already open.
Too many times my browser tabs fill up with repeated sites - it ...
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Streaming local videos over the internet
I'd like to share some media with my ex (and possibly other friends) like personal photos, videos. I'm not the kind of guy to put them up for social media.
I have used FTP server before but I wonder ...
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Downloading a .ts or .m3u8 video using youtube-dl or any other CLI
I am downloading videos from a website using the Video DownloadHelper Firefox extension. Recently I encountered an issue where the audio video is out of sync and the video is playing in a slow mode. ...
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Browser tab balancing software or extension?
I use a window manager, which generally has the ability to balance windows really well. This gets defeated with tabs in browsers. Effectively this allows you to put multiple different things in one ...
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Browse already downloaded offline websites on iOS
I downloaded a website on my computer and transferred it to my Ipad, but am unable to find an app that can browse it properly. The website is a folder with an index.html page and other html pages, ...
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Browser with a modern UI
I'm in search of a modern web browser with a sleek and user-friendly interface. I've tried Opera GX, but unfortunately, it caused my computer to slow down. I'm looking for a browser that strikes a ...
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Web browser that can load a large YouTube "Liked videos" page without slowing down
I have ~4000 liked videos. Can't seem to open that page and reach the bottom without Firefox or Chrome displaying the message "This page is slowing FF/Cr down" and/or crashes. Could you ...
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Open source up-to-date autofill extensions for Chromium / Chrom* browsers?
Unfortunately it appears that Autofill (https://www.tohodo.com/autofill/) for Chromium browsers is going to be moving away from a purely free model as it has been hitherto:
I certainly do not condemn ...
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Volume up/down for a specific web browser tab
I am looking for any application that can change the volume of a specific tab of a web browser.
I do know a Chrome extension that can completely mute a tab but do not know anything that changes the ...
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Chrome extension to block email send (Gmail) before review
I'm looking for a browser extension to block myself from sending an email without review. A perfect solution could be a not-so-intrusive behavior, like a silent notification or disabling the button ('...
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Is there any reddit extension or setting which will allow me to toggle my moderator view of the subreddit?
I browse reddit on the browser. I use RES & Moderator Toolbox extensions on my browser.
I am a mod of a small subreddit.
Is there any extension (preferably Chrome) or setting which will allows me ...
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Software to diagnose security breaches and protect account access
In the past few days, several of my accounts on different apps/websites (first Twitter, then Discord) have gotten hacked, posting messages and sending spam messages to my contacts without my knowledge....
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How to configure Web Browser to ignore malformed HTTP Response Headers?
I'm working with an IoT device that has an embedded HTTP Server that returns csv formatted status data. Everything works fine between my data collector app and the IoT device in terms of ...
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Browser that can bypass HSTS
I am looking for a browser that can bypass HSTS, since I've always had trouble with it blocking websites I'm visiting. I know of Pale Moon and I've modified my firefox so that HSTS is broken, but I'm ...
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Plugin that displays small clock on web browser depending on page's country
I'd like to know if there is a plugin or userscript that displays a small clock with the local timezone of the page you are visiting.
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Grammar correcting browser plugin that works like a translator for all sites
There are tools like Grammarly, but they only work on input text.
Is there a tool that fixes all grammatical errors in the existing text of the web page?
Kinda like how a translator plugin replaces ...
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Frequency Generator App
Is there a Windows application, or web application that allows to generate noise frequencies at a certain rate in a certain range, for example, 2 hertz per second in an interval from 100 to 1100 Hz?
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Android Browser with developer tools
What application should I use to bring fully fledged developer browsing experience (where I not just view a page as end user, but also discover and edit DOM tree, debug JavaScript, view network ...
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Transferring HTML's localStorage to another device
I have a web page that uses localStorage to save statistics about how I use it (which in turn affect how things are displayed).
When I use different devices however, that data is of course not ...
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IDE that runs completely in the browser completely client side (html/js/css only)
There are numerous IDEs accessible through the browser ranging from things like JSFiddle to VSCode and beyond.
I'm looking for something like an html/css/js app that acts like an IDE. Clearly, it won'...
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How to Record Browser Content
There are many ways of recording the titles and urls I have visited, but I want to record all dowloaded content, so that I can find something I have read.
Of course, the page might not exist anymore, ...
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Is there a mind mapping software which works good in mobile and PC browser?
I am looking for a software which is creating mind maps in a browser window, I can install it on my server, but it has to be able to run both in the phone browser window and in PC as well.
I want to ...
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Is there a more reliable pure Java based library than HtmlUnit or ui4j for returning and manipulating JavaScript rendered web pages?
I need a headless browser, or similar, pure Java library like HtmlUnit that supports JavaScript to reliably render all web page content just as a manual browser would do.
Although HtmlUnit claims to ...
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Web Browser for Android 12 with access to files on SD card
I am looking for an application on Android 12 which can browse HTML files on the local storage and run Javascript.
This request can seem a bit stupid as any decent browser (Chrome, Firefox, Opera, ... ...
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What framework was used to create this mobile app?
I live in Lausanne, Switzerland, and few years ago the public transport released a mobile app called tl.
At the very early release the mobile app was quite a crap and sometimes a could see that it was ...
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A browser and maybe an extension to translate websites
I live in Turkey but I speak only Russian and English. I want to browse Turkish websites and shop in Turkish online shops. What's the best browser (and, possibly, an extension for it) for Linux, ...
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Operating system for web browsing for non technical user with near zero computer experience
tl;dr - what OS do you suggest for only web browsing for actual PC newbies (that have like near zero experience when it comes to computers and web browsing) that does not require tons of configuration ...
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Subscribe to YouTube channels without account
When you are signed in on YouTube then on your subscription feed youtube show a list sorted by date of the videos the youtube channels you subscribed to have uploaded.
as i am subscribed to a handfull ...
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Dolby Atmos encoded sound in HTML file on Chrome
so my problem is that I came across the license issue with Dolby Atmos on Google Chrome.
I want to create a website where people can listen to the difference between a dolby encoded sound and a normal ...
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A single password manager for all platforms with auto-fill in Android and chrome and mozzilla addons
As mentioned in the title, I need a password manager for android and Linux(arch). Authpass and Keepass were good enough with auto-fill for apps and browsers in android (didn't have proper desktop ...
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Does anyone know of a SwiftUI compiler?
I do not want something big to download, like Xcode, but I want an online SwiftUI compiler that I can open from my browser.
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Simple web-based desktop search app
Is there an open-source desktop indexing app that can be configured and queried via a web-based interface similar to what the discontinued google desktop search did (but without all the unnecessaries ...
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code editor which is a standalone web application which helps us edit code from the browser?
Looking for some code editor which is a spins up a web-based IDE on launch from the command line. It should have modern features most source code editors have (like vscode). The best use case for this ...
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Is there any web browser for android with "File System Access API"?
Chromium based android browsers currently don't have the support for "File System Access API" and Firefox mobile also doesn't have the support.
I have checked caniuse.com where it shows some ...
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Periodically take a screenshot of a browser window, even if it's in the background
Criteria:
Preferably a browser extension or desktop app.
Platform is a Windows 10 desktop.
Browser shall be any of the usual suspects (Firefox, Chrome, Edge, you name it).
I need to periodically (...
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Free/Open source tool for adding/viewing comments inside HAR files?
I'm looking for a way to provide HAR files to others but with my comments/notes in them so that they will know where in the log file to look for purposes of troubleshooting, etc. Is there a free/open ...
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