Typically this tag refers to web browsers such as Firefox, Chromium or Opera. However, other types of browsers such as Nautilus or a network browser may use this tag as well.
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Chrome Ubuntu loading apache2's localhost instead of remote website
I'm a web developer and do local development through apache2 on localhost. However, sometimes when going to remote websites, well known websites like sky.com or bbc.com instead of loading that ...
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Security warning from Facebook in Chromium
I am terrified.
Every ten minutes Chromium pops up with a tab stating:
Success
SECURITY WARNING: Please treat the URL above as you would your password and do not share it with anyone.
Very ...
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Ubuntu Chromium browser - how to define zoom percentage via command line launch?
I have Chromium browser running as Ubuntu Desktop, when i launch my system i need to set the Chromium browser zoom percentage to 79%, so that it always remain default.
Using command line, how do i ...
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Internet Browsers Not Always Working
whenever I browse web pages on both Chrome and Firefox 50% of the time I'll get a page could not be displayed message, a few refreshes will fix this issue.
My internet is 50/10mbps and I never had a ...
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Dragging Connection
Just got Ubuntu 13.04 installed last night on my ASUS X45A laptop. I'm having an issue with the Internet dragging or Firefox. I'm not sure what's going on to be honest. I just know that things are ...
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Some sites not opening in firefox
I am unable to open Yahoo hdfc and some other sites with Mozilla, Chromium
I tried:
changing DNS
enabling Java
reinstalling Firefox
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How to install Opera?
I am new to Ubuntu and don't know much about computers.
I switched from Windows yesterday so when I use sudo in the terminal I am just copying and pasting from google search results - so I really ...
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Lexmark x6650 install cd download for Macbook os x 10.6.8 [closed]
Every time I try to go to the Lexmark website to download drivers for the printer, Safari and Google will not connect to the website. How do I fix them so I can go there?
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Dragging browser link to desktop in 13.04 doesn't work with gnome desktop
I guess this is a noob question, but I was using 12.10 with the KDE desktop, but just upgraded to 13.04, and wanted to get familiar with the Gnome desktop that was shipped with 13.04
I can't for the ...
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Is there any remote browsing solution with images?
I need a browser for my Linux server. My server Google queries are banned. It asking for CAPTCHA, but I can`t write in w3m, cos I don't see the image.
Is there any solution for this?
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“start-tor-browser” only opens a gedit window, not tor
"start-tor-browser" only opens a gedit window, not tor.
I have the most recent version of the Tor Browser Bundle from torproject.org.
(tor-browser-gnu-linux-x86_64-2.3.25-6-dev-en-US.tar.gz )
When I ...
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run sh script from browser
For a tiny task, I wish to execute a .sh script from within browser.
I have kept the .sh script in "/usr/lib/cgi-bin" directory.
The .sh file contains following code.
#!/bin/bash
echo ...
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Browser does not load all graphics on websites, especially on facebook
unfortunatly my browser (google chrome) does not load all images. Everytime I visit facebook the browser does not load all images. I had that problem already on ubuntu 12.04, but 13.04 has got the ...
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How to install Iceweasel?
I was searching for Firefox-like browsers ('clones') and found about a few that I want to test, but could not install Iceweasel in Ubuntu. (Older links that I found with this google search - here and ...
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Why is Ubuntu's Webkit missing a few things?
I'm using a webkit browser with python+GTK, and it seems to be missing a few things.
You can see the problem in the example from here:
from gi.repository import WebKit
from gi.repository import ...
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Progress bar for python/ quickly web browser
i have been doing this web browser for roughly a day now, i have got the main look of the browser set up how i want it.
i have now decided to add a little progress bar at the bottom of the main ...
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after Installing UBUNTU 12.10, screen get stucked after some time
After upgrading to Ubuntu 12.10 ..I started facing several issue. One major issue is if I start Ubuntu and start using any browser after sometime screen gets frozen and nothing works but right click ...
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Chromium won't load any pages including settings page
Chromium wouldn't load any pages including my settings page. I noticed at the bottom left the status was saying something about loading "ad-block plus".
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Problems with SSL in Arora [closed]
I installed Arora Browser in my Ubuntu 12.10 all works pretty good with Arora browser but since 5 days ago appears this message when I go to my hotmail page:
Errores SSL:
issuer certificate of a ...
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Change default command line, non-graphical browser?
I have elinks and w3m installed. elinks seems to be the default for using surfaw from the command line---I'd prefer w3m be the default. Is this particular to sr or is this a bashrc kind of setting? ...
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How can one enable double-tapping to zoom in Firefox?
I want to have a double-tap zoom functionality (like on Android or iOS devices) in my Firefox web browser using the left mouse button. Is it possible to change some browser settings in order to get it ...
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control mouse with keyboard and web browsing
I have lost my mouse functionality, and I have to work without it on my Ubuntu PC for a couple of days. I am OK with doing my stuffs without it on my computer. But I'm having no good time with web ...
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Is there any browser for Ubuntu that pretends to be Internet Explorer? [duplicate]
I use Ubuntu 12.10. When I want to register for a service in some website, a messagebox appears saying "Please use Internet Explorer to use this item". The webdesigner assumes all users use Ms ...
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How to get Ubuntu to display unicode supplementary characters?
I have a standard desktop UI install of the latest Ubuntu distro and I'm trying to view this page: http://www.i18nguy.com/unicode/supplementary-test.html
However none of the text display properly. I ...
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Why is Ubuntu shipped with firefox?
I'm just curious, and some of my friends too. Personally I think chromium-browser is better (faster, less crashing) than firefox, and, why Ubuntu not shipped with more than 1 web browser?
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Need a kid-safe browser like Zoodles
I have a six year old little sister. She gets online. My parents want her on a kid safe browser like Zoodles.
Are there any for Linux? Is it possible to install Zoodles on Linux? All the ones I've ...
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How do I get more up to date Silverlight/Moonlight?
For the german video streaming site SkyGo, I need Silverlight >= 4.06. I installed the most recent Moonlight plugin from http://www.go-mono.com/moonlight/download.aspx but this version is to old to ...
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How can I get chromium-browser to run fullscreen (not kiosk) in 12.04?
I have created a restricted user which logs in automatically and Chromium runs the default home page with the screen starting maximized but I want it to run in fullscreen (F11) mode. I tried kiosk ...
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Why internet explorer 6 trying to save all webpages?
I have successfully installed IE 6 using playonlinux, but I'm unable to browse any site. when I'm entering any address in the address bar, following message is pops up
You are downloading the ...
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Time in gtalk and facebook chat is wrong
I messed with some time zone settings while installing Redis yesterday following this tutorial:
http://www.codingsteps.com/install-redis-2-6-on-ubuntu/
(at least I think this is when the problem ...
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HTML Files not opening in browser
Previously when I clicked on an action in a program that opens an HTML file it would open in the browser automatically. However, now instead of opening in the browser, it opens a nautilus window with ...
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Tabs in fullscreen Chrome/Chromium
I love Chrome and Chromium, but when I go full screen, I can't get to my other tabs anymore, which I can with Firefox. So my questions are:
Am I alone or is this universal?
Is there a fix?
Is ...
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Facebook advertisements open automatically even when the browser is not currently open
I tried to google the problem for a while and still couldn't find the solution.
My browser periodically open a new tab with a Facebook link even when the browser is not opening. First I guess that's ...
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Why can't I run Java Web Start Applications?
I have Ubuntu 12.10 for x86-64 on my PC and I'm trying to run a .jnlp file. I've installed Java 7 and the Java plugin for Mozilla Firefox manually (Because there is no .deb package for Java 7 for ...
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Will browsers in Ubuntu touch support flash?
Will the Ubuntu Touch browsers support flash?
Are they the same as the full desktop versions? I would love to be able to see flash content.
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Gwibber facebook login (was virus facebook login)
every minute a google-chrome pages is open with this url
https://www.facebook.com/connect/login_success.html#access_token=.....
Where the token is my authentication token..
This is my ps aux ...
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Programs to combine bookmarks?
I've recently been having some issues with xmarks and found that it hasn't been syncing my chromium and firefox bookmarks correctly.
Is there a way to combine the two bookmark HTML files? Preferably ...
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Update TextEntry of WebBrowser in Python
I got a basic web browser set up and working with Quickly and Python code, but how do I set it up so my TextEntry object (where the URL is entered) to update if I click on a link on the webpage. It's ...
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How do I use Apple Magic Trackpad for Firefox navigation?
I use my trackpad with touchegg and touchegg-gce for easier configuration.
In the initial configuration there's an 'application' section for Chromium navigation which uses 2-finger drag that doesn't ...
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How do install Panda 3D on Precise or Quantal?
I want to install Panda 3D (browser plugin) on 12.10 or 12.04 (32-bit). I have tried several things and tried to compile from source. Any source/compiled/ppa would be appreciated.
I keep running ...
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Chrome & Firefox Browsers ignore Sun Java (7.0_11) & Open Java / Ubuntu 12.10
Calling up certain websites shows the Message "PLUGIN not found" although both Open Java AND Sun Java are definitely installed (just redid both products). This is happenning for both browsers. I have ...
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Epiphany's icon doesn't go away after uninstall, why?
I can't get rid of the epiphany web browser from the application menu in Cairo. I had installed it via Ubuntu Softw Centre, just to try it out, then uninstalled it but its icon is still present in the ...
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Words and hyperlinks only displayed on sites like facebook and youtube [closed]
Well, I installed the Ubuntu 12.10 in a netbook(use wi-fi internet) and now, some website dont load correctly, like facebook page, youtube or askubuntu page. I installed Adobeflash player plugin, ...
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Unable to set Google Chrome as default browser in Ubuntu 12.10
despite several attempts at making Google Chrome work as my default browser I simply cannot.
I've read countless threads on the internet, checked mimeapps.list and so on, tried about anything, from ...
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Local language fonts don't show correctly in Google Chrome 24.0.1312.52 on Ubuntu 12.04
The latest release of Google Chrome (version 24.0.1312.52) fails to show fonts correctly in some regional languages e.g. Gujarati language with Ubuntu 12.04 but there isn't any problem with the same ...
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Ubuntu Server - Auto Run GUI browser for Slideshow
I am hosting a program called Concerto on my Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS. However I would like it to also auto run a browser set to a specific link preferably in kiosk mode. It will be hooked to a TV via ...
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Internet very slow on wireless Ubuntu 12.04
Im facing a peculiar problem with Ubuntu 12.04.
When I'm on wireless all my webpages load very very slowly but videos + transmission downloads are very fast(actual speed).
I tried all fixes - upgrade ...
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How do I enable VSync in the browser on Lubuntu using Intel GMA HD?
How can I enable vsync in LXDE? Right now I have a lot of tearing when watching videos in the browser, while I don't notice this in videos played by mplayer.
I suspect that vsync is disabled, though ...
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How can I view Youtube videos in Tor browser?
For some reason I'm unable to view videos on Youtube when using the Tor browser. What steps do I have to take to view them?
