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uniform resource locator or universal resource locator (URL)

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Create a shortcut for URL?

How can I create a shortcut for URL in my desktop? I want to use them in Firefox or Chrome. If a copy and paste didn't work. What script I have to use?
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URL protocol handlers in basic Ubuntu Desktop

There was a way to register URL protocol handlers with Gconf, which is now obsolete and there seems to be no way to do the same with DConf (or Gsettings, its recommended wrapper). How do one properly ...
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How to download a file from a website via terminal?

Suppose that we have a full URL of desired file e.g. http://domain.com/directory/4?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=file.tgz I would like to go without installing a new software. Is it ...
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How can I encode and decode percent-encoded strings on the command line?

How can I encode and decode percent-encoded (URL encoded) strings on the command line? I'm looking for a solution that can do this: $ percent-encode "ændrük" %C3%A6ndr%C3%BCk $ percent-decode "%C3%...
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Equivalent of .URL file on Ubuntu

An URL link has been saved in *.url file via Windows. If you double click the file in Windows, it will open your default browser to the indicated URL. Here is an example of *.url file content: [...
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How to reset external protocol handler in Chrome?

A while back I selected "Do nothing" when Chrome asked me how to handle a specific url. Now I want Chrome to launch xdg-open, which again can launch the correct application, but I can't figure out how ...
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URL in Launcher

How do I get an URL in Unity Launcher, so when I click the URL the website of that URL opens in my standard webbrowser - i.e. firefox. (I am using Ubuntu 12.10)
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How to open a link in a PDF with the error: "Unable to open external link. Failed to execute child process “sh” (Permission denied)"?

I have a similar problem to this unanswered question. When I click on a link in a PDF document using evince, I get the error: "Unable to open external link. Failed to execute child process “sh” (...
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Are U1 public urls static?

If I publish several U1 files, delete some, add some, update their file content - will the public URLs of every file stay the same in the end, or do they change depending on the order files are ...
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Can't open link in PDF [duplicate]

I'm using the default PDF viewer in Ubuntu 16.04 on a Dell XPS 13 9350. The link is a reference in a technical paper. I get the error "Unable to open external link, Failed to execute child process "/...
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Extracting website URL

Is there a way in Ubuntu to find all the directories in a website? I have a website, and I want to check the internal links (directories) of that website. Something like this: ... The problem with ...
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gnome-terminal: can't access url from the terminal by single click [duplicate]

I want to access the url that is printed on the command line. For example, if I see the man pages for dropbox, there are some url links with underlines (i.e. https://www.dropbox.com/)-- The only way ...
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Can't resolve domain names starting with a dash

I (and many other users) can't access pages which URL contains a dash in its subdomain ; example : fragmented---.deviantart.com Checked with other OS : there's a page really dwelling here. And you ...
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how to backup and restore transmission torrents?

I don't quite grasp the relationship between magnet links and torrent file. That being said, I'm Looking to backup transmission "files" -- but which files? Most downloads I've added to transmission ...
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No ':' in the url

Starting fairly recently whenever I open the Minecraft launcher I get this error message Invalid url: '/home/kailas/Downloads/Minecraft.jar' given, exiting No ':' in the uri What does this mean? I ...
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Clicking an url or a zip file in yakuake/konsole, opens gedit! How to change that? [duplicate]

The url was to a remote zip file, for example xdg-settings get default-web-browser gives chromium-browser.desktop, so "any?" url should be opened at chromium, not GEdit... My default zip opener in ...
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