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firefox returns odd results for file:/// or file:///tmp
Not long ago (a few months at most), Firefox on Ubuntu 22.04 was able to open files in /tmp, using a file:///tmp/xxx link. Now these links show the files as unavailable.
When I try to use a file:/// ...
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How to get a list of all URLs in history starting by some prefix in Firefox?
When I type the start of an URL in Firefox, I get an auto-completion of maybe 10 choices.
But on some websites like professional web apps, you may have 30 or 50 links of interest to you and if it ...
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In Firefox, stop autocomplete when entering URL
I have been doing some local web development and have been using the web address http://127.0.0.1:8000 extensively. But for the life of me, when I enter this address into the URL bar, I can no longer ...
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Get URL autocomplete to match around subdomain
A variety of sites that I use have the company name behind a subdomain, e.g.
app.asana.com
<mycompany>.salesforce.com
mail.protonmail.com
<mycompany>.latticehq.com
I'd like to be able to ...
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How to open list of urls one by one in firefox
I have a list of urls in a txt or csv file.
https://superuser.com/users/1277284
https://superuser.com/users/1327728
https://superuser.com/users/3577284
.....
Now I want to open every link in same tab ...
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How do I use wildcards in an url request from browser
I want to add 2 random uppercase letters to my url request from my chrome browser.
so in my ideal world I could do
youtube.com/?gl=[A-Z][A-Z]
and it would go to
youtube.com/?gl=DI
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What happen underneath when I type 255.255.255.255 in web browser?
I've learnt that 255.255.255.255 is broadcast address, then I'm curious what happen underneath if a web page element src is http://255.255.255.255 or I type 255.255.255.255 in url bar, will it ...
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Firefox 62.0.3 (64-bit) overrides address typed into address bar (OS X 10.12.6)
I'm working on a Django website project and have come across peculiar behavior in Firefox that I need a work-around for.
I'm attempting to reach http://127.0.0.1:8000/ in order to reach a locally-...
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Firefox show download URLs
With Firefox, I can select History Show All History and
it has a "Location" column with the URLs.
If I select Tools Downloads, it shows the size of each
download, but it does not show URLs. It does ...
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Firefox Saved Logins Once cleared never asks again?
If I delete a login/password in firefox by deleting it from the url list under Options > Privacy and Security > Saved Logins , that url will never offer again the option to save a login/password.
I ...
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Is there a way to create a URL shortcut on the desktop with the favicon of a website?
I would like to add a URL shorcut on my desktop. I use Xfce. I would like a script or trick that would give me the favicon of the website URL paste in the shorcut.
Before this, when I was using ...
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Why is there no error when I enter many slashes in a file URL in a browser?
On my Windows 10 machine I can enter a file URL of a local directory (e.g. file:///D:/temp), or a local file (e.g. file:///D:/temp/homepage.html) and everything works fine.
However, wherever there ...
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How to copy a URL with its title in markdown format?
In Firefox 56, how can I quickly copy a URL in the markdown format?
[title](url)
In theory, VimFx should work, but it doesn't, so I either want to find what's wrong or another method to do this.
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Disable automatic www insertion in Firefox
If you type the URL http://xyz.example (even with explicit http://), Firefox will redirect you to http://www.xyz.example, even if that site does not exist. It's a really annoying behavior.
How can I ...
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How to set up Firefox on Linux to select all the current URL string on click in the location bar?
How to get the same behavior of the URL address bar on Linux as on Firefox for Windows. I mean the whole URL gets selected by first click and unselected with cursor position where second click was ...
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