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Is there an add-on for Firefox that supports the use of vim-like persistent registers when editing textboxes and text areas? ...

and an error box comes up saying flash has stop working, continue, or stop program? task manager sezs hard drive is at 100% usage, if i let machine set for a just a while computer resumes, Where is best place to start looking for program or service or bug in stuff that is running? Let's block ads! بخوانید...

I've used both plugins (independently of each other) off and on the last year or so and I'm trying to understand the differences between them; specifically how "scopes" work. In Policeman, there are a number of sites under Origin. I have the impression that if site A loads site Y, site B loads site Y, and site Y loads site Z, if I configure rules for site Y about site Z they apply when sites A and B load site Y. In uMatrix the blue box specifies scope, which appears to be global, site.com, speci...

Firefox includes it's own integrated PDF viewer. How does one select text (for copying to the clipboard) from within a PDF being displayed by Firefox's integrated PDF viewer? ...

Firefox 50's release notes: Emoji for everyone! Firefox will use built-in Emoji on operating systems without native Emoji fonts (Windows 8.0 and lower and Linux) So I'm on Windows 7 and I absolutely dislike colored emoji for how much distracting they are. There is no font file called "EmojiOne Mozilla" to delete from Windows' fonts folder, unfortunately. And there is no relevant option in about:config list I could find. How do I disable colored emoticons? Let's block ads! بخوانید...

Can someone explain why one might find UrlPrefix strings in a users Firefox browsing history? For example: scheme://host:port/relativeURI | http://+:80/Example Would he/she be trying to run their machine as a virtual host of some kind? Thanks in advance for the help. Let's block ads! بخوانید...

Short answer: It's a little more complicated than a simple "yes" or "no". But having Ghostery definitely helps. Long answer: Google does a lot of tracking. Some of them cannot be stopped by anything short of not visiting it, because the tracking is based on IP address. There are people who do opt not to visit Google at all and use DuckDuckGo instead. There is another category of tracking that is done independent of your login cookie, so as to track you regardless of whether you are logged in or ...

I am using a Firefox Portable version and I am wondering how can I create multiple profiles? I used pathToFirefoxPortable.exe -CreateProfile profile, which start the firefox, but I don't think it created a profile for me. Any idea how can I achieve this? Let's block ads! بخوانید...

following is the link which I am trying to open in my Windows 8.1 laptop. http://navbharattimes.indiatimes.com/business/business-news/why-constitutional-amendment-for-gst/articleshow/53516496.cms?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=GSTConst030816 Now whenever I open above link on Chrome I get following screen, How do I get rid of this problem and be able to read the articles as usual. I don't have any adblocker installed on my laptop. I have following extensions ho...

I have the IP Country Domain Flag addon installed on Chrome and the Flagfox addon installed on Firefox. Both are meant to report where the IP address of a domain name is hosted. I understand that a single domain may have more than one IP address. But when I go to Wikipedia on Chrome, IP Country Domain Flag says that the server is located in the Netherlands, whereas if I visit Wikipedia on Firefox, it reports the server being in the US. Why does this happen when I am using different browsers? By...

Clearing cookies does not prevent Craigslist from tracking certain actions, not using cookies, and I'm trying to figure out what technique is being used. You can follow the following steps to see what I mean: Go to Craigslist.org and click one of the categories. This will display a list of ads. Hide an ad by clicking the X to the right of the ad (or under the ad in gallery view) and notice that on the top of the page, the count increments next to the red "X". for example, next to the red X on...

After the outage I did not start the browser yet. I hope there is something I can do before that to retrieve the info I lost. lost about 20 tabs. Anything I can do? ...

Short answer: Sorry, no. All you can do is to edit the task bar settings and disable combining windows. Long answer: The app window combining algorithm and Firefox's multitasking mechanism really leave you without much of an option. Windows groups apps based on a window ID. (I've forgotten the actual name.) So, it is possible for one process (say Firefox.exe) generate different window IDs. In fact, explorer.exe does that; that's why normal Explorer windows and Control Panel do not merge. Firefox...

I've installed some useful Firefox addons, like "stylish", which make pages darker so my monitor isn't so blinding at night. The problem is that Firefox tus blinding white as the page is loading. It only shows the pages' style or the addons' style when the page is loaded, which can be a while sometimes. How do I get the default background color to be black? I already tried setting the "Background Color" under "Content" -> "Colors" (as shown below). It either doesn't do anything, or it makes a...

Using the developer tools in Firefox one can see detailed information about requests to and responses from the webserver (HTTP header and content, timing information, status codes and so on). I wonder if there's a possibility to also see similar request loggings for the DNS resolving somewhere that are done before the HTTP protocol even takes over? Or is this handled outside the browser (by some operating system component for example)? Let's block ads! بخوانید...

I just switched from Chrome to Firefox and I was wondering if I can get my bookmarks out of Chrome and into Firefox somehow. Is it possible to export to some standard format and import into Firefox? Thanks ...

For the last 6 weeks or so, I get occasionally really high CPU usage when viewing YouTube on Firefox (v 46, v47). When this happens, FF ignores user input like switching tabs. This is on a Mac, OSX 10.9.5. I have Use hardware acceleration when available checked. I have had Flash disabled for years, but this new problem seems to be coinciding with the arrival of true HTML5 video support for YouTube on Firefox. Things were fine before. When it happens, FF tends to pretty much ignore any user input...

I type superuser.com in the browser bar of firefox, it goes to the http site. I want the https site. ...

Visiting this website tells me that my browser announces that it it using AdBlock. Can I stop my browser from announcing that it uses it? ...

I am in the midst of a malware cleanup, as a result of making the rookie mistake of trying out an .exe file from an unreliable source. Anyway, the malware seemingly tued out to be some sort of adware, the kind that embeds annoying ads in the pages while you are browsing. Right now I'm taking care of that (I least I hope so, since I've been making intensive use of ProcessExplorer, Autoruns, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware and Spy Hunter 4 for the last hours). However, there still remains a tricky modif...