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I'm looking at a section of a website with the following URN/directory structure: http://www.domainNameA.net/site/www.domainNameA.net/files/dynamically%generated%URN_539.docx Why does the site have the domain name listed again in the URN? What is this likely to indicate? Let's block ads! بخوانید...

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

A lot of solutions to zipping the contents of a folder, Excluding the folder, look like this: zip -r contents.zip * But I need to do this WITHOUT cd'ing into the directory, I want to use an absolute path. But this command includes the parent directory: zip -r everything.zip /some/path/to/folder/* So how can I zip the contents ONLY using an absolute path? Let's block ads! بخوانید...

On some Windows environments (Windows 7 and Windows Vista), I have some scripts ruing and one of the things those scripts are doing, is trying to copy files. The results of those commands are logged in a logfile. While looking into that logfile, I've just seen the following result: The system caot find the path specified. This obviously is not very helpful (which file does he try to copy, to which directory, ...), so I would like to replace the existing copy commands by xcopy or other commands (in order to use the xcopy /F flag, which shows all files and directories of the xcopy command), but there is a catch: when I simply replace copy by xcopy then the non-existing directory gets create...

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 ruing? 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, specific.site.com, and the like. This seems different from how Policeman works. My common use case example is youtube - I want to configure everything once for youtube (site Y) relative to ytimg, googlevid...

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 caot 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 not, regardless of you visit Google or its affiliated partners. Theoretically, Ghostery can take care of those good and proper. But yes, there are yet another tracking category that is tied to your logi...

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...

I have a NFS server at home which exports a directory using the following export options: /dir/at/server client(rw,no_subtree_check,no_root_squash,async) On the client I use the following mount options in /etc/fstab: server:/dir/at/server /dir/at/client nfs proto=tcp,_netdev,vers=3,rw,async When I copy a single (large) file from server->client or vice versa then iftop gives a throughput rate of approximately 15Mbit/s which is absolutely reasonable regarding my network hardware infrastructure (wifi interface of the server is attached to the usb hub which is sharing its bandwith with the hdd). However, in the shared directory I have a couple of snapshot directories having thousands of...

I plan to use robocopy to move files and folders from a directory on a server to a directory on a hard drive, using the following command, robocopy [source] [destination] /e /move /xo In the event of a file name conflict, I understand this to replace the files on the hard drive only if it is newer (or exactly the same age?), and then to delete the files that have been copied. Ideally I would like the source directory to be cleared of files, but I suspect there may be a problem; if a file is not transferred (perhaps it is currently in use, or a newer version exists in the destination) then it will not be deleted. In the case of an actual error in the copy process (e.g. if robocopy refuses to ...

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 the way, I am located in Australia. Let's block ads! بخوانید...

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 top, it might say "1 hidden" now. Click another X to hide another ad, and notice the hidden count at the top increments. Now, go into firefox options -> "privacy" and click "remove individual co...

Chrome would not start. I spotted the problem down to the following situation: The following folder C:UsersUserAppDataLocalGoogleChromeUser Data is locked - always. Also when chrome is not ruing. Also immediately after a reboot. Furthermore, I tried to unlock it with both the "unlocker" and "lockhunter" applications. Both applications claim that the folder is not locked, however, when asking them to rename it they fail. Let's block ads! بخوانید...

I recently suffered a system crash. Luckily the /home directories were in-tact. However, after reloading the OS and copying the /home directories back into place, correcting the SID, deleting the .cache/ folder, Evolution has some challenges. When I start Evolution, it asks for the email account information like a new machine. It doesn't seem to see the files in .config/evolution and .local/share/evolution. In those file, I can see thousands of files (my email) Is there a way to get Evolution working again to "see" these files and not ask me for new account information? It's hard to tell if Evolution already does see the files because it's asking me for account information first. There are s...

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.exe, however, does not. Quite to the contrary, it actively seeks to prevent multiple versions of the Firefox processes from launching and instead uses interprocess communication to have one Firefox p...

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 all text on all pages completely unreadable if I choose "Always" in the dropdown. Is there another way? Let's block ads! بخوانید...