Questions tagged [web-browser]
Popular web browsers for OS X include Firefox, Google Chrome, and Safari.
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How to reorder the bookmarks on the home page, including the folders in Safari?
How to reorder the bookmarks on the home page, including the folders in Safari? The sort-by is not shown in the main list of bookmarks.
I can reorder the bookmarks in a folder but not on the main page....
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Force Safari to enable autoplay
Since last update (Ventura 13.1), my Safari does not seem to autoplay videos anymore.
I already tried to "allow all autoplay" or to disable all content blockers, but I still can't enable ...
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Enabling 120 fps on mobile Safari
I just recently discovered that you can enable 120 fps animation on macOS Safari by following these steps:
In Safari, go to Preferences > Advanced and check Show Develop in menu bar
Develop > ...
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How can I prevent Chrome from reopening when it quits?
When I quit the Google Chrome web browser, it automatically reopens –– it won't stay closed! I tried quitting with Chrome –> Quit Google Chrome and Command-Q. How can I prevent Chrome from ...
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Is it possible to run Chrome Browser in a virtual machine on macOS?
I have a new M1 Mac running Ventura. I personally prefer using Firefox, and I use Safari as a backup. However, I need to test a few things on Chrome.
I am really reluctant to install Chrome, or any ...
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Can I select unselectable text in Safari?
I am trying to copy and paste the dimensions of this box on the USPS website in Safari.
For some mysterious reason, I am unable to do so.
Is there a way to select this text without changing browsers?
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Grey Bar In iPhone Chrome causing problem
I'm working on a web-app using ReactJS (using JS and material UI) that is intend to work on mobile screens. I'm facing a problem while opening it in iPhone's (iPhone 12, iPhone 13) chrome browser.
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Opera Browser with Presto Engine (before 2013) any chance to get working with this website: Airtable?
Is there any way I can get the browser to work with Airtable website? I am trying to see if Airtable works better in this older browser because the site is quite taxing on chrome browser and Safari or ...
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iCloud Drive Favorites on iCloud.com?
With the new iCloud.com, is there a way to add a folder within iCloud Drive to the "Favorites" sidebar, so that it is accessible when one accesses iCloud Drive on an internet browser? ...
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CAPTCHA broken in Safari and Firefox
Often when I click a CAPTCHA in Safari, the busy animation never ends until killed. On Firefox, the whole CAPTCHA is invisible, so there's nothing to click on.
I haven't figured out what is different ...
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iTerm can't steal focus from browser, but state tracks hotkey invocation
It seems that the keybinding is processed by iTerm, as soon as I click away from Brave, the hotkey window's presence is as-expected by odd-even parity of hotkey invocations, but iTerm is no longer ...
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iOS browser app that forces pop under
When I click an ad or a link that would trigger a pop up I want it to pop under instead, open a tab silently. Block pop ups safari setting isn’t helping, still pops up cause I’m clicking on an image ...
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Open link in a new window in current space
Say I have two spaces:
Slack, VS Code, or some app
Safari/Edge/Chrome/etc.
If I click on a link in an app in 1 I want it to open a new browser window in 1. Right now it switches to 2 and opens the ...
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Apple Watch Web Browsing app
I'm finding the Apple Watch to be surprisingly capable for browsing the web! If I send myself an iMessage with a link to nytimes.com, I can log in to my New York Times account, scroll through the ...
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How to switch between browser windows with keyboard?
For other applications I use Cmd-Tab to switch between different application and Cmd-backquote to switch between windows of the same application.
But not for browsers.
How to switch between browser ...
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How do I debug (suspected) HDCP issues?
I have a 2021 14" MacBook Pro running macOS 12.4 (21F79) that won't display streaming video in Safari when connected (Thunderbolt) to a LG UltraFine 5K display.
It does the classic thing of ...
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Stop iPhone sharing open tabs via bluetooth
If I open a tab on my iPhone using either Safari or Microsoft Edge then if Bluetooth is enabled the same tab opens on my iPad in Edge and an icon like this appears in the dock of the iPad - it's the ...
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Could anyone figure out why Youtube runs so slowly for me?
Hello– I'm not exactly sure when my problem started, but at least a three months ago. Youtube works for me, but it acts as if it's completely overwhelmed. With everything I do, there is a huge delay. ...
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Arrow keys not working as expected
The system is Monterey 12.5.1 and Mac Mini 2018
There are two occurance of the problem. One of them while using Finder. When I press space bar and preview files, I am supposed to switch between files ...
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What translator engine does Safari on Mac use?
Simple as that. What?
(My guess is it's Deepl.com as it appears far superior to Google Translator. And to my knowledge, that is the only publicly available translator model that is better than Google'...
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Open all youtube links with different app
I'm looking for a solution on macOS to make all youtube.com or youtu.be links automatically open in another app, decided by me, like /Applications/Brave Browser.app for example. All while keeping ...
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MacOS cannot open external links with chrome but safari
I cannot open external links in Mail/Slack/Discord if I set the default browser to Chrome. I can open them with Safari though. I found the following thread explains the reason, but running every app ...
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How can I force macOS's "look up" feature to use my default browser to search?
In system preferences, I have my default browser set to Google Chrome.
When I am using Chrome, if I select a word and force-click it, I get the usual dictionary pop-up, but if the word is not found in ...
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How to link to a specific line on a Safari webpage?
I am trying to get a link to a specific line in the middle of a webpage on safari so that when someone clicks the link, it automatically travels to a specific line. It's a very common feature I've ...
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Block Incognito mode in any browser
Is there any way to close the Incognito window automatically as soon as it is opened on any browser?
I am currently using the Arc browser by the Browser Company which is based on Chromium but I couldn'...
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open browser link in the same desktop
Is there a way to force opening a URL in the same desktop, when there is no browser window yet in the active desktop ?
(like in linux)
this solution https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4995042 does ...
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iOS 16 Safari - How do I hide the toolbar completely?
I'm on iOS 16 developer beta 3 (20A5312g), and I need to hide the toolbar in Safari completely for a specific purpose. Tapping Hide Toolbar won't hide it completely.
Can I do it in Safari? If not, is ...
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How to make https://...zoom.us links open directly in Zoom app (not browser first) on Mac? [duplicate]
On mac OS Catalina, links I'm sent by calendar invites and Zoom, looking like https://...zoom.us/s/1234567, open first in a browser (Firefox) and then the Zoom app comes up. Can I somehow have the OS ...
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Make any application into a global drop down application (Quake terminal style)
I like to use a global hotkey to show/hide a terminal window. Many terminals have added support for this (originally popularized by terminal in Quake).
I want to do this for other things, like a web ...
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How to change the color of the white across all applications?
With the advent of Dark Appearance (System Preferences, General) macOS became more pleasant to use on a dark room. Since Dark Appearance turns dark (or darker) many parts which used to be white (or ...
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What settings on my MacBook Pro (Monterey 12.3.1) would I need to change in order to stop following
I recently reinstalled a new image of Monterey and customized a few system / user settings (including Accessibility settings etc.).
The alt-text for certain icons and hyperlinks is replacing the ...
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How to deregister Chrome from being a detected web browser by Launch Services in macOS?
I'd like to deregister Google Chrome from being a detected web browser by Launch Services in macOS. I've heard that it has to do with editing the app .plist, but I'm not clear on the details and it ...
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Is Allowing Full Disk Access to Safari Dangerous?
I have created a front-end tool for work using only HTML, CSS and Js.
I'm trying to have my coworkers simply open the html file in their own browsers, but the browser gives an error that requires ...
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How can I find files recently downloaded from the Internet?
I sometimes struggle to find the files I downloaded from the Internet. They don't show up in "Recent files" in Finder, and if I'm not aware of the name they are also difficult to find in the ...
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Drag / Drop email to web browser / web upload
When I move an email out of Apple Mail to Finder, the mail will be placed as eml in this directory. Thats nice and usable. But - I want to upload some emls to a web application.
When I drag an email ...
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macOS web browser based on Chrome/Chromium that does not auto-update in background?
On my new M1 system I've decided to switch to the desktop Safari browser for battery, privacy, and security reasons.
However, many websites are designed for Chrome/Chromium and it would be good to ...
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Enabling cookies for a specific site on Safari?
It seems like on the newer versions of Safari, I'm not able to allow/block cookies for specific sites. Before, there was an option, but now that option has been replaced with the tick box "...
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Limit web browser on iPad to a single web site (or a few specific sites)?
I know that iPadOS provides the Guided Access feature to limit access to a single app.
Suppose that one single app is a web browser, either Safari or a third-party browser. Is there some way to limit ...
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Safari won't load page: "Refused to execute a script because its hash, its nonce, or 'unsafe-inline' does not appear..."
I'm having an issue where a major website refuses to load the page on Safari for macOS (both latest versions).
The Safari developer console shows the error:
Refused to execute a script because its ...
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How to make Safari open new tab as google.com
I have just started using Safari. In Google Chrome I can assign which the new tab opens. I am not sure how to make Safari open new tab as "google.com" when I click the "+" button ...
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Clipboard does not copy URL properly
I am trying to copy this url:
https://preview.themeforest.net/item/byron-construction-and-engineering-wordpress-theme/full_screen_preview/28520387?_ga=2.75926102.272258780.1641055757-495160342....
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Web proxies enabled by default is preventing the internet from working
I am unable to use the internet with any browsers on my machine because somehow I have got web proxies enabled as shown below in the screenshot - I can turn these off easily but when I reboot both ...
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Download problems after upgrading to Monterey
After upgrading to Monterey I cannot save files using Safari or Brave Browser (it's browser on Chromium engine). Downloads are starting forever and never finish. I waited like an hour to test it.
What ...
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How to delete form fill autocomplete / autocorrection suggestions from Safari
How to delete these kinds of auto-fill suggestions from Safari?!
I have cleared all in the AutoFill options, but these previously mistyped entries remain?!
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Why are my older Macs suddenly unable to establish a secure web connection? [duplicate]
Recently, 3 of my older Macs (an old MacBook Pro, an older iMac, and an even older PPC tower) have started reporting that they can't establish a secure connection to many web pages. The messages may ...
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How do I add actions to the ctrl+click or right click menu when using it on a link on Microsoft Outlook?
I'm using the Microsoft Outlook Mac client to read work email. Sometimes I want to open links in my default browser, and sometimes I want to open them in a different browser. When I right-click on a ...
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Terminal command to force open new tab in Safari
While running the open https://www.google.com command in Terminal consecutive times, I have noticed the second time I run the command it just shows the original window of google.com instead of opening ...
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How to open HTTP(S) links which are part of a webpage in Firefox or Chrome in the macOS default browser?
Say my default browser on macOS is Safari and I am viewing a webpage in Firefox or Chrome. When I click on a HTTP(S) link on the webpage it opens again in the same application (Firefox or Chrome), not ...
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Cannot use any browser and message app while date is changed
Does somebody know how to fix internet connection problems when the date on my Mac is not the actual date?
I'm changing the date on my Mac to use a trial version of Parallels desktop because I need to ...
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How come Automator can't find images on sites like this:?
I want all of these brains in a folder because I'd like to see them in a 3d stack.
I've been following steps outlined as the top answer of this thread:
How to download a webpage's all images at ...
