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iOS 16.1.2 Deleting data and browsing history does not work for Safari
Where other than in Safari settings can I delete the browsing history auto-complete function. Clearing browsing history, data, and closing tabs doesn't work.
My search engine is set to “duckduckgo”. ...
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Which iOS browser forces desktop mode universally which supports file uploads?
I would like to use the desktop version of a particular site on an iPhone (iOS 15.6).
I can confirm that many browsers do not universally force desktop view, but only do it on certain sites. That ...
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How to prevent Safari from offering translation for the primary language of the device?
As the title is self-descriptive, despite my device's primary language is English, Safari still offers translations for the pages in English. How can I prevent Safari from offering translation for the ...
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Where is information for Safari Private stored?
I noticed an interesting case where a website had blocked me from accessing contents on Safari (Private Mode), switching over to Safari Technology Preview (Private Mode) resolved these issues. Either ...
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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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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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What DNS resolver does safari use?
After reading this article about Firefox and VPNs, the section titled “Avoid untrustworthy resolvers by using Trusted Recursive Resolver” talks about using Cloudflare’s recursive resolver.
I’m trying ...
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Change the default color profile of a page in CSS in Safari? [closed]
I am working on a late-2019 Macbook Pro, which supports the P3 color gamut (wide color).
I'm building a website that includes large blocks of vivid color, where I just want the colors to be as bright ...
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How can I irreversibly prevent Safari from being used for web browsing?
I have a content blocker set up just the way I want it as a Firefox extension, but I've recently been cheating by switching over to Safari. I want to reclaim distraction-free browsing but after an ...
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Keyboard shortcut for Safari stop loading webpage button
While a page is loading, I somewant to stop it midway once the important bits have been loaded, and I don't want to continue loading the other unnecessary stuff on the page. This is especially the ...
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I cannot add a Web page into my Dashboard
I want to store a website in my Dashboard, but the option to do so appears greyed out.
How do I open the website in Dashboard?
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Move tabs to the side of Safari
Some employees in my office get confused by tabs on the top of Safari. It is measurably affecting productivity.
I need to get the tabs on the left side of the screen with a title next to each tab.
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Unable to remove website data in Safari
In Safari --> Preferences --> Privacy --> Manage Website Data, I'm unable to remove the data that shows up as Databases. I'm able to remove Cookies and Cache data but not able to remove ...
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Make Safari load background tabs
I think this is new behaviour since Safari 11, but I'm not absolutely certain.
I tend to leave Safari open all the time, with several pages of tabs, each for a different 'subject'.
On relaunch - if I'...
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How to do a complete refresh in Safari 10.1.1 on MacOS Sierra
I'm developing a website and there's a text input in my website's top menu and what bothering me is:
I loaded the site in Safari before my style.css file was edited and after that I edited my style....
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Open many links at once in Safari
Can several links be opened at once in Safari?
Imagine you are on a page with a lot of links:
Would it be possible to select all the links and open them all in one single Command-click? As such:
I ...
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How do i view HTTP request details for potential 404's on an iPhone6
I want to see if there were any invalid gets or posts on page 4 of our multistep flow, specifically any http status code 404's
I figured out a couple of ways to view source but the only way I know ...
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Your connection is not private
I am unable to access certain websites within Chrome. I am getting the error message "Your connection is not private". Anyone know how to fix this?
I've already tried the following:
Cleared cache and ...
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How do I block images for one website in Safari?
There is a question on this Stack Exchange site that details how to disable images in Safari, but I only want to disable images on a website or two. How do I do this?
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How to make a slow browser go fast?
I've had my MacBook Air for about six months. Now all the browsers are extremely sluggish — sometimes taking minutes to load a web page that would have used to take under one second to load back when ...
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Turn off Safari 9 blinking in web inspector?
The web inspector in Safari 9 seems to have added this new "blinking" thing which I find somewhat annoying although it can be useful. How can you turn it off and on? Here is what I mean.
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In Safari, how can I allow a site to locate me, after I have refused?
In Safari on iOS 8 on my iPad, I went to a page on the site www.castorama.fr.
The page wanted to locate me. So Safari asked me, and I refused (too quickly).
Now, I want to accept.
1) How can I ...
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Do Google Chrome and Safari keep sending my IP address to websites while in the background on iOS
When you are not actively using Safari or Chrome, but if they are in the background still with open tabs of websites that were visited while in the foreground, do they keep refreshing and sending my ...
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Safari on Yosemite stops loading tabs if a new one is created
If I visit a site in Safari, and before it loads, create a new tab or switch over to an existing one, the loading stops in the initial tab.
Has anyone else experienced this as well? None of the ...
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How to disable auto password filling (Keychain) while in private browsing mode in Safari?
Keychain offers to auto complete forms including passwords even in private browsing mode. How can I disable this?
I'm using Safari 8.0.5 on Yosemite 10.10.3.
Edit: The use case here is when other ...
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Can I make my website respond to Apple voice dictation for navigation?
I'm learning about how to add accessibility into my website and want to include Apple voice dictation as a way to navigate the site.
Actually writing this question using voice dictation and hope that ...
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Manipulate incoming HTML data
My ISP, injects JavaScript code into every website I visit. Is there a way to filter all incoming traffic in OS X and remove that injected code?
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Swipe between pages doesn't work and unable two fingers scrolling up/down
Since this morning, the "swipe between pages" functionality doesn't work anymore on my computer!
Web-browser specific description of the problem
Google Chrome
When I try to swipe between pages on ...
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How to get full path of MP4 file used by portal in Safari?
I am looking for the full url of this video on this portal: http://www.atv.hu/videok/video-20141102-havas-a-palyan-1-resz-2014-11-01
In source of the HTML I found this:
<div class="video-wrapper-...
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How do I stop my browsers creating a new tab for every new domain?
I have a MacBook and have tried browsing with both the Safari 7 and the Chrome browsers, but every time I go from one domain to another, it automatically creates a new tab. So if I click a link that ...
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Safari extension or other means of automatically removing overlay dialogs on web pages?
There's a recent trend in website design in which a site presents the viewer with a full-page overlay containing a "sign up for our newsletter" or similar dialog. The actual page content is covered ...
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safari sometimes can't load sites or sometimes it loads sites without css
I am a software developer experiencing strange errors with safari.
Sometimes safari loads some of the github.com pages without styles. The same happens with my heroku dashboard: https://dashboard....
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(How) Can a web site determine if Safari Private Browsing is turned on?
In Safari on Mavericks, I sometimes get a dialog from web sites indicating that some site functions will be blocked or degraded unless I turn off Private Browsing mode. Most users probably expect ...
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Safari has a problem displaying certain images
Safari does not display certain images properly.
The latest example is https://i.sstatic.net/QEoIr.jpg which is perfectly loadable in firefox.
In Safari however the picture is displayed properly ...
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How to have Safari restore form data?
I want to have Safari restore form data when restoring my session. This should be native, but Safari does not have this — yet.
The extension Lazarus looks great. But it does not work.
I have also ...
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Browse and Select unsupported files
A website is asking me to upload pdf documents but once I browse to upload all the files (pdf format) they are greyed out and not selectable.
I have tried Chrome, Safari, Firefox but there is no ...
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How to have Safari open links with the evil target attribute open in the same tab?
In some pages, there are (still) links marked target="_blank".
Safari opens such link in a new tab.
How to have Safari open such link in the same tab ?
I have Safari 7 on Mavericks. I have older ...
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Problem loading images on Cultofmac.com in Safari and Chrome
I have had a problem with the cultofmac site for a little while now.
The pages will load the text, video and some ads. But does not load the main images for the articles until about a minute. This is ...
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Doesn't Safari cache pages?
Whenever I go back or forward in the Safari navigation history, it reloads the pages even when I just visited the page two seconds ago.
When navigating using back/forward buttons or swiping back and ...
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Safari extension for adding arbitrary Javascript to a page?
Is there a way to do this?
I know I can use Stylish for adding arbitrary CSS to pages on a per-domain basis. Looking for something similar to add Javascript.
For example, let's say I wanted to turn ...
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How I can prevent Safari popups to increase database size on iPad?
Recently I have been getting popups on my iPad2 when using Safari. They say:
Increase database size?
Do you want to allow "https://mobile.twitter.com" to use up to 10 MB storage on your ...
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Is Private Browsing broken in Safari 5.1.4?
From the release notes for Safari 5.1.4:
Allow cookies set during regular browsing to be available after using Private Browsing
What?
Doesn't that mean, to give an example, that if I go to Amazon ...
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Why can I browse with Firefox but not with Safari or Chrome?
I had a problem a while back where Chrome was working fine but Safari and Firefox were not. This was fixed by unchecking the "auto-discover proxy" box in the network configuration. See my previous ...
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Seeking an alternative to the big browsers
Can anyone recommend any alternative web-browsers to the Big Three of Safari, Google Chrome and Firefox?
I just want to try something new, because I'm not completely happy with the performance of ...
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Is there any way to open a recently closed tab in Safari in iOS?
Is there a way to open a recently closed tab in the Safari browser in iOS? I am specifically looking for a solution that works on the iPad.
For reference, here is this question for the Mac.
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What's the easiest way to automate logging into a website?
There's this website I need to access about every ten minutes. And apparently it was designed in 1993, by sadists. There is no "remember me on this computer" checkbox. And if you don't interact with ...
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iPad can't seem to view sites / pages that include the port in the URL?
I've found that the iPad, using its Safari browser can't access web pages that include a port number in the URL:
http://www.example.com:8080/
or even
http://www.example.com:80/
In either case, the ...
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Lion seems to have made both Safari and Chrome pause when opening more tabs
I recently upgraded to Lion and am mostly very pleased. However I'm having some errant behaviour when CMD clicking on links in Safari and Chrome. Instead of opening the page in a new tab, often ...
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Why do text on some websites appear scrambled in Safari?
Safari has started display scrambled text on some websites. This only happens on certain site and in Safari. I've also noticed that the problem may appear in certain spots on the website, like the ...
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Cookie for domain can't be saved
I'm having an issue with a website. On one machine (10.6.8) it is not possible anymore to save the login cookie of a particular website. The site does not work with any user account on that Mac ...
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