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How to stop and prevent continuous activity from a closed web page?
For the past few days, Screen Time has been showing me continuous activity from a specific website (I assume the grey circle is a website activity).
The screenshot was taken this morning upon opening ...
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How can I view this webpage
I have disabled all ad blockers for this page (to my knowledge!) as one can see in the settings window on top right, and yet I cannot see it:
I am using Safari 13 on a 2013 iMac.
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Why would web page process continue to show up in Activity Monitor after quitting the web page?
Running Big Sur on a 2017 Intel iMac, Activity Monitor shows a process for each web page tab open in Safari. Normally these processes end when I close that tab.
examples:
https://support.apple.com
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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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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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What is the difference between "Remove" and "Remove All" in Safari Preferences › Privacy › Manage Website Data?
The title pretty much says it all.
I cannot find any explanation of the difference between the two buttons.
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Where to change websites settings on Safari, IPadOS 14
I am trying to make a video online on this website https://spark.adobe.com/. And I got this error.
I don’t know how to make the requested change. I cannot find the mentioned path on my iPad. In the ...
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How to prevent safari from opening links in third party apps on macOS
Some services like Zoom or BlueJeans have capabilities of working both in app or in the browser. However when an appropriate app is installed links are automatically opened in the app by safari (macOS)...
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How to view page source in Safari browser on an iPhone?
I thought there'd be an easy way to do this, but I may have been wrong.
How can I view the source for a web page using Safari browser on an iPhone?
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How to view a website as it appears on mobile safari from desktop safari?
On chrome on desktop, it's easy to view a website as it appears when viewed on chrome on many other devices. That is, simply cmd + option + j to open dev tools, then clicking on the 'Toggle Device ...
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Some websites do not load in all my browsers
Some websites do not open in safari, firefox and google chrome. I have been trying for a few days now and it is always the same.
In safari, I get
"Safari can't open the page "xxx" ...
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Safari (iPhone, MacBook) gives NSURLErrorDomain:-1017
I face the issue that Safari returns the error: cannot parse response (NSURLErrorDomain:-1017)
I tested it on different iPhones and one MacBook.
iPhone XS & 11 (iOS 14.3). MacBook Pro BigSur.
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Is there any way to prevent specific websites from showing on browser search on Mac?
On iOS I use Zero Willpower to prevent specific websites from showing on search as well as block access to them. But I could not have found any way to do it on my Mac. Now I use dnsmasq to block ...
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Is there a cell/mobile friendly site for Apple feedback?
I have previously used:
https://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html
To send feedback. I was shocked that this web form is not CSS formatted correctly on safari for iPhone. It’s so annoying to fill in a ...
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What is Safari Service worker ? Would disabling it affect website performance?
For the past three days, I have seen Outlook and Twitter service workers trigger randomly, even if I never opened those sites in non-private mode. They consume 2 threads and distract me. Then I force ...
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Safari 11.1.2 - Discord is not showing entire page or scaling correctly
Now Discord is not scaling correctly or showing the entire page. I am using Safari 11.1.2
This comes after realizing I can't comment on YouTube or see the notifications on YouTube in Safari 11.1.2. I ...
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My Comments Not Posting on Youtube with Safari (macOS)
My comments are not posting on Youtube while I use Safari (11.1.2) on macOS? I only have one extension which is the Hoversee extension, nothing else, I'm almost certain that's not why YouTube is ...
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My Mac is opening new tabs with different ad sites
It all started with the installation of software from mac-torrent but probably it was Adobe Flash Player. It said that I had an old one and the system needs to update, so I gave the right to install ...
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Safari is sluggish and many websites produce a message about using significant memory
I'm running High Sierra on my older iMac with 16 GB of ram. I use Safari and I often have 5 or 6 websites open at once. Throughout the day I will very often encounter a website that will produce the ...
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Can I prevent websites from disabling the context menu in Safari on macOS?
More and more websites seem to disable the context menu in web browsers.
Can I prevent websites from disabling the context menu in Safari on macOS?
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Can’t access some webpages
When I go to certain websites, it says “safari cannot open the page because it could not connect to the server”
Screen time is currently not blocking any websites, and this happens with YouTube.com, ...
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How do I right-click in iOS Safari to access website specific functionality?
More and more desktop websites these days use javascript to offer specific website functionality which is available when you right-click on something. Often the developers create something that looks ...
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Safari showing border of transparent PNG
A website I work on has a partly transparent png image overlying parts of the website. The image is resized to 100% of the browser window width. In all other browsers the transparent parts behave ...
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Safari can't load any page, but chrome can
If I connect to a specific wifi network with my MacBook Pro, Safari can't load any site, but Chrome can. This problem occurs only one wifi network (but unfortunately I have to use this network). I've ...
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Trigger script on specific webpage loading
My mother has a the 30-inch LED Cinema Display, which is a bit too large for her everyday use. She prefers to use it in 1680x1050 or 1600x1200 modes, and can then switch to 1920x1080 for watching ...
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How to make Safari display forms on web pages correctly
In Safari, it is often the case that web-form show up in such a way that the text doesn't fit. Safari then inserts "..." in the text box (or combo-box, as the case may be). This happens on many ...
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Mac won't load some web contents
My MacBook Pro 2012 running ML has started not to load certain web pages. I tried with every browser but I have the same issue. I thought it was a firewall trouble, but it's disabled. Tried to ping ...
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Can "Buy with ApplePay" sync between a website and an app?
At WWDC2016 Apple announced that ApplePay could be used to make purchases in Safari and they've created a JS API to allow this. From what I can see this is only for once-off purchases, it simply ...
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Safari can't verify the identity of the website errors
Well, I did a bit of searching before I decided to post here. I've been getting this message for the past month whenever I visit one of two sites. Both sites are professional companies that sell ...
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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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Block sites at specific times
When at college I sometimes find myself looking at website such as Stack Exchange and Mac Rumours. Is there a way how to block sites like this on Yosemite every 1.5hr with 30min break?
What I mean is,...
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How can I add a website to Notification Center after denying its initial request?
For example, when visiting eBay.com or cnn.com, a dialogue box pops up asking if the site can send notifications to Notification Center.
If you initially choose deny, but change your mind later, ...
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Safari displays blank pages for some sites [duplicate]
Some pages, sometimes on Apple's on support site simply display as blank pages. The same page displays perfectly on Firefox or Chrome. What is this strange behaviour? For example, this link: http://...
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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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Apple Discussions website not responding to clicks?
This is ironic, Apple's Discussions website is not working properly in the latest version of Safari (6.0.3) or Chrome (25).
Any link or button that I click on the page does not work.
Is this ...
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Unable to view secure web pages from one particular user account
My dad's computer is running OS X 10.5.8, and is almost always unable to open secure web pages from his account. It's not that he can't log in—it's that the servers never even send a reply. ...
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How to troubleshoot web errors on the Apple developer forum?
I have an AppleID and paid $99 dollars to enroll in the iOS Developer program. I tried creating new thread in iOS Developer Forum but end up in blank white screen. I couldn't see anything on the ...
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CNET on Mac - page not found
I've been having this problem for some time now - first I thought it was some temporary thing with CNET servers, but it doesn't seem so.
I can see the index pages of CNET sites (download.cnet.com, ...
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