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How can I enable the "back" button of a Razer mouse?
I made an open-source macOS utility called SensibleSideButtons that turns the side buttons on any generic mouse into universal navigation buttons.
The application runs in your menu bar so you don't ...
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Chrome Mac gesture conflict with horizontal scrolling
Turn off AppleEnableSwipeNavigateWithScrolls.
In your terminal, run this command:
defaults write com.google.Chrome AppleEnableSwipeNavigateWithScrolls -bool FALSE
Then quit Chrome if you have it ...
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How can I browse the web on very old versions of Mac OS?
This answer was last updated in February 2021, and may become outdated as time goes on. As of this writing, however, all software listed is actively maintained with security patches. On OS's which ...
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Stop Opera from auto updating
Try the following steps:
Completely uninstall all the versions of Opera from your Mac.
Reinstall your preferred version of Opera.
Disconnect from Internet connection.
Launch and Quit Opera.
Launch ...
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Swipe between pages doesn't work and unable two fingers scrolling up/down
What worked as well for me was switching off two finger swipe from the trackpad settings ('Swipe between pages' setting), then turning it on again directly after. A lot more convenient than logging ...
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How do I exit private browsing mode in iOS but retain all of my private tabs?
As of iOS 12 beta 2 and below, this is not currently possible with Safari.
As said by @Snowbody,
[You can copy & paste] all the URLs from the URL bar into an email or other document[.] Of
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Launching a specific web page from iOS home screen
Safari, the default browser available in iOS has a feature that lets you add a website bookmark to your Home Screen.
The bookmark visually looks like an app icon and when tapped, opens the webpage in ...
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What DNS resolver does safari use?
Safari uses the macOS systemwide DNS resolvers.
You can print the current resolvers configuration using scutil --dns.
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How can I listen to Apple Music from my web browser?
There are multiple web players available:
Apple's official web player (or the beta)
Musish
Zachary Seguin Music
Genius
I would recommend trying one of the third party players, they have some nice ...
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Why do Chromium and Chrome delete all cookies after closing the browser?
Session Cookies vs. Persistent Cookies
When creating a cookie, the code has the option of setting an expiration date & time. If this is done, then that cookie is persisted to storage on the ...
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Setting the default browser
You can do this from the System Settings app! You can open it by clicking System Settings… in the Apple menu.
Once there, just head to Desktop & Dock > Default web browser!
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Stop Opera from auto updating
Rename the autoupdate binary.
You should be able to find it in /Applications/Opera.app/Contents/MacOS
Rename it to anything else:
mv /Applications/Opera.app/Contents/MacOS/opera_autoupdate /...
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Mac connects to network with no problem but browsers can't connect to websites
Turns out my AV had entered a proxy that was blocking my connections.
It might be worthwhile to check:
System Preference > Network > Choose your connection > Advanced > Proxies > remove any active ...
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How to do a complete refresh in Safari 10.1.1 on MacOS Sierra
Shift-click the refresh button, or choose View → Reload Page From Origin (⌥⌘R) to refresh ignoring cached resources for the current domain. You can observe the effect in the Web Inspector's Network ...
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How to make Chrome open a new window for external Links
Security addition to the other answers [1]
One should quote the URL for security reasons and as it might contain special characters which need escaping when used as a string in bash (e.g. '&' and ...
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Your connection is not private
Click on the Advanced link on the bottom left. It will show you an option to continue on to the site you want to visit.
Chrome will show you this page if it finds problems with certificates, http ...
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Make Safari load background tabs
I'm not aware of any way to alter Safari's default behavior, but this task can be automated easily enough if you have a means to run an AppleScript.
I use FastScripts and Keyboard Maestro myself, so ...
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Keyboard shortcut for Safari stop loading webpage button
Holding esc can stop many pages from loading/ progressing.
You can also disable JavaScript in Develop menu (safari preferences → advanced, enable it) if such popups are asking for login etc. This ...
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How can I irreversibly prevent Safari from being used for web browsing?
Enable parental controls in System Preferences and black list Safari on Mojave and older. On Catalina it’s called screen time, but you can blocks apps like a safari there as well.
If you need the ...
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I cannot add a Web page into my Dashboard
Apparently Dashboard is turned off in your system. Go to System Preferences → Mission Control and enable Dashboard by selecting either As Space or As Overlay corresponding to Dashboard.
The Open in ...
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Move tabs to the side of Safari
I know you said you use Safari for Ka-Block but if you could find an alternative blocker for Firefox you could get the side tab you want. There's an extension call Tree Style Tab which lets you put ...
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Unable to remove website data in Safari
go to ~Library/Safari/Databases/ and delete the database
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Browsers open all links in a new tab
To my thinking, a logical place to start and fix this is focus on Safari:
Go to the settings and change the tab behavior, click a link, then change it back to your preference if needed.
Next be sure ...
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iMac Safari web browser
You need to reset Safari's preferences.
Click on “Safari” located in the menu bar in the top left hand
corner of the screen
Click on “Reset Safari...”
Place a checkmark beside all available options
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Stop Opera from auto updating
For other Opera version, please try this:
Download version you want http://www.opera.com/download/index.dml/?os=mac&list=all
Turn off Wifi network
Delete current Opera App, delete 2 folders: ~/...
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Video not playing in Firefox on Mac
That is a flash video. You need to install flash for firefox. https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
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How to do a complete refresh in Safari 10.1.1 on MacOS Sierra
After Searching a lot, I found that border radius is not supported in Safari for inputs of type "search". Therefore I changed my search form's text input from "search" to "text" and now it works ...
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Mac connects to network with no problem but browsers can't connect to websites
Answer of @ahmed-azam helped me to solve the issue.
Symptoms:
I can ping my router and all arp table (there were only 3 records)
I cannot ping any host on the Internet (1.1.1.1, etc)
Browsers have no ...
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Open many links at once in Safari
There is a way to do something close - it involves adding a bookmarklet to Safari and selecting that once you're on the page.
However, this will either open only the hyperlinks you've selected (i.e. ...
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Possible to pause audio in browser using keyboard?
I can't find a way to do it in Chrome, but in Safari it's easy.
Method as follows, in case it would provide a suitable alternative...
You can click on the speaker icon to the right of the address ...
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