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Browser (or Internet/Web browser) is a software application for retrieving, presenting, and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web.

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Adding a self-signed certificate to the "trusted list"

I've generated a self-signed certificate for my build server and I'd like to globally trust the certificate on my machine, as I created the key myself and I'm sick of seeing warnings. I'm on Ubuntu 12.04. How can I take the certificate and globally…
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What does the Chromium option `--no-sandbox` mean?

I'm running Chromium like so : chromium --no-sandbox I'm doing this because I'm running Debian Squeeze on an OpenVZ VM Container and it's the only way I can get it to work. Though I keep reading this is terrible. But I want to know why exactly. Can…
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What is the best text-mode web browser?

I'm looking for one that is frequently updated and full-featured.
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Refresh/reload active browser tab from command line?

I'm trying to set up a custom toolchain where the browser (Firefox or, preferrably, Chrome) is often/frequently/constantly forced to refresh from the commandline. (The idea is to instantly see the visual changes in the html/webapp I'm editing in an…
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Vim interface on web browser input fields?

I am looking for a browser plugin which inputs textin of input boxes with the same keyboard interface of the Vim text editor. I have adopted Vimium which makes general navigation much more effective, however I often find my self wish I had the Vim…
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How can I make chrome (stop asking to be) the default browser?

I am running Linux Mint Debian edition (essentially Debian testing) and the Cinnamon desktop environment. Every time I launch google-chrome it asks to become the default browser. I have told it to do so in all ways I can think of but I still get…
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chromium browser (pepperflashplugin) opening listening ports on 0.0.0.0:5353

I am using chromium browser (chrome) with pepperflashplugin in Debian. I have noticed, chromium/pepperflashplugin opens a listening port on my public interface 0.0.0.0:5353 as seen with netstat: netstat -lptun Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address …
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Open HTML attachments externally in Mutt

I recently managed to set up my mailcap so that Mutt can show HTML e-mails in the message window: # ~/.mailcap text/html; lynx -dump '%s' | more; nametemplate=%s.html; copiousoutput; which is automated by: # ~/.muttrc auto_view text/html Although…
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Set the default browser, system-wide, on Manjaro

In Ubuntu I used sudo update-alternatives --config x-www-browser to set the default internet browser manually. In Manjaro I get: sudo: update-alternatives: command not found I have set Firefox as the default in its settings and want it to stay…
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How are some websites able to detect on which OS I am running the Tor Browser?

Tor Browser conceals the user's operating system by spoofing user agents. Currently it is Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/102.0. I decided to test whether the function actually does its job by visiting multiple…
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Is there a Linux graphics program that displays man commands in a browser?

Is there a Linux graphics program that displays man commands in a browser? I need a program that allows me to display all man commands in a browser, or in some graphics program, so that they can be up all the time, rather than having to view them…
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opening multiple URLs from a text file as different tabs in Firefox/Chrome?

How I would go about opening multiple URLs from a text file as different tabs in Firefox/Chrome? My text file is just a list of URLs, one per line: http://www.url1.com http://www.url2.com http://www.url3.com http://www.url4.com
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Execute a shell command upon a click event in a web page

Is there a way to execute a bash command when I click on a text in a browser? The web page is on computer A, the browser is on computer B : I want to execute the code on computer B, e.g hsetroot to change the wallpaper when clicking an image.
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How to tell Firefox to use another ALSA device?

I have an onboard sound card, and also a connected bluetooth headset. I have configured the bluetooth device in /etc/asound.conf: # cat /etc/asound.conf pcm.bluetooth { type bluetooth device 12:34:56:78:9a:bc profile…
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Yanking URLs in w3m

I have been using w3m for a couple of weeks and am convinced that it is my preferred text browser - with one exception. Is there any way to yank URLs to the clipboard without using the mouse? I have looked through the manual and, using the default…
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