A web browser or Internet browser is a software application for retrieving, presenting, and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web.
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After changing DNS a domain shows differently on different browser?
I have changed the nameserver's of one of my domains but I found a problem that within Firefox these changes have not updated as expected, however this problem does not occur in other browsers such as ...
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URL requests with [object] in place of parameter values
We're seeing requests to our server with the literal [object] replacing the values where parameters should be. For example: http://example.com/users/[object].
I've found some suggestions that it ...
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How to determine the sequence of ordering certificates by browser?
I did a Mutual Certificate Authentication implementation with OpenSSL and Apache Web Server on CentOS platform. To simple explanation see this diagram:
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How to make client side and server side communicate? [closed]
I have apache installed, and I would like (using php/and or javascript, html) to do the following but I do not know how.
To send my client to the server a value x
The server to increase x by one and ...
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Is there any way to know a font type using ie8? [closed]
I'm wondering if there is any way to know the font type using IE8?
Any idea?
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Is Opera Version 12.15 using WebKit or Presto for its rendering engine?
I cannot tell from the Opera Desktop team blog or from the Presto Wikipedia page if Opera 12.15 is utilizing the WebKit or Presto rendering engine. The phrasing from Wikipedia can be interpreted ...
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Is it necessary to browser QA different versions of non-IE Browsers?
For example, is there a chance that Chrome 25 will render an element differently than Chrome 26? If the answer is "no", a link to a resource that explains why there are no differences in redering ...
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What is the default Web browser on Android?
What is the default Web browser on Android devices?
Are there weird Web browser set by default that I should be aware of (to test my mobile Website on it)?
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Is there a non-Safari Apple Web browser for the Ipad / iPhone / iPod?
I know Safari is the default Web browser on the current iPad / iPhone / iPod.
But was there a non-Safari official Apple made Web browser for these platforms in the past?
If so what are they and when ...
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How can I browse the Web blind for a day?
"Close your eyes" isn't the answer I'm looking for, but +1 to you if it was your first thought.
I'm putting together an awareness campaign called Browse Blind. The goals are to:
Help sighted people ...
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Should I drop support for IE7?
IE9 is out the door, IE8 is on the rise, and IE6 is deemed gone by the internet.
What is the future of IE7? Should I continue to support it if I am launching a product in 6 months? I am afraid it ...
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Ad network to target a specific browser only
I'm looking for an ad network which allows me to target only users with a specific browser.
I want to advertise my online app which only works in one of the major 3 browsers.
I've looked at some of ...
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What are Mozilla compatible Agents in Google Analytics?
When I create a pivot table showing the number of visits for each type of browsers and regions, here is what I obtain:
As you can see, regions such as Northen America the number of visits ...
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Images on a subdomain, hosted on the same server — will simultaneous downloads increase? (CDN)
Browsers only allow you to download a limited number of concurrent files from the same domain.
Would a subdomain for images (basically as a content delivery network) on the same web hosting server ...
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Disabling HTML5 rendering in Chrome
I want to test fallback if a browser isn't HTML5 ready. Is there an easy way to disable HTML rendering in Chrome?
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Video conference/chat tool that can be embedded in own website needed
We are looking for a means (a tool, a commercial service) to enable a closed user group to start a live video conference in a browser, as part of the company website. Something like Skype, but ...
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Which browsers send “Expect: 100-Continue” request header? [closed]
I just want to make sure which browsers send the Expect: 100-Continue header? So that until the server responds with a 100 Continue HTTP status, no data should be sent.
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Visitors have old website cached in their browsers
My client's new website is example.com, the old website is example.co.uk. I've re-pointed the A Records to the new website (so as to leave the emails alone) and put in 301 redirects from old pages to ...
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What browser is sending user agent beginning mozilla/5.0+, tramslates & into &
We've got a website which has been running for a few years now. One of our customers has just started having an intermittent problem. Looking at our iis6.0 logs the service works correctly when they ...
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Using multiple A-records for my domain - do web browsers ever try more than one?
If I add multiple A-records for my domain, they are returned in a round robin order by DNS servers.
Example:
1.1.1.1 A example.com
1.1.1.2 A example.com
1.1.1.3 A example.com
But how does web ...
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How can I block site visitors using legacy browsers
I want my site to block access to visitors that are using outdated browsers such as IE6 and IE7 etc.
I am looking for a script that I can use to block certain browsers accessing my site
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So now Google has said no to old browsers when can the rest of us follow suit?
Google recently announced that they will no longer support older browsers on Aug 1st:
For this reason, soon Google Apps will only support modern browsers. Beginning August 1st, we’ll support the ...
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http keep-alive with multiple A/AAAA records
I'm trying to estimate the performance impact of publishing several IP-addresses for a given web-site hostname.
Do browsers choose addresses in a random order?
Do they use the same address for all ...
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Browsers specifically for web development
What are some browser "distributions" (a la linux distributions) that are pre-configured for web development? I'm thinking for example of an OSX app I can download that contains Firefox already ...
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How to force browsers to always reload xslt files?
Related: Apache: How can I force the browser to reload CSS files?
I'm building an xml page (on an apache2) that is supposed to be translated to xhtml by the browser, so my server also serves a ...
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Force fresh content, not from the browser cache
I used the following code in the htaccess to put my site under maintenance and show the visitors maintenance.html.
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ...
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How do you save/export changes made in Firebug?
Using Firebug to edit CSS, how do I save/export changes made to the CSS?
TOOLS: Firefox, Firebug
MAJOR UPDATE: If you know of a way to lock the forward/back/refresh on a FireFox tab, please let me ...
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How can I simulate mobile device browsers to test websites on a desktop?
Are there any good tools that can be run on desktop machines (Windows or Linux) that can simulate a mobile device, preferably with some options as to screen size and mobile browser (user agent if not ...
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How to find the exact font used by the browser
I have used the css style sheet as font-family:arial,helvicta,sans-serif,etc... in a php file when i checked it in browser i dont know which font it is using from the font-family . i wanted to know ...
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Does browser understand PHP? [closed]
I know that PHP is server side scripting language, but I got confused when asked in an interview if the browser understands PHP?
I have Apache installed in my system.
If in a PHP file I write ...
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Is there a general rule of thumb for which browsers to optimize your site for? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
At what visitor share do you stop supporting a given browser?
I have a site (recently relaunched it with a new design) that I have put off optimizing for ie7 for far too ...
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Web Form Testing [closed]
I created a application for a client that is along the lines of a ticket tracking system. I wanted to know if anyone know of software that could beta test the web forms.
Well I am looking for ...
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What does it mean when a User-Agent has another User-Agent inside it?
Basically, sometimes the user-agent will have its normal user-agent displayed, then at the end it will have teh "User-Agent: " tag displayed, and right after it another user-agent is shown. Sometimes, ...
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New standard HTTP protocol [closed]
Many large sites have stopped using http://site to use only //site
Examples:
In adwords tools
And on some microsoft pages.
I believe that //site is bad
bots because some may misconstrue
and beyond ...
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What are some good pages to redirect users to if they are using an old browser?
Such as this one: http://www.webstandards.org/upgrade except it's just awful and is way out of date (use Netscape 7? really?)
I am going to require IE9+ and the latest versions of the rest of the ...
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How can I see what my web site looks like in various browsers?
How can I see what my web site looks like in various browsers?
Short of actually having every different browser version installed, is there any tool or service that can provide a preview?
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How to tell the Browser the character encoding of a HTML website regardless of Server Content-Type Header?
I have a HTML page that correctly (the encoding of the physical on disk matches it) announces it's Content-Type:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
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Is trailing slash automagically added on click of home page URL in browser?
I am asking this because whenever I mouseover a link to a home page (e.g. http://www.example.com), I notice that a trailing slash is always added (as observed on the status bar of the browser) whether ...
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How to open the JavaScript console in different browsers?
Updated on October 7th 2012
Chrome:
Press either CTRL + SHIFT + J to open the "Console" tab of the Developer Tools.
Alternative method:
Press either CTRL + SHIFT + I or F12 to open the ...
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Mobile Browser Usage Statistics
I'm looking for global mobile browsers usage statistics from time to time compared to desktop browsers. Any better ideas than http://gs.statcounter.com/ ?
I need it as a reference for my college ...
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Do I really need to test on different OSes?
I know testing websites on different browsers is important, but do browsers really render pages differently on different OSes?
For example, do I have to test Chrome for Mac, Linux and Windows to ...
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What is the best size to use to display full screen size of an application screenshot?
I want to maximize tbe size and avoid scroll bar or overflow for the maximum too.
What size do you recommend ?
I'm using lightbox.
Thanks
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Browser window size statistics?
I was wondering, are there any statistics available on what size users have their browser set to nowadays? I know the screen resolutions (we have analytics, which shows those as well) but I doubt a ...
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Are filename extensions required on served images?
If the image I'm serving has the proper HTTP Content-Type is it also required that I have the image filename extension (JPG/PNG/GIF)?
Or can I just include the image in the page without?
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Double vertical scroll bar on Google Chrome browser [closed]
Almost everyday I find one or several webpages that show some kind of bug is affecting Google Chrome, at least my version of Google Chrome 21.0.1180.79 running on Windows 7 64 bits.
Take for example ...
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Is it possible to stop Chrome and other browsers from pre-fetching/rendering my site?
I know you can guide Chrome to prefetch links you think users are likely to click on your site, but can you also do the inverse? Can you tell Chrome (or really any browser) not to prefetch and ...
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Is RSS auto-discovery still a viable option in 2012?
I am preparing a website and noticed that although the source code contains RSS autodiscovery URL, i.e. something like
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" href="/rss.xml">
none ...
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Is there any tool or add on or anything by which i can know how many times I have opened a website in a browser? [closed]
Is there any tool or add on or anything by which i can know how many times I have opened a website in a browser?
I use google chrome. I want to know "whether I have visited a particular website ...
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IE9 changes Browser Mode based using domain name or ip address for the url
Update : Tested with IIS6 and IE9 the same problem persisted. using paulmorriss's advice the Browser mode and Document for the page were different, so this problem had nothing to do with IIS6 or 7 but ...
