I'm using safari, and unsure if this works in other browsers, but when I signed up for a storm path account, I see the following URL
blob:https://api.stormpath.com/1be95204-93d6-4GUID HERE
The blob: prefix is new to me and I want to know if it…
I'm using Safari to preview web pages as I develop them on my local server. I've got 'Disable Caches' checked in the Develop menu. And yet Safari is still working from a cached version of a stylesheet that's linked from the HTML file being…
Using client certificates with Safari present a number of problems:
Safari asks to select a client certificate on each page of the site (annoying)
Safari might even re-ask you to choose a certificate on a page you've already visited, particularly…
Where do you enable web developer tools in Safari on windows? I can't find it anywhere. A quick web search found some really complicated instructions that felt more like a hack then turning on a setting. Does Apple really make it that hard to…
Say I want to use a proxy auto-config file that is stored at C:\proxy.pac. To make Internet Explorer use this configuration I have to specify the pac-file in the LAN settings in the following way:
file://C:/proxy.pac
But Safari, that uses the same…
When I download the current Adobe flash player installer from the Adobe website using Safari 6.0.1 under OSX 10.8.2, I end up with a file named 'install_flash_player_osx.dmg.mdlp' in my downloads folder. I am curious as to why the .mdlp extension…
For as long as I can remember I have been frustrated by the browser behavior whereby using the Page Up and Page Down keys on the keyboard doesn't scroll the web page by a full screenful. Whenever I am reading a long web page, I prefer to read the…
What options are there for blocking Flash and animated GIF ads while keeping static image and text-only ads?
I'm interested in solutions for Firefox on Windows/Linux and Safari on OS X.
I just can't work near PCs anymore my eyes hurt - I am developer. I use browser a lot.
I tried all of them: IE, Safari, FF, Chrome - they all are bad at the most simplest thing - large font size for tabs.
Please don't suggest me changing resolution…
I've encountered a really strange Mac problem: Safari is unable to connect to localhost whereas all other applications can connect as normal (Firefox, Chrome, ping, etc.).
My /etc/hosts is the standard setup:
$ egrep localhost /etc/hosts
# localhost…
In the OS X version of Google Chrome the Developer Console uses this stupid key combination of Alt+Cmd+I instead of F12, which is the de-facto standard key used in pretty much any other browser:
Firefox Mac uses F12
Chrome Windows uses F12
Internet…
I have run into a pretty annoying problem on Safari on Mac. If I search for part of a word that doesn't start at the beginning of the word, Safari can't find it.
For example, the COTS Demo Flight 2 page on wikipedia has >50 counts of the word…
I have been pressing Ctrl or Shift while clicking refresh for so long out of habit that I am not even sure it has any effect in modern browsers.
In the past it was used to do a 'hard refresh' - i.e. not reloading anything from the cache.
Does this…
For some reason I can't use (Apple Meta Key / Apple Key) and Backtick aka ` to cycle through Windows anymore...
Trouble is I'm not sure when it quit working so I'm not sure if I created a conflict, but I've tried deleting prefs and searched around…
