Category: browsers
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table of keyboard shortcuts on Wikipedia: “refresh a webpage (ignoring cache)”
On Windows you achieve this using F5 resp. Ctrl-F5 (if you want to ignore the cache on purpose). On MacOS that’s a little more complicated. Look it up on the page quoted above!
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Google Chrome reports NET::ERR_CERT_INVALID for a website and does not display it for you – how to overcome?
https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/10551759 https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/10551759?msgid=31644104 if you do trust that site, type “badidea” resp. “thisisunsafe” directly in chrome on the same page and Chrome will load the page! (“this is unsafe”, but without the spaces in between) I am sort of breathless and outraged considering they keep me from displaying pages, that I want to display.
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how to clear HSTS settings in Chrome and Firefox
Chrome sometimes complains, it cannot visit some URL because off HSTS trouble. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Strict_Transport_Security AKA HSTS https://www.thesslstore.com/blog/clear-hsts-settings-chrome-firefox/ chrome://net-internals/#hsts -> “Delete domain security policies”
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how to get informed of all the Mozilla Firefox beta updates
http://kb.mozillazine.org/app.update.channel In about:config set app.update.channel to beta.
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where is the fun with Firefox Aurora …
…, if most of my plugins are getting disabled with the next upgrade? Back to Firefox “beta update channel”! That should be exciting enough. Well, at least my plugins are functional there.
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the Firefox setting “browser.display.use_document_colors”
Up until now, I have never heard of this setting, nevertheless it had gotten toggled a while ago. It had made me a little nervous during the last couple of weeks. How I solved the issue: searched the web for “Firefox ignores stylesheets“, too many hits of course …, found a hint pointing to PrefBar,…