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Questions tagged [firefox]
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Apache 2.4.7 does not accept RSA ciphers but openssl does
# apachectl -version
Server version: Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu)
Server built: Jul 22 2014 14:36:38
I've got ssl.conf configured with the default SSLCipherSuite (SSLCipherSuite HIGH:MEDIUM:!aNULL:!MD5). I've also tested all sort of combinations.
I've…
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firefox vs chrome behave different 301 redirect
I have this nginx config:
worker_processes 1;
error_log /home/paolino/error.log notice;
events {worker_connections 1024;}
http {
include mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;
sendfile on;
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Paolo Veronelli
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HEAD requests from Linux/Ubuntu boxes
I don't know if this falls under server fault. We have HEAD requests disabled on our server. But we see thousands of HEAD requests, always with the same user agent. 'X11; Linux x86_64 chrome. It looks like an Ubuntu or other Linux machine. …
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how to make fast SSH X11 forwarding (specifically, making firefox context menu show up quickly)
Remote Firefox over SSH is pretty usable until you try a right click to make context menu show up. It takes about 5 seconds for the context menu to appear. It seems it takes many round trips.
ssh -c blowfish-cbc -C -Y host
I believe with the above…
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CORS Fails on CloudFront Distribution with Nginx Origin
I have a CloudFront distribution set up with an Nginx server as the origin (a Media Temple DV server, to be specific). I enabled the Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * header so fonts will work in Firefox. However, Firefox throws a CORS error for fonts…
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Firefox instance started by selenium occasionally becomes unresponsive
I'm running a web application under Tomcat 7, Ubuntu 14.04 that starts an instance of Firefox (currently version 29) using the Java Selenium driver to take screenshots of simple locally defined web pages.
Occasionally, Firefox becomes unresponsive. …
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Windows XP: no CSS for IE, Firefox or .CHMs
I'm having a strange problem with the Windows XP machine of one of our developers after having installed .NET 3.5 SP1 (at least, the behaviour wasn't apparent before this point).
After installation, neither Firefox nor IE would display any CSS, but…
alex dante
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Permalink for latest version of browsers?
We use a deployment tool when we image new systems and up to now we have always downloaded the latest versions of Firefox, Flash, Acrobat, etc, saved them on a server and then pointed to them during the imaging. The problem with this is that those…
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Can't reach server without proxy (website down from my home)
I have a website hosted on Hostinger
However I am experiencing problems with my wordpress site.
This is really annoying. If I understood the situation right, The server is blocking me or denying access to my own website.
When I visit the site with…
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Can Firefox 3.5 run on Linux Kernel 2.4?
I am trying to run Firefox inside of a Linux chroot. The chroot has a copy of Debian Etch installed via debootstrap. If the chroot is running on a machine w/ a 2.6 kernel, I can run Firefox 2.0, 3.0 and 3.5 all fine. My problem occurs when I move…
bk.
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Why might a standard browser send hundreds of concurrent requests?
One of my organization's web servers (Ubuntu with Apache & PHP) recently got knocked out of service by a sudden burst of 400ish repeated requests in 20 seconds from a logged-in user. It looks accidental, rather than a deliberate attack.
Here are two…
Foo Bar
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Force proxy settings (Solaris\Linux)
I have tried the following from the command line in solaris:
DATE TIME user@host> bash
bash-3.2$ export http_proxy=http://localhost:8080/
bash-3.2$ echo $http_proxy
http://localhost:8080/
bash-3.2$ firefox
Since I do not have a proxy running…
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Firefox execution fails from a root executed script with privilege drop
I can't run firefox from a sudoed python script that drops privileges to normal user. If i write
# sudo python
>>> import os
>>> import pwd, grp
>>> uid = pwd.getpwnam('norby')[2]
>>> gid = grp.getgrnam('norby')[2]
>>> os.setegid(gid)
>>>…
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*How to login to VMWare Infrastructure Web access without username and password
When I am on the local machine I want to access the VMWare Infrastructure Web access without typing username and password.
The old gui console from the 1.x series could just connect locally without that.
Another solution would be if Firefox somehow…
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background colors not showing up in web browsers
This is a strange one...I have a customer for whom background colors don't show up in either Firefox or IE. For example, check out msn.com. See how theres a blue background? For my client, that background shows as white.
Any thoughts? I couldn't…
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