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How to switch back to Firefox' old style of tabs?

The recent update (89 I think) causes all tabs to render in the same continuous shading, which makes it somehow more difficult to spot each tab's start and end (regardless of the favicon, I'm sorry, silly old proper borders just were easier on my…
Tobias Kienzler
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Hide Win 8.1 "tip" about "Switch between apps"?

I've just installed Win8.1 and I'm trying to set up IIS. When I open Add remove programs from the start menu I get the pc-settings app. In the pc-settings app I get a "tooltip" or whatever we should call it, that hints me to "Switch between apps" by…
Carl R
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Firefox scroll bar disappearing

Since the last update (Firefox 100), the scrollbar in Firefox fades out slowly when you don't move the mouse for a second and immediately reappears when the mouse moves one pixel. This drives me nuts as something moves on the side of text inputs or…
Luc
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How to drop a table using mouse and context menu or main menu on DBeaver?

DBeaver is rather good with all the necessary features. However, something is missing. I'm using DBeaver to connect to PostgreSQL. The UI shows databases, table list, etc., right-clicking on a table would open context menu. The context menu allows…
Dan D
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Any way to make Google Chrome Inspector open in new window in Chrome 16?

I'm using Chrome 16.0.912.59 beta-m at work; my home machine runs Chrome 15.0.874.121 m. Running multiple monitors means having the Inspector open on the second window makes for far quicker iterative development when I'm bugfixing my crappy CSS.…
Chris Woods
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How to disable panorama for Firefox 4?

So not only do I not use Panorama, but it is actually getting in my way too often when I open it by mistake, and frequently I find that I have tabs open that I don't want open and yet have been open for a looong ass time because I didn't know that…
erikvold
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Reorder pinned extensions in Firefox

Because I develop websites and clearing the cache for a specific website is still not an accessible feature that browsers offer by default, I installed an add-on to do it. I got into the habit of clicking the last pinned Add-on in the toolbar…
MicroMachine
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how can I get the old battery health charging back?

I have a Zenbook UX410UF and used to enjoy the battery health charging in gaming and continuous usages. A few days ago my laptop went through a journey which changed its windows version from Pro to Enterprise and the battery health charging is…
Arash
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Is there any way to disable WordPad's Text-Only format save warning?

Is there any way to disable the following warning from [Microsoft] WordPad? . Yes, I know I'm saving this document as a text-only .txt file. I've already said Yes to this dialog 25 times since opening this document, after each update. Can I turn…
WBT
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How to have Firefox torn tabs always restore down?

When you tear a tab from the tab bar, then a new window is opened, but the new window always has the same 'state' (ie: if the original window was a maximized screen then the new window will be maximized window, if it was in the smaller state, lets…
erikvold
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How to remove the random stock images from Windows 10's search pane?

I'm on Windows 10 Pro 21H2 version. In the last few days, my search pane started to present some random stock photographs (mainly landscapes, I believe) (from Microsoft Bing) upon opening it. I find this disturbing, because as a primarily keyboard…
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What's the meaning of a red x-sign on Chrome tabs?

I guess it's a Chrome thing and not coming from the website as I can't see that icon in DevTools / Application / Images If I duplicate the tab, the duplicated one has the standard github icon. Also there are no errors in DevTools / Console
golimar
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Illustrator: Change tool shortcuts to use a non-input key combination

The problem I'm tired of accidentally typing "v" and "a" characters into my text boxes when what I really want to do is switch to one of the selection tools (because their default shortcuts are V and A). I would like all of the Selection tools, as…
Mentalist
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Is there a way to suppress the waving pendulum animation in Firefox tab titles during load?

Is there a way to suppress the waving pendulum animation in Firefox tab titles during load? I'm seeing this in my latest update (57.0.1). Pretty sure it wasn't there before as it's driving me crazy. Some kind of busy indicator is obviously helpful…
Reg Edit
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How to toggle JavaScript on demand (Chrome browser)

In Chrome, I know how to manage exceptions by pointing my browser to chrome://settings/content so as to disable JavaScript on just a few sites. But there's this one site which was coded badly, and a list of social buttons is displayed with…
John Sonderson
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