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How to disable Ctrl+Q shortcut in Firefox on Linux
Since Firefox 57 there is no way to disable Ctrl+Q shortcut by plugin on Linux (see this bug). All workarounds I've found are based on setting the global Ctrl+Q shortcut to "steal" it from Firefox. But this will disable this shortcut in every…
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How to hide tab bar (tabstrip) in Firefox 57+ Quantum
How to hide/disable/remove the tab bar in Firefox 57+ ("Quantum")?
The goal is to just hide the tab bar totally. Useful if paired with extensions like "Tree Style Tab".
Note: there is a similarly looking question here: Firefox hide everything except…
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How to use 'sed' with piping
I want to replace a string outputted from grep, I have:
$ npm info webpack | grep version
it outputs me
$ version: '2.1.0-beta.12',
but I want to have:
$ 2.1.0-beta.12
So I think I might achieve that using sed and replace unnecessary substrings.…
Oskar Szura
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vim cut and paste history
When I'm 'cutting' in vim, I believe there are registers that keep a history of all the recent things I've cut. How do I access those registers?
For example, let's say I cut each one of these words consecutively
'Hello'
'World'
'And'
'Vim'
Note…
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How do I convert a DjVu document to PDF in Linux using only command line tools?
I've got some documents in DjVu which I'll like convert to PDF. Is there a way to do this using command line OSS tools?
GeneQ
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Windows Unable to Delete ._. File
I currently have a file on the root of my external hard drive simply named ._., which I am guessing was added to my hard drive after using it on my MacBook a while ago. I'm trying to delete this file on my Windows 10 machine; however Windows keeps…
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How do I remove English (US) from Windows 8.1?
I've got a slightly annoying problem. My locale is English (UK), but occasionally my keyboard randomly switches to English (US) on Windows 8.1. I see that the task bar has a language selector, which when I click on it displays two languages:
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How can I hide the most visited sites on Chrome?
Since the last update it has been impossible to hide the most visited sites. I don't know if it's some temporary sick joke by the chrome team but I need to remove it.
I have tried changing my home to something other website, this works for when you…
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Compressing with RAR vs ZIP
A lot of people are compressing files with RAR, sending compressed files with RAR and so on.
ZIP is more standard and works on all platforms. Windows users have ZIP included and Linux users have no trouble with that file format.
The tests I did…
FerranB
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Convenient way to enable/disable Hyper-V in Windows 8
I really like the Hyper-V support in Windows 8, however, there are some situations in which I need to disable Hyper-V in order to run some apps which don't like to be executed even in the root partition of the virtualized environment.
What I've been…
Fredy Treboux
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Using robocopy and excluding multiple directories
I'm trying to copy some directories from a server before I restore from backup (my latest backup was corrupt, so I have to use an older one :( ). I'm in the Windows Recovery Environment and have access to the server's file system G:\ and my backup…
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Max files per directory on NTFS vol vs FAT32
What's the max number of files that can be present in a directory on a NTFS volume?
Same question for a directory for FAT32 volume?
Gaurav
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Different compression methods in 7zip: Which is best suited for what task?
So there are different compression methods in 7zip. Which method is best suited for what task?
For example: One difference between LZMA and LZMA2 is I can choose all my cpu cores, whereas in LZMA 2 cores is the max.
Grumpy ol' Bear
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How do I view source in Outlook 2010?
This question has already been asked here; but the answer only gives advice on how to view the email header not the actual html source of the email.
There is another question here, which I think may be caused by the same issue as mine, but does not…
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How can I wipe a broken hard disk drive before sending it back to the manufacturer for maintenance?
The hard drive of my laptop died, the manufacturer wants me to send it so that they can investigate, but I'm concerned that the drive might contain sensitive information.
When I say the drive is broken, the drive won't be recognized by my OS…
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