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A web browser or Internet browser is a software application for retrieving, presenting, and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web.

A web browser or Internet browser is a software application for retrieving, presenting, and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web.

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Can I see if someone is using browser snapshot on my website?

Can I see if someone uses snapshots to store parts of my website as images in their laptop, using browser snapshot tool?
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Is Opera Version 12.15 using WebKit or Presto for its rendering engine?

I cannot tell from the Opera Desktop team blog or from the Presto Wikipedia page if Opera 12.15 is utilizing the WebKit or Presto rendering engine. The phrasing from Wikipedia can be interpreted either way: It [Presto] remained in use until Opera…
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Defense against rude web crawlers

Possible Duplicate: How To Track Down and Stop Rogue Bots? I had an incident yesterday where my web site was taken down by a web crawler that was ignoring my robots.txt. I'm pretty sure nothing malicious was intended, but the crawler wandered…
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Is it just me or are the browser companies changing their upgrade frequency to max?

This has been happening for a while now and in our office we believe the crazy browser updates are due to HTML5 becoming so hot these days but is there another reason the browser companies are pushing updates so frequently. Other than security…
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Max height to avoid vertical scrollbar on notebook resolutions

So, the most popular notebook resolution is 1366x768. The viewport height (the height that is available for the web-site in the browser) depends on the operating system and the browser. For instance, the task-bar of Windows 7 is larger then the one…
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Am I misreading the statistics? (Chrome 71.4% of market share)

I headed over to w3schools to find out how the browser competition looks like at the moment. I was stunned to see that Chrome was reported as 71.4 percent. That seems incredibly high even considering it is both desktop and mobile. Am I missing…
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Reliable browser statistics

I got curious as to how many are still using old browsers. From google I pulled up this: https://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qprid=2&qpcustomd=0 which says that a total of 21% of people are still on IE8 and 9. That was rather…
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Where can a list of Desktop web browsers be found at?

I have another question posted in regards to the practicality of whitelisting. In this question I'm simply looking for an frequently updated list of top known used Desktop web browsers to use as part of my whitelist. I'm not trying to target any…
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Screen resolutions and browser canvas sizes

I've yet to find the ultimate resource that lists 'all' browsers and the actual visible canvas size (excludes browser chrome) for content. The closest was a table in the O'reilly book Web Design in a Nutshell: The one thing is that this doesn't…
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Can the sidebar in OPERA and other browsers be removed automatically using javascript or CSS?

In Opera there is a sidebar which wrecks the desktop layout of our website. Is there a piece of code which can be placed on our website to automatically remove all sidebars in all browsers?
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