I need a certain URL to be always opened in a browser that's not systems default browser. Problem is, that this should happen even if the URL is called automatically from within a hardcoded 3rd party app.  Answer  on one hand is focussing on .webloc and .url files or is using "Open with …" menu item. On the other hand it is mentioning  ; same does this answer: .  How can this be accomplished with on-board resources like a script?
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I've created a URL link in my dock, however, the link only opens with the default browser. I have safari, Firefox, and chrome (latest being the default) installed in my machine. I'm wondering if someone knows how to default the link to open with Firefox instead of Chrome but still keeping chrome as the default browser.  Note: I'm running Mavericks in my MacBook Pro.
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My Windows 8 Laptop will open Bing in IE by itself. It makes a request to:        which then directs to        Changed default browsers from IE to Chrome and see the same behavior in Chrome.  My initial thought was spyware, but the Microsoft URL made me think otherwise. I then confirmed that it happens on brand new installs for others at my company.   It happens (seemlingly) randomly, and without any interaction from me. I can reproduce the issue by disabling my network connection and resuming from sleep mode.
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I use Internet Explorer for some things and Chrome for others. I'd like to have a choice when I click on a link of which browser to open the link in. Is this possible in Windows? I am currently running Windows 8, although there should be similarities between versions.  To the best of my knowledge this isn't possible.
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From reading the error console, I've noticed that Firefox has several internal protocols, such as chrome: and resource:.  What are they used for, and why are they necessary?  Are they part of the  (which I am not familiar with)?  This question is independent of operating system or Firefox version.
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When launching Chrome from the Windows command line I can pass arguments like so:  ...&gt;chrome.exe -incognito   I can also pass a URL to open:  ...&gt;chrome.exe google.com   Each work fine on their own, but I can't get them to work together.  What I want is to launch it with a URL, and open in its own tab, and hide the URL, buttons, etc., like a utility window, but I do want it resizable.
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How can i prevent Windows explorer from opening my internet browser when I mistype something in the address bar?  For example, I often type Alt+d, cmd to quickly select the address bar and open cmd.exe in the current directory.  However, I often mistype, and hit cdm instead of cmd.  This will open my default browser and search for cdm, and I deeply hate this.  Sure, it only takes a couple seconds to go back, but that doesn't keep me from hating it.  I'm not interested in making links of my commonly mis-typed programs (which I have actually done already), e.g. create a link of cdm.exe that points to cmd.exe.  I just want to turn this feature off, if possible.
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This is a follow-up to .     When I click a link to an SE site in the Android app, it gives me an "open with" pop-up that has two options:         Chrome   Stack Exchange         I can then choose to open SE posts like this "Just once" or "Always."      The problem is that when I set the SE app to "always," and I click "open in browser,"   Except, the app crashes when trying to open it in browser.  LogCat (just right after selecting "Open in browser")  01-22 18:03:36.354: E/AndroidRuntime(16064): FATAL EXCEPTION: main 01-22 18:03:36.354: E/AndroidRuntime(16064): Process: com.stackexchange.marvin, PID: 16064 01-22 18:03:36.354: E/AndroidRuntime(16064): java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke interface method 'int java.util.List.size()' on a null object reference 01-22 18:03:36.354: E/AndroidRuntime(16064):    at com.stackexchange.marvin.utils.Helpers.getNonMarvinViewIntent(Helpers.java:452) 01-22 18:03:36.354: E/AndroidRuntime(16064):    at com.stackexchange.marvin.ui.question.QuestionDialog$1.onClick(QuestionDialog.java:39) 01-22 18:03:36.354: E/AndroidRuntime(16064):    at com.android.internal.app.AlertController$AlertParams$3.onItemClick(AlertController.java:1108) 01-22 18:03:36.354: E/AndroidRuntime(16064):    at android.widget.AdapterView.performItemClick(AdapterView.java:310) 01-22 18:03:36.354: E/AndroidRuntime(16064):    at android.widget.AbsListView.performItemClick(AbsListView.java:1145) 01-22 18:03:36.354: E/AndroidRuntime(16064):    at android.widget.AbsListView$PerformClick.run(AbsListView.java:3066) 01-22 18:03:36.354: E/AndroidRuntime(16064):    at android.widget.AbsListView$3.run(AbsListView.java:3903) 01-22 18:03:36.354: E/AndroidRuntime(16064):    at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:739) 01-22 18:03:36.354: E/AndroidRuntime(16064):    at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:95) 01-22 18:03:36.354: E/AndroidRuntime(16064):    at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:148) 01-22 18:03:36.354: E/AndroidRuntime(16064):    at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5417) 01-22 18:03:36.354: E/AndroidRuntime(16064):    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method) 01-22 18:03:36.354: E/AndroidRuntime(16064):    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:726) 01-22 18:03:36.354: E/AndroidRuntime(16064):    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:616)   I suspect it's related to , but not sure.  Specs:   Device model: Nexus 5 Android version: Android 6.0.1 SE app version: 1.0.82 (beta) Installed browser: Chrome 47.0.2526.83 (latest at current writing)
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I want to create an internet shortcut within a specified folder in Ubuntu 12.04. How do I do this?
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Is there a free application out there that will intercept requests from applications to open a URL and prompt me as to whether or not I want the URL to be opened? (For instance, after Adobe Reader installs, it opens its website to get feedback about the install process.)  Ideally, it would be lightweight software for just this task, but if a larger firewall/security app provides this feature, that would be acceptable.  I'm using windows 7 32-bit.  As stating in a comment below, the idea is that you don't want the browser to open (assume it's not already running), so an extension (e.g. for Chrome, ffox) wouldn't be relevant.
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I really want to use Firefox as my main browser but can't find a way to make it the default browser on iOS: this make it's adoption much more complicated. Is it totally impossible?   Edit - Example of use case: while clicking a link in the Twitter app, I would like it to open directly in Firefox.  I won't jailbreak.
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I'm trying to direct a browser to a different page. If I wanted a GET request, I might say  document.location.href = 'http://example.com/q=a';   But the resource I'm trying to access won't respond properly unless I use a POST request. If this were not dynamically generated, I might use the HTML  &lt;form action="http://example.com/" method="POST"&gt;   &lt;input type="hidden" name="q" value="a"&gt; &lt;/form&gt;   Then I would just submit the form from the DOM.  But really I would like JavaScript code that allows me to say  post_to_url('http://example.com/', {'q':'a'});   What's the best cross browser implementation?  Edit   I'm sorry I was not clear. I need a solution that changes the location of the browser, just like submitting a form. If this is possible with , it is not obvious. And this should not be asynchronous, nor use XML, so Ajax is not the answer.
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I want to get the URL for my site collection. One way I thought I could do it was using the window.location in javascript and getting it that way.   I know that you can use ECMA script and the client object model to do this but unsure how.  I have tried:  var context = new SP.ClientContext; alert(context.get_url());   This is returning /  How would I get it to include the full URL? i.e. http://mysharepoint:29292/
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How would I have a  action that may have some effects on the current page but would also change the URL in the browser so if the user hits reload or bookmark, then the new URL is used?    It would also be nice if the back button would reload the original URL.  I am trying to record JavaScript state in the URL.
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I need to be able to get at the full URL of the page I am on from a user control.  Is it just a matter of concatenating a bunch of Request variables together?  If so which ones? Or is there a more simpiler way?
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I often use the "Library" folder in my home folder ~/. The Library folder there (~/Library/) is shown (unhidden), and that is not the question.  I would like to also always show the menu point "Library" in the Finder menu under the word "Go". Normally it only shows when I hold the Option ⌥ key the menu is open. I tried to assign "Library" to the shortcut for "Downloads" and gave Downloads another shortcut, like it worked for "Save As…". But it only shows up then holding down the Option ⌥ key.  How to always show the "Library" menu point under the Finder "Go" menu, without holding down a key?  In the screenshot I am holding down the Option ⌥ key:
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I'm wondering if it is possible to determine if a user already has a web browser open to the web application I'm working on. It seems that they can open several instances of the same web app and click on buttons to read information that they have used before to enter into an input screen that they're currently working on.  What happens though is that it seems to screw up Session variables and then the user will update their previous work with their new work. Or they will delete their previous work all together or who knows...  EDIT I have seen this done before with online banking web applications. If you are already logged in, the new window will kindly tell you that you already have the app open. In my case, the user does not need to log in.  Is there a simple way to determine if they already have a browser window open to the web application and if so, just close the browser or display a different page to let them know they can only have 1 open at a time?  Thanks
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is it possible to use the \url command from the hyperref package with "shorthand" URLs, e.g.  \url{ipython.org}   instead of   \url{http://ipython.org} ?   It seems that the former would only link to local files on my computer, instead of retrieving the web address. (I suppose I could be using \href, but \url is shorter and I'd like to keep its formatting features.)  Edit in response to karlkoeller's answer:   Sorry for not being sufficiently precise. I don't mind typing the 'http' part so much, but I'd rather not see it printed.   egreg's answer does what I want to do - many thanks!