File Browser Windows
Magdalen Dano
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I have recently upgraded my Windows 7 Pro to Windows 10 and basically everything seems to be working fine.Except for the fact that Win10 won't get Firefox as the default browser in the system...It started when I noticed that nothing happens when I click on links in email messages on Outlook. After I checked a few things, I also got to change the defualt browser to Chrome and the links worked. That's when I realized that the issue is with the definition of the default browser on Win10.I should mention that I have used all possible ways to set FF as the default browser in the system - from FF itself of couse, from the settings of the system, from file associations, program association and so on.Nothing changed when I did it for FF. Once I do it for Chrome (in ANY of the mentioned ways), it works exactly like it should.Is it a Win10 issue? Is it an FF issue? What can I do more about this?
UPDATE:I have tried everything that has to do with settings Firefox as the default browser in the system, including going through the Settings of Windows, going from the Settings of Firefox, setting default files and protocols, but nothing helps except for re-installing Firefox. If doing that would have closed the issue once and for all, I would have settled for that, but that's the "solution" after every reboot of the OS!This is very frustrating and I don't know what more I can do about it.
Mozilla published a blog entry about how to do that here. This is the "official" way. If this doesn't work you may have a broken setup. If other browsers work fine i don't think this is Windows problem
I have recently started having the problem of the entire pc freezing when i open any of my browsers. At first I thought it was only a Google chrome issue like when it randomly closes and stops responding and then it shows it's got an update but no, the problem persisted with opera, brave and microsoft edge. I took at most 15 seconds for the windows to lose functionality and then the whole computer would freeze except the mouse pointer. The pointer did not change when directed to a text field or anything. Even the taskbar time got frozen.
My microsoft account was signed up into the windows insider program and received Dev channel preview builds but I can't seem to unenroll out of it without accessing a browser. I tried multiple solutions such as DISM and sfc/ scannow but both showed no errors. I booted it in safe mode but the problem remained and I thought maybe the issue was not of software but the operating system so I reinstalled the windows 11 using the cloud based option to download and install a new copy and only removed the data in the windows drive (C:) and did not affect the data in my other drive.
I have no errors when doing anything else. I played my Genshin Impact on it normally and only once had a screen freeze but the computer was still responsive and i was able to recover without having to force shut down my PC by long pressing the power button.
Additionally during the clean install, I was prompted to clear the TPM which I did. And when I faced the freezing and had to restart my computer, I was prompted a black screen with blue box saying CMOS check sum is invalid. I was not able to do anything during that time as the message timed out on its own and I was brought to the login screen.
@tolep1490When my laptop, a 2017'er HP Elite 1012 G1 TabletPC, freezes, mostly when browsing with multiple tabs and visiting some particular (demanding?) websites, I'm able to move the mouse cursor around but f.e. CTRL+ALT+DEL is not responding.
Just tested the key combination I suggested in my previous post and the videodriver is restarted and 'unfreezes' my laptop. Sometimes the screen looks garbled but I'm able to save open documents and restart the laptop to continue my work.
Hope this helps in your case as well as the other users in this thread and that Microsoft comes with a solution soon.
@RyuWatashi idk why but disabling hardware accelerating in browser did a trick. Also if u stucking open edge and chrome both fast and pressing alt tab switching from one to another make it working till u disable hardware accelerate in browser settings
@Vanshika_Kapur I have the same problem on the latest canary build 26040. Turned off hardware acceleration, but the computer can still freeze at random times. ctrl+shift+win+b doesn't always help, sometimes nothing helps at all, except hard reboot. I can't reinstall the system because too many applications and plugins will have to be installed again.
Many of our users, internal and external, start our web application. Then at some later point, they open a new window from within the browser. They want to have 2 independent sessions of the application running. However, by doing it this way they are actually using the same session data.
Maybe I'm saying this wrong. When they open a second window and change it to a different widget number, and then go back to the original window, on the next post-back it will be using the second window's widget number, not its own
The major browsers that I've tested apps on (IE, FF and Google Chrome) all default to using the same collection of cookies regardless of whether you are opening a duplicate web page in a new tab or a new browser instance.
Because the multiple instances use the same cookies, the server cannot tell requests from them apart, and will associate them with the same Session data, because they all have the same SessionID, assuming cookie-based SessionID.
If, on the other hand, what you are after is to treat a group of user/server interactions as a kind of "session within a session", you may be able to do this by storing a random Guid (or Widget Number) in ViewState, and checking it on postback.
Hi, I am working on a project where I need to interact with two different web applications and wanted to know what are the advantages and disadvantages of having the robot open two browser windows vs having two tabs in the same window.
Technically speaking, there is no difference between a browser window being displayed in a tab or a separate window. They both will share sessions and state (unless one window was opened using incognito mode).
Just an FYI having dealt with Samba in the past all computers more or less do this at some point in time. Each computer wants to be the master browser and when you have a competition an election is forced, each OS workstation and server has an OS priority the higher the number the the higher the OS. So when an election is forced the server will win and all will be well. As Krizz told you to do, disabling it in the registry will fix that problem, but this is normal behavior.
I am a student and for my algebra class in order to take my essays which are a major part of my grade I need Lockdown Browser. I physically cannot open my essays without Lockdown Browser. The version my professor provided only runs windows 10 and I also couldn't find one online that would run windows 11 which is what I use. I can't open it or run as administrator, and I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling the lates version 3 times to no avail. My Microsoft account also won't open it because it isn't seen as a supported application. How can I find a windows 11 version if it exists and if not, how do I get around this problem?
That said, in looking at the system requirements for LockDown browser, I wonder if you have Windows 11 in S mode, which is a secure mode of Windows that is often turned on by default when you purchase a computer. Some folks don't realize they have it turned on. Lockdown Browser does not support Windows in S mode. You might also try checking for any updates to Windows and your browser.
This is both good and bad. Browsers like Brave and Edge explicitly mimic the Google Chrome look and feel to ease the transition, and it works. Even subtly different browsers like Opera can be off-putting, especially to mainstream users. But Arc is in some ways radically different and using it requires a bit of time and effort to get used to its unique design.
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