Disable all site icons (favicons)?

Is there any way to disable all site icons (favicons) in Safari 3.02?
Thanks for any help.

Yes, I have them switched off as, IMO, they are a complete waste of space and memory!
If you download the free utility Tinkertool:
http://www.bresink.com/osx/TinkerTool.html
one of its many really useful settings (one of the others is to activate the Debug menu in Safari) provides a checkbox 'Disable database of website icons', which is what you want.

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How to disable Top sites icon in Favorites bar?

I have upgraded to Mavericks and there are two issues that make me regret the move. The first is small sounding but it makes me so angry I can't see straigh. In a Google sort of way, the new version of Safari foists upon me that miserable button - the top sites icon - as if to say "haa haa ... we know what is good for you". I want it gone! It used to be an option you could uncheck in the preferences ... but unless I'm missing something (I sure hope so!) Apple decided we should not have the option. Please tell me there is some way to get rid of the icon ... and better yet to disable somehow the whole top sites thing. I despise it, and I despise that someone tells me what I must have and how to work.
The second thing is the bookmark sidebar. I've always like how it works in safari. Now for some reason, as oposed to before, when you have the side bar slide into place so that you can select the bookmark - it stays there! Why? I want it to disapear after I click on a bookmark as it always has. I don't want to click again each time to make it go away. Is there a way to bring back the old behavior? This was in the beta of mavericks and I was not going to upgrade over the "feature". In the demo however I caught that a presenter clicked ... and the bar slid away, the way I would like it to. Now that I have mavericks ... it does not work as in the demo on stage.
So ... anyone ... is there a way for me to fix these two irritations?
I'm going to wait a month or so to see how Mavericks direction develops. I've always disliked Chrome because I don't trust they security and their proclivity towards tracking. I haven't cared for Firefox much neither ... mostly due to the way they render fonts. I will not use Safari if I can't change both of these features ... so I guess (because I suspect it is a case where apple knows what is good for me) that I won't be able to set up safari to not annoy me ... so my last questions is a recomendation for a replacement browser. What are your favorite browsers aside from Safari?
Thanks.

Well after a few more days with Mavericks I have to say I'm fairly impressed with it. Both laptops seem to have better battery life, and ... is it my imagination ... but they seem faster too? Not bad.
On the Safari problem I have, so far, made no headway, so I would be grateful for anyone who can come up with an answer. Perhaps the drawer sliding out and then back after you click your bookmark has a command line solution? I wonder how to investigate that?
As slick as Safari is (It has long been my favorite browser) I've been looking for a replacement. I won't consider Crome because of the afforementioned Google practice of monetizing "us' and our data. I don't trust em!
I dowloaded Opera ... and found that they have the same ideas in spades, about Top sites, that Apple seems to be adopting. What a shame ... and a no-go.
Then I started a trial with iCab. Now that is one nice browser! First impression are very possitive but there is the same top sites icon sitting there, with no obvious way to zap it. WHAT is going on ... does everyone havet to jump on the same (often hated) feature? I sent an email to the developer, expecting little but hoping just a bit anyways. Guess what? About forty five minutes later I received a reply. Wow, now that is nice!
My first impressions of iCab are very positive. I, however have the
same problem. There is a top sites right in the favorites bar. Can
this be disabled? I have not yet found a way to do this.
You can turn off this icon in iCab. Please enter "settings:" (without the
quote characters, but including the colon) in the URL field and hit the
"return" key. This will open some additional settings where you can configure
some more stuff. In the section "favorites toolbar" there's a setting to
show or hide the TopTen icon in the favorites toolbar. Just switch this
option off and click on the "Save Settings" button.
Alexander Clauss
..... So problem avoided. I'm going to spend the twenty dollars to register iCab even though one does not really need to. With responsiveness like this ... well, I want to keep it.
So that is my progress up until now. Not much on the original quest ... if you count nothing+hope as merely "not much". Still hoping. But having choices such as iCab and probably others ... sure did make me less grumpy.
I know I should perhaps just chill out. Life would sure be a bit easier if I had it in me to not care about these little details, I know. Having it perfect, perfectly elegant and perfectly customizable - that's tough.
On the other hand. This is Apple. Isn't it?
Cheers!

Bookmarks toolbar - site icons have appeared in FF4 - how to remove the icons?

I can find the option to disable all toolbar icons BUT specifically website icons have appeared in V4 in the bookmarks toolbar.
This is annoying as the icons take up so much space - I can only fit half as many toolbar bookmarks.
How can I disable the bookmarks toolbar website icons?

*Bookmarks Deiconizer: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/bookmarks-deiconizer/

How do I permanently STOP the Bing Suggested Sites icon from being in the IE 9 toolbar for everyone and make it the default for all new users

Non of the other post on this subject were correctly answered and they are now old so here is a new thread for a question that a Microsoft Engineer should have answered a long time ago in one of the other threads.
I have IE 9 installed.
I am setting up my default profile which will be used for ALL users to configure their profile when they log on. All profiles are destroyed on system reboot. All PCs are frozen.
Every time I log in as a new user and open IE 9, the favorites bar shows up as I want it with NO BING Suggested Site crapware in site. Then about .5 secs after IE starts and the Favorites bar is shown, the EVIL "Bing Suggested Sites" button appears.
I can delete it and it seems to stay away until I delete the users profile folder etc and have them log in again. When the profile is recreated the Favorites folder does not have a "Suggested Sites" option in the c:\users\username\favorites\links"
folder. (I have deleted the hidden .ini files in the default folder) Nor does one exist in the "c:\users\default\favorites\links" folder from which the newly created user profile folder comes. But as soon as I start IE 9, one is created and placed
in the users favorites links folder. This MUST STOP!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is UNACCEPTABLE. AND IT MUST BE STOPPED!!!!! Where in the Windows 7 x64 Enterprise OS is the location of this evil action and how do I PERMANENTLY delete it.
I don't EVER want to see the EVIL BING Suggested Sites button anywhere on the PC especially in the Favorites Tool bar on IE 9. An I expect/demand that Microsoft tell us how to 100% cannot fail get rid of it for ALL USERS FOREVER NO MATTER WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!! I
have spent a lot of time perfecting my default profile making sur that ALL options are decide by me NOT MICROSOFT. I NEVER USE SYSPREP as that will destroy ALL custom defaults every time.
When a user logs in in to one of my PCs and they start IE 9 they get REAL Google for the default search engine, not the version Microsoft will give you which first sends all search requests to Microsoft so they can spy on what you searched in Google for etc.,
but real Google, not sent to Microsoft 1st. (I'll bet more than 90% of the readers of this site did not notice how if you let Microsoft set your default search provider to Google, they fix it so that all search requests go to Microsoft 1st, before it gets
sent to Google. Look at the search string under manage your search providers, in IE 7 & 8. In IE 9 it is hidden, but still there. HOW EVIL OF MICROSOFT)
With my default profile IE does not ask how you want to set it up, I have already made those decisions. I have made all those decisions for my users. But as of recently I have started installing IE 9 and now this unacceptable BING Suggested Sites junk ware
keeps showing up. HOW DO I STOP IT. Do I have to put a line in my HOSTS file to send all request for Bing.com to 127.0.0.1 just to make sure that it can't be used. There by removing all possibility of my users ever being able to use Bing FOREVER.
I would rather not do that but unless a Microsoft representative will tell me how to keep that useless Bing Suggested Sites button from appearing on the Favorites tool bar I will have to. I would love to let my user decide if they want to use Bing and waist
their time trying to find good search results, but I will not have it forced on them and I will not allow it to be on the Favorites tool Bar ever. So will a Microsoft Engineer please tell us how to put a permanent end to the "Bing Suggested Sites"
button for ALL users ALWAYS FOREVER.
Thanks,
Ralph

Hi,
I suggest you try the steps in this thread for test:
Disable Suggested Sites does not work.
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/forum/ie9-windows_7/disable-suggested-sites-does-not-work/4ba064b1-1c6e-43f1-939e-2db1d335b2ef
Regards,
Vincent Wang
TechNet Community Support

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DISABLE" ALL user web/internet addresses/sites in a PDF?

Professionally & Personally - I use, make, and Read many PDF files daily [reports, documents, & books]; I have many "many" thousands of PDF documents in my Archives.
A. Background:
1.    I have heard, since Acrobat 5, many security specialist have deemed JAVA as a THREAT; and PDF as a security concern! Recently Reported Home Land Security has deemed JAVA as an on-going "continuing high threat", in spite of se7u11; reported that DHLS expressed that 28% of reported ATTACKS were from Adobe Acrobat PDF files embedded user malicious software code [ever growing numbers of attacks]. <PDF security is a major growing DOD concern!>
2.    To my great surprise from "IT" professional who disabled JAVA in his Department's systems, the current Security Software and specific program updates offer no real solution or resolutions to this ongoing security problem. I understood that Virus and Trojan Checkers do not check malicious software code hidden inside PDF files, and software updates do not remove or make safe the malicious software code in the actual PDF – thus it remains a potentially very DISTRUCTIVE-DATA-BOMB just setting in your databases awaiting to be activated at some future date.
3.    "This is very tedious and time consuming!" I have since disabled JAVA in my Adobe Acrobat and run each PDF through "PDF OPTIMIZER" - Discarding all User Data, User Objects, and especially User JAVA Codes – and disable my LAN internet connection -- before utilizing it. I don’t know if this is of any good or not – but I feel safer.
B. PROBLEMS & QUESTIONS (I’ve given each question its own string to assist with preventing confusion)!
2.    Using an Adobe Acrobat program function - how can I "REMOVE & DISABLE" ALL [100%] of user noted, embedded, or hidden web/internet addresses/sites in a PDF? What is Adobe's solution?

try67;
I do so appreciate your assistance…
Each of my “QUESTIONS” are specific, direct, and unique – Please Read THEM and answer if you can – if you do not have the technical ability or understanding of my question please do not “scold” me!
Although I have used in business and own computers since the 1970’s [built one myself], I’ve not had to concern myself with programming since, DOS, Lotus/IBM/Apple Basic and COBAL --- especially after XP release I gave up even trying to figure what each does. I did not mean to offend as to which specific JAVA version and/or product is the problem, since I personally have no CLUE – and today totally depend upon goodwill of smart guys like you.
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Since my PDF database Archives [and back-ups] is many terabytes – it is impossible to “import” each PDF into Acrobat and run PDF Optimizer (removing Adobe known user placed codes and data) – as I am doing now.
This is again my very specific question - Using an Adobe Acrobat program function - how can I "REMOVE & DISABLE" ALL [100%] of user noted, embedded, or hidden web/internet addresses/sites in a PDF?
Thank you so very much for your knowledge, help, and interest.

CF10 enterprise - how to disable cfexecute for all sites (sandbox)

Hello,
I have a new CF10 server which I will be using as shared hosting for my clients.
I would like to disable the following tags and functions globally:
TAGS
CFCONTENT
CFFILE
CFDIRECTORY
CFEXECUTE
CFOBJECT
CFREGISTRY
FUNCTIONS
GetProfileString
SetProfileString
CreateObject
I know in CF10 Standard I can block these for all sites using 'resource security', this will stop these tags from running at all.
In CF10 Enterprise I have the option to create multiple sandboxes, but is it possible to create one global sandbox for all sites?
My directory structure looks like:
D:\sites\site1
D:\sites\site2
D:\sites\site3
Can I create a sandbox disabling the above tags and functions just for D:\sites and all subfolders?
I have tried but it does not seem to work - I have a sandbox setup for D:\sites with the above tags and functions disabled, but using a test script I can still use cfexecute in site1 to execute netstat.
I do not wish to create a sandbox for each site as when new sites are added I would need to manually add a sandbox each time.
If anyone has any ideas it would be most appreciated.
Cheers
Luke
( I have asked this in a different place on the CF forums as got no response, i think because I placed it in the wrong place. Sorry if this double post upsets anyone but I need some help!)

D:\sites\site1
D:\sites\site2
D:\sites\site3
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It is working at my end perfectly fine.
HTH
Thanks
VJ

How do I block a popup window that I have allowed to open on Firefox once? I now have the popup blocker set to block all sites, but the popup still opens every time I open Firefox or open (sometimes) a new tab.

How do I block a popup? I allowed this popup to open once. Now I have set the popup blocker to block all sites but this popup still opens every time I open Firefox and sometimes (usually) when I open a new tab.
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I have rebooted the computer.
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I have Adblock plus (with (1) subscription) installed
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* Ctrl+Shift+a
* "3-bar" menu button (or Tools menu) > Add-ons
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Any improvement?
Here are some other things to check:
(1) user.js file that changes Firefox startup behavior and overrides your preferences. This article describes how to track that down and delete it if you have one: [[How to fix preferences that won't save]].
(2) Possible hijacked shortcut. Check the "target" of the desktop icon you use to start Firefox to see whether it lists the unwanted page. To do that:
right-click the icon > Properties > Shortcut tab
For 64-bit Windows 7, the Target should be no more and no less than this:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe"
(3) Possible undisclosed bundle items. If you have installed any free software recently, check your Windows Control Panel, Uninstall a program for surprises. If you click the "Installed on" column head to group by date, it is easier to spot bundled junk. Remove everything suspicious or unrecognized.
(4) Supplemental clean up scans. Our support article lists tools other Firefox users have found helpful: [[Troubleshoot Firefox issues caused by malware]].
Hopefully that cures it.

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How to update site icons in the bookmarks without going to every site. This option is available in Maxthon

when I install fresh and sync my new firefox, I have 100's of bookmarks in categories. I would like to see an option to update site icons where firefox goes and get the icons for all my bookmarks.
This option is available in Maxthon
Right now I have to visit every site to have the icon show up.
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* Don't make any changes on the Safe mode start window.
See:
* [[Troubleshooting extensions and themes]]
* [[Troubleshooting plugins]]
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== URL of affected sites ==
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Chris Campbell wrote:
The key here will be to determine what is different between the machines that work and those that hang. Of all the systems that fail, they are all Windows 7 32bit?
Yep, this issue only happens on Windows 7 32-bit machines, currently 6.
Do you have any 32bit systems that don't fail?
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Good idea, indeed - I will try this.
We're definitely interested in what's going on. I'll ask our security and Mozilla folks to see if they have additional clues.
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Safe mode: Flash is working! (without disabled Protected Mode!)
I've set msconfig now to: Custom system start and deselected the boxes to load systemservices and system start elements.
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So, whats the difference between safe mode and normal boot with minimal configuration (see attached picture).
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Any new ideas?
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