Firefox issues

btw I opted in to YouTube new html5 way of playing videos; goodbye shitty, roach infested flash

In Firefox 3.6 I have to ALT+right click if I want to see Google Maps right click menu. If I just right click, I get Firefox' right click menu with the outline of Google's rightclick menu behind the top left corner. :-/

Damn thing about the Youtube HTML5 support is that Apple and Google want to support H.264 video while Opera and Firefox want to go with Ogg Theora, so a lot of videos still won't play in FF3.6 even with the video tag spport. The codec problem is a major reason Flash is a standard now, so this is kind of silly...

Sure Ogg would have better support if it didn't have a stupid name.

ogg doesn't have a big company with vested interests behind it.

and theora is generally considered to be last generation, which doesn't help. h.264 is increasingly supported by dedicated hardware decoders leaving the cpu to so other things. but there are licensing fess to pay.

i tried living with it but...

in about:config
browser.tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent = false

and sanity is restored

having a really frutrating problem when trying to access the Guardian website:

- The site will not load at all. The heading in the title bar shows up but the main display screen remains greyed-out, and the status usually says 'transferring data from ad.guardian.co.uk'.
- This happens for about 2 weeks at a time then suddenly it'll stop and the site will load fine for a few days, then stop again.
- I use the latest version of Firefox but this problem also occurs when I try Opera and IE.
- I've tried wiping my history, cached files, temporary internet files, temporary files, cookies, logins, etc. It makes no difference.

I think it's something to do with the ads as I've managed to access it by using one of those proxy sites that clear all CSS type things, but those kind of sites require a subscription and I'd rather access the Guardian site 'cleanly'.

anyone got any ideas what I can do to fix this?

adblock. or put ad.guardian.co.uk in your hosts file.

the page is waiting to hear back from the ad server before it renders. this is bad.

great thanks! i'll try out the adblock thing now. weird how it affects both opera and firefox the same way, i get the feeling it's something to do with java/flash.

very often page dn and home/end keys have no effect

also copy/paste sometimes not even available

sod it, switched to chrome instead

I keep getting a pop up box saying "Please enter the master password for [My Name]" and it's impossible to get rid of, and I've no idea what this password is. I've checked in my Firefox preferences and the option to ask for the master password is unchecked, so no idea why it's asking me. I'm assuming this is a virus of some kind?

this is probably not possible, but i was wondering if there's a way to set a default application for a .doc file or an mp3 instead of having to manually choose "office -> word" or "itunes" -- i see the box that says "do this automatically with files of this kind" but i don't want to ALWAYS open the file, but when i do want to open the file, i don't want to have to choose the application when i always choose word or itunes

i hope that made sense and is possible

Tools > Options > Applications, innit?

well i can get it to where i can choose which app i want to be the default, but then it will automatically open the file in that app instead of asking me if i want to save or open

maybe i'm being too picky but it's a pain in the ass to have word laboriously open and grind my computer to a halt to open a file that i don't want to look at immediately and it's equally a pain in the ass to have to choose office -> word when i do want to read a file immediately

man talk about first world problems -_-

chrome can do this iirc (but it's not ff)

i have enough browsers that don't work exactly to my liking

can you not just right click on any links you don't want to look at immedaitely and choose 'save as' from the pop-up menu?

Yeah, if you want to keep the one-click behavior to open the program, just right click > save as every time you want to save it. Depends which one you do more - if you Save to file more often, let the dialog box open every time, otherwise have it default to open.

So I've updated to 3.6 because "they" kept telling me to, and now the German's are telling me to stop using it. What should I do?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8580716.stm

I've updated to beta 3.6.2 just in case. It's a release candidate, to be released on March 31st, so that shouldn't have too many problems left.

Ah, they're skipping 3.6.1 AND 3.6.2, there's this 3.6.3 already:

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-mozilla-1.9.2/

this last week has been a firefox shitstorm tbh, will skip directly to 3.6.3 imo

The alpha release of 3.7 (AKA Minefield) is pretty solid. The UI update is nice, too.

3.6.2. released a week early (3.6.3 is beta after all - confusing)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/23/firefox_zero_day_fix/

3.6.3, why u freeze network?

3.6.x is all crap imho

Just upgraded my Firefox and now nothing is loading at all. Nice work.

Firefox started giving me grief about a month back -- switched to Chrome and haven't looked back.

Chrome?

Google Chrome browser = http://www.google.com/chrome

I'm finding certain things about Chrome annoying, too. still haven't found a worthy 'noscript' replacement, and the options are too sparse... I went to some site a few days ago and the page had embedded sound which just started blaring out of my speakers. I can't remember the last time that happened with Firefox+Adblocker+noscript.

yeah chrome is not chunky enough. even aesthetically i appreciate the big button ie6ishness still native to ff and thats before i weigh it down with toolbars. i use chrome to look at long ilx threads and play flash pacman

I just tried reinstalling Firefox and it's working fine now. I don't know what happened yesterday. Maybe I accidentally interrupted the complete installation, but I'm not sure how I could have done that.

Teblo's Shoetie browser is the best way to go. It makes Opera look the the J. Geils Band of browsers. I think Google has done some weird thing to block all references to it, though, so if you're running Chrome (or maybe even FF?) you can't even link to their website.

Tell us how to find it then. Are either of the two words spelled correctly?

how do we shoetie browser

teblo's shoetie is obsolete shite

...almost a palindrome.

yeah, that was beautiful, stet... but the idea that it's somehow obsolete is severely misguided. they just did a summer equinox update that would probably knock your socks off.

i found out about the browser through a promotion that Hi-C brand soft drinks were running.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9178578/Mozilla_updates_Firefox_to_crush_Farmville_complaints

Trying out the 4.0 beta (or at least, the latest Minefield which is due to be the beta this week). It feels fast -- not as fast as Safari/Chrome in the benchmarks, but much faster than FF3.

WTF is plugin-container.exe and why does it try and eat all my RAM?

It runs the plug-ins, like Flash. Does it actually use any more RAM than the old way?

Seems to. The computer is freezing for minutes at a time if I go on a thread with a bunch of Youtube embeds for example. I know my puter's getting old but this seems to be a last couple of months thing.

type about:config in the address bar and set all of these to false

dom.ipc.plugins.enabled;false
dom.ipc.plugins.enabled.npctrl.dll;true
dom.ipc.plugins.enabled.npqtplugin.dll;true
dom.ipc.plugins.enabled.npswf32.dll;true
dom.ipc.plugins.enabled.nptest.dll;true

that disables plugin container but 3.64 still seems slow

Okay giving that a spin, cheers.

4.0 beta's a dog on Mac. Don't bother yet if you need any kind of stability.