Firefox issues

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.

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

― The Birdman of Alcaraz (Noodle Vague), Monday, July 5, 2010 12:31 AM (Yesterday)

I am having the same exact problem. It comes out of nowhere and eats it all up. I can't even load up the ilm tracks thread because of it. I just tried the fix that nakhchivan suggested -- I hope it works. This browser just eats up too much ram, and I'm getting tired of it.

ubuntu updated firefox today and it went back to 'open tab next to current tab'. grrr.

about:config
browser.tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent = false

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

― _Rudipherous_, Sunday, 27 June 2010 17:22 (1 month ago) Bookmark

Not quite nothing, but I'm getting a load of misdirects and unsafe site messages on sites that are working fine with Chrome. For instance, late rooms, and, ironically, http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ - ha!

Anyone using Firefox Sync yet?

uhhh why has the character encoding on firefox suddenly gone nuts for me? i DIDN'T CHANGE ANYTHING and suddenly there's no text on certain websites, just boxes instead of characters. how do i change it back? and why is it fucking around with me when i DIDN'T CHANGE ANYTHING in the first place?

Anyone using Firefox Sync yet?

been using xmarks forever (does the same thing + cross-browser capability) but when/if they add extension syncing i'm there

Does anyone know if Google Chrome has plugins like Ad Block Plus, NoScript etc? Cos Firefox has been shite for ages now and my colleage reckons he switched to Chrome a while ago and has none of the same issues, i.e. eating up tons of RAM and being incredibly slow. Whenever my laptop slows to a crawl and I run Task Manager it's always bloody Firefox.

yeah, get chrome

OMFG I WANT TO KILL SOMEONE

after weeks of firefox yelling at me to install the new version i downloaded it and now THE FUCKING THING WON'T OPEN. yes i've tried restarting. i click on firefox and it just hangs there beachballing.

I DON'T HAVE THE FUCKING TIME FOR THIS RIGHT NOW WHY DOES THIS ALWAYS HAPPEN WHY DON'T I FUCKING LEARN - NEVER. INSTALL. UPDATES.

oh wait as soon as i posted that it opened

if it takes 20 minutes to open every time out now, my desire to kill people will stand