i have switched to camino. let us see how this goes.
any good twitter client for camino? ideally one that works within the browser, like echofon on firefox - which popped up in the bottom right hand corner.
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 15 February 2011 23:40 (thirteen years ago) link
No, it's just because they don't have the entire page stored and so would have to get it from the server. What *should* happen is they keep the entire page and just redisplay (that's what the specs say, too). But it's a bit more complicated now that there are big dynamic pages being changed by javascript, so often it's not possible to go right "back" in any meaningful sense. So they don't even try.
(There is a security aspect in that WebKit's page cache doesn't operate at all on https pages, unlike IEs.) xp to Alba.
― stet, Tuesday, 15 February 2011 23:41 (thirteen years ago) link
http://support.mozilla.com/fy-NL/questions/780884
This is the one you're talking about, yes? So in IE it would cache the whole page in a way that meant there was no risk of you accidentally buying two toasters when you click the back button? Nice.
― Alba, Tuesday, 15 February 2011 23:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Yes, exactly. You can see it too if you eg load a Graun page in both and then go offline. Hit back on Safari/Firefox and it'll complain about not having network, IE will just show the last page, fast. (This is really a pain on iPad/iPhone, though they're getting better about caching the live page there)
― stet, Wednesday, 16 February 2011 00:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Release Candidate for Firefox 4.0 is out - http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2011/03/09/mozilla-firefox-4-release-candidate-for-windows-mac-and-linux-now-available/
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 10 March 2011 00:07 (thirteen years ago) link
my adblockPlus menu button thing has a 'recommend us on facebook' button on the bottom of it. can anyone else confirm this? this is exactly the kind of garbage i use adblock to filter out...
(firefox 4)
― koogs, Tuesday, 29 March 2011 12:14 (thirteen years ago) link
ha, it's an FAQ
http://adblockplus.org/en/faq_customization#facebook_remove
― koogs, Tuesday, 29 March 2011 17:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Lex: Have you tried Camino? Firefox rendering without all the crap. It's probably the best 10.4 browser.
i installed camino, and have had NO PROBLEMS in the month since. thanks! :)
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 29 March 2011 17:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Anyone notice Flash performance is kinda terrible in 4? I've noticed this on both Mac and Windows.
― Nhex, Sunday, 10 April 2011 20:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Firefox recommends you install this important security update: Firefox 6.0
*click*
The following add-ons are incompatible with this version of Firefox and will be disabled: pretty much fucking all of them - including my AV Safe Search. Thanks for the extra lack of security and reduced functionality you tits.
I should just stick with Chrome all the time tbh.
― The Vagina Monikers (onimo), Monday, 22 August 2011 21:00 (twelve years ago) link
Firefox is checking for updates to your extensions, and will shortly tell you it can't find any.
― stet, Monday, 22 August 2011 21:07 (twelve years ago) link
Fun with Firefox
― koogs, Monday, 22 August 2011 21:12 (twelve years ago) link
don't say i didn't warn you...
It found one (.NET framework assistant) - which I had previously switched off. It has now froze trying to install it (or it's a huge update - no progress bar to indicate um progress).
― The Vagina Monikers (onimo), Monday, 22 August 2011 21:15 (twelve years ago) link
Did they force an update again while I wasn't looking? Suddenly started going so slow last night I had to CTRL-ALT-DELETE. It just took five minutes - literally five minutes - to go from start to ILX. Which, granted, is the most flash and java intensive site on the internet.
― Big Drug Dan (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 1 March 2012 03:38 (twelve years ago) link
I have a Firefox error. It makes the ILX window big enough to read all the text.
― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 1 March 2012 08:15 (twelve years ago) link
dammit, suddenly the latest autoupdate makes firefox incompatible with my version of OSX, 10.4.11
"You cannot use the application "Firefox" with this version of Mac OS X"
really, why fuckin not? i could this morning... i am on chrome which is very bad.
anybody have any ideas here? i keep googling around to find which version will still work, and what just changed today, but i'm not having much luck.
― goole, Thursday, 7 June 2012 00:58 (twelve years ago) link
Firefox versions incrementing faster than street numbers in J.G. Ballard's Concentration City.
― I don't know what to read so I am reading it here (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 7 June 2012 01:27 (twelve years ago) link
this is why I disable auto update on EVERYTHING
― Pureed Moods (Trayce), Thursday, 7 June 2012 02:16 (twelve years ago) link
There's basically no good Mac browser right now. Safari has this insane "lol i killed your tab" bullshit from iOS, Chrome is mental, Firefox is a heap, Camino is dog-slow, OmniWeb is ancient, Opera is Opera.
The fastest browser in all the speed tests on this machine is actually IE9 running under Windows. Lunacy.
― stet, Thursday, 7 June 2012 12:39 (twelve years ago) link
I don't really like Safari (tho I'm using it), but I'm not sure what you mean w/ 'lol I killed your tab'? issue. Is it something I just haven't noticed?
― indian rope trick (remy bean), Thursday, 7 June 2012 12:42 (twelve years ago) link
The FF auto-update from last night is actually running a good bit faster for me, fingers crossed that it stays that way. There's a particular method of handling RSS feeds that makes Firefox my preferred browser, but I've been skating on the edge of going to Safari or Chrome as the main one.
― Trey Imaginary Songz (WmC), Thursday, 7 June 2012 12:47 (twelve years ago) link
If you keep lots of tabs open in Safari, eventually it starts purging the oldest ones (to save memory). When you click on an old tab, it reloads it from the server. So not only do you have to wait, but the page could have changed and you also lose anything you had typed into a form on that tab.
It's the same behaviour they have in Safari ON IPHONE. But iPhones have very little memory, and this Mac has a lot, so it's a stupid thing to copy.
― stet, Thursday, 7 June 2012 12:53 (twelve years ago) link
The latest Chrome has something weird in the CSS that is breaking lots of sites for me (including ILX on the default theme)
― stet, Thursday, 7 June 2012 12:54 (twelve years ago) link
That expains why I've never encountered that issue – I've never have more than a half dozen tabs open. My big beef w/ Safari is the way incredibly ugly and jittery way it handles text/line/layout during resizing.
― indian rope trick (remy bean), Thursday, 7 June 2012 12:56 (twelve years ago) link
xp i was seeing that too.. reinstalled the stable branch and now fonts are rendering like shit
― deadcandace (diamonddave85), Thursday, 7 June 2012 14:56 (twelve years ago) link
Why does my monitor dim when firefox is displaying a page with a black or dark background? It's v annoying!
― chupacabra seeds (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 13:44 (eleven years ago) link
am getting boxes with unicode "FF44" in them instead of graphics on bbc.co.uk this morning
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00rwkjd
in the pink box to the right of "Listen Now"
― koogs, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 13:15 (eleven years ago) link
Ok here with 16.0.1 + kubuntu.
― svend, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 13:20 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, after being trouble all this morning (on bbc2 schedule also) it's fine now. think they are using a custom font instead of graphics for the tiny things.
― koogs, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 13:39 (eleven years ago) link
One day neither Firefox, Windows Explorer, nor Windows Mail will start up. No explanation as to why. I have connection to the internet, my virus definitions are up to date, and a program I use that works by remote desktop shows I am connected to the internet. Firefox starts in safe mode, but even if I reset it it won't start outside of safe mode. http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/951898
http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/951898
So yesterday Firefox crashed and i tried to open it back up and it crashed again before it would even load. I tried again and got "open in safe mode" and i can use it in this but none of my plugins are available, etc. I also tried opening IE and it crashed befored starting as well. Anyone else having this problem? Looks like maybe this is an issue that just came up a day or so ago.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 28 February 2013 16:28 (eleven years ago) link
So I updated to Firefox v22 a few days ago, and suddenly all my fonts and icons are changed in size. Some too big, some too small. Evidently others are having this problem, and I read their explanation, but though it helped some, none of those suggestions have reverted everything back to normal. I've mucked with the default font size and tried the Theme Font & Size Changer. Still, several sites display some (but not all) text and/or graphics either too large or too small. ILX looks fine except that anything I type in the "Add a Post" box is tiny. If I zoom in to make the font larger so I can easily read what I'm typing, everything else becomes huge. Anyone else having this problem, or know a workaround?
― Lee626, Sunday, 7 July 2013 03:48 (ten years ago) link
sometimes, when a webpage needs a good think before displaying, firefox will disappear and then reappear a split second later. is most odd. (sound is also interrupted, like playback sometimes is during high cpu spikes). this is 22.
― koogs, Wednesday, 7 August 2013 08:46 (ten years ago) link
Anyone have trouble editing posts in the add a post window? if you spot an error in the middle of a sentence and touch the word to correct it, I get this thing where deleting characters happens in the middle of the sentence but adding characters still happens at the end. or the other way around.
This is firefox with google keyboard on a nexus 4. Chrome has different issues...
― koogs, Saturday, 26 April 2014 08:07 (ten years ago) link
watching any streaming video content on firefox is so shitty. choppy as fuck. things play in chrome just fine, my internet connection is pretty stellar (i'm on a university campus), any ideas?
― marcos, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 18:03 (nine years ago) link
use chrome?
(wasn't there a 3d acceleration option where it'd use your video card to make things faster but it would often not work? ah - http://lifehacker.com/disable-firefoxs-hardware-acceleration-to-fix-slowness-749344037 )
i keep having a thing where moving to a new page will show me the element the mouse is over with a background of the old page, or white. as i move the mouse everything under it will appear. have to scroll to get it looking right.
― koogs, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 18:21 (nine years ago) link
Do you have a lot of extensions/add-ons installed in FF?
I do not like this new search box.
― TAKING SIDES: HUMANS VS. GUACAMOLEEE (Leee), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 18:49 (nine years ago) link
yeah, it sucks, especially the way it shoves the autocomplete suggestions over your custom search options
― Nhex, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 19:36 (nine years ago) link
You can change the search box function back. I found this on the arstechnica forums.
Go to "about:config"Find this key: browser.search.showOneOffButtonsDouble-click it to change it to "false"Restart
― Zachary Taylor, Thursday, 11 December 2014 04:43 (nine years ago) link
you're the man, dawg!
― Nhex, Thursday, 11 December 2014 05:14 (nine years ago) link
OMG so much better.
― Leeegally Blonde (Leee), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 01:43 (nine years ago) link
I have "search as you type" enabled, but when I'm on ILX and I type 's', it goes to SNA instead of searching for 's'. Anyone else experience this or know what's going on?
― Leee. Earl Grey, hot. (Leee), Friday, 29 December 2017 23:33 (six years ago) link
it's a feature stet added, noted here
CHANGELOG
― sleeve, Friday, 29 December 2017 23:35 (six years ago) link
Current version has a very annoying Network Protocol Error bug that's going to be fixed
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1528317#c13
― StanM, Monday, 11 March 2019 17:11 (five years ago) link
firefox appears to have broken all add-ons. i'm seeing the web today without adblock and it's just a horrible place.
― koogs, Tuesday, 7 May 2019 11:36 (five years ago) link
There's an update you can install to fix the bug. Save the exe file in the link below on disc and run it, that worked for me:http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/candidates/66.0.4-candidates/build3/win64/en-US/Firefox%20Setup%2066.0.4.exe
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 7 May 2019 12:04 (five years ago) link
win64. pah.
i've downloaded an update already this morning, didn't help. there's a new point release. will try that.
― koogs, Tuesday, 7 May 2019 12:08 (five years ago) link
that is a lot better. facebook now not just showing me random pictures of things with prices on them. no gizmodo video advert sidebars.
― koogs, Tuesday, 7 May 2019 12:16 (five years ago) link
just restart and enable them all again. worked for me yesterday
― ilm jive mind (FlopsyDuck), Tuesday, 7 May 2019 12:46 (five years ago) link
also don't use adblock, use ublock origin
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 7 May 2019 13:19 (five years ago) link