Fun with Firefox

Why does Firefox run perfectly fine on my XP computer at work, but like an absolute dog on my MacBook pro at home? I've had to resort to Chrome which is okay but I'd rather be using FF.

generally find both browsers run better on windows than osx

Why has an app telling me the temperature in Franktown, CO installed itself in my top bar?

updated the old instance of firefox on windows this morning.

the update page said flash was out of date, click here to update it.

the flash installer ALSO installed google chrome WITHOUT ASKING.

so now i have 4 browsers installed...

My Firefox did it again, upgraded to 6 without me asking it to; in fact, with me explicitly saying "Ask Later"

No more menu item for "View Source".. Years of muscle memory down the drain

^^ that has been bugging me to no end. Ctrl+U doesn't even work wtf!

ctrl-u...

i got the 'security updates' popup this morning and then it failed to find the update site. it's done this before. has it ever worked? or is the site in question just inundated by the gazillion firefox installations requesting updates?

Tools > Web Developer > Page source, no?

God, they're getting really douchey in their tickets: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=657088

LOL

"Instead of hitting this strange key combo"

ha

http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2011/08/16/microsoft-sends-mozilla-tiny-cupcake-to-celebrate-small-firefox-release/

They should send a thank you card.

"Instead of hitting this strange key combo you can use Chrome"

which is what most people will do if all this keeps up

No doubt.

lol, microsoft are megadouches

Microsoft are just mad that no one wants to use their shitty browser.

Mozilla should in return send IE and dial-up modem.

lol

i have Page Source under View and also ctrl-u works for me

"hey we made this easier for you"
"BUT ITS DIFFERENT I HATE IT"
--everyone, ever, about everything

otm

Blimey---having read the above, I just closed 63 tabs (don't ask) and went from 1.2GB to 550MB memory use

i have Page Source under View and also ctrl-u works for me

― mookieproof, Friday, 2 September 2011 04:48 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

in FF 6??

yep

sorry, no View, Page Source but ctrl-u works.

ctrl-U has to be the most awkward shortcut possible on a standard keyboard layout

Thanks koogs. It updated to 6.0.1 already (?) and ctrl+u works again.

don't let them ctrl-U

:-)

if you have the Web Developer toolbar installed you now have two entries in the tools menu, both called Web Developer (with the W underlined in both cases). Web Developer toolbar also adds ctrl-shift-u as a view source shortcut...

my 6.0 still refuses to connect to the update server to upgrade. just sits there, going backwards and forwards...

For those following my URL display problems, I disabled two incompatible add-ons (IE View and Weather Bug) and URLs and favicons are now displaying properly.

i've never really "gotten" firefox

What do you use?

don't let them ctrl-U

― JoeStork, Friday, September 2, 2011 8:55 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

<3

WTF: I closed FF and when I opened it again later, the session restore completely failed. I had a ton of tabs opened in a group for later reference, and they're gone. What a pisser.

if i have more than ten tabs open in ff my machine slows to an unbearable crawl. been that way since 3.6. which is why i only use it when I have to.

depends on what's in the tabs for me. i can have 30 or 40 tabs of text open with no problem, but if more than a few have video or mad java things quickly go to hell

ya i can have 10 ilx threads but if one of them is a youtube heavy ilm thread everything goes to shit.

why do you all not use chrome?

because with firefox's extensions/add-ons/greasemonkeys i can make the browser *exactly* the way i want it. and i'm more than willing to endure a longer startup time as long as everything else works ok

i'm sure chrome will be similarly configurable soon-ish, but i haven't noticed it yet

No good Chrome equivalent of NoScript

why do you all not use chrome?

― dayo, Monday, September 5, 2011 1:47 AM (54 minutes ago) Bookmark

i do use chrome, i just also obsessively dl new versions of firefox to see what they're doing that's diff.

yeah I only use firefox to use this one language add-on, I just noticed it was updated to support 4.0 - but no news of 6.0!

got too used to firefox. need to try chrome again cuz the first goround it was not as good as ffox. these days, i'm willing to bet it's caught up.

<q]why do you all not use chrome?

― dayo, lundi 5 septembre 2011 03:47 (11 hours ago) Bookmark</q>

just for the three finger page up/down swipe basically

i use chrome but i use ff when doing web development because of firebug (and also because I need to use every browser when I'm doing web development)

i really like chrome

and its extensible, too! i dont use a lot of plugins (2), but i'm sure there's stuff equivalent to what ppl use in ffox

I use Safari for personal browsing, firefox for work stuff. Firefox actually gets all cachey on me more often and I dunno, safari doesn't change its stripes every six months. I'm still on ff 3.2.6 because everyone has said how much the new firefoxes suck.

And chrome, I've just never gotten into it. Reminds too much of one of these things. I don't know why.

http://www.basscentre.com/user/products/large/hohner-b2a.jpg

I'm not sure what the connotation of that guitar is.

I switched to Chrome at work b/c FF was running super slow, but I didn't switch at home b/c at the time Chrome didn't have enough extensions that I like on FF. I guess it has more now? But I don't switch b/c of the hassle of customizing it like I want it.