i've never really "gotten" firefox
― remembrance of schwings past (gbx), Friday, 2 September 2011 13:28 (twelve years ago) link
What do you use?
― it was as good of a time as any to show a lighter side of 9/11 research (Je55e), Friday, 2 September 2011 14:55 (twelve years ago) link
don't let them ctrl-U
― JoeStork, Friday, September 2, 2011 8:55 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark
<3
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 2 September 2011 16:27 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― it was as good of a time as any to show a lighter side of 9/11 research (Je55e), Sunday, 4 September 2011 16:34 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― akm, Sunday, 4 September 2011 18:11 (twelve years ago) link
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
― mookieproof, Sunday, 4 September 2011 18:35 (twelve years ago) link
ya i can have 10 ilx threads but if one of them is a youtube heavy ilm thread everything goes to shit.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 4 September 2011 18:56 (twelve years ago) link
why do you all not use chrome?
― dayo, Monday, 5 September 2011 01:47 (twelve years ago) link
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
― mookieproof, Monday, 5 September 2011 01:59 (twelve years ago) link
No good Chrome equivalent of NoScript
― Autumn Almanac, Monday, 5 September 2011 02:29 (twelve years ago) link
― 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.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 5 September 2011 02:42 (twelve years ago) link
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!
― dayo, Monday, 5 September 2011 02:43 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― thank got forks showed up (forksclovetofu), Monday, 5 September 2011 05:57 (twelve years ago) link
<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
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, 5 September 2011 12:49 (twelve years ago) link
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)
― akm, Monday, 5 September 2011 15:12 (twelve years ago) link
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
― remembrance of schwings past (gbx), Monday, 5 September 2011 15:21 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 5 September 2011 15:22 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― it was as good of a time as any to show a lighter side of 9/11 research (Je55e), Monday, 5 September 2011 17:08 (twelve years ago) link
i have 40 extensions
― mookieproof, Monday, 5 September 2011 17:13 (twelve years ago) link
braggin 2011
― dayo, Monday, 5 September 2011 17:23 (twelve years ago) link
My Firefox just updated to 7.0, and suddenly I'm seeing all these ads I never saw before. My installed ad blocker plus seems gone, and I can't install it again because there's a "connection problem" with Mozilla?
I am getting so fucking fed up with all browsers paying more attention to the rat race instead of just making, you know, a FUCKING BROWSER THAT JUST WORKS.
― Young Swell (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 29 September 2011 19:02 (twelve years ago) link
^ assumed this post was lex
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 29 September 2011 19:04 (twelve years ago) link
There is an issue with Firefox 7 that may have caused some or all of your add-ons to be hidden. We are preparing an update to Firefox that will fix this and restore any hidden add-ons. Until that update is available, you can restore your add-ons with the simple workaround below.
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 29 September 2011 19:06 (twelve years ago) link
Hoos <3
I felt extremely Lex-y when posting it too, but for fucking fuck sakes. IA to the max.
― Young Swell (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 29 September 2011 19:07 (twelve years ago) link
it's more baffling to me that so many people just passively accept this bullshit
― lex pretend, Thursday, 29 September 2011 19:55 (twelve years ago) link
Thanks James, but I still get:
"The add-on could not be downloaded because of a connection failure on addons.mozilla.org"
Sigh.
― Young Swell (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 29 September 2011 19:56 (twelve years ago) link
Lex otm. En-fucking-raging.
saw this earlier, if it helps:http://lifehacker.com/5845069/add+on-recovery-tool-restores-missing-add+ons-in-firefox-7
― koogs, Thursday, 29 September 2011 20:04 (twelve years ago) link
(posted already, sorry)
― koogs, Thursday, 29 September 2011 20:05 (twelve years ago) link
Thanks Koogs. That's what James linked too as well, but for some reason the add-on server is down, so I can't download the add-on recovery add-on... :-S
xp
― Young Swell (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 29 September 2011 20:06 (twelve years ago) link
I held out against chrome for a long time but after just 1 day with it I'm done w firefox forever. soz dudes
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 29 September 2011 22:52 (twelve years ago) link
I can't believe that neither FF nor Chrome have password protection for the whole browser.
― Je55e, Friday, 30 September 2011 21:38 (twelve years ago) link
You all know you can stop automatic updates in Firefox, yeah?
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 30 September 2011 22:30 (twelve years ago) link
Wow, Firefox just picked up 'Firefox' as a spelling error and suggested
FireboxFire foxFire–foxFirefly
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 30 September 2011 22:31 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 30 September 2011 22:59 (twelve years ago) link
Fuck Firefox for the last time. Switched to Chrome this morning.
― PoMo with a shotgun (snoball), Saturday, 1 October 2011 08:21 (twelve years ago) link
Firefox 7.0.1 crashing like an absolute bastard on my Macbook. Anyone having any similar problems? Could be an issue with gfxCardStatus but not sure.
― sam500, Thursday, 3 November 2011 13:02 (twelve years ago) link
Could well be. It was locking me into dedicated graphics and sucking up my battery so I stopped using it.
― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 3 November 2011 19:47 (twelve years ago) link
Ok, so I 'downgraded' to Firefox 3.6 (I wasn't mad about going back to Chrome again) and all seems to be fine. Still running gfx too.
― sam500, Friday, 4 November 2011 08:40 (twelve years ago) link
does that button on the popup window suggesting you upgrade to 9.01 ever work for anybody? whenever i press it it just sits there for hours doing nothing and i end up downloading and installing externally.
― koogs, Thursday, 12 January 2012 09:59 (twelve years ago) link
Jesus, theyre on v9 now?I gotta get on chrome
― Beezow Doo Doo Zopittybop-Bop Bop (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 12 January 2012 15:52 (twelve years ago) link
10 now. i seem to have missed 9 completely.
linux still on 3.6... web pages are now complaining to me about the age of it (albeit mostly mozilla.org related sites...)
― koogs, Thursday, 2 February 2012 09:38 (twelve years ago) link
The occasional day that passes without a Firefox update seems so peaceful
― Not only dermatologists hate her (James Morrison), Friday, 3 February 2012 00:12 (twelve years ago) link
Does anyone have any experience with Firefox Sync? It's supposed to allow you to sync bookmarks/passwords/prefs on multiple computers and devices. I'm a bit reluctant to try it for some reason.
Does it allow you to "un-sync" after having synched? As in, erasing the sync info from, say, my work computer? Anyone?
― HO WBEAUTIFUL IS THE GENTLYFALLINGBLOOD? (Le Bateau Ivre), Saturday, 18 February 2012 20:37 (twelve years ago) link
I've only used Sync to restore my bookmarks every time I'm playing around with installing new operating systems on multiple computers.
You can control what is synced (history, bookmarks, preferences, etc) and how often, and you can un-sync as far as no longer linking the computers. I would imagine you would have to clear history and delete bookmarks to completely remove traces. Maybe even uninstall, delete profile folder, re-install.
I doubt you can put it back exactly like it was prior though. Maybe maintaining separate firefox profiles on the work computer would allow that.
― warren harding (Zachary Taylor), Saturday, 18 February 2012 23:07 (twelve years ago) link
Thanks for the info Zach! I can't really "afford" to just try it out (syncing between work and home I mean) but will try it between my laptop-desktop.
― HO WBEAUTIFUL IS THE GENTLYFALLINGBLOOD? (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 19 February 2012 19:07 (twelve years ago) link
what exactly has changed from firefox 4-12?
i guess i shouldn't care -- it's just arbitrary numbers -- but it breaks my extensions too often.
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 25 April 2012 00:17 (twelve years ago) link
Every version fixes hundreds of bugs, apparently, e.g. http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/12.0/releasenotes/buglist.html
― StanM, Wednesday, 25 April 2012 16:05 (twelve years ago) link
anyone noticed the tabs flickering from time to time? like they are being rewritten, slowly.
the "upgrade now" link in the popup window hasn't worked for me for the last 6 iterations - just sits there 'connecting...'. increasingly tempted by the long term support release...
― koogs, Wednesday, 25 April 2012 16:19 (twelve years ago) link
what the what?
upgraded to ff20 this morning and now my right click menu (which i always use to navigate back a page) fills the entire height of the screen and is missing the 'back' option, instead containing a list of ALL the menu items in the world (play, pause, view background image, view mathml source...)
― koogs, Thursday, 4 April 2013 10:45 (eleven years ago) link