I'm glad (okay not really glad, but you get my point) to see others having the same issues with Firefox. Within the last two weeks my Firefox has recently started grinding to a near complete halt whenever I'm downloading a file (exact same problem as ken c).
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 13:00 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah i have that downloading problem all the time, i just thought it was shite programming
― Ste, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 13:03 (sixteen years ago) link
hmm: i don't notice everything else grinding to a halt while i'm downloading, but it does do so *before* i download (for up to 20 seconds). like ste, i just thought it was sloppiness.
still prefer it to safari, though. sorry.
― grimly fiendish, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 13:09 (sixteen years ago) link
I've had problems with FF using up tons of CPU/RAM for no apparent reason lately (on XP), might well be extensions doing it, should try uninstalling and see if it helps.
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 13:38 (sixteen years ago) link
> you know when you try and download something big on firefox.. it seems to freeze the whole thing (and any other firefox window), while the download is in progress (and not tell you what progress it's making) until it's over.. is there a way to fix that??
is this mostly pdfs? if it is then PDF file association (within firefox) from 'use this plugin' to 'use this application'. now they'll download in background then start acrobat rather than freezing friefox for the duration.
might work with other file types as well.
― koogs, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 13:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Since Monday, Firefox crashes every time I try to reply to an email from my gmail account. Why?? I went on vacation for a week and since I got back it's fuxored. IT IS A MYSTERY DOT GEE EYE EFF.
― Laurel, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 13:48 (sixteen years ago) link
I can't imagine it's any of my extensions, I would have noticed that before my vacation break as well and haven't added any since. Still, I might experiment.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 13:58 (sixteen years ago) link
laurel: have had something similar with bad swf files embedded in a page, mostly ads. use adblock to block them. (you might need to view source in a different browser in order to find them)
― koogs, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 13:59 (sixteen years ago) link
it's with any kinds of files koogs, and i wasn't even trying to launch them, just to save to disk. the program will just freeze for the duration of the download and then eventually comes back with a little popup on the bottom right corner and say "All files download is complete", and bring up the downloads window.
it's like somebody forgot to run the download process in a background thread.
― ken c, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 14:01 (sixteen years ago) link
or maybe it's the way firefox wants to tell me "You decided to download a 15MB file. Good Job. Moron."
― ken c, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 14:03 (sixteen years ago) link
i do that all the time (firefox, winxp...) and it's fine.
it's not me, it's you.
modem problems? virus checker? disk space?
― koogs, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 14:14 (sixteen years ago) link
there must be SOMETHING, but i dunno what.
disk space maybe but there's definitely more than 15MB.
― ken c, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 14:18 (sixteen years ago) link
laurel: http://groups.google.com/group/Gmail-Problem-solving/browse_thread/thread/01835027fc45a73e/e8eece8a4a569b8b?lnk=raot
someone with same problem since last monday. clearing cache, deleting cookie fixed it.
― koogs, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 14:18 (sixteen years ago) link
Andy, you are a star. Thank you.
― Laurel, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 14:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Ned: maybe try safe mode (http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_mode#Mac_OS_X) and if that fixes things then start turning extensions on and off one at a time. Failing that, create a new OS X test user account and see if they have the same problem.
― caek, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 14:49 (sixteen years ago) link
How dare you be sensible. I wanted to do something like reach into the computer and strangle the program.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 14:50 (sixteen years ago) link
You know what always breaks Firefox for me? The, um, All Music Guide.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 16:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Failing that, create a new OS X test user account and see if they have the same problem.
Before you resort to this, it might be worth quitting Firefox, moving ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox to, e.g. the Desktop, thus forcing Firefox to create a new profile the next time you launch it. If this fixes the problems then you're sorted. [If you want to restore your bookmarks, quit FF, find bookmarks.html in the old Firefox folder which is now on your Desktop and copy it to the same place in the new ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox folder, and restart.]
― caek, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 16:44 (sixteen years ago) link
I was having system-wide slowness issues, Firefox downloads, Photoshop, you name it -- I finally just moved up getting my new system by eight months.
Ned, run Activity Monitor and see if there are any unidentified processes that are eating up CPU. Do you use a CPU monitor widget?
caek's advice is good.
― Rock Hardy, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 16:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Everyone, you have to remember to *think* in RUSSIAN.
― Spencer Chow, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 17:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Hahahaha
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 17:12 (sixteen years ago) link
How often did I see that film on HBO in the early eighties? Oh, quite a few times...
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 17:13 (sixteen years ago) link
2.0.0.6 for OS X is hopeless. fucking thing just hung on me trying to open a new tab ... wouldn't mind so much if i hadn't also been 95% through a 100+MB download. "restore session" doesn't restore the download ... i mean, come on, i used to have stuff on fucking OS9 that could resume a broken download. how come shitfox can't manage?
i'm going to hold out for the next update and see if it gets any better. if not, i'll go back to safari, which is also shit, but not *quite* as crash-happy.
― grimly fiendish, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 10:11 (sixteen years ago) link
I've just gone back to Safari and spent an hour or two researching and installing things that make it work in a way that means I won't miss Opera (Safari Stand for customisable keyword-led searching from the URL bar -- fuck using a fiddly drop-down menu. xGestures for letting me use mouse gestures to go back and forth between pages).
The one thing that really made me switch from Opera was the inability to submit from Scrabulous's messaging box. Funny the things browser choices hinge on.
I'm sure more people would use Opera if its default appearance weren't so fugly.
― Alba, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 13:56 (sixteen years ago) link
i've become pretty addicted to inquisitor for quick searches - http://www.inquisitorx.com/safari
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 14:00 (sixteen years ago) link
Inquistor is *great*, but Leopard Safari kills it apparently. Grr.
― stet, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 16:14 (sixteen years ago) link
You want Leopard to be crap?
― Alba, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 16:48 (sixteen years ago) link
If it's a shitty new dock or Inquisitor, I know which I'd etc
― stet, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 17:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Good news, Firefox users, developers are finding out what's going on with the apparent memory leakage.
http://www.pavlov.net/blog/archives/2007/11/memory_fragment.html
― StanM, Monday, 12 November 2007 20:31 (sixteen years ago) link
FF 3 beta 1 is great but still beta (dragging & dropping of bookmarks is f*cked up, as is catsuppp dude's user name, since asian characters have now suddenly turned into boxes with numbers in them) :-/
― StanM, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 16:31 (sixteen years ago) link
that's what asian characters look like
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 17:46 (sixteen years ago) link
^ nice
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 01:17 (sixteen years ago) link
So that's why people always say "I'll have a 35 and a 42" in Chinese restaurants? Suddenly makes sense now, thanks!
― StanM, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 07:22 (sixteen years ago) link
FF 3 beta 1 keeps playing up on my Vista X64 machine. It installs fine and runs perfectly until I close it.
What happens then is that when I restart it "updates" to Firefox 2.0.10
Hmm..
― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 14:18 (sixteen years ago) link
firefox updated and wiped out my bookmarks, history, etc. annoying!
― akm, Thursday, 29 November 2007 13:59 (sixteen years ago) link
FOXMARKS
http://www.foxmarks.com
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 29 November 2007 14:50 (sixteen years ago) link
MOZBACKUP
http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/
― mookieproof, Thursday, 29 November 2007 14:54 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.uploadgeek.com/uploads456/0/1197784327416.png
― StanM, Sunday, 16 December 2007 16:19 (sixteen years ago) link
lololololol
― HI DERE, Sunday, 16 December 2007 17:02 (sixteen years ago) link
a(n) Detention?
― libcrypt, Sunday, 16 December 2007 18:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Also, Guardians(s).
― libcrypt, Sunday, 16 December 2007 18:48 (sixteen years ago) link
I guess it could be a hoax, but it's a popular topic at the moment:
http://www.google.be/search?q=firefox+detention
― StanM, Sunday, 16 December 2007 19:21 (sixteen years ago) link
Also: people happen to get detention in Foxfire, the 1996 movie:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116353/
Firefox 3 beta 2 : anyone else experiencing loads of random hangs & crashes? beta 1 was a lot more stable, IMHO :-(
― StanM, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 13:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Anyway, this is pretty impressive, though:
http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.0b2/firstrun/
:-)
― StanM, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 14:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Having Niagra Falls at the top of my browser was a dumb idea.
― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 15:56 (sixteen years ago) link
somehow i have changed a setting on FF where i cant scroll through pages using arrow keys and "end" or "home"
its viewing pages like a word document, with a little blinking cursor. if i click "end" it doesn't jump to the bottom of a page, the cursor jumps to the end of that line. when i want to scroll up or down, i have to wait for the cursor to go up through every line of text until it reaches the top or the bottom of the page before i can change what i'm seeing. if i am scrolling down and a large iamge comes up, it jumps to the bottom of that image.
ive tried uninstalling and reinstalling a few times but the paroblem is still there. also, when i uninstall and reinstall, my bookmarks, browsing history and cookies are all intact.
help.
― gr8080, Friday, 18 January 2008 09:47 (sixteen years ago) link
ok fixed: http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x18/gr8080/ff.jpg
― gr8080, Friday, 18 January 2008 09:58 (sixteen years ago) link
but i still cant figure out why my settings, history and cookies would be saved when i uninstall and reinstall.
― gr8080, Friday, 18 January 2008 09:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Uninstalling probably doesn't remove your config/preferences. You'd have to manually delete those files.
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 18 January 2008 10:08 (sixteen years ago) link
in Mozilla's slight defense, the Android version now has a back button and a download manager, but the other issues haven't been resolved (including the lack of a tab bar) and the whole thing still feels like a beta. apparently the latest version of Nightly supports add-ons, but I haven't tried it yet and I'm still using Kiwi for the time being even though it's no longer being updated
― (peech) or (buht ih-moh-jee) (unregistered), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 16:10 (three years ago) link
something i complained about here (back button being disabled when clicking on image urls) is explained here:
https://support.mozilla.org/gl/questions/1254496
instagram and facebook now open in a container in firefox and that ditches all the history / referer details when making the new container. makes sense but i wonder whether i can force it to use a new tab for those links so i still have everything in the original tab.
― koogs, Saturday, 16 January 2021 15:07 (three years ago) link
firefox has been at the crayons again, changing stuff, making it look dumber.
top bar with the tabs in it now looks a lot taller but the favicons and tab names are the same size so you lose vertical space for no real gain.
― koogs, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 11:27 (two years ago) link
yeah that spacing ffs. I had to create a lot more bookmark folders because eff having to scroll to see my bookmark lists
― Diggin Holes (Ste), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 13:03 (two years ago) link
it's annoying
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 13:13 (two years ago) link
had to change that this morning. wordy fix below
about:config <-- in address bar. "accept risk and continue"browser.compactmode.show <--- set to true. exit about:config. maybe restart firefox.
find 'customize' under 'more tools' in the drop down menu that is an icon that looks like 3 small horizontal lines
set density to compact.
protip-- if you use menu bar and bookmarks toolbar, drag the bookmark toolbar items onto the menu bar from the customize screen
― n/a (FlopsyDuck), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 13:28 (two years ago) link
oops! one more important step-- turn off the bookmarks toolbar if you move the bookmark toolbar items up to the menu bar or never use it.
― n/a (FlopsyDuck), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 13:36 (two years ago) link
hmm, didn't seem to change anything. Although my Density setting was "Compact (not supported)".
― Diggin Holes (Ste), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 13:39 (two years ago) link
try turning off your bookmarks toolbar
― n/a (FlopsyDuck), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 14:51 (two years ago) link
ah but it's the bookmarks toolbar i want the compact to affect. Is that not possible to change then?
― Diggin Holes (Ste), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 14:54 (two years ago) link
i can't confirm it myself because i'm running ESR but apparently setting browser.proton.enabled to false in about:config unfucks things a bit
enjoy it until mozilla inevitably removes it next version
― chihuahuau, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 16:59 (two years ago) link
There is also browser.uidensity that should be set to 1 (if it isn't already)
― n/a (FlopsyDuck), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 18:08 (two years ago) link
xp, chih, tried it and things got even more compact :)
― n/a (FlopsyDuck), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 18:11 (two years ago) link
I think Ste meant the Bookmarks dropdown menu from the menubar was no longer compact. I decided to test disabling all Proton entries in about:config and discovered the one that fixes the issue by resetting to how it was before.
set to false:browser.proton.contextmenus.enabled
and while were at it we might as well set the entry chihuahuau mentioned to false as well:browser.proton.enabled
― n/a (FlopsyDuck), Thursday, 17 June 2021 15:09 (two years ago) link
i dunno if this is new but i'm forever closing tabs i don't want to close.
the visible tab is highlighted in a lighter colour than usual, the tab the mouse is over is highlighted using a darker colour than usual. it's easy to glance up, see a highlighted tab and hit middle button to close it without registering it was the wrong kind of highlight.
― koogs, Tuesday, 24 August 2021 08:30 (two years ago) link