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Not Wolverine
Jul 1, 2007
I am still confused about what this feature is. Will this mean instead of typing in "somethingawful" and getting back "somethingawful.com/some random webpage on the server that you visited recently" you will get just "somethingawful.com"?

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Not Wolverine
Jul 1, 2007
OK I really do not like the new way to view images where they are placed centered on a black screen. Is there anything I can do about this?

Not Wolverine
Jul 1, 2007

Bieeardo posted:

I know there's a way of manually hacking it out, but I use Old Default Image Style with #FFF plugged in for the background shade.

Thanks! I find #ddd of #eee (not sure what I like better yet) to be a good shade of light grey.

Not Wolverine
Jul 1, 2007
I got a call from my Dad today confirming he is now running FF13, he was concerned about the new tab feature. He is concerned that his smut online banking websites might show up in the new tab whenever someone else uses his PC, and might be able to collect information because of this. I explained to him that it is unlikely for the new tab feature to display a page with valuable banking information and he seemed OK with that, however I am curious is it possible to configure the new tab page to block a domain from showing up?

Not Wolverine
Jul 1, 2007
Well yes that would be a good solution to the problem of porn, but I am not sure I can train my Dad to enter private browsing when he visits legitimate banking websites. Also, will a banking website work with private browsing? I am just guessing here that in private might interfere with cookies needed for logging in?

Not Wolverine
Jul 1, 2007

pseudorandom name posted:

There's a gigantic X button when you hover over entries on the new tab page.

But does that big X permanently remove the listing from the new tab page? And it does not take care of the whole domain, like right now I have somethingawful.com, somethingawful.com/SHSC, somethingawful.com/AI, etc.

The Dark One - the concern is more regarding accidental discovery.

Not Wolverine
Jul 1, 2007

Please tell me more about the icons between the Aurora button and the tabs. It looks like a g-mail pinned tab? I tried pinning g-mail, but mine doesn't show the unread message count. Also, what are the silver square with the asterisk in the middle, and the green circle?

Not Wolverine
Jul 1, 2007

WattsvilleBlues posted:

Seems to happen when hardware acceleration is in use. Clear that option in Advanced settings and I don't get the tearing effect.

I was noticing a tearing effect with youtube videos imbedded in forums as well, thought nothing anywhere near as serious as sauer kraut's screenshot. Turned off hardware acceleration and the tearing effect is gone. However, will this also disable HTML5's hardware acceleration? Is there a way to disable acceleration for Flash but keep it for HTML5?

Also, I noticed a few other oddities with flash. If I left tabs open with flash ads, after a while when I would come back to those tabs and all the flash ads would have the sad face "flash crashed". Another oddity was every once in a while when I would loading a link the browser would hang for a few seconds and a popup would alert me that Flash had crashed, I click cancel and the page would load but all flash ads on the page would have the sad face "flash is broke". Considering I only noticed the last two bugs with advertisements, I kinda liked those bugs. :) *since the last two items don't occur very often, I don't yet know if they are still present or not.

Not Wolverine
Jul 1, 2007
Just found what I am certain is another oddity. I am running Win 7 Ultimate, got one year old LCD on DVI, and an 8 year old LCD on VGA, not sure that matters but I cant think of anything else.

The problem is I loaded a PDF in my web-browser using the adobe extension, and it hosed up the colors on my 2nd monitor. This is not simply a problem with the monitor, the colors all look normal, I even took a pic of the monitor with a color test pattern to illustrate that. If I move the tab with adobe to my other monitor the colors appear perfect. Furthermore, I downloaded the pdf and used stand alone adobe reader on both monitors and the colors are fine. I don't know if this as an Adobe or Firefox issue but I have not yet found any other cases of color problems with my ancient monitor.



Not Wolverine
Jul 1, 2007
I would be all for 64bit flash and letting Firefox hog up all my RAM, I have multiple GBs for reason. :haw: Really, I have 12GB of RAM for when I play games, but I spend so many hours a day just browsing the web with Firefox using up only 200 or 300MB. . . Also, the latest version of flash is soo loving buggy I am tempted to switch to 64bit just to see if that is a little more stable.

As for Javascript is that really a matter of 64bit makes it slow, or is it more the fact that 32bit is the more popular option browser so right and thus it is optimized better than 64bit?

Not Wolverine
Jul 1, 2007

Vain posted:

My computer only has 768MB of ram and whenever I visit a page that is image heavy my PF usage jumps from ~500MB to over 1GB and my computer grinds to a halt. Is there any settings I could change that would help, or is it just a case of needing more RAM?

Holy poo poo. . . You're going to need more than just RAM.

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Not Wolverine
Jul 1, 2007
I started the HTML5 trial for Youtube, I am not really seeing anything different. Really the only thing I have noticed is that with flash, I can set Youtube to be full screen on one monitor and keep using the other monitor, but with HTML5 it kicks me out of full screen if I switch to another browser window. Is there any easy way to prevent this?

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