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Silly aesthetic question but, is it possible to have a "background" instead of the white for blank/loading pages? It's mainly cause the bright white is hard on my eyes sometimes. I already have a dark theme for everything else, so I'm just wondering. e: and/or a way to dim the default white (I realize I could gently caress with my monitor but it's perfect for everything else) Daynab fucked around with this message at 10:30 on Oct 13, 2011 |
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Daynab posted:Silly aesthetic question but, is it possible to have a "background" instead of the white for blank/loading pages? It's mainly cause the bright white is hard on my eyes sometimes. I already have a dark theme for everything else, so I'm just wondering.
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Oct 13, 2011 11:02
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Alereon posted:
Yes we know triage and review are issues, as is prioritization of non-feature work. There are multiple efforts underway to try and address these issues and make things better. But that necessitates change and the project is very adverse to process change IMO (I don't know why). This is a problem the community is going to have to address (and by community I mean not just paid people).
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Oct 13, 2011 15:30
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Bieeardo posted:Unfortunately I also discovered an annoying new wrinkle in the way Firefox handles tabs. Instead of being able to drag and drop them onto the bookmarks bar, you have to hold control, then drag and drop the tab. Apparently it's supposed to emulate the file explorer 'click and drag to move, modifier key to do something else' interface, but I found it unintuitive. Toast Museum posted:On what version? That's not the case for 7. Aurora, v9.xxxxx. Sorry for not coming back this way in over a week.
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Oct 13, 2011 19:22
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Alereon posted:Firefox, Options, Content tab, Colors button, Background Color. THANK YOU! Can't believe I never noticed that before. This helps greatly.
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Oct 13, 2011 19:31
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Alereon posted:Can you clarify how Electrolysis is different from what I described so I know where I misunderstood? My understanding is that Electrolysis is the overarching project to break more and more tasks out of the main Firefox process. Multi-threading can be (and typically is) done within a single process. Splitting processes as in Electrolysis carries some significant benefits (reduce the scope of what's affected by crashes, improved security from restrictions on what can cross processes), but it also adds a lot of complexity to the development and adds a lot of overhead when things in different processes have to communicate with each other. Mozilla could, with comparative ease, distribute more work onto background threads within the same process, and allow greater responsiveness from the main UI thread. In my experience/opinion, Firefox's only significant remaining disadvantage compared to a certain other browser is the smoothness; even after many years of supposed improvements Firefox still stutters very frequently.
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Oct 13, 2011 23:06
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Zhentar posted:Multi-threading can be (and typically is) done within a single process. Splitting processes as in Electrolysis carries some significant benefits (reduce the scope of what's affected by crashes, improved security from restrictions on what can cross processes), but it also adds a lot of complexity to the development and adds a lot of overhead when things in different processes have to communicate with each other. Yeah, same thing. I really really want tabs as separate processes. In fact, if I had it my way, I'd tell the FF dev team to stop everything they're doing, and only work on tabs as separate processes. I think it's that important. Web pages are getting more and more JS-heavy, and a really complicated page can lock up the entire browser for a second or 2. Looking at individual tabs, I don't think there's really a speed difference anymore between Chrome and FF, but looking at the browser as a whole, Chrome is definitely faster since one tab loading won't hold up the others. Is there any public discussion on the progression of tabs as separate processes? I know this was talked about as a big priority several years ago, and they got everyone all excited with plugin-container.exe, but then they just seemed to have stopped working towards splitting tabs into separate processes. The Electrolysis wiki page is extremely outdated.
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Oct 14, 2011 01:25
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Using the 8.0 Beta. It's just informed me that it has deleted my outdated version of the Flash 64-bit plugin. Usefully, downloading and running Adobe's latest installer ('install_flashplayer11x64_mssd_aih.exe') does absolutely nothing, even when run as Administrator. Anyone got any ideas?
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Oct 14, 2011 09:48
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Fangs404 posted:Looking at individual tabs, I don't think there's really a speed difference anymore between Chrome and FF, but looking at the browser as a whole, Chrome is definitely faster since one tab loading won't hold up the others. To a large extent, it won't in Firefox either. Relatively few things require blocking the main thread, and those still won't necessarily block other tabs from continuing to load in the background. I think that now the most noticeable thing that will block the main thread is garbage collection, which can really stutter things up if it's working too hard.
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Oct 14, 2011 15:46
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Zhentar posted:To a large extent, it won't in Firefox either. Relatively few things require blocking the main thread, and those still won't necessarily block other tabs from continuing to load in the background. I think that now the most noticeable thing that will block the main thread is garbage collection, which can really stutter things up if it's working too hard. This is a very  example, but http://www.myfreecams.com/ locks up the entire browser when it loads. It happens as it's downloading all of the pictures (I do have pipelining enabled), but while it's downloading those images, I can't switch tabs or do anything else in FF except wait for them to load. Contrast this with Chrome which will allow you switch tabs at your heart's content while the page is loading. I've noticed similar behavior on really image-heavy tumblr sites.
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Oct 14, 2011 17:03
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Fangs404 posted:Yeah, same thing. I really really want tabs as separate processes. In fact, if I had it my way, I'd tell the FF dev team to stop everything they're doing, and only work on tabs as separate processes. I think it's that important. Web pages are getting more and more JS-heavy, and a really complicated page can lock up the entire browser for a second or 2. Looking at individual tabs, I don't think there's really a speed difference anymore between Chrome and FF, but looking at the browser as a whole, Chrome is definitely faster since one tab loading won't hold up the others. You don't need separate processes to do that, firefox's UI thread just likes to lock up.
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Oct 14, 2011 18:30
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pokecapn posted:You don't need separate processes to do that, firefox's UI thread just likes to lock up. It still may the final frontier that they can work on to improve speed however. The lockup wouldn't be an issue if Firefox loaded the nsfw link above as fast as Chrome does. On my system it can sometimes be a 3-5 second difference on loading that page.
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Oct 16, 2011 01:34
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Does anyone else have an issue with bookmarks randomly not saving? Or am I going crazy?
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Oct 16, 2011 12:10
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NOTinuyasha posted:Does anyone else have an issue with bookmarks randomly not saving? Or am I going crazy? No problems here. You got any funky extensions installed? What version you running?
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Oct 17, 2011 10:49
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Oct 17, 2011 14:42
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I work in firefox all day long, and one thing (the only thing) I really miss from IE is the tiny *chck* sound I get when I click a link. It just makes me happy. Can I have that in firefox (on a Mac, if it matters)?
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Oct 18, 2011 20:10
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Daynab posted:Silly aesthetic question but, is it possible to have a "background" instead of the white for blank/loading pages? 
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Oct 18, 2011 20:18
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jackpot posted:I work in firefox all day long, and one thing (the only thing) I really miss from IE is the tiny *chck* sound I get when I click a link. It just makes me happy. Can I have that in firefox (on a Mac, if it matters)? This looks promising: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/navigational-sounds/
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Oct 18, 2011 20:25
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I have this problem with watching videos on blip. It might be other websites like that, but for the moment it's just this. Whenever I watch a random video, there's this distortion that randomly pops up. These black squares would show up all over the video. Is this a problem with Firefox? Does anyone else have this happen to them too? I was told to update my plugins, and I have and the problem is still there. Does any other web browser do this? Can someone help me out here?
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Oct 19, 2011 01:23
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Thunderfinger posted:I have this problem with watching videos on blip. It might be other websites like that, but for the moment it's just this. Whenever I watch a random video, there's this distortion that randomly pops up. These black squares would show up all over the video. Is this a problem with Firefox? Does anyone else have this happen to them too? I was told to update my plugins, and I have and the problem is still there. Does any other web browser do this? Can someone help me out here?
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Oct 19, 2011 02:00
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Alereon posted:I haven't seen this problem, but I don't watch things on blip.tv. If you're sure you've got the latest version of Adobe Flash, then update your video drivers. Flash uses the hardware acceleration offered by your video drivers for decode and rendering, so old drivers can cause graphical issues. I just tried to do that and it said that the best drivers were already installed.
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Oct 19, 2011 02:45
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Thunderfinger posted:I just tried to do that and it said that the best drivers were already installed.
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Oct 19, 2011 03:36
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Does anyone else have a problem with Firefox becoming sluggish after running for about eight hours?
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Oct 19, 2011 13:22
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Anjow posted:An update to my problems: Anjow, I had the same problem and it threw me for a whirl for a while until I found the same solution as you... now whenever it does that I just load up Terminal and press up (a number of times if I've done other work in Terminal) to load that command and then my old profile will work. Even having the Profile Manager load at start won't solve the problem- which really confuses me! I'm guessing it might have to do with one of our add-ons but that doesn't necessarily explain the entire problem. Pretty frustrating in the end, especially because I have yet to find anyone (besides you) with the same problem.
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Oct 19, 2011 14:47
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GarlicPepper posted:Does anyone else have a problem with Firefox becoming sluggish after running for about eight hours?
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Oct 19, 2011 22:38
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GarlicPepper posted:Does anyone else have a problem with Firefox becoming sluggish after running for about eight hours? Occasionally. Memory leaks, while lessened, still exist. Restarting generally fixes that, and Restart Firefox lets you put a button on the toolbar to do so in one click.
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Oct 19, 2011 22:38
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Alereon posted:I generally leave it running all day without issues. It might be that a plug-in is misbehaving and consuming a lot of CPU, or it could be due to memory usage. Try going to about :memory and clicking the "Minimize memory usage" button, if that helps memory was probably the issue. If it's sluggish due to high memory usage, it's a safe bet that the minimize memory usage button won't fix it. It generally gets sluggish because there's too much that the garbage collector/cycle collector won't fix, in which case the indicator is just a very high memory usage (or just memory usage that considerably increases over the the time it takes to become slow).
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Oct 19, 2011 23:07
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Zhentar posted:If it's sluggish due to high memory usage, it's a safe bet that the minimize memory usage button won't fix it. It generally gets sluggish because there's too much that the garbage collector/cycle collector won't fix, in which case the indicator is just a very high memory usage (or just memory usage that considerably increases over the the time it takes to become slow).
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Oct 19, 2011 23:19
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Yes it's probably the memory usage which doubles after six or so hours. Restarting fixes the problem but I wonder why Firefox does this in the first place.
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Oct 20, 2011 03:10
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If you take a look at about:memory, you'll probably see compartments for pages you've visited in the past but aren't currently open, and their presence is probably the result of having a broken extension installed that keeps stray references to DOM objects around.
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Oct 20, 2011 03:15
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Found the culprit, it was Pando web plugin. I don't know how that got there but after I removed it no more memory leak.
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Oct 20, 2011 10:19
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Firefox has been doing this incredibly annoying thing lately. I'll try to open up a page and it will try to load it with no success, along with any other tabs from then on. To get it working again, I have to close firefox and start over, in which case it works perfectly. This "lagging out" or whatever has been happening at seemingly random intervals. Anybody had this problem before or know how to fix it? edit: whelp firefox has stopped working entirely for me. pages dont load ever anymore thehandtruck fucked around with this message at 17:11 on Oct 22, 2011 |
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Oct 20, 2011 16:02
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How do I get Firefox to automatically remove every downloaded file tab on the bottom of the screen? It only does that with pictures.
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Oct 21, 2011 08:03
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Scalding Coffee posted:How do I get Firefox to automatically remove every downloaded file tab on the bottom of the screen? It only does that with pictures. That's a feature of an addon rather than Firefox, probably Download Statusbar. Change it in its settings screen.
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Oct 21, 2011 08:33
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What's that theme that allows you to put the tabs in the title bar on Mac OS versions? I went through all ten pages of this thread and couldn't find it for the life of me. Maybe it was in the old thread. Is the theme buggy at all?
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Oct 24, 2011 21:09
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Mak0rz posted:What's that theme that allows you to put the tabs in the title bar on Mac OS versions? I went through all ten pages of this thread and couldn't find it for the life of me. Maybe it was in the old thread. Do you mean tabs on top? or OneLiner (prospector labs thing)http://mozillalabs.com/prospector/2011/07/28/oneliner-moves-navigation-to-the-tabs-toolbar/
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Oct 24, 2011 21:24
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Has anyone noticed Aurora not handling cookies properly over the last few days? I can stay logged into SA with no trouble, but Twitter and other forums consistently log me out even when I tell them to remember me. I tried clearing the cache and deleting my cookies, but whatever's happening is persistent.
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Oct 26, 2011 05:38
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Bieeardo posted:Has anyone noticed Aurora not handling cookies properly over the last few days? I can stay logged into SA with no trouble, but Twitter and other forums consistently log me out even when I tell them to remember me. I tried clearing the cache and deleting my cookies, but whatever's happening is persistent.
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Thanks, I'll give that a shot.
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Mike Shaver has a post up on Planet Mozilla about JavaScript performance, the interesting part is that he mentioned that Mozilla CTO (and JavaScript inventor) Brendan Eich demonstrated yesterday at the SPLASH conference an H.264 decoder written in JavaScript decoding video in realtime (30fps) on a laptop CPU. Another interesting aspect of this is that the JavaScript was translated from a C library using an automated tool, Emscripten, which compiles LLVM to JavaScript.
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