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Grey Area posted:There are Firefox 3 themes for Firefox 4+... He could also right click the bar and reenable the menu bar and such.
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IE6 was good enough for me, for I fear change.
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Nov 14, 2011 17:04
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Yep, I don't like where firefox is going at all but fixing the interface isn't *too* hard (harder than it should be though.) It only takes a single addon, Status-4-Evar. Don't even have to add themes. Here's how my FF7 looks: 
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Nov 15, 2011 04:43
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Is that *actually* XP you're running in classic mode? No offense but I'm guessing that's why you're so attached to FF of yesteryear. You're not alone, mind you, I used to change XP to classic until I got used to the "normal" XP start menu. I'm rather fond of the Vista/7 implementation too. Couldn't imagine doing it in classic.
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Nov 15, 2011 09:31
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Sergeant Rock posted:IE6 was good enough for me, for I fear change. You are sick. You are why the internet is a vapid wasteland. /sarcasm
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Nov 15, 2011 09:56
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Any further word on if Mozilla is actually serious about providing an enterprise build with slower releases with version 8? Everything I've seen is a couple months old. Figured they would announce something last week... (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Nov 15, 2011 10:34
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Gherkin Jerkin posted:Any further word on if Mozilla is actually serious about providing an enterprise build with slower releases with version 8? Everything I've seen is a couple months old. Figured they would announce something last week...
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Nov 15, 2011 10:45
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ryanbruce posted:Is that *actually* XP you're running in classic mode? No offense but I'm guessing that's why you're so attached to FF of yesteryear. Not sure about the other person, but i'm using win7 and i've always been inlove with the old win2000 classic style, so i pretty much don't care much for the "eye candy" win7 offers. Thus i prefer the classic style. and i've spent time "customizing" the latest offerings from mozilla, but i just don't care for the new interface or the x,y,z new features. while they still offer security updates etc for 3.6.* then i'll probably just stay using it.  
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Nov 15, 2011 13:02
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Well, as long as you are ok with losing desktop composition support in 7 go ahead, but that's off topic. I figure they will end 3.6 support when 10 is ready, so I wouldn't get too comfortable just yet
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Nov 15, 2011 17:55
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Ryokurin posted:Well, as long as you are ok with losing desktop composition support in 7 go ahead, but that's off topic. I figure they will end 3.6 support when 10 is ready, so I wouldn't get too comfortable just yet Does that mean they lose all the Peek and taskbar preview functions too?
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Nov 15, 2011 18:13
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For those who care, Pale Moon just updated to version 8. The auto updater didn't work for me, said it couldn't validate the file despite multiple attempts. Ended up downloading the installer by hand and checking the SHA-1 hash by hand. Works fine.
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Nov 15, 2011 18:59
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Does anyone know how to stop Firefox from running javascript that disables text selection and right clicking without disabling javascript altogether? Why the hell does any browser obey this sort of thing in the first place? Example (please no derailing talking about the content of the link I'm posting. This is not the thread for it): http://www.michaelcrook.org/2011/11/15/ashley-billasano-did-not-defend-her-virtue/ In case anyone's wondering, Chrome and IE obey this as well.
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Nov 16, 2011 00:37
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For the right click, in the preferences dialog, Content tab, the Advanced button next to Enable JavaScript, uncheck "Disable or replace context menus" The text selection disabling works by blocking mouse clicks entirely, and that's not something that's configurable. Ctrl-A still works, as does View Source. You could even edit the page in question to remove the script that does it.
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Nov 16, 2011 00:55
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Prize Loser posted:Does anyone know how to stop Firefox from running javascript that disables text selection and right clicking without disabling javascript altogether? Why the hell does any browser obey this sort of thing in the first place? Use noscript or the web developer tool bar https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/web-developer/ and disable javascript. BTW, quote:I don’t care what did or did not happen to her. First and foremost, I don’t believe rape exists. 
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Nov 16, 2011 00:59
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pseudorandom name posted:For the right click, in the preferences dialog, Content tab, the Advanced button next to Enable JavaScript, uncheck "Disable or replace context menus" I KNEW there was something like this in the options, I just couldn't find it for the life of me. Mr. Fix It posted:Use noscript or the web developer tool bar https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/web-developer/ and disable javascript. Web developer toolbar works. Still, I'd rather the browser was able to prevent sites from doing this crap. Oh well, can't always get what you want, I suppose. Thanks, guys. Problem solved.
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Nov 16, 2011 01:22
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Prize Loser posted:Does anyone know how to stop Firefox from running javascript that disables text selection and right clicking without disabling javascript altogether? Why the hell does any browser obey this sort of thing in the first place? I posted about this problem with the NY Times website a while ago. Highlighting text popped up a stupid little question mark balloon, which broke right-click on the highlighted text to search Google. I ended up tracking down the specific JS file to block on the NY Times website to prevent it, but it's not always easy to find. It's annoying and should be easier to disable in all browsers. I don't see anything about in the Chrome settings.
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Nov 16, 2011 01:30
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ryanbruce posted:Is that *actually* XP you're running in classic mode? No offense but I'm guessing that's why you're so attached to FF of yesteryear. It's Win7 actually. The start bar/menu has nothing to with the desktop theme either. The other guy is correct about losing compositing and Peek (oh no.)
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Nov 16, 2011 04:29
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Classic is ugly as hell but for some reason it feels faster, even though you're losing compositing.
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Nov 16, 2011 04:34
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clockworkjoe posted:Gmail is hosed up for me on Firefox 8 (windows 7 pc) Quoting this because it was the successive posts that helped. I couldn't do chat inside of gmail in the new firefox. Turns out I just had to update the subscriptions in adblock plus, so thanks again, SA!
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Nov 16, 2011 14:57
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Mozilla has announced today that the Electrolysis project, which aims to make Firefox a multiprocess application, will be put in pause for the foreseeable future. Source. I have awful problems with Firefox responsiveness. I think Adblock Plus causes most of them though. I can't even watch YouTube anymore without pauses every few seconds.
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Nov 16, 2011 16:58
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WattsvilleBlues posted:Mozilla has announced today that the Electrolysis project, which aims to make Firefox a multiprocess application, will be put in pause for the foreseeable future. drat, I'm really sad to read this. I understand why, and I can't say I didn't see it coming since it hasn't been publicly discussed in well over a year, but it's still sad to see.
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Nov 16, 2011 18:38
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WattsvilleBlues posted:Mozilla has announced today that the Electrolysis project, which aims to make Firefox a multiprocess application, will be put in pause for the foreseeable future.
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Nov 16, 2011 21:42
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The biggest issue is that despite all the work they have done, most of it is so slight that most people didn't see the difference. Every update we kind of go through the same thing "What did they change? it's still slow!" if the engineers can be moved to something that people will notice, at least for a while then maybe the ideas that the only thing Firefox is doing is tweaks to catch the number up to the competition will finally die down. Electrolysis biggest issue was that the only way the average person could see the differences was via benchmarks or checking memory, one that means nothing and the other people don't do correctly so they are still going to call Firefox bloated. If one of the side projects they can work on can mask the pauses and stutters that occur (which is similar to how other browsers deal with them) then I'm all for it. You can fix it in a way that will last later but for right now we need to deal with the problem visually.
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Nov 16, 2011 21:45
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Separate process tabs was literally the only feature I was missing in FF. It is the only change I've actually felt I needed since FF6. I'm fed up with someone's awful javascript on one page I loaded in the background tanking my whole browser. My perfect browser would be FF8+separate tab processes.
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Nov 16, 2011 22:02
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unruly posted:when a developer (group) decides that making their application multi-process isn't a priority... especially with the issues being seen now.. yikes. Multi-process != multi-threaded. All of the challenges with responsiveness can be handled either way. On paper, the multi-process solution for performance is simpler - the performance issues are may be cut down by an order of magnitude or two and become negligible, or even go away entirely. The problem is, as Mozilla has clearly realized, the details of implementing the multi-process stuff to get the "free" performance boosts actually ends up being more work than just tackling the multi-threading performance solutions. The worst part of it, is that if you think there's a lot of bitching about add-on compatibility now, Electrolysis breaks add-on compatibility in a substantial, non-trivial way. A significant portion of add-ons would require substantial changes to work at all in a multi-process Firefox.
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WattsvilleBlues posted:I have awful problems with Firefox responsiveness. I think Adblock Plus causes most of them though. I can't even watch YouTube anymore without pauses every few seconds. It's definitely some other extension, or possibly live bookmarks / RSS feeds refreshing if you have a ton of them. You can check out this list but I don't think it's all that exhaustive.
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Nov 16, 2011 23:27
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pokecapn posted:It's definitely some other extension, or possibly live bookmarks / RSS feeds refreshing if you have a ton of them. You can check out this list but I don't think it's all that exhaustive. I don't know, when I have Adblock Plus running, Firefox freezes every few seconds. The CPU goes up to 30% and more just sitting idle. When I disable ABP, it doesn't. I'm also seeing massive RAM usage, about 50% more than in Firefox 7 (I'm on 9 beta atm).
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Nov 16, 2011 23:48
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WattsvilleBlues posted:I don't know, when I have Adblock Plus running, Firefox freezes every few seconds. The CPU goes up to 30% and more just sitting idle. When I disable ABP, it doesn't. I'm also seeing massive RAM usage, about 50% more than in Firefox 7 (I'm on 9 beta atm). Alereon fucked around with this message at 02:16 on Nov 17, 2011 |
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Nov 17, 2011 02:14
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WattsvilleBlues posted:I don't know, when I have Adblock Plus running, Firefox freezes every few seconds. The CPU goes up to 30% and more just sitting idle. When I disable ABP, it doesn't. I'm also seeing massive RAM usage, about 50% more than in Firefox 7 (I'm on 9 beta atm). Check your filters, you might be blocking something you shouldn't by accident.
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Nov 17, 2011 02:55
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Is there a setting/extension to get private browsing mode to not read any cookies, like the ones made from non-private browsing mode? Basically I'd like private browsing mode to act like a temporary equivalent of clearing all of my cookies
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Nov 17, 2011 16:02
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The Merkinman posted:Is there a setting/extension to get private browsing mode to not read any cookies, like the ones made from non-private browsing mode? Bonus Edit: Good news for testers: Add-ons will be made compatible by default on Nightly and Aurora builds, meaning no more having to mess with prefs or other extensions to get add-ons working when you update. Alereon fucked around with this message at 18:54 on Nov 17, 2011 |
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The Merkinman posted:Is there a setting/extension to get private browsing mode to not read any cookies, like the ones made from non-private browsing mode? Yeah, that's definitely how it works already.
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Fangs404 posted:Yeah, that's definitely how it works already. Then why is it I can't see special ads more than once? Don't they store a cookie so they only show X times per Y?
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Nov 17, 2011 22:39
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The Merkinman posted:Then why is it I can't see special ads more than once? Don't they store a cookie so they only show X times per Y? Private browsing mode has its own set of cookies that it accesses. Once they're set, you have them until you leave private browsing mode, then they are deleted. The same is true of your history in private browsing mode.
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Nov 17, 2011 22:51
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I hope Firefox finally goes x64 sometime in the future, as Waterfox got updated with a new taskbar icon that looks like rear end and rapes my eyes every time I see it in a new open window.
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Nov 18, 2011 18:49
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jeeves posted:I hope Firefox finally goes x64 sometime in the future, as Waterfox got updated with a new taskbar icon that looks like rear end and rapes my eyes every time I see it in a new open window. In the meantime, you could replace the new icon with the old one, or with something else entirely.
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Nov 18, 2011 19:10
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Pale Moon is also available in x64.
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Nov 18, 2011 19:24
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I found Pale Moon's x64 builds to be less reliable than official Firefox 32 bit or Waterfox 64 bit.
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Toast Museum posted:In the meantime, you could replace the new icon with the old one, or with something else entirely. Wouldn't changing the program icon within taskbar windows (not shortcuts to it) require a bit of code tinkering within the program file itself?
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Install Gentoo posted:I found Pale Moon's x64 builds to be less reliable than official Firefox 32 bit or Waterfox 64 bit. Then again, I switched around version 6 or so.
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