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Is there a way to make a portable firefox installation and a normal installation run at the same time? I want to make a separate firefox profile for my wife because she keeps loving up my bookmarks and settings because she's confused by my extensions like noscript and ABP. I want to make her her own profile which she can use so that she doesn't have to worry about messing things up in my browser, and so she can manage her own bookmarks separately. I thought I could achieve this by just making an installation of portable firefox on my system drive and making a shortcut on the desktop for her to use, but if you have either the regular or portable version of FF open, clicking on the shortcut for either just launches another window of the one that was already open. I'd like to be able to leave my own window minimized with any tabs I had open still in there and still have her be able to launch her copy. Is there any way to do this? She doesn't want to use Chrome or IE or Opera.
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Mar 7, 2012 21:27
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LeftistMuslimObama posted:Is there a way to make a portable firefox installation and a normal installation run at the same time? I want to make a separate firefox profile for my wife because she keeps loving up my bookmarks and settings because she's confused by my extensions like noscript and ABP. I want to make her her own profile which she can use so that she doesn't have to worry about messing things up in my browser, and so she can manage her own bookmarks separately. Add the "-no-remote" argument to the shortcut/command that you're calling to run your wife's profile: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Opening_a_new_instance_of_Firefox_with_another_profile No need for a second install at all! kapinga fucked around with this message at 21:34 on Mar 7, 2012 |
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Mar 7, 2012 21:32
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Two questions: 1) I know there's an extension to be able to just have the bookmark icons on my toolbars instead of the image + title of the bookmark. Does anyone know that extension that does this? 2) I have two monitors and when I open youtube and maximize the screen on one monitor, my cursor disappears constantly in Firefox. Anyone know if there's an extension for this?
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Mar 7, 2012 23:58
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Cursor vanishing is just Flash being terrible.
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kapinga posted:Add the "-no-remote" argument to the shortcut/command that you're calling to run your wife's profile: This is perfect,thanks!
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So I've almost finally made the leap from Chrome to Firefox, but I was wondering if there's any extensions that people would recommend that I go for just to make things all nice and lovely? Obviously the first extensions I installed was AdBlock, but there's a few other things I added to Chrome which I'd like to do in Firefox so I was hoping for the goon concensus for each one. Mouse gestures - I couldn't live without these! I used them all the time in Opera and when I moved to Chrome I was at a loss until I installed them. Quick posts to Twitter/Facebook - I see loads of cool extensions for fully-fledged social media clients, but all I really want is a little icon to click on in-line with the address bar to bring up a tiny popup for tweetin'/facebookin' a link to the page I'm currently on (preferably with the option to delete the link if I just want to post something without opening the website). Being unable to close pinned tabs - I can't remember whether or not Opera could do this, but drat it'd be useful. I find myself closing stuff I want permanently open all the time! If anyone can recommend good extensions for those, or anything else you think I'll find useful, that'd be awesome! 
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pseudorandom name posted:Cursor vanishing is just Flash being terrible. I keep getting this from time to time. Goddamn flash is a pox upon mankind Question Mark Mound posted:If anyone can recommend good extensions for those, or anything else you think I'll find useful, that'd be awesome! Adblock Plus - it's a given https://www.mousegestures.org - my favorite mouse gestures extension (install the nightly) A piece of advice that was useful to me: mind your extensions. Really only get what you need. Extensions are awesome but getting carried away and having a profile filled to the brim with extensions, especially some that are only used from time to time, can slow down your browser all the time.
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Tab Mix Plus can protect tabs, and let you spergingly tweak them to your heart's consent https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-mix-plus I haven't used gestures in years but looks like FireGestures is still the popular choice https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firegestures/ For sharing I use Firefox Share straight from Mozilla Labs https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firefox-share-alpha/ If you like the page advancing from Opera try Space Next https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/space-next/ For privacy/security check out Beef Taco https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/beef-taco-targeted-advertising/ and HTTPS Everywhere https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere If you have an Android device, FoxToPhone can send links/text to it like Chrome does https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/foxtophone/ Chilled Milk fucked around with this message at 12:56 on Mar 8, 2012 |
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Mar 8, 2012 12:49
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^^^ Great list of extensions, thanks! Isn't Firefox Share the one that'll bookmark every link you share? Plus I think I gave it a quick go yesterday and it didn't let me remove a link from a tweet if I felt like changing the URL or just posting a tweet without a link. Not a huge deal, I guess. Dice Dice Baby posted:I keep getting this from time to time. Goddamn flash is a pox upon mankind edit: Oh, one more thing I noticed that I couldn't find built-in. Being able to auto-complete forms on websites asking for my name/address was awesome in Opera and Chrome. Question Mark Mound fucked around with this message at 12:58 on Mar 8, 2012 |
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Mar 8, 2012 12:50
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Question Mark Mound posted:^^^ Great list of extensions, thanks! Autofill forms: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/autofill-forms/ Automatic backup/recovery of form text: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lazarus-form-recovery/
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The Milkman posted:Yeah Share has some quirks, just none that ever bothered me from finding a replacement, since it's lightweight and generally works well enough. I might just go with Share and try to get used to it.
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Here's some of what I'm running:
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You should also consider NoScript; it's a plugin that increases you browser safety by blocking any javascript you haven't explicitly allowed and by adding XSS and clickjacking protection.
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If you want to customize the look of the browser a bit, I really love Stratiform. You can add transparency to all of the bars on top, customize the look of buttons and tabs, make the Firefox button smaller and different colors, and more.
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Mar 8, 2012 16:36
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Kuai posted:I've been having troubles with twitch.tv and own3d.tv starting today. I cannot interact with the player at all. I assume its some anti ad-block technology I had to tick these check boxes for those streams to work again.
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Mar 8, 2012 16:57
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Well this is annoying. I shut off my work PC that I was playing about with Firefox in and came home, now it can't sync with my bookmarks and stuff unless I get a key from my work PC - logging into my Sync account with my username/password isn't enough?
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Anyone noticed a trend lately where firefox is NOT removing cookies like it's supposed to? Specifically, when I closed FF (and there was that 10 second period where it's busy still running in the background) and reopened it, it kept all my logins. About a week or two ago I'd have to relogin to everything as usual. No changes have been made to the cookie settings or security, it just happened on its own, and it's slightly odd that everything is staying logged in.
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Mar 8, 2012 20:19
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AutoPager, QuickTranslator, Lazarus Form Recovery are three excellent addons I haven't seen mentioned, they each do pretty much what they say (too lazy to link them, sorry, just right click Google them). Security nerds will also love RequestPolicy.
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Is it just me or is Firefox using way too much CPU resources now while idling? Just having the SA forums open with a few tabs in the background now uses up 3% of my processor. I thought it might be Javascript running in the background somewhere but disabling it does not change anything. The resources used vary with the website that's open, but worst I have found yet was a page with just one big image and a menu bar (high res scanned book) where it used a constant 8% just sitting there, me not even touching it. I just now tested opening the same page in IE, Chrome and Firefox (not at the same time), just letting it sit there for a few minutes doing nothing. The average CPU load for IE and Chrome was < 0.10%, Firefox meanwhile sat at 6.1%. What the hell? On a desktop that might not mean much beside a slightly warmer room and higher electricity bill, but hope you are not running a laptop from the battery, I guess.
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neamp posted:Is it just me or is Firefox using way too much CPU resources now while idling? I have 5 tabs open (2 of which are Gmail and Facebook which constantly have JS stuff running), and I'm seeing 0% with it jumping up to 1% or 2% every 5 or 10 seconds. That can't seriously affect battery life or an electricity bill or CPU temperature, though. I think you're over-analyzing it.
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Mister Roboto posted:Anyone noticed a trend lately where firefox is NOT removing cookies like it's supposed to? If you're talking about session cookies, then yes. Occasionally firefox gets into a state where its process doesn't exit after all windows have been closed, so if I reopen it, it resumes the session I had, and all session cookies are preserved. Killing the process once fixes it. It is pretty rare though, it's only happened to me once or twice. Because I can't reproduce it, I haven't been able to narrow it down to a plugin or extension.
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dwazegek posted:If you're talking about session cookies, then yes. Occasionally firefox gets into a state where its process doesn't exit after all windows have been closed, so if I reopen it, it resumes the session I had, and all session cookies are preserved. Killing the process once fixes it. It's like that, yes, except that the session cookies are NEVER erased. Before, they used to be. I haven't changed any extensions or plugins lately. I'm gonna delete/reinstall and see what happens.
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Fangs404 posted:I have 5 tabs open (2 of which are Gmail and Facebook which constantly have JS stuff running), and I'm seeing 0% with it jumping up to 1% or 2% every 5 or 10 seconds. That can't seriously affect battery life or an electricity bill or CPU temperature, though. I think you're over-analyzing it. I don't know, I just tried it again on a laptop, new Profile in Firefox only one tab open with the offending site. Left it open a few minutes, average (60 seconds) CPU load was 7,4%, not spikes every few seconds but constant load. Max CPU frequency was also staying up close to 50%. For comparison, Chrome settled at <0.10% average CPU usage, frequency also remained down at 31%. IE did a lot worse than when I tried it on my desktop though, also using up a constant 3%, which wasn't enough to significantly step up the CPU frequency though, which stayed at 33% max. It has nothing to do with Javascript, disabling it gets the same results, I think it might have to do with the number and size of images on a page. On a very large page without images I tried just now, even with 10 other tabs on in the background FF uses only half a percent of CPU capacity, but if I switch to some other tab with images it immediately goes up to a few percent and stays there. I know I'm  here a bit, but it annoys me, because I feel Firefox used to be a whole lot less CPU hungry and Chrome shows how much better you can do.gently caress, I just tried the forum's smiley page and it pretty much maxes out a core and makes Firefox totally unresponsive, if you right-click the page the menu is VERY laggy. Meanwhile Chrome stays perfectly responsive. IE performs even better than Chrome here, using just 3% of the CPU and being totally lag-free. Goddamnit, Firefox, what happend? You used to be cool...
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Mar 9, 2012 17:19
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Is it possible to zoom the whole page (including embedded video players) like in Opera or Chrome? Firefox has lots of nice addons, but I never figured that one out. (Something in the preferences maybe?)
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pseudorandom name posted:Ctrl+ and Ctrl- Nope. Text gets bigger, youtube embed stays the same.
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pseudorandom name posted:Ctrl+ and Ctrl- or Ctrl + MouseWheel Scrolling up zooms in, scrolling down zooms out
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pseudorandom name posted:Ctrl+ and Ctrl- Or ctrl + wheelup or wheeldown Edit:  Also, go to view -> zoom -> uncheck "zoom text only"
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Bring up the full menu bar if it isn't there already, and uncheck View -> Zoom -> Zoom Text Only.
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pseudorandom name posted:Bring up the full menu bar if it isn't there already, and uncheck View -> Zoom -> Zoom Text Only. Wow. Yeah, that was it. Thanks a ton! (Is that enabled per default? That sucks.)
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neamp posted:I don't know, I just tried it again on a laptop, new Profile in Firefox only one tab open with the offending site. Left it open a few minutes, average (60 seconds) CPU load was 7,4%, not spikes every few seconds but constant load. Max CPU frequency was also staying up close to 50%. My experience has been the opposite, with Chrome absorbing any and all resources it could and Firefox being relatively tame. Just a single animated gif in Chrome would kick the laptop fans on and scrolling becomes a herculean task. Of course if you want the slimmest browser Opera is over yonder.
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Is there a way to change the icon for bookmarks of RSS feeds? I have a few feeds in my toolbar and would like if it showed the site icon.
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Question Mark Mound posted:Mouse gestures - I couldn't live without these! I used them all the time in Opera and when I moved to Chrome I was at a loss until I installed them. I personally use All-in-One Gestures. I too am a lover of simple gestures. gently caress going all the way to toolbar or having to aim the mouse at a context menu. However, another seemingly unrelated reason I recommend this addon is because it fixes a personal point about non-IE browser I absolutely hate. Click the middle mouse button, get that round marker that lets you scroll by moving the mouse (I use this often). Now, how do you cancel it? Do you click? That's no good, because now you have to worry what's under the cursor. Do you mouse wheel? By default that just scrolls some more. Installing All-in-One Gestures magically fixes this, and if you notch the mousewheel one, it removes the scrolling point, without moving the page, just like it does in IE. It drives me nuts to use a browser that works any other way. Question Mark Mound posted:Being unable to close pinned tabs - I can't remember whether or not Opera could do this, but drat it'd be useful. I find myself closing stuff I want permanently open all the time! Anything you want to do with tabs? Always get Tax Mix Plus. I'm pretty sure you can do what you want with it, and no doubt a lot more. HalloKitty fucked around with this message at 11:49 on Mar 13, 2012 |
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HalloKitty posted:However, another seemingly unrelated reason I recommend this addon is because it fixes a personal point about non-IE browser I absolutely hate. I just click the middle mouse button again, which causes no problems whatsoever.
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astral posted:I just click the middle mouse button again, which causes no problems whatsoever. I could swear I tried this at one time, but maybe I was just used to ending scrolling with a flick of the wheel so much that that's what I wanted. Either way, it's not really important to most, and I understand the complaint looks pretty ridiculous HalloKitty fucked around with this message at 12:47 on Mar 13, 2012 |
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HalloKitty posted:I could swear I tried this at one time, but maybe I was just used to ending scrolling with a flick of the wheel so much that that's what I wanted. Either way, it's not really important to most, and I understand the complaint looks pretty ridiculous Aw, it doesn't look ridiculous. Everyone's got their own preferences for browsing; I'm just happy to see that someone else uses autoscroll. From the bugs that occasionally do plague it in various Firefox builds, like certain page elements not scrolling at the same rate/time as others, I was afraid it was a dying thing.
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HalloKitty posted:I could swear I tried this at one time, but maybe I was just used to ending scrolling with a flick of the wheel so much that that's what I wanted. Either way, it's not really important to most, and I understand the complaint looks pretty ridiculous Does AIO gestures support wheel gestures? (i.e. holding RMB and scolling switches tabs) I love MOuse Gestures Redox but the developer's always threatening to abandon it 
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Dice Dice Baby posted:Does AIO gestures support wheel gestures? (i.e. holding RMB and scolling switches tabs) It can do scrolling through tabs this way, or scrolling through page history, depending on what you want. I also often use the mousewheel scrolling on the tab bar, just toss my mouse to the top of the screen and roll the wheel to rummage through, although I think Tab Mix Plus can probably do that too. 
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