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LeftistMuslimObama posted:It looks like there's a gray box around parts of the URL now, rather than just text coloration. Yeah, it highlights what you type in the URL results. Kind of annoying, really.
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quote:The latest version of Mozilla's Firefox browser has been taken offline after a security vulnerability was discovered. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19909106
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Oct 11, 2012 13:06
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...and 16.0.1 is already out.
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Oct 11, 2012 22:22
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Good news its out just downloading now, thanks to this thread. Is there something up with the auto update on my install? I'd have thought a security update would be max priority for it to find on its own.
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Oct 12, 2012 00:44
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My work installations of Firefox auto-updated (I use Aurora at home). Try checking for updates from Firefox, Help, About Firefox.
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Oct 12, 2012 01:21
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Overall I like Firefox better as a browser. More customization, more options, other things they have going on. But Chrome wins my heart because the UI is always responsive. It either responds instantly or it's dead. Firefox has these weird laggy periods often enough to be worth mentioning--the browser/tab hasn't crashed, it's just being slow for seemingly no reason. As a result, Chrome feels faster more of the time, so I keep going back to it. I know Mozilla will keep working on that, but it's been an issue for me for... a long time now.
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Oct 12, 2012 01:40
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Have you tried Aurora with a clean profile and supported video drivers? If not, give it a try. Edit: Also, enable plug-in click to view, that drastically improves performance. Alereon fucked around with this message at 02:18 on Oct 12, 2012 |
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Oct 12, 2012 02:00
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crestfallen posted:Overall I like Firefox better as a browser. More customization, more options, other things they have going on. Regarding the weird laggy periods, that might get better with the latest release, 16. 16's big improvement is incremental garbage collection which is partially designed to combat the exact problem you mentioned.
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Oct 12, 2012 05:49
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And if they manage to get the compacting GC into Firefox 18 (Jan 2013) like they're planning, then long-term performance should get much better. Right now my desktop's FF with only about:memory open has 110% overhead on the JS heap, wasting 117MB of memory. A compacting GC means that fragmentation (causing memory to be held on to forever) will no longer be an issue. As far as I know, memory fragmentation is the main reason FF slows down the longer it's open and being used.
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Oct 12, 2012 06:39
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Aleksei Vasiliev posted:As far as I know, memory fragmentation is the main reason FF slows down the longer it's open and being used. It's not. As long as it's not swapping to disk, memory fragmentation will have pretty much no performance impact.
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Oct 12, 2012 18:04
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I have 8 GB of memory. That's not the problem. FF can use as much as it wants. It's like it doesn't prioritize the actions and redrawing of the UI as well as Chrome, or something. Anyway. I always keep them both up to date. And every so often I will switch back to the other for a week or two, see where things are at.
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Oct 13, 2012 02:10
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I think some of Firefox's sluggishness compared to Chrome is the fact that Chrome does everything it can to keep the UI decoupled with what's going on with the rendering web page. On Firefox a hiccup in page loading can sometimes be felt with a hiccup in the UI whereas Chrome could have the same hiccup but you don't "feel" it. I believe there is a long term project to change the browser to have that snappy decoupled responsiveness though: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis But I don't really know how that's going or if it's even the problem.
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bag of a bee posted:I think some of Firefox's sluggishness compared to Chrome is the fact that Chrome does everything it can to keep the UI decoupled with what's going on with the rendering web page. On Firefox a hiccup in page loading can sometimes be felt with a hiccup in the UI whereas Chrome could have the same hiccup but you don't "feel" it. Electrolysis was put on hold indefinitely maybe a year ago. 
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Taras Glek leads the Snappy Project, which is about improving Firefox's UI responsiveness to a level similar to or better than that of Chrome. Many of the bugs they're fixing involve moving work off the main thread, which is similar in effect to the Electrolysis project because it stops things from blocking the UI causing perceptible lag. They've made a lot of improvements in recent releases, which is why I suggest trying Aurora 18. There's definitely a huge and immediately noticeable performance difference with tab switching in Aurora 18.
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Cool, that's awesome to hear. I'll be glad to give it another shot when it's stable.
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Is it just me or is the latest firefox update poo poo (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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GreatKesh posted:Is it just me or is the latest firefox update poo poo Are you having any particular problems we might be able to help with?
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I am incredibly annoyed right now. I know I posted on SA when I couldn't figure out how to get my tabs to continue saving across multiple browser sessions, and you guys fixed that for me. Well now, out of the loving blue, when I clear recent history it no longer removes my recently closed tabs and windows. I don't want people knowing I jerk off to midget tranny porn. What the gently caress, Firefox? Why for no reason do you give me these issues?
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Oct 18, 2012 21:49
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I'm using firefox on a lovely notebook with what feels like a 15rpm disk. Every time flash's plugin-container spawns firefox freezes for 10 seconds. After the plugin is unused for a few seconds firefox despawns it. Is there a config option to tell it not to despawn it in 60 minutes?
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All Else Failed posted:Well now, out of the loving blue, when I clear recent history it no longer removes my recently closed tabs and windows. I don't want people knowing I jerk off to midget tranny porn. What the gently caress, Firefox? Why for no reason do you give me these issues? Isn't that what Private Browsing mode is for?
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Oct 19, 2012 16:46
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karoshi posted:I'm using firefox on a lovely notebook with what feels like a 15rpm disk. Every time flash's plugin-container spawns firefox freezes for 10 seconds. After the plugin is unused for a few seconds firefox despawns it. Is there a config option to tell it not to despawn it in 60 minutes? In more general system performance terms, run Crystal Disk Info (fourth download doesn't have anime or ads), if your drive shows Caution or Bad it is failing which would explain your poor performance, back up any files that are important to you and replace the drive with an SSD. If that looks good, run CCleaner to clean up any garbage (on the applications tab, make sure it's set to at least clear your Firefox cache and compact databases). That should clean a few GB of garbage off the system drive. You can then run MyDefrag (the System Disk Weekly script is most effective, System Disk Daily is almost as good but MUCH faster). These steps will make a significant difference in Firefox and overall responsiveness on systems with slower drives.
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Alereon posted:I don't think so, but I'd recommend switching to Aurora and trying out the plugin-click-to-play feature, that way the plugin process will only launch when you actually want to view plugin content. You can also whitelist sites. plugin-click-to-play is on Firefox 16.0.1 as well. I'm using Firefox after one of my plugins broke in Aurora and it seems it's still in 16.0.1 and so is the Activate Plugin thing.
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I don't think it has the ability to save per-site permissions though, which is important to keep it from turning into an annoying thing you want to turn off. I could be wrong though. Edit 2: I'm wrong and this is in Firefox 16, sweet! Alereon fucked around with this message at 14:15 on Oct 21, 2012 |
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Oct 19, 2012 18:29
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Alereon posted:I don't think it has the ability to save per-site permissions though, which is important to keep it from turning into an annoying thing you want to turn off. I could be wrong though. I may go back to beta at some point, but I think I'll stay with Firefox 16 and Aurora as backup. How long will 17 remain in beta?
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Alereon posted:I don't think it has the ability to save per-site permissions though, which is important to keep it from turning into an annoying thing you want to turn off. I could be wrong though. 16 can't do it per plugin, it's just "Can this site use any plugins? Yes for now/Always/No"
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So, I had a really really odd issue that is apparently caused by something in FF 16.0.1 - if "Use Hardware Acceleration" is enabled, I get two things happening, but ONLY on my secondary monitor: a) All drop down menus flicker and go invisible, yet are still clickable. This is incredibly annoying. b) my secondary monitor blinks off, waits a couple seconds, then comes back on. This doesn't happen on my primary monitor. Not running FF means everything works, also toggling off Hardware Acceleration works.
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The click-to-start thing doesn't seem to play very nicely with the Acrobat reader plugin in Firefox 16. Is anyone else encountering this issue?
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The Dark One posted:The click-to-start thing doesn't seem to play very nicely with the Acrobat reader plugin in Firefox 16. Is anyone else encountering this issue?
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Alereon posted:I did, but my workaround was to disable Acrobat Reader and use the built-in PDF reader. Is the built-in one different from the JS based PDF reader? I used that for a little while, but I found it to have significant rendering problems on occasion.
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kapinga posted:Is the built-in one different from the JS based PDF reader? I used that for a little while, but I found it to have significant rendering problems on occasion.
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Mr.Radar posted:Isn't that what Private Browsing mode is for? I don't know, I've never had to use private browsing mode because when I cleared history it would... actually clear all of my history. Now it doesn't, for no discernible reason.
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Is there a way to make the browser open maximized each time?
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Oct 21, 2012 01:02
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Scalding Coffee posted:Is there a way to make the browser open maximized each time? If you close it maximized, it should open maximized.
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In general in Windows, for that to stick through program close/reopen, I'd have to maximize, unmaximize, remaximize. And then it will remember to stay like that. If I don't do that, some programs keep starting up in windowed mode. This has been for me like that since XP. I don't know if it's a bug or a feature or what.
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You have to "true maximize" it with the maximize button. If you get it to fill the screen using Aero Snap, Windows doesn't remember sizes and positions set using Snap for some stupid reason.
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Is there any way to "force" Firefox to cache [only] thumbnails for encrypted websites? My new tab page looks like a mouth missing teeth
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Am I the only one seeing tab duplication on the last few Aurora builds? It seems like every now and then when I click over on a tab after a session restore, while it loads the page, it also spawns a new identical tab. I'm using tree style tabs but it's been completely trouble-free on Aurora so far.
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Tab duplication and other bad behavior was why I had to turn Tree-Style Tabs off near the end of Aurora 16.
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Why does my Firefox randomly switch windows, or rather, push the window I'm reading and navigating on to the background? I'm reading a page, seemingly any kind of page (such as these forums), and when I click a link on the page, another one of the Firefox pages I have open pops to the foreground for no goddamn reason. It happens all the time on all kinds of sites clicking any links. The active window just switches for no reason, and it's driving me nuts. I can't reliably reproduce it, as going back the page and clicking the same links won't make the problem appear - it just happens randomly. I'm using Windows 7 x64 and no particular addons, just Adblock and Firebug. Same thing happens on my work computer with similar Firefox setup.
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