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Qtotonibudinibudet
Nov 7, 2011



Omich poluyobok, skazhi ty narkoman? ya prosto tozhe gde to tam zhivu, mogli by vmeste uyobyvat' narkotiki
Are there any decent cloud bookmarking services nowadays? Google Bookmarks manages to still be terrible, and I don't really care for Firefox sync.

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Tamba
Apr 5, 2010

You could try ReadItLater Pocket

cowboy beepboop
Feb 24, 2001

All you font issue bros:
code:
    gfx.font_rendering.directwrite.enabled: true;
    gfx.font_rendering.directwrite.use_gdi_table_loading: false;
    gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.force_gdi_classic_max_size: 6;
    gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.force_gdi_classic_for_families: ''; (delete the string)
    gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.rendering_mode: 5;
edit: if you're on windows

cowboy beepboop fucked around with this message at 11:21 on Jan 25, 2013

kapinga
Oct 12, 2005

I am not a number

my stepdads beer posted:

All you font issue bros:
code:
    gfx.font_rendering.directwrite.enabled: true;
    gfx.font_rendering.directwrite.use_gdi_table_loading: false;
    gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.force_gdi_classic_max_size: 6;
    gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.force_gdi_classic_for_families: ''; (delete the string)
    gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.rendering_mode: 5;
edit: if you're on windows

I'm giving this a shot. It looks good, but I can definitely see that there's a different renderer being used to make the fonts. I like the way normal text displays but some bolder weights seem to be a little uneven.

Qtotonibudinibudet
Nov 7, 2011



Omich poluyobok, skazhi ty narkoman? ya prosto tozhe gde to tam zhivu, mogli by vmeste uyobyvat' narkotiki

Tamba posted:

You could try ReadItLater Pocket

Nope :( Why the hell is tagging available, but not in the extension dialog? Stupid.

You'd think someone'd make "just sync with Firefox bookmarks, your own interface is terrible." Google sort of did this once upon a time, but has since discontinued it. They also have a terrible web interface. No, you don't need to confirm EVERY bookmark deletion and only allow deleting one bookmark at a time, just provide an undo or a trash.

jeeves
May 27, 2001

Deranged Psychopathic
Butler Extraordinaire

fivre posted:

Are there any decent cloud bookmarking services nowadays? Google Bookmarks manages to still be terrible, and I don't really care for Firefox sync.

The only way I can get Sync to work fine is to just push the bookmarks one way from a base machine to my laptop. Of course that means I have to manually save book mark files from a flash drive if I want to take them home from the laptop, but hey-- better than using Sync's lovely merging feature.

WattsvilleBlues
Jan 25, 2005

Every demon wants his pound of flesh
Can anyone tell me what this means in Aurora 20: "Ability to close hanging plugins, without the browser hanging" is listed as a new feature. But out-of-process-plugins has been there since Firefox 3.6.4 in June 2010. Is WattsvilleBlues missing something?

Keyboard Kid
Sep 12, 2006

If you stay here too long, you'll end up frying your brain. Yes, you will. No, you will...not. Yesno, you will won't.

Aleksei Vasiliev posted:

What do you mean by this? Because I'm pretty sure it doesn't.

If I don't view a tab for a while, and I'm guessing this is just tabs that don't have any active/updating content, it will automatically refresh when I go to that tab again. It unloads whatever was in that tab (so I can't see what was there before), which is my biggest issue with it.

If this isn't a common thing, maybe it's because I have a lot of tabs open? ~100, normally.

Lum
Aug 13, 2003

WattsvilleBlues posted:

Can anyone tell me what this means in Aurora 20: "Ability to close hanging plugins, without the browser hanging" is listed as a new feature. But out-of-process-plugins has been there since Firefox 3.6.4 in June 2010. Is WattsvilleBlues missing something?

When flash crashes it still freezes the entire browser until it's done crashing. Could sometimes take up to a minute to do that, which was annoying.

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

Lum posted:

When flash crashes it still freezes the entire browser until it's done crashing. Could sometimes take up to a minute to do that, which was annoying.

There's currently a 45 second timeout while Firefox waits for Flash to respond before killing it, during which the entire browser hangs. The change is to display a prompt informing you that Flash has hung (much earlier than 45 seconds), and not blocking the browser.

Malloc Voidstar
May 7, 2007

Fuck the cowboys. Unf. Fuck em hard.

Keyboard Kid posted:

If I don't view a tab for a while, and I'm guessing this is just tabs that don't have any active/updating content, it will automatically refresh when I go to that tab again. It unloads whatever was in that tab (so I can't see what was there before), which is my biggest issue with it.

If this isn't a common thing, maybe it's because I have a lot of tabs open? ~100, normally.
I've had Firefox open on a machine for more than a month with 105 tabs and I have never seen this.
That's identical to how Firefox restores a session, though. Maybe an extension is unloading them?

wooger
Apr 16, 2005

YOU RESENT?

Aleksei Vasiliev posted:

I've had Firefox open on a machine for more than a month with 105 tabs and I have never seen this.
That's identical to how Firefox restores a session, though. Maybe an extension is unloading them?

I see this on my work PC, but I'm not sure if it's caused by low ram & lots of tabs (3GB and 100ish), or by a session with 100 + tabs being restored, and not all being loaded till I click on them.

Humphreys
Jan 26, 2013

We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule


Aleksei Vasiliev posted:

I've had Firefox open on a machine for more than a month with 105 tabs and I have never seen this.
That's identical to how Firefox restores a session, though. Maybe an extension is unloading them?

105 tabs? You must have some interesting stuff to keep tabbed, please share!

The Dark One
Aug 19, 2005

I'm your friend and I'm not going to just stand by and let you do this!

my stepdads beer posted:

All you font issue bros:
code:
    gfx.font_rendering.directwrite.enabled: true;
    gfx.font_rendering.directwrite.use_gdi_table_loading: false;
    gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.force_gdi_classic_max_size: 6;
    gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.force_gdi_classic_for_families: ''; (delete the string)
    gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.rendering_mode: 5;
edit: if you're on windows

This led to some weird rainbow effects in my Ls and Is.

Qtotonibudinibudet
Nov 7, 2011



Omich poluyobok, skazhi ty narkoman? ya prosto tozhe gde to tam zhivu, mogli by vmeste uyobyvat' narkotiki

Humphreys posted:

105 tabs? You must have some interesting stuff to keep tabbed, please share!

Wikipedia: Not even once.

Lum
Aug 13, 2003

Can someone tell me which setting causes this?

On my old Firefox profile, which I've had since (I think) the days of Firefox 3. My tabs and toolbars pick up their colour from the Windows theme, which I rather like. I do not have any custom themes or personas installed and the Firefox window changes colour with the Windows 8 colour scheme.

On my new Firefox profile, the tabs are grey, only the very background picks up my windows colour settings.

This is what my old profile looks like compared to the new one:

vs

I'd love to get that setting back. It's the only thing stopping me from actually running on a freshly reset profile.

Lum fucked around with this message at 22:58 on Jan 27, 2013

Goober Peas
Jun 30, 2007

Check out my 'Vette, bro


Is anyone else experiencing weird issues with 18.0.1? It runs fine the first few minutes of browsing, then it becomes slow to respond. For instance, if I click on 'Bookmarks', it takes a 3-count for the menu to open up. I have all of two add-ons loaded -- Adblock Plus and Xmarks. I've tried resetting to default state and that hasn't helped. I have 16 GB of RAM and it doesn't look like Firefox is using more than 1 GB at any given time.

Fangs404
Dec 20, 2004

I time bomb.

Goober Peas posted:

Is anyone else experiencing weird issues with 18.0.1? It runs fine the first few minutes of browsing, then it becomes slow to respond. For instance, if I click on 'Bookmarks', it takes a 3-count for the menu to open up. I have all of two add-ons loaded -- Adblock Plus and Xmarks. I've tried resetting to default state and that hasn't helped. I have 16 GB of RAM and it doesn't look like Firefox is using more than 1 GB at any given time.

Follow the instructions in the OP (pay attention to the sections where you create a new profile).

Goober Peas
Jun 30, 2007

Check out my 'Vette, bro


Fangs404 posted:

Follow the instructions in the OP (pay attention to the sections where you create a new profile).

Really dumb question -- is the expectation that everytime Firefox updates that users should create a new profile? That seems to be the recurring answer, and adding to the growing frustration in using Firefox as a browser.

Fangs404
Dec 20, 2004

I time bomb.

Goober Peas posted:

Really dumb question -- is the expectation that everytime Firefox updates that users should create a new profile? That seems to be the recurring answer, and adding to the growing frustration in using Firefox as a browser.

Absolutely not. It's the exception rather than the rule. I haven't created a new profile since probably FF 12 or earlier. Keep in mind that the people posting in this thread are the ones having the issues. If FF is working just fine, there's probably no reason for you to post. For every person that posts in this thread with an issue, there are probably 1000 without any issue.

Goober Peas
Jun 30, 2007

Check out my 'Vette, bro


Fangs404 posted:

Absolutely not. It's the exception rather than the rule. I haven't created a new profile since probably FF 12 or earlier. Keep in mind that the people posting in this thread are the ones having the issues. If FF is working just fine, there's probably no reason for you to post. For every person that posts in this thread with an issue, there are probably 1000 without any issue.

Fair enough - I don't mean to come across unappreciative. My frustration level is a bit high with Firefox right now as for the past 12 months I have had consistent Firefox performance issues across multiple PCs with varying hardware and software configurations. The solution that works always seems to be create a new profile - which is a fair solution that works until a few weeks into an updated version when the performance problems creep up again. I've created a new profile at least 10 times in the past year, which at least experientially points to...something?

I guess I'm hoping for a silver bullet that isn't 'create a new profile'?

palit
Nov 30, 2007
Nobody's boy

Goober Peas posted:

Is anyone else experiencing weird issues with 18.0.1? It runs fine the first few minutes of browsing, then it becomes slow to respond. For instance, if I click on 'Bookmarks', it takes a 3-count for the menu to open up. I have all of two add-ons loaded -- Adblock Plus and Xmarks. I've tried resetting to default state and that hasn't helped. I have 16 GB of RAM and it doesn't look like Firefox is using more than 1 GB at any given time.

I don't know about the rest but slow Bookmarks in Firefox 18 is because of hardware acceleration. Turn it off in the Options and it'll be fast like in previous versions.

Zhentar
Sep 28, 2003

Brilliant Master Genius

Goober Peas posted:

I've created a new profile at least 10 times in the past year, which at least experientially points to...something?

I guess I'm hoping for a silver bullet that isn't 'create a new profile'?

The common theme here is you (or rather, something you're doing with Firefox), so figure out what that special, weird thing you do is, and then either stop doing it or file a report in bugzilla.

WastedJoker
Oct 29, 2011

Fiery the angels fell. Deep thunder rolled around their shoulders... burning with the fires of Orc.

my stepdads beer posted:

All you font issue bros:
code:
    gfx.font_rendering.directwrite.enabled: true;
    gfx.font_rendering.directwrite.use_gdi_table_loading: false;
    gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.force_gdi_classic_max_size: 6;
    gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.force_gdi_classic_for_families: ''; (delete the string)
    gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.rendering_mode: 5;
edit: if you're on windows

This worked nicely for me, thanks!

Humphreys
Jan 26, 2013

We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule


fivre posted:

Wikipedia: Not even once.

You poor unfortunate soul! Althought It's good you are using those tabs to further your knowledge and not having a fudgetonne of tabs from FB and memebase

Qtotonibudinibudet
Nov 7, 2011



Omich poluyobok, skazhi ty narkoman? ya prosto tozhe gde to tam zhivu, mogli by vmeste uyobyvat' narkotiki

Humphreys posted:

You poor unfortunate soul! Althought It's good you are using those tabs to further your knowledge and not having a fudgetonne of tabs from FB and memebase

Further my knowledge or become a paranoid D&D anti-government type between all the :catdrugs:-induced paranoia and articles about the evils of the war on terror. THEY'RE FOLLOWING ME I KNOW IT.

It's also a fun and exciting way to discover the joys of crashing your computer with excessive swappiness, but Firefox handles being killed and revived quite well so vOv.

Grim Up North
Dec 12, 2011

Right-click -> Save Link to Read it later Pocket is my go to action to stem the tide of tabs.

Standish
May 21, 2001

Lum posted:

Can someone tell me which setting causes this?

On my old Firefox profile, which I've had since (I think) the days of Firefox 3. My tabs and toolbars pick up their colour from the Windows theme, which I rather like. I do not have any custom themes or personas installed and the Firefox window changes colour with the Windows 8 colour scheme.

On my new Firefox profile, the tabs are grey, only the very background picks up my windows colour settings.

This is what my old profile looks like compared to the new one:

vs

I'd love to get that setting back. It's the only thing stopping me from actually running on a freshly reset profile.
Try setting ui.use_native_colors in about :config

Aleph Null
Jun 10, 2008

You look very stressed
Tortured By Flan
If I follow the instructions in the OP to reset my profile, will I have to re-set-up Firefox Sync, as well?
The UI is so crap, I cannot tell if sync is still sunc or not.

Lum
Aug 13, 2003

Standish posted:

Try setting ui.use_native_colors in about :config

Nope, nor is it browser.display.use_system_colors or browser.display.use_focus_colors

I don't know if the fact that I use the Tab Utilities extension has anything to do with it, but I exported the settings from that and brought them into the new profile.

WastedJoker
Oct 29, 2011

Fiery the angels fell. Deep thunder rolled around their shoulders... burning with the fires of Orc.
When in windowed-not-full view the Firefox menu button appears above the tab level which extends the title bar size to an unfortunate degree.

any way to resolve that?

Hollow Hills
Jan 27, 2013

by Y Kant Ozma Post
After a year of flash video being hosed up for me (creating separate windows / not covering the taskbar anymore, etc) I finally realized what was causing it: Window's personalized display, anything over 125% (was using 140% on an HTPC setup) would cause all the problems, scaled it all the way down to 126% and still caused it, put it to 125% and fixes everything.

Weird.

fookolt
Mar 13, 2012

Where there is power
There is resistance
Is there an easy way to keep track of all my keyword search bookmarks?

Tivac
Feb 18, 2003

No matter how things may seem to change, never forget who you are

WastedJoker posted:

When in windowed-not-full view the Firefox menu button appears above the tab level which extends the title bar size to an unfortunate degree.

any way to resolve that?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/tabs-always-in-titlebar/

Dice Dice Baby
Aug 30, 2004
I like "faggots"

Hollow Hills posted:

After a year of flash video being hosed up for me (creating separate windows / not covering the taskbar anymore, etc) I finally realized what was causing it: Window's personalized display, anything over 125% (was using 140% on an HTPC setup) would cause all the problems, scaled it all the way down to 126% and still caused it, put it to 125% and fixes everything.

Weird.

Windows can screw with flash

My dad has a lot of problems on his computer with flash, especially viewing videos in fullscreen, and they're due in great to the fact that he has Windows zoom on text because of his bad eyesight

WastedJoker
Oct 29, 2011

Fiery the angels fell. Deep thunder rolled around their shoulders... burning with the fires of Orc.

Cheers.

The menu bar is not quite right when not maximized but it's a big improvement!

WastedJoker
Oct 29, 2011

Fiery the angels fell. Deep thunder rolled around their shoulders... burning with the fires of Orc.
What's the name of that tool which removes unwanted locales info from your extensions?

It was two .exe files (one for 7zip.exe, or something) which you placed in your extensions folder and it went through your extensions, unzipping them to remove the locales then re-zipping them.

I've been googling for this thing for ages :( I first came across it on a korean website. The exe. name is something like hotfixest.exer or something. My memory lets me down again.

WastedJoker fucked around with this message at 16:48 on Jan 29, 2013

Dice Dice Baby
Aug 30, 2004
I like "faggots"

WastedJoker posted:

What's the name of that tool which removes unwanted locales info from your extensions?

It was two .exe files (one for 7zip.exe, or something) which you placed in your extensions folder and it went through your extensions, unzipping them to remove the locales then re-zipping them.

I've been googling for this thing for ages :( I first came across it on a korean website. The exe. name is something like hotfixest.exer or something. My memory lets me down again.

If you don't find it you can use Notepad++ to remove it by hand or (on Windows XP) use InfoRapid Search & Replace

xamphear
Apr 9, 2002

SILK FOR CALDÉ!
Now that there's support for h.264 (on Windows) is there some trick to getting YouTube to use the html5 player whenever possible? I joined the html5 trial but it didn't seem to have any impact at all. I still get "click to enable flash" when watching a video.

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Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe
What versions enable that h.264 support, or how can I check if what I'm using now does?

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