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Alereon posted:The Click-to-Play Per Element extension may do what you want. Cheers for this, the new behaviour is a UX poo.
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I downgraded from Nightly to mainline just to get away from the terrible changes they made to clicktoplay. I was hoping they would come to their senses before the changes made it into the release branch. Oh well, seems like that extension does a good job changing the behavior back to something sensible.
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Sep 21, 2013 13:48
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xamphear posted:I downgraded from Nightly to mainline just to get away from the terrible changes they made to clicktoplay. I was hoping they would come to their senses before the changes made it into the release branch. Oh well, seems like that extension does a good job changing the behavior back to something sensible. What exactly has changed, I don't use click-to-play.
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Sep 21, 2013 20:20
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Clicking on a plugin instance displays a Allow for Now / Allow Forever doorhanger a thousand pixels away from where you clicked instead of just activating the plugin. Activating a single plugin instance activates every instance on the page. Activations last for an hour, survive reloads, and affect other pages and tabs on the same site.
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pseudorandom name posted:Clicking on a plugin instance displays a Allow for Now / Allow Forever doorhanger a thousand pixels away from where you clicked instead of just activating the plugin. Turn off plugin click-to-play & use flashblock. I've never found the built in version useable, not even for a second. Though it's worse for me as I use the pentadactyl extension, which hides the addressbar - so I get the aforementioned popup on every pageload with click-to-play enabled, and have done since about FF22.
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Alereon posted:The Click-to-Play Per Element extension may do what you want. Yeah, thanks for this. Much nicer.
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wooger posted:Turn off plugin click-to-play & use flashblock. I've never found the built in version useable, not even for a second. The extension won't work with sites like Vimeo and Soundcloud that use hidden/1px*1px Flash files or other Javascript trickery. You have to write a userscript/userstyle for every single site like this or keep toggling it on and off. Click-to-Play Per Element looks like the only other way to make it work, but it's still experimental. I'll stick with Chrome for the time being. I really hate how every single browser vendor has decided that they absolutely must be as minimalist as possible, and they have to throw away perfectly fine features to do this.
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I'm having a problem where embedded youtube videos won't display on most sites in Firefox 24, it seems for videos that are in iframes all I see is a black box. (I don't know if it uses the same method, but it completely breaks the usefulness of Youtube Link Title for me.) From what I'm able to find it's some sort of "mixed content blocking", but flipping security.mixed_content.block_active_content to false and security.mixed_content.block_display_content to true don't seem to make it work, and only breaks those videos that aren't in iframes as well. (I've flipped them both back.)
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m2pt5 posted:I'm having a problem where embedded youtube videos won't display on most sites in Firefox 24, it seems for videos that are in iframes all I see is a black box. (I don't know if it uses the same method, but it completely breaks the usefulness of Youtube Link Title for me.) From what I'm able to find it's some sort of "mixed content blocking", but flipping security.mixed_content.block_active_content to false and security.mixed_content.block_display_content to true don't seem to make it work, and only breaks those videos that aren't in iframes as well. (I've flipped them both back.) Did you follow the instructions in the OP?
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This is a new problem just since updating to 24. I have not added or removed any extensions, and it was working fine in 23. These videos are "not loading" to the point that Flashblock doesn't even acknowledge them as flash. Edit: Never mind, I finally worked out that it's the Youtube Center userscript getting injected into the iframes because they're youtube iframes. I'll take it to that guy. Edit2: And I fixed it even without getting a reply; just had to add youtube's embed url string to the exclude. m2pt5 fucked around with this message at 18:56 on Sep 22, 2013 |
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Sep 22, 2013 18:33
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pseudorandom name posted:Yeah, somewhere along the path towards making it usable for people who don't understand computers they completely lost sight of what it was supposed to do in the first place. Then you'll just love the user study they based this decision on! Although, I have to say that the behavior with the new per-element extension is actually nicer; I don't get the annoying doorhanger prompting me to activate hidden plugins every time I go to Google Translate after a relaunch anymore.
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Sep 23, 2013 17:18
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dpbjinc posted:The extension won't work with sites like Vimeo and Soundcloud that use hidden/1px*1px Flash files or other Javascript trickery. You have to write a userscript/userstyle for every single site like this or keep toggling it on and off. Click-to-Play Per Element looks like the only other way to make it work, but it's still experimental. I'll stick with Chrome for the time being. Nah, you just need to whitelist the sites.
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massless posted:Then you'll just love the user study they based this decision on! Yeah, this is largely what I assumed. Users don't understand why its done in the first place, can't figure out how to make it permanent, can't deal with hidden Flash objects that are controlled via JavaScript and are confused by multi-instance Flash plugins.
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So something weird is going on with Aurora: it's not using external file handlers properly. At all. Right-click, save-as works, though there's no record of those files in the downloads list, but telling it to use an external app results in nothing. I can't make it open PDFs by itself or in Adobe, I can't get it to open ZIPs in 7zip, nothing. This has been going on for several days, and at first I thought it was some poorly documented, 'helpful' behavior based on my copy of Acrobat going end-of-life... but no. I just popped into safe mode, and everything that should be being sent out to helper apps is being unceremoniously dumped in temp. It's apparently not a Windows problem, because I get the expected behavior from IE. Edit: Looks like deleting mimeTypes.rdf fixed it. Well, renaming it. I want to see what makes the old one 50k compared to the new one's 4k. Bieeanshee fucked around with this message at 19:17 on Sep 24, 2013 |
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Sep 24, 2013 15:15
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Is there an extension that will block a specific JavaScript file and only that file? NoScript blocks everything under the sun, and YesScript blocks an entire server.
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The Merkinman posted:Is there an extension that will block a specific JavaScript file and only that file? NoScript blocks everything under the sun, and YesScript blocks an entire server. Adblock Plus can do this, but I'm not sure if that's exactly what you're looking for.
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nimper posted:Adblock Plus can do this, but I'm not sure if that's exactly what you're looking for. Yeah, go into the custom filter text box and put in "specific_javascript_file.js".
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I don't know if this is a Firefox thing or maybe it's a Flash thing, but for about a day now I've notice that all Youtube videos will now always start muted by default, does anyone know how to fix this?
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Seems to be a bug as it just started happening to me. Are you on the latest beta?
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Nope, FF24.0 and up-to-date flash (non beta stuff).
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How can I make typing in the address bar and pressing enter do a google I'm Feeling Lucky search? I used to go into about :config and change keyword.URL but that's not there anymore. I can't find an option to change the new/default behavior of search results. If I am on a youtube page and enter something in the address bar it searches youtube for what I typed in. This is awful, I would at least like it to google search it, but ideally I'd like a Google I'm Feeling Lucky search. e: Okay I found something. This did it for me, this now a feature that you have to install an extension for in Firefox. I guess it was an under-the-hood feature in the first place so I'm glad it's still possible at all. http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=2736275 Heran Bago fucked around with this message at 00:49 on Oct 7, 2013 |
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Im_Special posted:Nope, FF24.0 and up-to-date flash (non beta stuff). This seems like a Flash thing...it's starting to happen to me on Chrome. Maybe Google is doing something?
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It seems it's a Google issue and not us, it's on their end and will fix it eventually. http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/youtube/ETfCgHO4MhU[1-25-true]
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http://www.getaustralis.com/ You guys ready for Australis? I've tried out the UX builds for about a week or so, and while it's not as bad as I was expecting, I still prefer the current UI over it. Australis just seems more limited in what you can do with it. Of course, it's still pretty much pre-alpha at this point, so it could always change. I remember the days when people use to be enraged over Firefox 4.0's UI changes.
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I'm going to keep my annoyance in reserve until I figure out what bits of the old UI I want can or can't be bodged back in.
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Bieeardo posted:I'm going to keep my annoyance in reserve until I figure out what bits of the old UI I want can or can't be bodged back in. I'm actually looking forward to it. There's a lot of little details that I like, but, if anything, I can't wait for stuff like History and Bookmarks to finally be integrated into the main window.
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My biggest concern was the unibar like every other broweser I saw in most of the early shots of it. Feel much better already just looking at the current one with a separate search box.
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Oh cool, another thing that will probably gently caress up my tab extensions.Thauros posted:My biggest concern was the unibar like every other broweser I saw in most of the early shots of it. Feel much better already just looking at the current one with a separate search box. Joke's on you, the Awesome Bar is already the unibar! Seriously, change what engine the search bar uses, type a search into the address bar, and marvel as it searches whatever's selected in the search bar. Qtotonibudinibudet fucked around with this message at 22:34 on Oct 8, 2013 |
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fivre posted:Seriously, change what engine the search bar uses, type a search into the address bar, and marvel as it searches whatever's selected in the search bar. 420 smoke Keyword searches 'erryday.
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pipes! posted:420 smoke Keyword searches 'erryday. Seconding this, I use keyword searches and keyword bookmarks all the time, and I hardly ever use the regular search bar any more. I only leave it up for a handy place to temporarily store a small amount of text. Quick example on keyword searches - I have a bookmark that links to this: http://forums.somethingawful.com/member.php?s=&action=getinfo&username=%s with the keyword goon, so I can just type 'goon <name>' in the address bar to go to <name>'s profile.
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fivre posted:Oh cool, another thing that will probably gently caress up my tab extensions. Yeah, I know. This is why I'm perplexed why every other browser seems intent on eliminating the search bar, because the address bar already has full search functionality. It's still nice IMO to have a supplementary search bar sharing the same piece of UI, even though I'm well aware I'm in a shrinking minority that feels that way.
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fivre posted:Seriously, change what engine the search bar uses, type a search into the address bar, and marvel as it searches whatever's selected in the search bar. But it doesn't (as far as I can tell) do the auto-complete on searches. With Google having my entire life on file, I find the auto-complete does an excellent job of figuring out what I want. Though I've given up any sense of privacy, it sure is nice.
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Since we're talking about address/search bar poo poo, I figured I'd give props to InstantFox. It's like Omnibar, but it's completely customizable. "y ufc" searches youtube for ufc. I added one for imdb - "i lost" searches imdb for lost. It's really great. I used to really like the separate awesome bar and search bars, but this extension has changed my opinion.
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Thauros posted:Yeah, I know. This is why I'm perplexed why every other browser seems intent on eliminating the search bar, because the address bar already has full search functionality. It's still nice IMO to have a supplementary search bar sharing the same piece of UI, even though I'm well aware I'm in a shrinking minority that feels that way. Well, for Chrome at least, the Google search results page = ad revenue. I'm not sure why Firefox decided that the behavior for a non-URI in the address bar should be "search whatever's currently selected in the search bar"--it doesn't make much UI sense, but it's not exactly clear what the previous behavior was either. Something like "see if DNS returns anything, and if no, Google search because why not." The Chrome bar is actually much clearer, in that it actually says "hey, this isn't a hostname/URI, so we're going to search Google", whereas the current Firefox behavior leads to "why the gently caress am I on Amazon?"
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fivre posted:I'm not sure why Firefox decided that the behavior for a non-URI in the address bar should be "search whatever's currently selected in the search bar"--it doesn't make much UI sense, but it's not exactly clear what the previous behavior was either. Something like "see if DNS returns anything, and if no, Google search because why not." This is (basically) what Firefox does. If DNS doesn't return anything, it'll search using the currently-selected search. Firefox picks the currently-selected search instead of the default search engine because third parties kept changing users' default engine. So if you want someone to blame, blame the people at lovely companies like Oracle whose installers include crapware like the Ask toolbar.
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Avenging Dentist posted:This is (basically) what Firefox does. If DNS doesn't return anything, it'll search using the currently-selected search. Maybe DNS gives different results for "doesn't qualify as URI" and "does syntactically qualify as URI, but server not found" OR Firefox is parsing poo poo on its own first before it tries DNS. I suspect the latter is the case, otherwise where does the "www." come from but a desparate attempt on Firefox' hand to try to correct for my shortcomings in typing what it assumes is an URI. Anyway, that's some dumb poo poo and one of the reasons I'm sticking with a separate search bar so far.
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Flipperwaldt posted:I cannot simply Google firefox.exe using the awesome bar; I end up with "www.firefox.exe" in the bar and a server not found page. That's because "firefox.exe" looks like you're providing a URL with the TLD "exe". Firefox avoids sending that to a search engine for privacy reasons, so that Google won't learn that you typed "reallygrossporn.corn" into the address bar. If you want to search from the address bar, you can always use keyword searches ("g firefox.exe", assuming you set "g" to be the keyword for Google), which I prefer since they're more explicit.
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Avenging Dentist posted:This is (basically) what Firefox does. If DNS doesn't return anything, it'll search using the currently-selected search. Firefox picks the currently-selected search instead of the default search engine because third parties kept changing users' default engine. The old behavior (I need to update my laptop from FF21 sometime) was to search via Google regardless of what was currently selected. I'm not sure if this was something they negotiated for funding a la the start page or what.
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fivre posted:The old behavior (I need to update my laptop from FF21 sometime) was to search via Google regardless of what was currently selected. I'm not sure if this was something they negotiated for funding a la the start page or what. As I mentioned above, "Firefox picks the currently-selected search instead of the default search engine because third parties kept changing users' default engine." It was causing a lot of confusion for people.
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Rahu X posted:http://www.getaustralis.com/ this looks awesome
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