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FRINGE posted:Theres just too many decisions that are ... sub-optimal. It's not really "behind the scenes"; Mozilla's been pretty open that they want to "grow diversified revenues" (read: wean themselves from the teat of Mother Google). It's just too bad no one seems to have a better idea than ads.
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Avenging Dentist posted:It's not really "behind the scenes"; Mozilla's been pretty open that they want to "grow diversified revenues" (read: wean themselves from the teat of Mother Google). It's just too bad no one seems to have a better idea than ads. (Flippant, before someone effortposts about it.)
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Does Firefox have something like the "recent tabs" feature of Chrome? I didn't think I used it much when I used Chrome, but once or twice a day I find myself wishing I could quickly open a tab that's open on another device.
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Aug 8, 2014 19:22
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FRINGE posted:Make friends with the DuckDuckGo dude. I bet he could use a pet browser. DDG as the default would be something I could get behind, it's been my default for a long time. That black theme
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HalloKitty posted:DDG as the default would be something I could get behind, it's been my default for a long time. The recent revamp really made it a lot more useful.
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hooah posted:Does Firefox have something like the "recent tabs" feature of Chrome? I didn't think I used it much when I used Chrome, but once or twice a day I find myself wishing I could quickly open a tab that's open on another device.
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Nalin posted:I don't know if it is what you want, but the History menu has "Tabs From Other Devices" and "Recently Closed Tabs". I haven't used "Tabs From Other Devices" before, but it probably works if you have Firefox Sync enabled. Yup, that'll do nicely, thanks. Coming from Chrome, I often forget about the menu bar.
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I've heard that native "toaster" notifications were added in a recent version of Firefox, but they don't seem to be popping up for gmail hangout messages, even though the "notifications" option is checked in the hangout settings. Is there somewhere I need to enable them? I used to use this but it doesn't appear to work, either.
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I'm using NoScript, but I've had problems using some Google sites, notably Maps and image search, even though I've enabled google.com scripts. What else could be causing problems?
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Aug 11, 2014 16:54
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hooah posted:I'm using NoScript, but I've had problems using some Google sites, notably Maps and image search, even though I've enabled google.com scripts. What else could be causing problems?
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Flipperwaldt posted:You need to allow gstatic.com as well for those sites. I have. Forgot to mention that, sorry.
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You might need to allow ggpht.com for street view, at least that's what I had to do.
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Avenging Dentist posted:It's not really "behind the scenes"; Mozilla's been pretty open that they want to "grow diversified revenues" (read: wean themselves from the teat of Mother Google). It's just too bad no one seems to have a better idea than ads. To be fair, this is 90% of the Internet right now.
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I'm on Firefox 31 on Linux, and for the last month or so the upload files function on imgur hasn't worked. Clicking the "browse your computer" option, which used to pop up a file selection dialog box, does nothing, and if I try the drag-and-drop option it shows a thumbnail of the image but then fails when I try to start the actual upload. Other web interfaces with file upload dialog boxes (i.e the WiFi File Explorer page my phone generates) continue to work fine. I tried a new profile and that made the file selection dialog work again, so it's something in my profile, but I really don't want to have to recreate my profile from scratch just for this. The problem still happens if I start in safe mode, so I don't think it's an add-on. Trying to Google the problem just brings up a bunch of results for imgur add-ons which I don't want to install. Anyone have any ideas?
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Anyone know of an add-on that makes find-in-page as nice as Safari's? Dims the page and puts a big yellow bubble around matches so practically blind people like me can see them more easily.Knormal posted:I'm on Firefox 31 on Linux, and for the last month or so the upload files function on imgur hasn't worked. Clicking the "browse your computer" option, which used to pop up a file selection dialog box, does nothing, and if I try the drag-and-drop option it shows a thumbnail of the image but then fails when I try to start the actual upload. Other web interfaces with file upload dialog boxes (i.e the WiFi File Explorer page my phone generates) continue to work fine. Have you tried just resetting your profile? It preserves history, bookmarks, cookies, etc. but clears out the behind the scenes junk. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/reset-firefox-easily-fix-most-problems
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The Milkman posted:Anyone know of an add-on that makes find-in-page as nice as Safari's? Dims the page and puts a big yellow bubble around matches so practically blind people like me can see them more easily. Findbar Tweak has a function similar to what you're looking for.
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The Milkman posted:Have you tried just resetting your profile? It preserves history, bookmarks, cookies, etc. but clears out the behind the scenes junk.
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FWT THE CUTTER posted:Findbar Tweak has a function similar to what you're looking for. That's actually pretty nice. I'm not sure how Opera did it before I switched a year ago, and I don't use find a whole lot, but I did notice I was having trouble seeing the highlights on some pages in Firefox. It wasn't a big deal but this is much nicer than the default.
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Is this a known issue? When I open many tabs (more than 10) with large photos in them (large "original" size photos on flickr), Firefox simply refuses to show some of the images. It only shows a "broken image" icon. Sometimes when you close the tab and then un-close it (ctrl-shift-T), the image is shown. Sometimes that does not help. Opening the same page immediately in Chrome or Opera (classic) displays the image. Restarting Firefox also helps.
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Wheany posted:Is this a known issue?
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Yeah, I can reliably open many more than 10 big images at once in Firefox. I'm not exactly sure how big "original" size photos are, but more than 10 2-3 MB images doesn't seem like it would be a problem except in load times.
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Wheany posted:Is this a known issue? I run into that problem, but I've got an order of magnitude more tabs than that. My issue is caused by Firefox running out of memory (when this is happening firefox.exe is often using 2.6+ GB), if it's the same issue then you've probably got an addon eating a lot of memory.
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If I have too many tabs full of images open Firefox turns the pages black as soon as I try to scroll. That's my cue to save anything I'm doing because it also means it's about to crash.
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Desuwa posted:I run into that problem, but I've got an order of magnitude more tabs than that. My issue is caused by Firefox running out of memory (when this is happening firefox.exe is often using 2.6+ GB), if it's the same issue then you've probably got an addon eating a lot of memory. Yes, I usually have tens of tabs open at the point, in addition to the several large image tabs. And yes, Firefox is using a lot of memory. Gorilla Salad posted:If I have too many tabs full of images open Firefox turns the pages black as soon as I try to scroll. That's my cue to save anything I'm doing because it also means it's about to crash. This is also true and happens unacceptably often. I don't know what Firefox is doing because the amount of memory can be anything from "just" around 1 gig to somewhere around 3. My computer is nowhere near running out of memory at that point though.
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Wheany posted:I don't know what Firefox is doing because the amount of memory can be anything from "just" around 1 gig to somewhere around 3. My computer is nowhere near running out of memory at that point though.
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Alereon posted:As others aren't seeing the same problem you report, try with a clean profile per the OP. I quoted a poster who said he had the same issue.
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Wheany posted:I quoted a poster who said he had the same issue.
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Firefox: probably an add-on you installed
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rarbatrol posted:Firefox: probably an add-on you had to install because out of the box this is one weird rear end browser, and if you weren't going to use a bunch of addons, you'd just install Chrome. Adjusted to match reality.
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Oh well, I left Firefox running without extensions at home with maybe 30 tabs open as I left for work. I sure as hell am not going to use it without any extensions. Moving on: When did the RSS feed icon return? Because I installed an extension that added it to the address field and when I disabled it, I noticed that I have a native RSS button one next to the menu button now. Or was it always there, just hidden somewhere? Because that's one extension I can completely delete then.
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xamphear posted:Adjusted to match reality. Because Chrome doesn't need any stinkin addons to gobble up all the memory 
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Has anyone's Firefox not been showing as having updates ready to download for their addons installed when there is indeed a newer version of the addon? Every few days I tend to go to the add-on page and do a manual 'Check for Updates' then it just tells me 'No Updates Found' so I do it in another few days, whatever, but I actually checked the addons website manually this time and noticed there was new versions I wasn't getting and that I was behind a version or two, having me to install it manually off their website again. These were the ones out of date apparently. I only noticed this yesterday so I don't know if something is broke on my end for the updater, I guess I just need to wait and see if I get any more updates through the Firefox addons page before I call something broke.
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Im_Special posted:Has anyone's Firefox not been showing as having updates ready to download for their addons installed when there is indeed a newer version of the addon? Every few days I tend to go to the add-on page and do a manual 'Check for Updates' then it just tells me 'No Updates Found' so I do it in another few days, whatever, but I actually checked the addons website manually this time and noticed there was new versions I wasn't getting and that I was behind a version or two, having me to install it manually off their website again. These were the ones out of date apparently. Is it something to do with the add-ons not being set to auto upgrade?
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Im_Special posted:Has anyone's Firefox not been showing as having updates ready to download for their addons installed when there is indeed a newer version of the addon? Every few days I tend to go to the add-on page and do a manual 'Check for Updates' then it just tells me 'No Updates Found' so I do it in another few days, whatever, but I actually checked the addons website manually this time and noticed there was new versions I wasn't getting and that I was behind a version or two, having me to install it manually off their website again. These were the ones out of date apparently. I had that problem when going through the proxy server at work but not at home.
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jink posted:Is it something to do with the add-ons not being set to auto upgrade? Aleph Null posted:I had that problem when going through the proxy server at work but not at home.
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Hey, that's happening to me as well for Firefox 24 ESR on Windows. A *whole* bunch of my add-ons were out of date.
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Me too, thanks for the heads up!
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Im_Special posted:I've never had that Automatically option checked, I've always just done it manually with the top option. Firefox won't automatically update addons unless they come from https://addons.mozilla.org/ Custom addons from a developer's direct site will not automatically update (since Firefox would have no clue how to check for these updates). I am very wrong; Firefox can update from an addon based on it's Install Manifest :: Update URL. jink fucked around with this message at 21:35 on Aug 26, 2014 |
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jink posted:Want to clarify something here. Please don't spread misinformation. In an extension's install manifest, you would specify an updateURL to do just that.
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jink posted:Want to clarify something here. All my addons except for Enhanced Steam came from addons.mozilla.org, and astral is also right in that it shouldn't matter either way. Anyway it seems like others in this thread are have the same problem so maybe it's just a bug on Mozilla's end, might be wise to manually check your installed addons to see if any are outdated. A quickish way to check is in Firefox's addon page right click the addon and go to 'About' then 'Visit Home Page' or whatever.
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