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FRINGE posted:Is Mozilla now encouraging people to build machines around browsers like they were high end games or video editing boxes? No.
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I feel like 99% of my problems with Firefox responsivity are really just the fault of Flash being an rear end in a top hat.
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Oct 13, 2014 01:07
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fourwood posted:I feel like 99% of my problems are really just the fault of Flash being an rear end in a top hat.
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Oct 13, 2014 01:10
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Just installed Firefox on my Sony Xperia Z3. It's actually quite fast. I've not used Firefox mobile for some time - is it just the high specs of the phone making it fast or has it improved in speed dramatically over the past year?
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Oct 15, 2014 06:46
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WattsvilleBlues posted:Just installed Firefox on my Sony Xperia Z3. It's actually quite fast. I've not used Firefox mobile for some time - is it just the high specs of the phone making it fast or has it improved in speed dramatically over the past year? It's been fast on my stock Samsung Galaxy Nexus since I bought it about 18 months ago. My phone takes about 15 seconds to recover when I minimize Firefox but Firefox itself has been great. My phone just has to recover a ton of resources when I want to do anything else. It is as responsive as Chrome, but my phone recovers from Chrome a bit faster.
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Oct 15, 2014 07:19
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For some reason, firefox for me has some adware installed (And by adware, I mean a 'Today's Specials' popup and words are starting to be highlighted in yellow.) Is there any way of fixing it completely?
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Oct 17, 2014 08:46
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Superb Owls posted:For some reason, firefox for me has some adware installed (And by adware, I mean a 'Today's Specials' popup and words are starting to be highlighted in yellow.) Is there any way of fixing it completely? Check to see if there's any unrecognized add-ons in Firefox, disable those, then use the Firefox built-in function to rebuild your profile. If it comes back then you've got malware in your system somewhere, fix that.
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Oct 17, 2014 14:59
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Is there a way to revert the behavior of the location bar to how it was in 32 so it tries to resolve the single words as a domain first before going to Google? My work has a lot of internal servers which are just a single word so it's really annoying that it now tries to Google them first even when I put them in the location bar.
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Oct 17, 2014 16:47
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api call girl posted:Check to see if there's any unrecognized add-ons in Firefox, disable those, then use the Firefox built-in function to rebuild your profile. I did check to see what was the problem and it turned out to be an addon that I didn't install, which I then removed.
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Oct 18, 2014 14:15
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Why have they decided to change the start page again? It's uglier and has a new muscle-memory breaking grid with fewer sites in it.
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Oct 18, 2014 16:33
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natlampe posted:Why have they decided to change the start page again? It's uglier and has a new muscle-memory breaking grid with fewer sites in it. It changed again in a subsequent Aurora release so you see 12 sites. Not sure if it's made it to the Beta channel yet.
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Oct 18, 2014 16:41
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WattsvilleBlues posted:It changed again in a subsequent Aurora release so you see 12 sites. Not sure if it's made it to the Beta channel yet.
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Oct 18, 2014 16:44
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natlampe posted:That's good to hear (although I'll probably be used to it by the time it hits release). I can see how fast iteration on back-end stuff is a decidedly good thing, but changing UI stuff seemingly willy-nilly is (almost) user hostile. Why can't they let it bake until they are satisfied with it and then let it be? Normal people won't install an update if there's no perceivable difference.
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Oct 18, 2014 18:34
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LeftistMuslimObama posted:Normal people won't install an update if there's no perceivable difference.  You see normal people periodically and pro-actively checking changelogs, release notes or techblogs and then considering whether they want to upgrade? Well, the UI hasn't changed, eh, forget about it. What? The first time a normal user sees the changes is when the update is installed already.
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Oct 18, 2014 19:30
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WattsvilleBlues posted:It changed again in a subsequent Aurora release so you see 12 sites. Not sure if it's made it to the Beta channel yet. The browser start page scales the number of websites based on the size of the browser window, at least in Nightly. If I maximize my window (1080p), then 3 rows of 5 pages appear. If I make it small enough, then only the search bar remains.
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Oct 18, 2014 20:20
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LeftistMuslimObama posted:Normal people won't install an update if there's no perceivable difference.  Firefox silently updates itself on restart, which is a good thing since 33 alone fixed nine security issues. Besides, Mozilla's release notes don't mention anything about changing the new tab page (unless "Search suggestions" is code for "We also randomly changed how the page looks").
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Oct 18, 2014 22:05
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Mr.Radar posted:Is there a way to revert the behavior of the location bar to how it was in 32 so it tries to resolve the single words as a domain first before going to Google? My work has a lot of internal servers which are just a single word so it's really annoying that it now tries to Google them first even when I put them in the location bar. natlampe posted:Why have they decided to change the start page again? It's uglier and has a new muscle-memory breaking grid with fewer sites in it.
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Oct 18, 2014 22:11
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Knormal posted:about :blank for life. Luckily the New Tab Tools extension corrects all of Mozilla's missteps.
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Oct 18, 2014 22:49
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natlampe posted:has a new muscle-memory breaking grid natlampe posted:changing UI stuff seemingly willy-nilly is (almost) user hostile. And they continue to lose users. (And they continue to defend their dumb(?) UI decisions despite that.)  Snippets from support.mozilla. quote:Q: How do I roll back the Firefox 29 update? I hate it. quote:Q: new update hurts my eyes, how to roll back appearence? Poor small incapable not-for-profit.  Only 300 million a year in handouts from Google.LeftistMuslimObama posted:Normal people won't install an update if there's no perceivable difference.
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Oct 18, 2014 23:20
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Please stop screeching about your Firefox did 9/11 poo poo here, FRINGE.Mr.Radar posted:Is there a way to revert the behavior of the location bar to how it was in 32 so it tries to resolve the single words as a domain first before going to Google? My work has a lot of internal servers which are just a single word so it's really annoying that it now tries to Google them first even when I put them in the location bar. Quick question, does it still do this if the hostnames are put in the system's hosts file?
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Oct 19, 2014 00:27
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Didn't even realize FF auto-updates now. Mine still specifically asks me if I want to install updates. I've never hosed with any update-related settings, but my profile is hella old. Basically what I was trying to say (under the assumption that FF was behaving as normal for me) was that if someone approves several updates where "nothing happens", eventually they just stop accepting the updates.
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Oct 19, 2014 02:59
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Last I held a knife to the throat of people with the raw data, FF wasn't losing users, but wasn't acquiring new users as fast as the Internet was growing, so it was losing share. (It was in fact growing in absolute numbers, which is not a trivial feat given the improved quality of IE, Chrome's aggressive distribution deals, and Mozilla's effectively-zero mobile footprint.) Mozilla still runs leaner (in dollars and developers) per user than any of its major competitors than iOS Safari. I'm not arguing that they are optimally efficient, but arguing by top-line revenue isn't particularly insightful.
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Oct 19, 2014 03:13
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LeftistMuslimObama posted:... Do you have a source for this being an actual thing, or is this just your experience?
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Oct 19, 2014 03:14
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Blue Footed Booby posted:Do you have a source for this being an actual thing, or is this just your experience? People have to go out of their way to un-accept an update. In 2010 I'd have been more emphatic, but even now I'm pretty sure that stdh. People update silently until they are sufficiently inflamed to find a way not to. It was *always* the case that we had a harder time getting people to update to versions that had UI change than those that didn't.
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Oct 19, 2014 03:24
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Firefox's autoupdate is even more transparent than Chrome's -- Chrome still generates a UAC prompt in the year of Luigi 2014.
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Oct 19, 2014 03:49
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One of the recent updates sometimes breaks closing tabs. I'll "close" a tab but it'll still be visible in the list of tabs. If I try to select it it'll select the next tab to the right. On restarting Firefox the tab is still open but I can close it without issue. I honestly can't be assed to try clearing my profile/addons for this as its fairly rare, maybe every couple hundred of tab closes, but I'd like to know if anyone else noticed this specific issue. Casual searches only turned up older tab closing issues that don't sound like the same thing.
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Oct 19, 2014 05:24
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pseudorandom name posted:Firefox's autoupdate is even more transparent than Chrome's -- Chrome still generates a UAC prompt in the year of Luigi 2014. Maybe I'm installed different somehow but I haven't seen a UAC prompt for Chrome updates in years.
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Oct 19, 2014 07:28
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You probably don't have UAC turned up to a point where it serves an actual purpose other than inconveniencing the user.
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The corporate Chrome might trigger UAC, but the normal one doesn't because it's in your user folder.
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Which prompts me to ask - is there any way to make the UAC window always appear in the same place? Because for me it can appear anywhere and it really bugs me in an OCD way. Appear in the centre of the screen, not any old place 
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Oct 19, 2014 09:16
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Apparently in Firefox 33 there's new behavior on typing single-word hostnames into the address bar -- the default is now to search for that term and not to navigate to the address I explicitly entered, and to ask "did you mean to go to ..." instead. I was about to ask if anyone knew how to globally disable this ridiculous bullshit, but it works to just completely disable searching from the address bar (which I should have done a while ago, but never really need to).
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Oct 20, 2014 22:35
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Lysidas posted:Apparently in Firefox 33 there's new behavior on typing single-word hostnames into the address bar -- the default is now to search for that term and not to navigate to the address I explicitly entered, and to ask "did you mean to go to ..." instead. I'd rather know how to turn it off because it is a worthless and terrible feature. Edit: it even asks and assumes I want to Google search servers I have a bookmark for. Aleph Null fucked around with this message at 23:04 on Oct 20, 2014 |
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Oct 20, 2014 23:02
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Lysidas posted:Apparently in Firefox 33 there's new behavior on typing single-word hostnames into the address bar -- the default is now to search for that term and not to navigate to the address I explicitly entered, and to ask "did you mean to go to ..." instead. Thanks, that works! For those wondering, go to about :config and set keyword.enabled to "false".
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Oct 21, 2014 14:28
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Doesn't seem to be working under 35. I get a 'Visit <foo>?' thing extruded under the URL bar when I start typing, that turns into a search prompt if I type something that isn't in history, and an invitation to go to my search engine if I click on the history dropdown instead. Edit: I'm guessing this means they're aiming to get rid of the separate search bar soon, which... eh. I guess I'm one of those kids who likes to keep their peas and potatoes separate on the plate. I'll probably get used to it faster than I imagine. Edit, much later: Behavior seems to have returned to previous normal. Dunno if something got turned off in an update, or if I needed to restart a few times. Confused, but not unhappy regardless. Bieeanshee fucked around with this message at 17:57 on Oct 24, 2014 |
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Oct 21, 2014 14:55
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WattsvilleBlues posted:Just installed Firefox on my Sony Xperia Z3. It's actually quite fast. I've not used Firefox mobile for some time - is it just the high specs of the phone making it fast or has it improved in speed dramatically over the past year? It got better, and the nightly is a little faster still. But it still has some problems with bogging down, continuing to run tabs in the background, and general speed compared to Chrome. Worst thing: It still doesn't use the native android zoom gesture (doubletap and slide up or down), it's still stuck on just pinch zoom. It's the only thing I use that works like this, so it's quite jarring.
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Oct 21, 2014 15:49
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Cool, Firefox 33 is doing that thing where it breaks with hardware acceleration and displays nothing in a black window. We only have thousands of machines of 3 loving models between like 4 driver revisions and it just shows up randomly on a few of them. No rhyme or reason. Rolling everything back to 32.0.3 despite the security fixes. 
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Oct 22, 2014 15:56
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api call girl posted:Cool, Firefox 33 is doing that thing where it breaks with hardware acceleration and displays nothing in a black window. We only have thousands of machines of 3 loving models between like 4 driver revisions and it just shows up randomly on a few of them. No rhyme or reason.
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Oct 23, 2014 03:45
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Knormal posted:Can't you just turn off hardware acceleration on the individual machines when it show up? Committing to individually and indefinitely janitoring users on whichever machines manifest that problem sounds like a great use of my time. Even in a union shop I'm not going to send out this kind of make-work.
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Cross-posting this, for those who haven't heard yet:tadashi posted:A vulnerability in SSL 3 was found last week and vendors are recommending you turn it off in any browser. TL;DR:  Go to about :config and set security.tls.version.min to 1. If SSL sites break, complain at the site operator, because they're stupid/lazy/cheap as poo poo.
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Yikes. Is there a similar fix for Thunderbird?
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