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velocityJE posted:yeah how do i make this go away Probably the same way you make those terrible new navigation buttons in the context menu go away: not. Read posted:Speaking of customizing Firefox, I'm always curious how people have their browsers set up. I used to read posts on Lifehacker about this kind of stuff like five years ago but I don't think they do that kind of content anymore, do you guys do any particularly novel stuff? Any noteworthy & underappreciated addons? Asides from must-haves like ABP, Switch to Tab no more, and Classic Theme Restorer, I'm pretty fond of Anti Tumblr Infinite Scroll. Even if it's a little wonky some times, it's still easier to live with than infinite scroll. Another great one is Text Link, which allows you to just double-click on links that don't have the html formatting to behave as links.
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My browser set up is pretty default, I don't even use Classic Theme Restorer. My addons are almost all minor quality of life ones like Lazarus, RightToClick, TabMixPlus, Copy Plain Text and so forth. I did install The Addon Bar (Restored) because I have about a million of these little addons and this way I can shove all the icons onto the addon bar, but otherwise I essentially use the default interface.Geemer posted:Another great one is Text Link, which allows you to just double-click on links that don't have the html formatting to behave as links. I use Linkificator which turns all text links into clickable links. Very rarely it'll tag something wrong and a long time ago it messed up the WoW armory for some reason (hi I am a loser) but beyond that it works perfectly.
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Nov 22, 2014 11:27
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I just didn't feel like putting up a full list and only posted the extensions that stood out to me. Anyways, I finally bothered with opening Process Monitor to see what was loving up my jumplist icons. It's Firefox. If I delete them and then touch Firefox, it'll recreate the 0 byte ico files before anything else touches the folder.
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Nov 22, 2014 12:01
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Alereon posted:Do you have Avast! Antivirus? It seems this is a known bug with Avast. jink posted:Loving the new search UI: This certainly isn't what it looks like for me. Maybe it's because I use the classic theme restorer? That's the only thing I have I'm aware of that might affect that.
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Nov 22, 2014 13:09
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Out of all of mine, Tab Mix Plus and Mouse Gestures are the two add-ons that I feel I can't live without. I tried using Firefox on a different computer and without those two, it was a painful experience.
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Nov 22, 2014 13:19
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I am still a slave to Tree Style Tabs. Nobody else does vertical tabs right. Or at all. And the branching structure is really good for keeping track when I fall into Wikipedia or someplace like that. I also used to use Stratiform, but when Firefox had that big UI change it never really recovered.
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Nov 22, 2014 14:41
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Geemer posted:Asides from must-haves like ABP, Switch to Tab no more, and Classic Theme Restorer, I'm pretty fond of Anti Tumblr Infinite Scroll. Even if it's a little wonky some times, it's still easier to live with than infinite scroll. You realise Tumblr lets you turn off infinite scroll anyway? One addon I love is Konquefox. It lets you add two buttons, an up button that works the same way as the up button in Windows Explorer, and also an x button that empties and then focuses the address bar.
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YggiDee posted:I am still a slave to Tree Style Tabs. Nobody else does vertical tabs right. Or at all. And the branching structure is really good for keeping track when I fall into Wikipedia or someplace like that. I also used to use Stratiform, but when Firefox had that big UI change it never really recovered. This. I can hardly switch browsers because Tree Style Tabs are so drat good.
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Lum posted:You realise Tumblr lets you turn off infinite scroll anyway? I don't have a Tumblr account and have no intention of getting one. But if I don't need one, please do tell me how.
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Nov 22, 2014 15:38
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Geemer posted:I don't have a Tumblr account and have no intention of getting one. But if I don't need one, please do tell me how. Oh, it probably needs an account, could just make a throwaway one.
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I can't understand why anyone wouldn't immediately remove the search bar and just use the address bar to search, with custom search keyword shortcuts per site if you need it. Also, as a general point, there isn't really any purpose in a new tab page: You can simply type in the address bar and use Ctrl-return to make a new tab open with your desired page or search. But aside from that, I'm an all-in Pentadactyl user. It's a extension inspired by vim that gives you full keyboard control of everything, is infinitely customizable via a config file, and even lets you script certain things to happen on browser close / open. e.g. Delete all cookies for certain sites on browser close. I can search all my open tabs and switch to them with a couple of keystrokes. It also hides all the UI apart from the tab bar by default, and adds a status bar (vim style) at the bottom.
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Nov 22, 2014 15:57
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wooger posted:I can't understand why anyone wouldn't ...
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Nov 22, 2014 16:08
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wooger posted:You can simply type in the address bar and use Ctrl-return to make a new tab open with your desired page or search. I think this might be enabled by some plugin you're using or perhaps disabled by one I am, because it doesn't work for me. Just loads in the current tab.
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Nov 22, 2014 16:15
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I went through my addons and most of them were basically quality of life stuff, where 'quality of life' is spelled 'get off my lawn'. I don't mind that search UI, surprisingly, though I'm not likely to use it.
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Nov 22, 2014 18:18
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dis astranagant posted:This. I can hardly switch browsers because Tree Style Tabs are so drat good. Same. Tree Style Tabs change how I use a web browser completely, both at work and for leisure. I don't know how people can live with a big stupid horizontal bar of tabs that don't show how they're related to each other.
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FRINGE posted:That probably doesnt reflect most of the worlds pattern of use. I mean that even without using Pentadactyl, I don't see why anyone would want a separate search bar, and when the address bar works the same. It matches the way Chrome works too, so hardly out of the ordinary for most people. As noted, I don't have either bar visible in my own configuration. hooah posted:I think this might be enabled by some plugin you're using or perhaps disabled by one I am, because it doesn't work for me. Just loads in the current tab. Sorry man, It's think I mean alt-return perhaps.
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Nov 22, 2014 23:49
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IGgy IGsen posted:This certainly isn't what it looks like for me. Maybe it's because I use the classic theme restorer? That's the only thing I have I'm aware of that might affect that. The new search is in 34 BETA. It's part of the search restructuring Mozilla is doing; Google is out as the default search provider and Yahoo is in. Naturally this will freak people out, so they are building a UI that will show the other providers. I like it; it's a great way for people to discover other ways to use the browser. https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/11/19/promoting-choice-and-innovation-on-the-web/
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Nov 23, 2014 00:29
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jink posted:The new search is in 34 BETA. It's part of the search restructuring Mozilla is doing; Google is out as the default search provider and Yahoo is in. Naturally this will freak people out, so they are building a UI that will show the other providers. I like it; it's a great way for people to discover other ways to use the browser.
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Nov 23, 2014 04:39
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wooger posted:Sorry man, It's think I mean alt-return perhaps. Yup, that's it. Thanks for the cool new trick!
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Nov 23, 2014 04:51
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FRINGE posted:The giant phone buttons do not belong on a desktop browser. It is a terrible design decision. Relax. Not only are the buttons not giant, you can disable all of this new search craziness. 
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wooger posted:I mean that even without using Pentadactyl, I don't see why anyone would want a separate search bar, and when the address bar Years ago, my ISP started catching malformed URLs, 404s and the like and spitting up 'helpful', ad-laden search results. I didn't like that then, I don't care for it being made stock browser functionality now, and if I cared how Google's pet browser does it, I'd be using that instead. I prefer my URL bar to function like a command line. Custom keywords? Sure, fantastic. History function? Yes, please. But in either realm, I want a quick, simple error message if I fat-finger a command, not a best guess at what I was really trying to do. I can catch my mistake and correct it faster than Google will ever provide a relevant result for one of my typos. This kind of thing, for me, is where attempts at user friendliness wander into Clippy territory. I do like that they've made the engine-swapping function more obvious with the new search bar. The functionality's been there forever, but I'd bet fewer people knew about or used it than do Panorama.
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What version is the new search UI in?
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WattsvilleBlues posted:What version is the new search UI in? It's in the Firefox Beta version.
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dwarkanath posted:It's in the Firefox Beta version. Doesn't seem to be in the Developer Edition. How do you switch it on?
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WattsvilleBlues posted:Doesn't seem to be in the Developer Edition. How do you switch it on? The developers skipped nightly and developer edition (formerly aurora) and landed this on beta. You will need to set the pref browser.search.showOneOffButtons to true. http://www.ghacks.net/2014/11/22/mozilla-tests-search-field-changes-in-firefox-beta/ https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1088660#c45 I'm more concerned about that inevitable day they say the searchbar is useless from the data/metrics they've gathered (but usually don't show) and kill it. Because just like Chrome there are plans in motion to head towards a Omnibar.
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Looks like some random person from China or thereabouts has fixed Tab Utilities for FF33 https://github.com/yfdyh000/tabutils/releases At own risk, as with any other off-site addon, of course.
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dwarkanath posted:
It worked so well for Windows 8.
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wooger posted:I mean that even without using Pentadactyl, I don't see why anyone would want a separate search bar, and when the address bar As for my core add-ons, two others I love that haven't been mentioned are Open Link In... and Menu Editor. Menu Editor's pretty self-explanatory, and I mostly use it to reign in other add-ons that serve a useful purpose but like to add themselves to menus all over the place. Open Link In adds a lot of options to the right-click menu on hotlinks that gives you total control over where the link opens, and is great for getting around those sites that insist on trying to make everything open in a new window.
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Knormal posted:I use it because I also use it to quickly search things on Google Images, Wikipedia, IMDB, etc. As far as I know there's no way to change which engine the address bar searches with without changing your default, and even if there is I'm like Bieeardo and I want an error if I type something wrong, not a "Did you mean...?". Not to mention those times when I want to search, say, "bread", and don't want to try to remember if it's going to search for bread or automatically go to bread.com. I prefer my address bar to just be an address bar for URL-related things, and a separate search bar for search-related things. You can use the address bar as a searchbar without even having a default. All the search engines in your searchbar can have keywords assigned to them, and if you type those keywords into the address bar followed by your search, it's functionally the same as typing in the searchbar. (Example: I have Google assigned to G, so I just type 'g bread' to search for bread on Google. The keywords can be as long or as short as you want, but initials/abbreviations are good - a few of mine are 'a' for Amazon, 'y' for Youtube, 'w' for Wikipedia, 'gis' for Google image search, and 'imdb' for take a wild guess.)
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wooger posted:I mean that even without using Pentadactyl, I don't see why anyone would want a separate search bar, and when the address bar  Chrome's address bar gives a short mix of search suggestions and a severely downprioritized browsing history, often only including 1 browsing history result. The way FF handles the digging through browsing history means that there's virtually no need to bookmark anything anymore if you can just remember a few letters of the title or URL. Great stuff. When I want to do a google search, I hit Ctrl+T, wait 1 second for google.com to load, then enter my query. When I want to do a Wikipedia search, I hit Ctrl+E to focus the search bar and start typing. gently caress if it gets any easier. jink posted:The new search is in 34 BETA. It's part of the search restructuring Mozilla is doing; Google is out as the default search provider and Yahoo is in. Naturally this will freak people out, so they are building a UI that will show the other providers. I like it; it's a great way for people to discover other ways to use the browser.
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I thought Yahoo used Bing anyway. Why would anybody want to use Yahoo instead of going straight to Bing?
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Pilsner posted:Every time I read a Mozilla press release I want to barf. It reads like a mix of corporate bullshit and an SJW blog post. The most vomit-inducing corporate bulletin I have ever read came from Mozilla - the one about apologizing for hiring the "gay hating" CEO and firing him. Give me some nerdy changelogs and facts any day. It's true, their press releases aren't the best. The issue is that Mozilla needs money. They can't rely on Google for search income forever. Google has their own browser and income streams and don't need to prop up Mozilla anymore. The nerds out there using Firefox aren't enough to keep Mozilla afloat. They need the common people out there using their products and sharing it with other people. I try to help in that regard but most people I interact with want to use Chrome instead of Firefox. 
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Pilsner posted:The way FF handles the digging through browsing history means that there's virtually no need to bookmark anything anymore if you can just remember a few letters of the title or URL. Great stuff. This but times, like, 1000. Firefox's address bar is one of the best things it has going for it.
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Thirding the love for the Firefox "Awesome Bar". I think that's my biggest beef with Chrome. Every so often I try to use it out of curiosity to see if I like it yet, and every time the URL bar is one of the big things that sends me back to Firefox. Also, I know it's superfluous, but I like having a separate search bar. Maybe I'm just used to it. I like that whatever search engine icon is in the search bar will be what pops up as "Search [chosen search engine] for..." and then the text I have highlighted when I right click. I'm not sure if you can do that without the search bar (please let me know if I'm wrong.) Plus I sometimes use it as a memopad or something. Pikestaff fucked around with this message at 18:26 on Nov 24, 2014 |
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I'm on Firefox 31.1.1, and today on my desktop I've noticed that gifs are very choppy and Firefox is often using ~35% of the CPU. Sometimes it'll come back down, but when it's misbehaving it stays at that higher percentage. Should I just try clearing my profile or whatever that is first, or is there a more likely cause?
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m2pt5 posted:You can use the address bar as a searchbar without even having a default. All the search engines in your searchbar can have keywords assigned to them, and if you type those keywords into the address bar followed by your search, it's functionally the same as typing in the searchbar. (Example: I have Google assigned to G, so I just type 'g bread' to search for bread on Google. The keywords can be as long or as short as you want, but initials/abbreviations are good - a few of mine are 'a' for Amazon, 'y' for Youtube, 'w' for Wikipedia, 'gis' for Google image search, and 'imdb' for take a wild guess.) I actually didn't realize you could do this in Firefox. There goes one of the very few remaining things missing from FF that I had in Opera.
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Desuwa posted:I actually didn't realize you could do this in Firefox. There goes one of the very few remaining things missing from FF that I had in Opera. It's not a new thing, I've been using it for a long time now, since at least somewhere in the early-mid teens of Firefox versions. On a similar note, you can also make keyworded bookmarks that insert a search term into an url; for example if you make a bookmark to: http://forums.somethingawful.com/member.php?s=&action=getinfo&username=%s and give it the keyword (for example) 'goon', you can then just type 'goon <name>' in your address bar to go straight to someone's profile page. Just put %s where you want the word to be inserted, and it works anywhere in the url. (I also have one for deviant art that uses [url]http://%s.deviantart.com/.[/url])
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m2pt5 posted:It's not a new thing, I've been using it for a long time now, since at least somewhere in the early-mid teens of Firefox versions. I didn't think it was a new thing, it's just a feature that never made itself known to me. If I thought about it at all I probably just assumed there was an addon for it but that it'd be more effort than it was worth to track down. I just wish it was separate from bookmarks since it means making another bookmark folder to hide them.
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Desuwa posted:I just wish it was separate from bookmarks since it means making another bookmark folder to hide them. This. Also, if I have to re-install Firefox for whatever reason, I lose my search keywords, which doesn't make sense since I would think those would be tied to my sync profile.
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I'm pretty sure it used to be in there by default too (there were predefined keywords for Wikipedia, for example), but were removed for some reason.
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