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Generic Monk
Oct 31, 2011

The Merkinman posted:

There is a certain level of irony about the drama being "people should be paid for their work" when the point of the add-on is to block ads.

the whole point of ads is to avoid asking people to pay for your work (because 99.9% of people won't)

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Alereon
Feb 6, 2004

Dehumanize yourself and face to Trumpshed
College Slice

Generic Monk posted:

the whole point of ads is to avoid asking people to pay for your work (because 99.9% of people won't)
More accurately, people won't pay the ridiculously inflated value you place on your own work. The success of Patreon and other crowd-funding services shows that willingness to pay money isn't the issue, it's convenience and value.

Geemer
Nov 4, 2010



Im_Special posted:

Well I hope you guys feel bad now (not you guys mostly reddit and their pitchforks), Chris felt like he needed to explain himself what with all this drama so he made a Youtube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D1TpddtVUA

Thanks for posting the video, now I can just decide that all this drama is loving stupid and stick with the version on Mozilla Addons.

the littlest prince
Sep 23, 2006


Hey, they should put ads in ublock.

Generic Monk
Oct 31, 2011

Alereon posted:

More accurately, people won't pay the ridiculously inflated value you place on your own work. The success of Patreon and other crowd-funding services shows that willingness to pay money isn't the issue, it's convenience and value.

ehh I'll gladly impulse-pay a few bucks for a phone/small desktop app, or donate a little bit to someone who's work I enjoy. I'd say those scripts that force you to turn off adblock to visit a webpage turn me off donating to someone, but then again I don't think I've seen anyone worth paying money to who has something like that

regarding kickstarter and patreon it seems more that there is more of an audience for certain niche projects than risk-averse financiers can see, as well as getting rid of a lot of the overhead. seems to be stepping in to patch up holes in the current system but it's nothing close to a 9-5 and job security

hooah
Feb 6, 2006
WTF?
Occasionally, a page will "successfully" load, but be blank. Feedly is doing this currently. I can tell the page's elements have loaded because right-clicking in different places brings up different context menus. In the past, I've been able to ctrl+f5 and it'll load properly, but it's not working now. What's going on?

Edit: Nevermind, it just took a while to actually display the content. Weird.

Desuwa
Jun 2, 2011

I'm telling my mommy. That pubbie doesn't do video games right!
I've had an issue with pages loading but images not loading. It seems to be common with repeated images that show up a lot, like the quote/report buttons here. They sometimes take a few kicks refreshes to come back. It seemed to have been introduced pretty recently, but I can't say if it happened with 37 or just before. It's not just on SA, either.

hooah posted:

Occasionally, a page will "successfully" load, but be blank. Feedly is doing this currently. I can tell the page's elements have loaded because right-clicking in different places brings up different context menus. In the past, I've been able to ctrl+f5 and it'll load properly, but it's not working now. What's going on?

Edit: Nevermind, it just took a while to actually display the content. Weird.

I've had the same issue with Firefox on Linux but not on Windows.

calandryll
Apr 25, 2003

Ask me where I do my best drinking!



Pillbug
I've been having issues with graphical glitches in Firefox for awhile now. I created a new profile thinking that would fix it but it hasn't. It's not constant but at times, such as browsing the forums, all of the images will disappear even though they loaded on the page. I've cleared cache and just about everything I can think of. I just did a google search and it looked like a Zalgo page. Getting a bit annoying, any suggestions?

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe

calandryll posted:

I've been having issues with graphical glitches in Firefox for awhile now. I created a new profile thinking that would fix it but it hasn't. It's not constant but at times, such as browsing the forums, all of the images will disappear even though they loaded on the page. I've cleared cache and just about everything I can think of. I just did a google search and it looked like a Zalgo page. Getting a bit annoying, any suggestions?

Have you upgraded your graphics driver recently? Also, you can try the instructions from here for modifying how Firefox renders things to troubleshoot once you clear up any driver issues: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1031537

calandryll
Apr 25, 2003

Ask me where I do my best drinking!



Pillbug

Nintendo Kid posted:

Have you upgraded your graphics driver recently? Also, you can try the instructions from here for modifying how Firefox renders things to troubleshoot once you clear up any driver issues: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1031537

Yep, forgot to mention drivers are up to date. I'll try those out and see if it helps at all, thanks.

Generic Monk
Oct 31, 2011

Are there any youtube auto HD plugins that actually work? 'Youtube High Definition' expands the video to fill the page but doesn't seem to change the quality. It also fucks up the seek bar.

FWT THE CUTTER
Oct 16, 2007

weed

Generic Monk posted:

Are there any youtube auto HD plugins that actually work? 'Youtube High Definition' expands the video to fill the page but doesn't seem to change the quality. It also fucks up the seek bar.

YouTubeCenter

Generic Monk
Oct 31, 2011


AMO version doesn't work at all, github version kind of works but all the videos look like this


seems like the max it's able to size the video to is the 'large' player size - anything bigger just increases the size of the frame

Generic Monk fucked around with this message at 19:39 on Apr 28, 2015

Im_Special
Jan 2, 2011

Look At This!!! WOW!
It's F*cking Nothing.
Use the Dev version. https://github.com/YePpHa/YouTubeCenter/wiki/Developer-Version

FWT THE CUTTER
Oct 16, 2007

weed
Yeah sorry I should have linked to the dev version, it's the one I use.

Generic Monk
Oct 31, 2011


This works great, thanks. Will have to remamber to use the dev version; I was a youtube center user for a good while but it always seemed on the verge of complete abandonment with a good helping of performance issues. Those seem to have been fixed though.

hooah
Feb 6, 2006
WTF?
I installed the dev version of YouTube Center on my laptop and all was fine. Went to my desktop and it was installed, but clicking the options takes me to https://www.youtube.com/#ytcenter.settings.open which is just the same as the YouTube front page! :psyduck:

GrizzlyCow
May 30, 2011

Generic Monk posted:

Are there any youtube auto HD plugins that actually work? 'Youtube High Definition' expands the video to fill the page but doesn't seem to change the quality. It also fucks up the seek bar.

A more lightweight userscript is YAYS. It's probably a better solution if you're not planning on using more of Youtube Center's features.

hooah
Feb 6, 2006
WTF?
Is there any way to change the highlight/find color for the built-in PDF reader? It's basically invisible.

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord

Sir Unimaginative posted:


Workaround:


Your call on whether you want to disable the media.mediasource.whitelist. I think Mozilla's waiting to see if their default-install Cisco OpenH264 and Adobe Primetime Content Decryption plugins do the trick first. If you're feeling especially human and not worried about Mozilla knowing about your goat porn or whatever you might consider turning on some of the phone-home stuff with it.

There's also something about ignore_codecs you might find searching for it but it doesn't seem to be necessary anymore so why clutter it up.

You still have to say yes to the HTML5 player.

I wanted to ask more about this workaround. I noticed an entry, media.mediasource.youtubeonly. Should I mess with that? I generally want this to only affect youtube, not webms or the like.

I've recently had youtube encourage me to not use flash anymore by waiting 20 seconds for the html5 version to fail and switch. I may just make the switch now that the codecs look almost indistinguishable from flash, but I'm having some problems with it, like opening videos in less than 480p randomly. I'd rather stick with flash a while longer.

WattsvilleBlues
Jan 25, 2005

Every demon wants his pound of flesh
Should I be using uBlock or uBlock Origin?

FRINGE
May 23, 2003
title stolen for lf posting
I stopped telling "normal" users to use Firefox. Its a high-maintenance pain in the rear end now, and the first time they cant get webmail of facebook to work correctly theyre just going to get angry.

hooah
Feb 6, 2006
WTF?

hooah posted:

I installed the dev version of YouTube Center on my laptop and all was fine. Went to my desktop and it was installed, but clicking the options takes me to https://www.youtube.com/#ytcenter.settings.open which is just the same as the YouTube front page! :psyduck:

hooah posted:

Is there any way to change the highlight/find color for the built-in PDF reader? It's basically invisible.

Any ideas on either of these?

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe

FRINGE posted:

I stopped telling "normal" users to use Firefox. Its a high-maintenance pain in the rear end now, and the first time they cant get webmail of facebook to work correctly theyre just going to get angry.

What?

Chilled Milk
Jun 22, 2003

No one here is alone,
satellites in every home

FRINGE posted:

I stopped telling "normal" users to use Firefox. Its a high-maintenance pain in the rear end now, and the first time they cant get webmail of facebook to work correctly theyre just going to get angry.

Thanks for sharing ?

SpeedGem
Sep 19, 2012

by Ralp
If there are more than 5 gifs on a page 37.0.2 crashes. It loads the first five gifs, and you can watch in real time as it eats itself in taskman.

Also, firefox stores all flash data, until it's closed. It's kinda funny when you watch a bunch of youtube videos, and watch flash purge itself.

Is there a good browser anymore?

Avenging Dentist
Oct 1, 2005

oh my god is that a circular saw that does not go in my mouth aaaaagh

SpeedGem posted:

If there are more than 5 gifs on a page 37.0.2 crashes. It loads the first five gifs, and you can watch in real time as it eats itself in taskman.

There's something wrong with your computer. Since you mention taskman, I assume you're on some version of Windows; I loaded up the PYF GIF thread in 37.0.2 on Win 7 and had no issues. I'd recommend following the troubleshooting steps in the OP.

hooah
Feb 6, 2006
WTF?
Seconding Avenging Dentist's saying it's fine, and for me on Windows 8.1.

SpeedGem
Sep 19, 2012

by Ralp

Avenging Dentist posted:

There's something wrong with your computer. Since you mention taskman, I assume you're on some version of Windows; I loaded up the PYF GIF thread in 37.0.2 on Win 7 and had no issues. I'd recommend following the troubleshooting steps in the OP.

hooah
Feb 6, 2006
WTF?

...What are you trying to express?

calandryll
Apr 25, 2003

Ask me where I do my best drinking!



Pillbug
I have something similar happen with Firefox. Opening the GIF thread and any other thread will cause images to disappear when I focus on that tab. This is on a new profile with updated drivers, etc. There was talk in another thread that is might be a imgur thing, at least in my case. However, the test stays around for me at least.

Fangs404
Dec 20, 2004

I time bomb.

As he said, follow the troubleshooting steps in the OP. This isn't rocket science.

GenderSelectScreen
Mar 7, 2010

I DON'T KNOW EITHER DON'T ASK ME
College Slice
Has anyone ever had Youtube never finish buffering before? I've been having stuttering problems lately and today videos just wont work period. Strange thing is that Youtube works fine on Chrome. I've tried clearing my cache and updated my plug-ins. I even uninstalled my extensions to see if that was it and that didn't help either. I really don't want to have to switch browsers every time I want to watch a video but this is getting on my nerves.

Truga
May 4, 2014
Lipstick Apathy
Since I changed to html5 player, I've had 0 issues with youtube. Flash loving sucks.

WattsvilleBlues
Jan 25, 2005

Every demon wants his pound of flesh

Hitlers Gay Secret posted:

Has anyone ever had Youtube never finish buffering before? I've been having stuttering problems lately and today videos just wont work period. Strange thing is that Youtube works fine on Chrome. I've tried clearing my cache and updated my plug-ins. I even uninstalled my extensions to see if that was it and that didn't help either. I really don't want to have to switch browsers every time I want to watch a video but this is getting on my nerves.

Are you using Flash or HTML5?

Flipperwaldt
Nov 11, 2011

Won't somebody think of the starving hamsters in China?



SpeedGem posted:

If there are more than 5 gifs on a page 37.0.2 crashes. It loads the first five gifs, and you can watch in real time as it eats itself in taskman.

calandryll posted:

I have something similar happen with Firefox. Opening the GIF thread and any other thread will cause images to disappear when I focus on that tab. This is on a new profile with updated drivers, etc. There was talk in another thread that is might be a imgur thing, at least in my case.
Ditto and ditto, but only occasionally. Not happening at all on 36.0.4.

It's got nothing to do with imgur, it's happening with pictures hosted on dropbox too and basically from anywhere else. Basically if the pictures are huge there's a highly increased risk it will happen.

Switching tabs back and forth will sometimes resolve the second thing, but the first thing only ends with force killing Firefox.

Seen the many reports of it happening to other people too. Maybe that discussion was in the Gif thread itself. I'm pretty convinced they hosed up something in 37.

Fangs404
Dec 20, 2004

I time bomb.

Flipperwaldt posted:

Seen the many reports of it happening to other people too. Maybe that discussion was in the Gif thread itself. I'm pretty convinced they hosed up something in 37.

Or you have a malfunctioning extension. Or your profile is messed up. Follow the troubleshooting instructions in the OP.

Flipperwaldt
Nov 11, 2011

Won't somebody think of the starving hamsters in China?



Went through all that. Doesn't make any difference whatsoever. I can almost completely reliably trigger it by loading page 88 of the gif thread at any stage of the process.

Geemer
Nov 4, 2010



Yeah, they hosed stuff up in 37. I've got the gif problem as well and they hosed up the icons in the taskbar context menu's frequent sites again.
Firefox is pretty bad, but the competition is worse.

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GenderSelectScreen
Mar 7, 2010

I DON'T KNOW EITHER DON'T ASK ME
College Slice

WattsvilleBlues posted:

Are you using Flash or HTML5?

HTML5, so most of the solutions on Google are moot, since they all were made before HTML5 was really a thing. And all the HTML5 related entries are all about how to revert it back to Flash, which you can't do anymore.

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