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Stuff like this makes me wish there was a really good alternative to Firefox because I'm getting a bit tired of Mozilla being stupid constantly. Shame Edge is so featureless and I have other issues with Chrome entirely.
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Knormal posted:Easiest way is Help > Restart with Add-ons Disabled. It's not a true clean profile, but if it's an add-on issue that might catch it. Restarting without add-ons got Google Maps to behave. Now comes the fun part of figuring out which add-on is causing the problem! Edit: Does that restart option disable anything in addition to extensions? Because I've manually disabled all extensions and the problem still happens. hooah fucked around with this message at 13:36 on Aug 13, 2015 |
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Is there an easy way to change text and background colors on various sites? The white background black text gives me headaches and turning the brightness down on my monitor to read then back up to watch YouTube is a pain.
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Aug 13, 2015 14:01
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SteviaFan420 posted:Is there an easy way to change text and background colors on various sites? The white background black text gives me headaches and turning the brightness down on my monitor to read then back up to watch YouTube is a pain. Isn't that what the Stylish plugin can do? I don't use it myself, but I've heard of other goons using it to make SA have a dark theme.
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Aug 13, 2015 14:28
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Nalin posted:So, there is apparently a bug with Firefox 40 and the latest NVIDIA drivers for Windows 10. Mozilla has blacklisted the driver and disabled Direct2D/DirectWrite in Firefox. If things are a tearing, jittery mess, and things don't look right, check your about :support to see if hardware acceleration was disabled. I'm glad I checked here before wasting any time troubleshooting this. Is there a bugzilla page or something for this? Does rolling back to 39.0.3 fix it?
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SteviaFan420 posted:Is there an easy way to change text and background colors on various sites? The white background black text gives me headaches and turning the brightness down on my monitor to read then back up to watch YouTube is a pain. NoSquint?
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xamphear posted:I'm glad I checked here before wasting any time troubleshooting this. Is there a bugzilla page or something for this? Does rolling back to 39.0.3 fix it? Edit: This also fixes the black-google maps-problem which some users (including me) had. Marinmo fucked around with this message at 16:58 on Aug 13, 2015 |
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Aug 13, 2015 16:55
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Marinmo posted:Turns out you're in luck; unlike Mozilla, Nvidia apparently isn't total poo poo and released a new driver today. Why do you assume the bug was with Firefox and not Nvidia's drivers? If you have any details on the situation I'd be interested in reading about what really happened.
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Aug 13, 2015 17:25
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Marinmo posted:Turns out you're in luck; unlike Mozilla, Nvidia apparently isn't total poo poo and released a new driver today. Get it here (Win10 64bit, from UK), install, restart firefox, go to about :config and set gfx.font_rendering.directwrite.enabled to true, restart firefox again and things should be back to normal. Just upgraded the driver, though I'm not sure there's any concrete proof it fixes whatever issue Firefox has with Nvidia cards. Countdown until Mozilla adds 355.60 to the blacklist starts now.
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Aug 13, 2015 17:27
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Well, whoever's fault it is, that fixes my Google Maps problem. Thanks!
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Avenging Dentist posted:Why do you assume the bug was with Firefox and not Nvidia's drivers? If you have any details on the situation I'd be interested in reading about what really happened. No matter how you look at it, no matter whose "fault" it was, this was nothing short of disastrous from Mozilla. I cannot provide any details because of the reasons listed above. xamphear posted:Just upgraded the driver, though I'm not sure there's any concrete proof it fixes whatever issue Firefox has with Nvidia cards. Countdown until Mozilla adds 355.60 to the blacklist starts now.
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Aug 13, 2015 17:51
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Marinmo posted:I'm not so sure there's another way to triage it since the only thing that changed was Firefox; the driver worked fine with 39.0.3. I've ran multiple searches on the bugzilla for information about the problem (using direct write, directwrite, direct2d, nvidia, font rendering, windows 10 as variables in different combinations). There's not even any mention of "oops we turned off directwrite" in the changelog. I really don't understand why people are moving to Windows 10 immediately after release if they want a trouble-free experience. Obviously the first month or three is going to be a nightmare of bugs as OEMs struggle to release working drivers.
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Aug 13, 2015 18:18
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Marinmo posted:Turns out you're in luck; unlike Mozilla, Nvidia apparently isn't total poo poo and released a new driver today. Get it here (Win10 64bit, from UK), install, restart firefox, go to about :config and set gfx.font_rendering.directwrite.enabled to true, restart firefox again and things should be back to normal. Be aware that this driver isn't "fixed". If you enable layers acceleration, Firefox 40 will break.
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Alereon posted:Here's the bug, the broken nVidia driver was atttributed as the #3 most common cause of Firefox crashes under Windows 10. Generally it's preferred to have a temporary performance loss until users update their driver, compared to the browser crashing all the time. quote:Anthony Hughes, QA Mentor (:ashughes) 2015-08-13 09:21:13 PDT I don't understand why you block something when you're not even fairly certain it's the root cause. Nalin posted:Be aware that this driver isn't "fixed". If you enable layers acceleration, Firefox 40 will break. quote:Jeff Muizelaar [:jrmuizel] 2015-08-12 23:28:29 PDT
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Aug 13, 2015 18:44
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Nah, it will still break Firefox horribly if you force enable the graphics features. I tried it and the UI stopped painting properly. There must be something else that needs to be enabled. But hopefully it will work correctly when they remove the block.
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Aug 13, 2015 18:54
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SteviaFan420 posted:Is there an easy way to change text and background colors on various sites? The white background black text gives me headaches and turning the brightness down on my monitor to read then back up to watch YouTube is a pain. Black Background and White Text 0.3.7.1 addon.
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Aug 13, 2015 19:22
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SteviaFan420 posted:Is there an easy way to change text and background colors on various sites? The white background black text gives me headaches and turning the brightness down on my monitor to read then back up to watch YouTube is a pain. Stylish is awesome. I use dark themes for Google and Youtube, and it makes them look so much nicer and easier on the eyes. You can search for styles for pretty much any given site or make your own if you're savvy.
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Aug 13, 2015 19:46
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Marinmo posted:Thank heavens for the bugzilla link. Further, even Mozilla QA seems to think this was a huge mistake:
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Any way to move the burger menu to the left of the navbar without using classic theme restorer as that seems to lag my browser.
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The blacklist on the latest NVIDIA drivers have been removed. It will automatically download the new blacklist tomorrow, or, if you are impatient, you can force an update: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Blocklisting/Testing#Forcing_a_Blocklist_Ping 1) Press F12 to open the web dev console. 2) Click the gear on the top-right. 3) Under Advanced Settings, check the "Enable browser chrome and add-on debugging toolboxes" setting. 4) Close the web dev console and press CTRL+SHIFT+J 5) In the new window, paste this in and press enter: code:
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If you just updated to Firefox 40 and Ctrl+L and Ctrl+K stopped working for you check if you have Australis Slimmr installed. For some reason it is eating those shortcuts. Ctrl+L can be fixed by disabling the "Enable Select Location Bar" option but I can't figure out how to fix Ctrl+K without disabling the add-on entirely.
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Mr.Radar posted:If you just updated to Firefox 40 and Ctrl+L and Ctrl+K stopped working for you check if you have Australis Slimmr installed. For some reason it is eating those shortcuts. Ctrl+L can be fixed by disabling the "Enable Select Location Bar" option but I can't figure out how to fix Ctrl+K without disabling the add-on entirely. Does Ctrl E work for search in the meantime?
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WattsvilleBlues posted:Does Ctrl E work for search in the meantime? Yeah, but I just disabled Australis Slimmr since I've been using Ctrl+K since Firefox was Phoenix and it's a hard habit to break. I mainly posted in case anyone else was having the same issue and wanted to know WTF was happening.
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Aug 14, 2015 03:31
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When did control+enter start meaning the same thing as just plain enter? It keeps going to whatever bullshit the address bar wants to autocomplete instead of going to <what I just typed>.com
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dis astranagant posted:When did control+enter start meaning the same thing as just plain enter? It keeps going to whatever bullshit the address bar wants to autocomplete instead of going to <what I just typed>.com Been that way for quite some time, I too mourn this loss 
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dis astranagant posted:When did control+enter start meaning the same thing as just plain enter? It keeps going to whatever bullshit the address bar wants to autocomplete instead of going to <what I just typed>.com
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dis astranagant posted:When did control+enter start meaning the same thing as just plain enter? It keeps going to whatever bullshit the address bar wants to autocomplete instead of going to <what I just typed>.com Works fine for me. Probably configurable.
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I've been using chrome for years and I feel like it has just gotten bloated and its memory usage has increased a lot over time. Looking around I saw some suggestions for Firefox, do you all think it would be the best choice for a browser for me? Things I want in a browser: I like being able to search google in the url bar (Maxthon does this obnoxious thing where it continually refreshes the search page as I type out the query). I liked chrome's ability to drag tabs apart to be a separate window, but that's not a dealbreaker if it's not the case. Incognito / private browsing is a plus. Finally, the only addon I need to use is a form of adblock. What do you think? E; briefly mentioned but forgot to say it was important that it use less (maybe a LOT less because I don't need many features) memory than chrome. E2; looking into low memory browsers it became apparent that not all support JS/Flash/Java and I suppose I need those for youtube/soundcloud. I guess what I'm asking is, is firefox better than chrome and/or maxthon now? Blowdryer fucked around with this message at 05:44 on Aug 15, 2015 |
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Aug 15, 2015 04:46
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Firefox can do all the things you said.
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The hardware vsync stuff they did in Firefox 40 has dramatically increased the perception of how smooth the browser is. I am liking it very much. Scrolling is smooth and doesn't tear anymore. I dare say it feels as fast as Chrome does at this point.
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Blowdryer posted:I've been using chrome for years and I feel like it has just gotten bloated and its memory usage has increased a lot over time. Looking around I saw some suggestions for Firefox, do you all think it would be the best choice for a browser for me? Things I want in a browser: I like being able to search google in the url bar (Maxthon does this obnoxious thing where it continually refreshes the search page as I type out the query). I liked chrome's ability to drag tabs apart to be a separate window, but that's not a dealbreaker if it's not the case. Incognito / private browsing is a plus. Finally, the only addon I need to use is a form of adblock. What do you think? It's only a browser, you don't have to stick with it like an arranged marriage or something if you can't stand the son of a bitch. Download Firefox and use it with uBlock Origin and Web of Trust and see what you think.
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Blowdryer posted:I've been using chrome for years and I feel like it has just gotten bloated and its memory usage has increased a lot over time. Looking around I saw some suggestions for Firefox, do you all think it would be the best choice for a browser for me? Things I want in a browser: I like being able to search google in the url bar (Maxthon does this obnoxious thing where it continually refreshes the search page as I type out the query). I liked chrome's ability to drag tabs apart to be a separate window, but that's not a dealbreaker if it's not the case. Incognito / private browsing is a plus. Finally, the only addon I need to use is a form of adblock. What do you think? Having more features doesn't mean a browser will use more RAM, and vice versa for less features. Why is minimizing RAM usage from your browser so critical for you? I ask because a lot of people seem to be under the impression that using less RAM makes a program better or something, when (for example) Chrome uses a lot of RAM for perfectly good reasons.
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Is there a way (FF addon, userscript, anything) to change linked URLs on the fly? In particular, there are some old blogs I was reading, and they linked to their Steam screenshots, but since then the link format changed from code:code:
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Should I be using ublock or ublock origin? Doesn't seem like they're any different, but I'm dumb. I'm on ublock.
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Ryuga Death posted:Should I be using ublock or ublock origin? Doesn't seem like they're any different, but I'm dumb. I'm on ublock. uBlock plain hasn't updated since like may, u Block Origin has, so I use Origin. You might want to export your settings from uBlock plain to re-import to Origin, sometimes it doesn't catch them properly when you switch.
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Just a heads up, if you're for whatever reason still on firefox 40 (not 40.0.2), you won't be able to log in to gmail.
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Are bookmarks acting strange for anyone else? It used to be that I could click on the little bookmark star to bookmark something, and then click it again to organize and tag it. Now it just does the little star animation but doesn't actually bookmark anything. edit: nvm I disabled a couple addons and after that a browser restart seemed to fix it Pikestaff fucked around with this message at 17:47 on Aug 15, 2015 |
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Read posted:Having more features doesn't mean a browser will use more RAM, and vice versa for less features. Why is minimizing RAM usage from your browser so critical for you? I ask because a lot of people seem to be under the impression that using less RAM makes a program better or something, when (for example) Chrome uses a lot of RAM for perfectly good reasons. Running a browser while running a game is why I was looking for a lightweight browser, it gets bad when I play dota or divinity original sin and try to have something up (music/guides/whatever).
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Blowdryer posted:E2; looking into low memory browsers it became apparent that not all support JS/Flash/Java and I suppose I need those for youtube/soundcloud. I guess what I'm asking is, is firefox better than chrome and/or maxthon now?
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orcane posted:Is there a way (FF addon, userscript, anything) to change linked URLs on the fly? In particular, there are some old blogs I was reading, and they linked to their Steam screenshots, but since then the link format changed from You could hack something up with greasemonkey to do this. Probably easiest to just steal a userscript that does a similar thing and editing it a bit.
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