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Blowdryer posted: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). Browsers are essentially accelerated Javascript virtual machines now. There are no lightweight browsers worth using in 2015. (And you're not in a thread for one now.)
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Want a really lightweight browser? http://offbyone.com/offbyone/ Won't handle full HTML 4 though.. Want one that's still pretty lightweight, but will handle modern sites? Try K-Meleon, which also uses Gecko rendering engine like Firefox. http://kmeleonbrowser.org/
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For some reason the update to FF40 has moved the green progress bar that's supposed to be at the bottom of the location bar, over to the side. Guessing this is a bug in status-4-eva, but anyone else seen it?
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Aug 16, 2015 14:28
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Firefox 42 (on the Developer channel at the moment) has this really cool feature - any tab with audio playing has a speaker icon beside the favicon in the tab bar. If you click the speaker, it mutes the tab's audio. Nice!
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Aug 16, 2015 15:53
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WattsvilleBlues posted:Firefox 42 (on the Developer channel at the moment) has this really cool feature - any tab with audio playing has a speaker icon beside the favicon in the tab bar. That's in Safari (on El Capitan) right now too, I think Chrome or someone had it earlier too.
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Aug 16, 2015 16:52
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computer parts posted:That's in Safari (on El Capitan) right now too, I think Chrome or someone had it earlier too. Chrome has an icon for sound, but it has no function besides visually indicating something is playing.
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I have an interesting problem with 40.0.2. Opening up threads from the usercontrol panel using a greasemonkey causes the third tab to act as if it is still loading. Even if it has completed loading. And from there I can not close the tab. I'm guessing it's a greasemonkey issue with the update. Edit: Looks like it crashes Firefox if I try to close the tab and any tabs preceding it. Everything works fine without greasemonkey enabled. calandryll fucked around with this message at 18:16 on Aug 16, 2015 |
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Aug 16, 2015 18:13
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WattsvilleBlues posted:Firefox 42 (on the Developer channel at the moment) has this really cool feature - any tab with audio playing has a speaker icon beside the favicon in the tab bar. I'm using an addon right now that does this same thing - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noise-control/ It'll be nice to have it built into Firefox but if anyone else wants it beforehand (and doesn't use 42 yet) have at it.
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Aug 16, 2015 19:17
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Pikestaff posted:I'm using an addon right now that does this same thing - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noise-control/ One important difference between this add-on and the built-in Firefox feature is that the latter can mute Flash too.
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Aug 16, 2015 19:33
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WattsvilleBlues posted:Chrome has an icon for sound, but it has no function besides visually indicating something is playing. you can make it also mute sound in chrome flags
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Aug 16, 2015 19:44
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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 downgraded to FF 39 an hour ago and things are back to normal. I guess I'll wait to upgrade FF again when Nvidia and Mozilla are back in sync? nnnotime fucked around with this message at 05:59 on Aug 17, 2015 |
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Aug 17, 2015 05:56
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I was upgraded to 41 (beta) yesterday, and now my search suggestions in the search bar aren't working at all. And yes, the search suggestions option box is still there and checked. That was one of my favorite features of the browser that separated it from all of its competitors to me. Solutions? Edit: Ok, it's still kinda working, but it only displays one possible answer. Is there any way to restore previous behavior through about:config or something? Thauros fucked around with this message at 06:36 on Aug 17, 2015 |
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Aug 17, 2015 06:32
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nnnotime posted:Just coming in to check on any issues with 40, since I auto-updated yesterday (on Windows 8.1, to version 40.0.2) and had terrible lag on many pages, especially pages with animations (like these forums). I have an Nvidia GTX 780 but not the latest drivers, as everything has been stable with my gaming apps since the last graphic drivers upgrade (running Nvidia driver version 377.48).
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Aug 17, 2015 08:03
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nnnotime posted:Just coming in to check on any issues with 40, since I auto-updated yesterday (on Windows 8.1, to version 40.0.2) and had terrible lag on many pages, especially pages with animations (like these forums). I have an Nvidia GTX 780 but not the latest drivers, as everything has been stable with my gaming apps since the last graphic drivers upgrade (running Nvidia driver version 377.48). It's already been fixed. They removed the driver from the blacklist. If your blacklist isn't updating, you can follow the instructions I wrote on the last page: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?action=showpost&postid=448946874&forumid=22
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Aug 17, 2015 08:20
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nnnotime posted:Just coming in to check on any issues with 40, since I auto-updated yesterday (on Windows 8.1, to version 40.0.2) and had terrible lag on many pages, especially pages with animations (like these forums). I have an Nvidia GTX 780 but not the latest drivers, as everything has been stable with my gaming apps since the last graphic drivers upgrade (running Nvidia driver version 377.48). You might want to be on 38.2.0. There are a few security fixes missing in 39; 38.0.2 is the Extended Support Release and will get security fixes for months. 39 is already end of life.
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Wow, thanks. You guys are really good at this (better than me).
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Aug 18, 2015 03:48
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Nalin posted: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: FYI, the order of instructions you listed does not match those on the Mozilla page you linked. Step 6 is supposed to occur after step 3. Also, when I tried this and pasted the code into the console, the console response was "undefined", so I assume that means the command from Mozilla is incorrect. And then I still noticed the same behavior with 40.0.2 I had before. I will go back to 38.2.0 for now. This has to be a pain for the average non-techie person running Firefox, unless they get some technical help.
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Aug 18, 2015 05:58
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nnnotime posted:Also, when I tried this and pasted the code into the console, the console response was "undefined", so I assume that means the command from Mozilla is incorrect. That just means the function you called didn't return a value. Don't worry about that. 
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nnnotime posted:FYI, the order of instructions you listed does not match those on the Mozilla page you linked. Step 6 is supposed to occur after step 3. I didn't restart Firefox after doing step 3 and it worked fine for me. You will know it worked when the about :support page has "Direct2D Enabled" set to "true".
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astral posted:That just means the function you called didn't return a value. Don't worry about that.
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nnnotime posted:Thanks for the clarification on that. If that's normal, like a void return value in Java, then the console shouldn't return back any message except that the command was executed, to avoid confusion, IMO. Yeah, but Javascript is a bad language.
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Avenging Dentist posted:Yeah, but Javascript is a bad language. This cannot be stressed enough
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The Milkman posted:This cannot be stressed enough *Changes may not take effect immediately
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Anyone else use EFF Privacy Badger and seeing it break a lot of sites recently? Affected sites don't load CSS, but toggling on all things it says its blocking doesn't fix it, the only way to correct the issue is to disable the extension on that site entirely.
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It's been really loving obnoxious for me of late. I end up having to go in and authorize every last subdomain on a site, and I can't get the whitelists to work. The biggest culprit for CSS breakage for me is uBlock though.
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I just had to disable it on G+ to be able to view embedded YouTube videos without getting a generic error message.
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Is anyone else having problems with PDFs? Trying to view a PDF in Firefox just results in a blank page or semi-blank page. Same thing happens in Safe Mode. edit: to clarify, the image of the PDF itself is blank. The screen does load all the UI stuff. Pikestaff fucked around with this message at 19:57 on Aug 20, 2015 |
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Anyone know how to recover cached stylesheets, and whether firefox caches html itself? I just refreshed a webpage whose CSS I had been cribbing, and of course it's down for the count.
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Newf posted:Anyone know how to recover cached stylesheets, and whether firefox caches html itself? I just refreshed a webpage whose CSS I had been cribbing, and of course it's down for the count. Just put the url into archive.org you don't have 11 hours to search through semi randomly named cache files
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Newf posted:Anyone know how to recover cached stylesheets, and whether firefox caches html itself? I just refreshed a webpage whose CSS I had been cribbing, and of course it's down for the count.
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Nintendo Kid posted:you don't have 11 hours to search through semi randomly named cache files I'll have you know I just started my vacation. edit: This has mostly worked, but images which were originally a carousel are now stacked. It looks like some js files were loaded out of order or were interfered with by the archive.org toolbar, but I've got enough to go on while waiting for the site to fix itself. Thanks. Newf fucked around with this message at 03:34 on Aug 21, 2015 |
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Ugh, I think I'm going to drop Privacybadger and take my chances with something else. I leave the house for fourteen hours and it somehow goes from bad to downright obnoxious.
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Bieeardo posted:Ugh, I think I'm going to drop Privacybadger and take my chances with something else. I leave the house for fourteen hours and it somehow goes from bad to downright obnoxious.
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Thanks, I've just done that now. I may experiment with uMatrix, but I'm going to refresh my memory of how things work without finer-grained fiddling. Pity about the EFF's addons. I really like the sentiment behind them.
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https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2015/08/21/the-future-of-developing-firefox-add-ons/ ... huh, wonder if that's gonna kill some of the crustier addons I use.
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Tivac posted:https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2015/08/21/the-future-of-developing-firefox-add-ons/ FWIW the (or one, there's no attribution) DownThemAll! developers are not very happy: "DownThemAll! posted:What does this mean for DownThemAll!? Well, for starters, DownThemAll! will be dead if XUL-based add-ons with XPCOM access are gone. Simple as that. The new APIs would only allow for a severely limited in functionality, severely stripped down DownThemAll! at best.
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I'll wait and see but probably the biggest draw of Firefox over chrome is that if the devs implement some stupid misfeature or usability regression an add-on will be able to fix it. Both the chrome team and Mozilla have a real problem catering to all but the lowest common denominators, and with chrome extensions you just can't pick up the slack. Seriously check either bug tracker and see hundreds of bugs closed as working as intended with really condescending responses. The fact that they're talking so much about making multi-browser extensions standard really had me worried because a lot of things just aren't possible in chrome or other browsers. e: quote:Removing the permissive addons model is pure Kryptonite. It will limit innovation. Desuwa fucked around with this message at 20:25 on Aug 21, 2015 |
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gently caress. The only hope left is Vivaldi then, since it at least supports vertical tab bars.
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Tivac posted:https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2015/08/21/the-future-of-developing-firefox-add-ons/ It'll kill everything that's not actively maintained and just kinda trucking along, but the bigger impact will be that it'll greatly limit what new things can be done in the future. Even if they manage to support all major existing addons (which is unlikely, considering how much stuff still doesn't work with e10s and possibly won't ever work with e10s), it pretty much eliminates the ability for extensions to modify the browser in ways that the FF devs never even thought of.
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If it's like chrome extensions will only be able to call APIs the developers have implemented. So modifications the devs don't foresee, feel like supporting, or want to allow will be impossible. If it gets locked down too much or too many add-ons stop working I might give some of those Firefox derivatives a look out just bite the bullet and go to chrome. I hate how, to chrome, I'm not The User(tm) but if I've can't customize either browser there's no point in choosing Firefox.
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