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Gorilla Salad posted:Yeah I just had Youtube Center disabled and damned if I can visit youtube without it. The firefox Dev userscript/greasemonkey script is working again if you don't want to turn off signing.
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Speaking of about :config fuckery, just in case anyone else has this problem, I had to set media.fragmented-mp4.enabled and media.fragmented-mp4.ffmpeg.enabled back to true to prevent FF 43 on Linux from crashing every time it tried to play an MP4. I'd toggled them to false manually a while back to get HTML5 on Youtube working before it was officially supported, so no one to blame but myself on this one, but I learned that trick from this thread months ago so maybe I can save someone else some troubleshooting.Marinmo posted:So in sum, where the few differences between browsers will lay in the future is basically speed and features/ease of use and perhaps partially extensions (at least until Firefox caught up with WebExt), and I honestly don't see Firefox winning any of them convincingly now or in the future. Speed perhaps, but I'm not so sure it translates into a real world gain as much as say having a big extension library enhances the user experience. Previous experience tells me Mozilla will probably find a way to squander whatever advantages they might have too, but I'm hopeful they've learnt something from losing roughly half of their market share over the last few years and turn the ship around. I'll believe it when I see it though.
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Dec 20, 2015 08:57
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The Gunslinger posted:If anyone else hates the "search for blah on Google" in the awesome bar, about :config and set browser.urlbar.unifiedcomplete to false. God help me if I ever somehow end up with a vanilla install of Firefox again because it feels like I've had to make about 20+ tweaks just to remove all of the annoying poo poo they've added over the years. I wondered why my search suggestions broke completely with firefox 43. Seems this was the culprit, disabling the unifiedcomplete whatever fixed the issue. It was really stupid to type complete urls just like in the 90's.
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Dec 20, 2015 11:25
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Knormal posted:When they switch to WebExt I really see a lot of the hardcore users moving over to whatever fork will inevitably appear to keep old extensions working, and if enough people do that then I don't see the extension writers redoing everything from scratch for the new API, which will lead more people to switch to the fork, and so on. I really think this could be the cause of another Firefox rising from Netscape's ashes situation.
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Dec 20, 2015 12:38
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SystemLogoff posted:The firefox Dev userscript/greasemonkey script is working again if you don't want to turn off signing. Done. Thanks.
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Dec 20, 2015 13:52
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Knormal posted:
This can only be a good thing. As everyone else has said, we don't need Chrome 2: Chrome But Worser Edition.
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Dec 20, 2015 14:17
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Chrome 2: Electric Googleoo?
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SystemLogoff posted:The firefox Dev userscript/greasemonkey script is working again if you don't want to turn off signing. I've had to turn off signing for Gmelius and Youtube Center, but wouldn't mind keeping it on - got a link to this? Having trouble tracking it down. Is it sorta like the old Nightly Tester Tools where you can selectively enable addons despite their unsigned status, etc?
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Dec 22, 2015 01:16
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What is the recommended extension for downloading 1080p Youtube video (VDH has the stupid watermark unless you fork over cash) or is this no longer possible given the audio/video components are now seperate?
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Dec 22, 2015 01:59
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Haeleus posted:What is the recommended extension for downloading 1080p Youtube video (VDH has the stupid watermark unless you fork over cash) or is this no longer possible given the audio/video components are now seperate? YouTube Video and Audio Downloader works great for this. Although you'll have to specifically tell it to grab 1080p video as that is disabled by default, I think.
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Dec 22, 2015 02:33
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Buff Skeleton posted:I've had to turn off signing for Gmelius and Youtube Center, but wouldn't mind keeping it on - got a link to this? Having trouble tracking it down. https://github.com/YePpHa/YouTubeCenter/wiki/Developer-Version Install newest greasemoney for firefox, install the userscript and you're good to go. I think it may be able to grab 1080p videos as well.
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Marinmo posted:That's also kinda my point: by now, who else but hardcore/power users are still using Firefox? For anecdotal evidence, most of my friends are "regular" users and not a single one of them uses Firefox any more. Hell, even I have switched by now (although I do miss the awesomebar - the one thing Mozilla got right and didn't gently caress up, yet) to Vivaldi (which is basically Chrome anyway). By going for WebExtensions and the removal of XUL - I understand especially the latter was considered necessary with the move to e10s - it seems to me that Mozilla is effectively alienating its last stronghold in the user base. What's the point of creating an alternative browser if all you're going to do is try to be like Chrome anyway? Hopefully the fork happens like you say, because at this point the purpose of Firefox to me is less and less clear. I have my partner using it, but only because she likes having browser sync and her Chrome account is hosed with some malware that even after cleaning. I have literally gone onto a brand new from the shop machine, signed into gmail as her, then logged onto Facebook and started getting "you have won a free iPhone" popups on every link. Were it not for that, I'd put Chrome back on so I don't have to deal with the complaints when she can't get things to work.
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Lum posted:I have my partner using it, but only because she likes having browser sync and her Chrome account is hosed with some malware that even after cleaning. I have literally gone onto a brand new from the shop machine, signed into gmail as her, then logged onto Facebook and started getting "you have won a free iPhone" popups on every link. Oh, you need to clear out her chrome sync'd extensions if you have not already. from a bbs posted:From your "Manage extensions" page (chrome://settings/extensions), click on "Visit website" for the extension you want to remove definitively. Then you need to do a browser refresh and that should hopefully kill the lingering problems. Edit: Wait, this isn't the chrome thread, oops.
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Assuming parity with favoured general-browsing extensions (uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, Ghostery), in terms of what Firefox offers me that other browsers do not (so far as I am aware), there is one thing on the list; a persistent bookmarks side-panel. For example, neither Chrome, nor any extension for it I've seen, offer anything close enough to, or as usable as, what FF offers on that front, and that is what keeps me using FF. For home browsing, anyway. For work, I switched to Chrome earlier on in the year (dev-focused app stuff, and collaboration tools that were in use by other colleagues). magimix fucked around with this message at 17:08 on Dec 22, 2015 |
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Dec 22, 2015 17:03
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AwesomeBar is the number one reason I still use Firefox. Number two reason is mostly that I've been using this browser for eleven years so I know the ins and outs really well and I'm too lazy to spend a couple days learning a new one.
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Dec 22, 2015 18:01
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It's Not Chrome™ is the main reason for me. Whenever I have to use Chrome, I get annoyed with it really fast and actually prefer IE over it. I haven't given Edge a try yet, since I haven't dipped my toes in Windows 10 yet.
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Dec 22, 2015 19:12
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Re: Why use Firefox. Apart from addons, I can gently caress around with the UI waaaaaaay more than Chrome allows me.
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Dec 22, 2015 19:29
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Read posted:Re: Why use Firefox. This. I have buttons on the left (except for hamburger) and more importantly can un-close tabs by middle clicking the tab bar or new tab button. That feature will have to be pried from my cold, dead hands. Edit: for mobile, I just plain like Firefox more than chrome.
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Dec 22, 2015 20:01
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Pikestaff posted:AwesomeBar is the number one reason I still use Firefox. Number two reason is mostly that I've been using this browser for eleven years so I know the ins and outs really well and I'm too lazy to spend a couple days learning a new one. The lack of Tab Mix Plus on Chrome is the big reason I still use Firefox. That and Googles inconsistent behavior in software development and product support.
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Dec 22, 2015 20:06
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The Gunslinger posted:The lack of Tab Mix Plus on Chrome is the big reason I still use Firefox. That and Googles inconsistent behavior in software development and product support. I feel you. I'd probably switch over if Chrome had Tab Mix Plus/Tab Utilities and Session Manager. All of Chrome's equivalent are seriously lacking. FireFox also handles an assload of tabs better than Chrome, so that's another point.
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Dec 22, 2015 20:18
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What brought me back to Firefox ~8 months ago was Chrome's crappy bookmark menu (or lack thereof, really). I just want my bookmarks in a menu; I don't need some stupid toolbar. I'd looked for an extension for Chrome to emulate Firefox's bookmarks menu, but couldn't find one that didn't require shady permissions that the Chrome thread didn't explain.
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My only complaint with Firefox after being back to it for a few weeks is that it doesn't have Chrome's ability to start typing a site URL and hit tab to search it. I hate having the little side search box where you have to specify what site you want to search and it feels really outdated. I don't think I like the desktop version at all, but I want to have my devices sync up. Still worth it to have ad blocking on my phone browser of course.
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Meldonox posted:My only complaint with Firefox after being back to it for a few weeks is that it doesn't have Chrome's ability to start typing a site URL and hit tab to search it. I hate having the little side search box where you have to specify what site you want to search and it feels really outdated. I don't think I like the desktop version at all, but I want to have my devices sync up. I had this gripe too, but quickly got used to one-letter website keywords. So, I have a Wikipedia search shortcut mapped to "w", so I just do "w interesting thing" and it searches Wikipedia automatically.
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Dec 22, 2015 21:04
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I need to get those set up again. I used to do that when I originally used Firefox and it was one of the bigger changes switching to Chrome years ago. It just feels obsolete to have to set things up manually. Did they ever streamline the process? When I first set them up it felt like it was a hidden feature. I'd imagine once that's done I'll be happy as a clam with Firefox again. In fact, once they're set up, can I hide the search box?
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It's a little weird to set up. I have a bookmarks folder called "Searching", and for example the YouTube one has a location of https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%s and a keyword of y. And yes, you can get rid of the search bar once you set these up.
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You can right-click a search box and select "Add a Keyword for This Search" to do it pretty quick and easy. Doesn't work with all of them, but I just tested Wikipedia and it handles that fine.
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Read posted:Re: Why use Firefox.
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Live Bookmarks are why I don't use Chrome. They have become such a huge part of my browsing habits by now and I haven't found anything on Chrome that matches the ease of use.
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Im_Special posted:Removes the HTML fullscreen warning. Thank you for this.
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Marinmo posted:And my point was that once they remove XUL - which is as soon as you'd want decent e10s support as far as I understand - that's gone. At least until all extension developers rewrite their extensions in WebExtensions, at which point you might as well be using Chrome? That said, no one knows how much WebExts will allow for controlling the UI, but given the direction Mozilla has taken Firefox in general so far (and that WebExts aims to be similar Chrome's API), it wouldn't be a big surprise to see customization options being way more limited. Time will tell I guess, one can only hope. Oh okay, I misunderstood what XUL was. I get you now.
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SystemLogoff posted:https://github.com/YePpHa/YouTubeCenter/wiki/Developer-Version Oh derr, this was about Youtube Center, not something else which allows you to selectively bypass addon signing  Thanks!
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JohnnyCanuck posted:So if anyone is wondering why the mute tab button isn't working on some tabs anymore it's apparently an issue on Adobe's end with the latest version of Flash. Twitch streams are a lot more annoying to manage without it, hope they fix this soon. Or better, Twitch finally transitions out of Flash completely.
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e: resolved. Found the old add-on living on some German website and messed with my Firefox config to allow it without a signature. Jedi Knight Luigi fucked around with this message at 23:17 on Dec 23, 2015 |
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Blue Footed Booby posted:more importantly can un-close tabs by middle clicking the tab bar or new tab button. That feature will have to be pried from my cold, dead hands. ctrl (CMD on a Mac) + shift + T in Chrome
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pairofdimes posted:I enabled it following the instructions here: I flipped these settings and things are in fact screaming. At least for release channel 64bit on Windows 10. I'll try it later on my MBA running Developer Edition
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I think I got e10s working? SALR is broken though, might just rollback to regular 64bit. But hot daaaaaaamn is the scrolling smooth or what.
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timg tags seemed to be dead for me on SA for a bit, but it turned out uBlock Origin and Tracking Protection were tag-teaming them, It also made me realise how much I love modern browsers' F12 dev tools. Hargrimm posted:You can right-click a search box and select "Add a Keyword for This Search" to do it pretty quick and easy. Doesn't work with all of them, but I just tested Wikipedia and it handles that fine. Keyword searching is incredible and it's become second nature for me to set one up for any site I can see myself using more than a couple of times. That's one of my major reasons not to switch to Chrome.
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Enallyniv posted:Keyword searching is incredible and it's become second nature for me to set one up for any site I can see myself using more than a couple of times. That's one of my major reasons not to switch to Chrome.
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Did that e10s enabling thing. Installed the beta version of e10s lastpass as it seems to be the only addon I have that's broken in a way I can't deal with. Soo nice. It's even not totally lovely on my GF's BayTrail tablet.
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