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Do I use uMatrix along side uBlock Origin/the built in tracking protection?
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Feb 24, 2016 04:23
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Boris Galerkin posted:Do I use uMatrix along side uBlock Origin/the built in tracking protection? With uBlock Origin and without Firefox native. Firefox native tracking protection is the kind of overzealous disconnect.me joint that will break more social media stuff than just Facebook. By default. There's a scorched earth option. Twitter is now apparently a legitimate source of news. You can see the problem here.
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Feb 24, 2016 05:14
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It's good to destroy facebook
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Feb 24, 2016 05:23
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No poo poo, but at least uMatrix has heard of nuance.
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Feb 24, 2016 05:29
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Sir Unimaginative posted:With uBlock Origin and without Firefox native. In this case do I still leave "Send Do Not Track Request" from the menu on?
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Feb 24, 2016 09:11
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Boris Galerkin posted:In this case do I still leave "Send Do Not Track Request" from the menu on? Sure, maybe the handful of companies that honor do not track requests will acknowledge it while tracking by the entire rest of the Internet, which doesn't give a poo poo about those, will be blocked by the extension.
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Feb 24, 2016 14:13
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EFF's own Privacy Badger is a good replacement for Ghostery. You can set most 3rd party sites to yellow (allow connections but delete cookies) for a good medium between compatibility and avoiding cross-site tracking.
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Feb 24, 2016 15:22
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Khablam posted:EFF's own Privacy Badger is a good replacement for Ghostery. You can set most 3rd party sites to yellow (allow connections but delete cookies) for a good medium between compatibility and avoiding cross-site tracking. I use self destructing cookies, it does this and also deletes local store javascript things.
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Feb 24, 2016 15:30
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I had to get rid of Privacy Badger back in August, because it was behaving badly, preventing CSS from loading on various sites, and fun stuff like that.
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Feb 24, 2016 17:09
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Truga posted:I use self destructing cookies, it does this and also deletes local store javascript things. I use this too. The problem with it though is that adding sites to the whitelist overrides your other cookie settings. Like deleting after expiration and denying third-party ones. So if you whitelist a site that you use, that site can then set third party cookies. I keep meaning to email the developer about this but I'm pretty lazy.
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Feb 24, 2016 20:19
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Fangs404 posted:If you've exhausted that list, it might be a hardware problem. Have you ever run memtest before? Scanned your hard drive for bad sectors? Finally had some time to run Memtest86+. I let it run overnight Monday, and Tuesday morning, it had gone through 8 cycles, with no errors, so my memory is still OK. Windows did a boot time scan of the HDD not that long ago, because there was a power surge while I was at work, and it came back fine. Firefox still crashing because it can, though not quite as frequently. If I've had it closed for a length of time (while I'm eating dinner, or after going to bed, going to work the next day, then coming home), it will crash shortly after I open it, and then it's good for a bit. I have it send a report every time it crashes.
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Feb 25, 2016 00:08
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Try running Crystal Disk Info (portable edition ZIP), if it shows Caution for any drives, that indicates that drive is failing and will need to be replaced.
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Feb 25, 2016 03:06
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Alereon posted:Try running Crystal Disk Info (portable edition ZIP), if it shows Caution for any drives, that indicates that drive is failing and will need to be replaced. In addition to this, I'm a big fan of Steve Gibson's SpinRite. It's a tad pricey, but it's essentially a lifetime license and works as a hard drive maintenance tool as much as it does a recovery tool. It could definitely help out here.
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Feb 25, 2016 04:22
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Fangs404 posted:In addition to this, I'm a big fan of Steve Gibson's SpinRite. It's a tad pricey, but it's essentially a lifetime license and works as a hard drive maintenance tool as much as it does a recovery tool. It could definitely help out here. Steve Gibson is not highly regarded at all in the industry. He kind of reflects the bad old days of computing when anyone who knew enough to be dangerous could call themselves an "expert" and sell their services/products. VVVV MHDD is free and makes a pretty display, color-coding sectors by access time. Alereon fucked around with this message at 05:02 on Feb 25, 2016 |
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Feb 25, 2016 04:47
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I remember using SpinRite only to verify a drive was actually super hosed. Basically if a drive was in question we backed everything up, set it all up, then ran SpinRite on the old one because you could tell pretty quickly whether it was screwed or not. Not that useful but it gave us an out to basically take a picture of the results and go "Yeah, see all those red bits? That's bad, you need a new drive." Much more obvious than the standard chkdsk result, but only really useful to CYA.
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Feb 25, 2016 04:57
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uMatrix is a pain in the butt. If you got time or aspergers, finding the one restriction that makes a page not render properly, while leaving the others in place, is probably fun. I don't have time to repeatedly play a game of mole-whacking just so embedded youtube-players show up. I've been using it for two days, and am already starting to switch it off completely on some pages. There needs to be some middle ground between this and Ghostery.
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Feb 25, 2016 09:28
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I downloaded uMatrix and yeah I don't have enough aspergers to get this set up.
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Feb 25, 2016 10:00
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Kheldarn posted:Firefox still crashing because it can, though not quite as frequently. If I've had it closed for a length of time (while I'm eating dinner, or after going to bed, going to work the next day, then coming home), it will crash shortly after I open it, and then it's good for a bit. I have it send a report every time it crashes. Go to about :crashes, and link some of the crash reports here. It could provide an idea of whether it's a plugin issue or something already known.
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Feb 25, 2016 10:14
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syntaxfunction posted:I remember using SpinRite only to verify a drive was actually super hosed. Basically if a drive was in question we backed everything up, set it all up, then ran SpinRite on the old one because you could tell pretty quickly whether it was screwed or not. Not that useful but it gave us an out to basically take a picture of the results and go "Yeah, see all those red bits? That's bad, you need a new drive." Much more obvious than the standard chkdsk result, but only really useful to CYA. That's a pretty expensive way of presenting the same information in a different format? Spinrite is functionally chkdsk /r only it will re-try some insane number of times (2 or 3 thousand or something) and then it'll just write the average result and call it recovered. There are vanishingly few times that will ever be useful to anyone. If the drive is still good, restore from backup. If the drive isn't good, take the cost of a spinrite license and buy a new one. Then restore from backup. It's literal only use is if you're billing by the hour and you can leave it running for 72 hours or something and claim you're 'doing recovery'.
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Feb 25, 2016 15:58
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Recently I've found that Firefox isn't going to the right spot on forum pages with lots of images. Rather than the first unread post, it just goes wherever. It used to always reset itself after loading images, is there a way to force it to?
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Feb 25, 2016 16:33
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Gorilla Salad posted:Recently I've found that Firefox isn't going to the right spot on forum pages with lots of images. It goes to the right spot, then another image starts loading and it moves it away. I think if you don't scroll at all it'll move to the right spot again after it finishes loading everything. That said, just hit enter again on the address bar and it'll scroll to the correct # thing.
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Feb 25, 2016 16:39
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It's because of the fancy new webm and Twitter integration. Especially Twitter loads a bit later than when the page thinks it's done loading and makes the browser go to the correct point, so you get hosed up alignment.
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Feb 25, 2016 19:28
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Applebees posted:Go to about :crashes, and link some of the crash reports here. It could provide an idea of whether it's a plugin issue or something already known. Here's the three latest: 2/24/2016 5:07 PM, 2/24/2016 8:08 PM, 2/25/2016 5:53 PM.
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Feb 26, 2016 00:31
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Khablam posted:That's a pretty expensive way of presenting the same information in a different format? I didn't pay for the license, that was my old boss. Decided it was the best way to do things. I argued all the points you made but in the end he decided it was the best way to go with it. Whatever, it basically meant I fixed a computer (We were a small time shop) and then the day before it was finished and finalised I ran SpinRite while doing other stuff. Like I said, I know it's completely useless but apparently the boss thought that was the way to go on it. There was only one actual computer set up with SpinRite, and we just plugged it into a caddy (I believe USB1.0 because he was too cheap to get decent ones) to run it. Honestly, it wasn't terrible. It certainly wasn't a great system but it didn't take up any of our time while we did other things, and it did give a pretty report that actually did shut up a few customers who claimed their drives were fine. So iunno, it worked? Edit: To make this about Firefox, is 64-bit standard yet? I think I'm still on 32. Any problems with uninstalling FF and installing 64 bit or should I wait a bit? I know it's "out" but I can't remember if it's gold. syntaxfunction fucked around with this message at 03:55 on Feb 26, 2016 |
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Feb 26, 2016 03:49
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syntaxfunction posted:To make this about Firefox, is 64-bit standard yet? I think I'm still on 32. Any problems with uninstalling FF and installing 64 bit or should I wait a bit? I know it's "out" but I can't remember if it's gold.
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Feb 26, 2016 04:12
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is there a way to enable WebRTC only on certain urls? I've got media.peerconnection.enabled set to false but there are some sites that rely on it.
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Feb 26, 2016 10:57
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Kheldarn posted:Here's the three latest: 2/24/2016 5:07 PM, 2/24/2016 8:08 PM, 2/25/2016 5:53 PM. Run this. https://www.malwarebytes.org/mwb-download/thankyou/ You have malware.
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Feb 26, 2016 15:13
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MikusR posted:Run this. https://www.malwarebytes.org/mwb-download/thankyou/ You have malware. Yup. The Windows 10 thread suggested using Magical Jelly Bean to find your Windows 7 key for upgrading to Windows 10 if you couldn't read the sticker on your case anymore. That installed OpenCandy. Thanks! Also, I'd suggest adding Run Malwarebytes to the OP right after making sure you have the latest version of Firefox, and making sure all plugins are up to date.
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Feb 26, 2016 15:57
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Doesn't Windows 10 have some version of Also programs that install other poo poo make me so loving angry. Goddamn, every time it's an otherwise really useful program that suddenly decides to bundle itself with Seek Toolbar or some other piece of crap. Megillah Gorilla fucked around with this message at 16:30 on Feb 26, 2016 |
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Feb 26, 2016 16:27
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Gorilla Salad posted:Doesn't Windows 10 have some version of Yes.
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Feb 26, 2016 16:35
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fishmech posted:Yes. But it mostly catches actual viruses and real bad malware, so just run malwarebytes scan once a month.
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Feb 26, 2016 16:38
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MikusR posted:But it mostly catches actual viruses and real bad malware, so just run malwarebytes scan once a month. Doing that isn't going to accomplish anything.
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Feb 26, 2016 16:48
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Kheldarn posted:Yup. The Windows 10 thread suggested using Magical Jelly Bean to find your Windows 7 key for upgrading to Windows 10 if you couldn't read the sticker on your case anymore. That installed OpenCandy. Thanks! Reading up on OpenCandy, of course uTorrent has it. Oh and ImgBurn has it too now, awesome. Is there any software out there without lovely ad/malware?
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Feb 27, 2016 00:14
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This is why you always grab portable versions of programs whenever possible, also invest in Sandboxie, oh and don't give random installers internet access, block that poo poo with a firewall. Doesn't hurt to also not just blindly hit Next, Continue, Accept, Install, Whatever, when installing things.
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Feb 27, 2016 00:28
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XYZ posted:Reading up on OpenCandy, of course uTorrent has it. Oh and ImgBurn has it too now, awesome. Is there any software out there without lovely ad/malware? uTorrent 2.2.1 or qBittorent.
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Feb 27, 2016 01:30
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Yeah that's what got me to uninstall utorrent. I even unleashed my inner curmudgeon and sent an angry email to them over it. 
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Feb 27, 2016 01:47
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I use Unchecky as an extra layer of protection against OpenCandy type crapware installing along with programs I want to use. Obviously still keep your eyes peeled while installing things, but it's great for keeping your parents' computer from filling up with toolbars and junk. General question: Is e10s or going to fix Firefox being the literal worst at garbage collecting its memory? I'd like for it to not keep a gigabyte of wasted RAM for old poo poo I browsed a long time ago; especially when it still chugs pretty bad if using a lot of memory, even with 64-bits.
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Feb 27, 2016 02:05
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On windows I tend to just use a Ninite installer
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Feb 27, 2016 02:20
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Use ninite and don't blindly click through poo poo like a moron when you install something. Edit: Hmm, well that is new and lovely. Cactus Jack fucked around with this message at 02:36 on Feb 27, 2016 |
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Feb 27, 2016 02:24
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Cactus Jack posted:Use ninite and don't blindly click through poo poo like a moron when you install something. I don't click through like a moron, and I always look for a custom install option, and/or checkboxes. Magical Jelly Bean just installs it without saying a damned thing.
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Feb 27, 2016 02:27
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