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Pikestaff posted:Surprisingly enough, 40% use no addons whatsoever: http://www.ghacks.net/2016/01/06/surprise-40-of-firefox-users-dont-use-add-ons/ This shouldn't actually be very surprising.
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Be warned if you use Firefox 47 with the extension Mozilla Archive Format 4.0.0, you can't right click and save anything when the extension is enabled. This goes away when you disable it, but given that the extension requires a restart to toggle, it'll be pretty annoying. The developers are usually pretty good about fixing mistakes this glaring, so hopefully it should be remedied before too long. edit: Although drag and drop still works so if it's something like a picture the bug doesn't seem to affect it. zetamind2000 fucked around with this message at 03:30 on Jun 8, 2016 |
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Jun 7, 2016 23:37
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fourwood posted:This shouldn't actually be very surprising. I think the surprising part is that it's still 40%. I could easily believe the statistic if it was from 2009. Why are these people still using Firefox instead of Chrome?
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Jun 8, 2016 04:06
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I dunno, I kinda feel like a lot of people who don't install any extensions are maybe also not likely to be switching browsers basically ever.
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Jun 8, 2016 06:11
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I use Firefox (still love it) and only have an adblocker that is turned off on pretty much all my frequent sites. So I guess I'm the weirdo? It's not that I dislike Chrome or anything else, it's just I haven't seen the need to not use Firefox for my use case.
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syntaxfunction posted:I use Firefox (still love it) and only have an adblocker that is turned off on pretty much all my frequent sites. So I guess I'm the weirdo? It's not that I dislike Chrome or anything else, it's just I haven't seen the need to not use Firefox for my use case. You must've not encountered the bugs somehow: - GPU driver issues - Broken HTML5 video support - Profile corruption breaking everything.
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Jun 8, 2016 09:03
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Not that I'm aware of? I don't have Flash or anything like that installed so everything defaults to HTML5 video which works great. No driver issues either and I've had the same profile since I had Windows 7, upgraded to 10 with no change and no issues. I have about three active computers in the house all with Firefox and I've never had any issues. I don't even remember when Firefox last crashed on me, and I get mad when things don't work. Honestly if it weren't for this thread I wouldn't have thought there were any real issues to speak of. I totally understand that there are bugs and faults and all that. I'm just being one of those annoying forum guys who just says "works for me!"
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Jun 8, 2016 11:30
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~Coxy posted:Why are these people still using Firefox instead of Chrome? They haven't installed any apps that drive-by install Chrome?
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Jun 8, 2016 11:31
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fourwood posted:This shouldn't actually be very surprising. Very surprising to the redditor beards that insist Firefox's declining user share is caused by not strictly adhering to Stallman's ideals, or removing a tab configuration option from 2008.
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Jun 8, 2016 15:05
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So when they say 40% of Firefox users don't use addons, is that just the normal Windows/Mac/Linux desktop/laptop users or does it include Firefox on all other platforms like Android? Because I know there's tons of people who use Friefox for Android but have no idea that addons are available there.
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Jun 8, 2016 17:32
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fishmech posted:So when they say 40% of Firefox users don't use addons, is that just the normal Windows/Mac/Linux desktop/laptop users or does it include Firefox on all other platforms like Android? Because I know there's tons of people who use Friefox for Android but have no idea that addons are available there. Compared with desktop/laptop Firefox almost nobody uses Firefox on Android so that population doesn't meaningfully influence the 40% addon users.
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Jun 8, 2016 18:23
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...I use Firefox on Android.
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Jun 8, 2016 21:12
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Since upgrading to Firefox 47, it's doing this thing where the only tabs that load up after reopening the browser are the tab in focus in each window. What about:config thing do I have to toggle to get it to load all of them?
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Jun 8, 2016 21:20
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fishmech posted:Since upgrading to Firefox 47, it's doing this thing where the only tabs that load up after reopening the browser are the tab in focus in each window. What about :config thing do I have to toggle to get it to load all of them? Firefox 47 release notes posted:The browser.sessionstore.restore_on_demand preference has been reset to its default value (true) to avoid e10s performance problems. Because faster is better!
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Jun 8, 2016 21:29
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So is 47, a.k.a. .GIF Fix, Live now?
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Jun 8, 2016 23:49
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Kheldarn posted:So is 47, a.k.a. .GIF Fix, Live now? Yes, it is live and the gifs are fixed.
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Jun 9, 2016 00:41
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How were they broken?
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Jun 9, 2016 00:42
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hooah posted:How were they broken? If you loaded up a webpage with animated gifs, switched to a different tab, waited for a few hours, then switched back, your browser would lock up for a couple minutes as it basically looped through every single frame that you missed.
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Jun 9, 2016 00:50
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 Good thing I have good browser hygiene, I guess.
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Jun 9, 2016 00:59
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JohnnyCanuck posted:...I use Firefox on Android.  Firefox on Android with uBlock Origin is great and I recommend it. But if you look at current stats even loving mobile IE has more users (since it's the default browser on Windows Mobile).
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Jun 9, 2016 01:03
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Grim Up North posted:
... Ouch. Yeah, uBlock Origin (and, to a lesser extent, Firefox Sync) is/are the exact reason(s) I use Firefox for Android.
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Jun 9, 2016 02:42
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Firefox with uBlock Origin on Android is incredible. Nothing in the mobile space compares to Firefox thanks to extension support. I don't even know what I'd do for a mobile browser if I didn't have it. Really the only reason I started using desktop Firefox at all is because I thought I'd use Sync a hell of a lot more than I actually have to keep things consistent between my PC and phone. I've been thinking about going back from Firefox to Chrome on my desktop since I think it's the better experience in general, but inertia's been keeping me where I am for a while now.
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Meldonox posted:Firefox with uBlock Origin on Android is incredible. Nothing in the mobile space compares to Firefox thanks to extension support. I don't even know what I'd do for a mobile browser if I didn't have it. Well, using Safari on iOS with a content blocker extension is pretty nice to be honest. I've used Firefox on android a bunch, including the nightlies. It's Ok, but two things really bugged me: 1) Performance in general was bad compared to any of the Blink/WebKit based browsers, and it had occasional stutters and freezes. 2) It still doesn't use the android system wide zoom gesture, introduced in Icecream sandwich. Double tap, hold and drag up or down. That works in every other app on Android, and it's one of the things I miss most since jumping to iOS. Oddly it is present in google maps on iOS if you want to give it a go.
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Jun 9, 2016 13:10
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I wonder why they change the font on the address bar suggestions in 48b1. It's jarring and hard to read.
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Jun 9, 2016 13:45
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~Coxy posted:I think the surprising part is that it's still 40%. I could easily believe the statistic if it was from 2009. Why are these people still using Firefox instead of Chrome? That's kind of interesting actually. My first thought was 'well yeah all those family pcs in the last 15 years the nerd son set up and put Firefox on' but surely anyone doing that would install Adblock and so forth as well as a matter of course.
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Jun 9, 2016 14:09
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My Dad moved to Chrome briefly at the suggestion of one of those nag tags Google dangles on its homepage sometimes. He switched back to Firefox because Chrome proceeded to nag him to start using Google Drive and their on-line Office-alikes, when he's already good and settled into Office 365, OneDrive and the like. This is a guy who went a year with his desktop set to 640x480 and half of his browser window occupied by toolbars, because he didn't feel bothered to sort that poo poo out.
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Jun 9, 2016 14:46
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I switched GF to Firefox as I still haven't figured out how the hell her google account is infected with free iPhone popups, even after removing all the extensions.
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RZApublican posted:Be warned if you use Firefox 47 with the extension Mozilla Archive Format 4.0.0, you can't right click and save anything when the extension is enabled. This goes away when you disable it, but given that the extension requires a restart to toggle, it'll be pretty annoying. The developers are usually pretty good about fixing mistakes this glaring, so hopefully it should be remedied before too long. Took a few days, but the devs finally fixed this 
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Unless there's some (hidden?) setting I have to change, 47 still shits the bed when the PYF GIF thread is open, and even moreso if I have other threads open in other tabs.
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Jun 13, 2016 02:48
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How up-to-date do you keep with that thread? It's never given me a problem that I can remember, but I usually only see a handful of gifs at any one time.
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Jun 13, 2016 03:03
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I read it once a day. There were... ~17 new posts tonight.
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Jun 13, 2016 04:09
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Progress report after about a week of using e10s: The browser is definitely more stable in my use, neither the main process nor the tab process has crashed once and I have been using way more tabs than before.
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Kheldarn posted:I read it once a day. There were... ~17 new posts tonight.  I just went and un-read the last page and it was fine. Then I un-read the previous page and it was also fine (once it loaded). This is on a Yoga 2 Pro with an i5-4200 and 4 GB of ram, so not a beast.
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hooah posted:
Maybe it's because I also had about 12 other tabs open? The only animated stuff I remember from those other threads was from banner ads at the bottom, and the occasional avatar...
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Firefox ESR updated to 45.2.0 recently and now Youtube videos won't auto-start. They play fine if I manually move the masthead to like 0:01, or if I press pause then play. The video has a little popup on it that says "if playback doesn't begin shortly, try restarting your device." Anyone run into this before? Edit: believe it or not, this is "media.autoplay.enabled" having started "working" at some point between the last ESR and this one. ~Coxy fucked around with this message at 05:50 on Jun 15, 2016 |
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Jun 15, 2016 05:46
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Still on e10s and no apparent problems with anything so far. Even the PYF gif thread works smoothly with 230 tabs.
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Wheany posted:Has anyone else's Firefox started to delete session cookies for Twitter and Flickr in the last ~month or so? Aw poo poo, all of a sudden this is happening to my Twitter now.
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Jun 17, 2016 16:45
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It's almost certainly not uBlock causing the problem. I would try deleting your cookies for the affected sites, perhaps they're corrupted in some fashion. Alternatively you could try a new profile, since there were (are?) profile corruption issues in Firefox which could probably cause this kind of behaviour.
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Question: Is there a not garbage theme that's pretty much just the default theme (no button icon/tab changes etc) but restores title bar color to Firefox in Windows 10? It'd be nice if I could tell if Firefox is the active window at a glance.
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Sir Unimaginative posted:Question: Is there a not garbage theme that's pretty much just the default theme (no button icon/tab changes etc) but restores title bar color to Firefox in Windows 10? It'd be nice if I could tell if Firefox is the active window at a glance. I think Classic Theme Restorer has an option for this, but I don't have Windows 10 to test it on. I mainly just use it to get rid of the lovely hamburger menu and get the Firefox button back in the top-left. But it's got a whole load of options.
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