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Is facebook social fixer for firefox any good performance-wise? It seems to do some helpful things but I'm wondering if adding another layer of javascript over an already clunky site will be an awful idea.
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I can't answer that but I use FB Purity and it seems OK.
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Oct 7, 2016 04:30
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGsDWRxfjTk&t=3396s Anyone got any info or confirmation on this? Apparently, both Firefox and Chrome write their respective recovery sessions every 15 seconds. Firefox supposedly does 10GB a day and this will eventually kill an SSD faster than normal unless you tweak the settings. Crossposting from the SSD and Chrome threads, apparently Firefox and Chrome are the main ones that do this? Chrome supposedly does 1GB per hour.
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Oct 10, 2016 23:33
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ThermoPhysical posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGsDWRxfjTk&t=3396s I have my doubts because I've been running firefox with hundreds of tabs open every day for nearly 2 years and the tool they got their info from thinks my 240 gb drive will last over 9 more years. If you have a very small 1 Hung Lo brand drive you might have problems but Intel and Samsung both guarantee around 50 GB/day in writes on drives that size. My page file is on there plus both Chrome and Firefox and it's barely averaging 20 GB/day. dis astranagant fucked around with this message at 00:04 on Oct 11, 2016 |
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Oct 10, 2016 23:49
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ThermoPhysical posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGsDWRxfjTk&t=3396s mike12345 posted:Interesting tidbit linked from Hacker News
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Oct 11, 2016 03:58
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And apparently the bulk of writes Firefox does are because of the cookies file.
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Oct 11, 2016 16:34
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How long has this setting been active? Because according to ssdlife I still have 8 years left in my 3-year-old ssd. So if it's been a thing for longer than 3 years, the ssd should be pretty much toast at this point according to the theory. And I'm exactly the kind of person who often has a million tabs open (now that Firefox isn't as crashy for me anymore as it was 6 months ago)
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Oct 12, 2016 21:15
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I remember seeing an article by someone who stress-tested a bunch of SSDs for months, to see how much he could write on them before they died. Most of them lasted a good deal longer than the manufacturers said they would.
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Oct 12, 2016 23:12
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I could swear there was a nearly identical story about excessive writes from a different program, with the same "your SSD will die" scare line, and the end result was that a lot of supposed writes just hit the cache over and over before being written. What the windows storage driver considers a write, and what's actually going on in the SSD, are potentially not the same.Kassad posted:I remember seeing an article by someone who stress-tested a bunch of SSDs for months, to see how much he could write on them before they died. Most of them lasted a good deal longer than the manufacturers said they would. Yeah that's the TR endurance test: your SSD will probably last for hundreds of terrabytes written and even after that you should be more afraid of a manufacturer's kill switch than a natural death.
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Oct 12, 2016 23:35
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There was a lot of concern about reliability with early SSDs because they used much lower quality flash memory, and it was obvious they were failing well before their rated lifespans. However, with time it became clear that they didn't wear out early, drives with low quality components just died randomly and you couldn't extend their lifespans by babying them, and drives that weren't poo poo would last their full rated lives or longer.
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Oct 12, 2016 23:43
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Is Firefox IDE a thing that can just randomly pop up for you, or pops up from a keyboard command?
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Oct 13, 2016 04:25
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spit on my clit posted:Is Firefox IDE a thing that can just randomly pop up for you, or pops up from a keyboard command? If you mean the developer tools, they pop up from F12
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Oct 13, 2016 05:01
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A lot of shortcuts can pop them up actually.
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Oct 13, 2016 11:24
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The latest beta seems to have expanded the e10s "cohort", it's enabled by default for me now despite having a bunch of add-ons installed.
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Oct 15, 2016 22:31
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some neat stuff http://www.debugpoint.com/2016/10/firefox-launches-experimental-features/ really liking tab center
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Wow that's awesome. I felt a little sad when Mozilla said they were basically killing their labs projects. This new stuff is pretty neat. My mind is going for a trip as I get used to Tab Centre but it definitely makes more use of the loads of whitespace most pages have. Also the live view in the thumbnails is a nice addition (And replaces Tab Scope which I was using for that purpose). Even though I have two monitors the Min Vid addon will be loads useful on my laptop when I'm out and about (I like having videos playing in the background while I'm doing stuff, but hate having to switch windows/tabs all the time). Page Shot solves the hassle of screenshotting and uploading images to imgur just to show a friend something, or trying to transfer via Skype. And finally Activity Stream is cool, but they've definitely got to add back in the ability to pin sites quickly. I don't need huge buttons like the normal New Tab screen but a small grid of pinned sites would be ace. So yeah, glad to mess around with this.
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Oct 16, 2016 11:36
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How customizable is Tab Center? Those tabs with the preview pic and url are way too tall. I'll probably stick to Tree Style Tabs but it's nice to see them finally get around to a vertical tab bar.
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Oct 16, 2016 11:40
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Does PageShot allow you to take a screenshot of the whole page until the end, instead of just the current viewport? I would like something to replace "Awesome Screenshot".
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Oct 16, 2016 19:28
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Nalin posted:Does PageShot allow you to take a screenshot of the whole page until the end, instead of just the current viewport? I would like something to replace "Awesome Screenshot". Shift + F2, then type "screenshot --fullpage <optional file name>" and you'll get a PNG saved in your downloads folder that covers the entire page. Some sites with CSS that sets "position: fixed" may look funky, but it works.
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Oct 16, 2016 22:51
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Nalin posted:Does PageShot allow you to take a screenshot of the whole page until the end, instead of just the current viewport? I would like something to replace "Awesome Screenshot". You can click and drag the area to cover more than the current viewed section but there's no easy way to select the whole page from what I can see.
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Oct 17, 2016 02:19
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Greenshot can do it, with the caveat that you see a funky scrollbar in the output image.
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Oct 17, 2016 04:29
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The Firefox Dev tools can also take a full page screenshot. Odd if the more public tool couldn't
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The more-public tool is the dev tools. PageShot is an opt-in experiment made to see if people like the idea. If they do, I expect it will be enhanced before landing in Firefox proper.
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Oct 17, 2016 05:11
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I use Web Paint to take screenshots, because it also allows to add text, circles, and there's a draw tool.
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Oct 17, 2016 09:24
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Firefox is at 47.0.1 for me, and About says it's up to date, yet the website download is 49.0.1. I'm guessing some add-on I have is messing with it?
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Oct 19, 2016 21:31
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You can install an updated version of Firefox over an existing version of it.
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I just went to the website, downloaded and installed 49.0.1, and now I have two versions of Firefox: 47.0.1 and 49.0.1...  Oh. I see. I just checked the CP, and 47.0.1 is (x64), while 49.0.1 is (x86).
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Yeah, Mozilla (the company) and Windows don't get along too well, only enough to deal with MS's saturation market share, and also I have no idea why they still acknowledge x86 in 2016. Probably because they're about the only browser still supporting XP (eww). "Firefox for Other Platforms & Languages" should let you get at a Win64 installer.
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Oct 20, 2016 02:39
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Is Firefox's WebRTC support broken for anyone else? I'm using 64-bit on Windows, and it's not picking up any sound from my microphone, despite it showing up in the list. Chrome works fine, and I'm not allowing applications to get exclusive control of the microphone.
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dont be mean to me posted:Yeah, Mozilla (the company) and Windows don't get along too well, only enough to deal with MS's saturation market share, and also I have no idea why they still acknowledge x86 in 2016. It's because tons of business sites still need NPAPI plugins for various things, and they stripped that out of 64 bit Firefox. Also Chrome and Edge still come in 32 bit versions for older computers or people who can't run 64 bit windows for other reasons. Why should Mozilla drop 32 bit support before the competitors do?
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Is there an extension or sumthin which allows you to run the same sort of thing as Firefox Sync, but instead of uploading to a cloud service it's all dumped to disk? I'm tired of Firefox Sync sometimes working and sometimes logging out when using the PassIfox Keepass extension, but I'm not sick of it enough to use a different browser. Thanks (will check thread in the morning) 
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apropos man posted:Is there an extension or sumthin which allows you to run the same sort of thing as Firefox Sync, but instead of uploading to a cloud service it's all dumped to disk? I'm tired of Firefox Sync sometimes working and sometimes logging out when using the PassIfox Keepass extension, but I'm not sick of it enough to use a different browser. Just set up a scheduled task to backup your profile every day. The purpose of sync is to store pieces of your Firefox profile on the cloud to easily transfer it to many devices. If you only want to store it on your disk, just back up your profile.
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Sounds like a solid DIY plan. I'll try zipping up the profile periodically and copying it somewhere, thanks.
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I'm suddenly getting sound desync on youtube in fullscreen. Exiting and re-entering fullscreen seems to fix it for a few minutes. e: no wait, it requires pausing the video too. Wheany fucked around with this message at 10:39 on Oct 23, 2016 |
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Well I wanted to like Minvid but I noticed it was causing Firefox to perform really poorly. Even not having used it that session Firefox was consistently using an entire CPU core, taking extra time to switch between tabs, and was visibly choppy when scrolling. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1142924 https://github.com/meandavejustice/min-vid/issues/418 Looks like I'm not the only one having the problem, though the github issue seems to deal with people actually using the feature instead of it just misbehaving on its own. Desuwa fucked around with this message at 07:28 on Oct 25, 2016 |
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Oct 25, 2016 03:39
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I actually come here to post about MinVid. For the longest time I thought it was Tab Centre that was killing it because of the live tile updates but it turned out it was MinVid despite me not using it pretty much at all on my desktop. It sucks too because it's such a cool idea. Here's hoping they tidy it up.
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This is essentially the functionality people are looking for with MinVid, right? You just need to install the Open With addon, download mpv, make an Open With entry for mpv and then download youtube-dl and stick it in the same directory as mpv. e: This also works on the majority of video hosts, I'm not sure what MinVid is limited to. Read fucked around with this message at 08:31 on Oct 25, 2016 |
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Oct 25, 2016 08:25
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mpv with youtube-dl is so great, I abuse it all the time now
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Oct 25, 2016 11:39
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Is MPV better than Potplayer? Does it play borderless? I have to say, I like that idea. What did you use to make this? Gooncam no longer works for me and the Xbox live recording app eats rear end.
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mpv is a fork of mplayer, that added some lovely GUI, but is otherwise the same best media player It also has really good support for youtube-dl though, which means it can probably play 99% of the content found on the internet, and the caching feels really good. seeking youtube videos is nearly lag free unless you go berserk. Yes, you can also get it to play borderless by adding --no-border to the command line, which the open with extension will allow easily.
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