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Arivia
Mar 17, 2011

No. 9 posted:

Anyone else having issues with popular non-Youtube video/tube sites not controlling right? (Can't seek, volume fader doesn't work, etc.) Happening on multiple sites and it's annoying.

You can just say Pornhub, people don't get in trouble for watching porn on SA.

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Shibawanko
Feb 13, 2013

Probably because it was xHamster. Just porn. No bullshit.

Im_Special
Jan 2, 2011

Look At This!!! WOW!
It's F*cking Nothing.

Geemer posted:

How do you do that for sites that put their adblock detection as part of inline scripts along with scripts necessary to actually use the site?

Do you have some example sites? Like there's no one rule to rule them all, it's basically different for each site, but then I don't use annoying as poo poo sites often that do this either, I think two that come to mind are.

http://www.pcgamer.com/


http://www.castlevaniacrypt.com/


Seems to work well enough.

Geemer
Nov 4, 2010



Im_Special posted:

Do you have some example sites? Like there's no one rule to rule them all, it's basically different for each site, but then I don't use annoying as poo poo sites often that do this either, I think two that come to mind are.

The mobile version of Twitter is driving me nuts with its constant nag screens that just keep coming if I use cosmetic filtering.

I don't have a Twitter, nor will I ever. I just want to be able to look at some tweets in peace.
Blocking the inline script completely breaks it and it won't show anything except that lovely loading icon.

axeil
Feb 14, 2006

FRINGE posted:

This matters a lot to me and it should be such an easy thing to do.

Same. I won't switch Firefox 57 until it lets me put the tabs on the bottom.

Avenging Dentist
Oct 1, 2005

oh my god is that a circular saw that does not go in my mouth aaaaagh
You already can. See the discussion starting here: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3431449&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=207#post477337860

(At some point, this will change when Firefox switches away from XUL's moz-boxes to CSS flexboxes, but it should still be possible to do the same thing, just with different vocabulary.)

dont be mean to me
May 2, 2007

I'm interplanetary, bitch
Let's go to Mars


Attention 57+-havers using the beta (.1337) version of HTTPS Everywhere: The version of HTTPS Everywhere on eff.org/https-everywhere is now a webextension and therefore works on 57+.

EDIT: It doesn't share the same author name as the one on addons.mozilla.org - heads up.

dont be mean to me fucked around with this message at 00:15 on Oct 31, 2017

jokes
Dec 20, 2012

Uh... Kupo?

What's the take on Waterfox? I'm using it, and don't see many problems and I can see that it will still run extensions that don't pass the new webextensions criteria in the future?

isndl
May 2, 2012
I WON A CONTEST IN TG AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS CUSTOM TITLE

jokes posted:

What's the take on Waterfox? I'm using it, and don't see many problems and I can see that it will still run extensions that don't pass the new webextensions criteria in the future?

Fine for now while it's basically identical to the main Firefox codebase but it'll become worse over time as updates that cannot be backported show up, particularly security fixes. Having access to all the current extensions is good but that will also stagnate over time as people switch to targeting the new API.

jokes
Dec 20, 2012

Uh... Kupo?

I honestly just hope Waterfox sticks around as Firefox with as much of its bullshit stripped out as possible. The extensions thing isn't that important.

Tornhelm
Jul 26, 2008

jokes posted:

I honestly just hope Waterfox sticks around as Firefox with as much of its bullshit stripped out as possible. The extensions thing isn't that important.

You say that, but living without SALR has been painful as gently caress.

Read
Dec 21, 2010

Tornhelm posted:

You say that, but living without SALR has been painful as gently caress.

What are the main things you notice the absence of?

No. 9
Feb 8, 2005

by R. Guyovich
I miss mouse gestures

Tornhelm
Jul 26, 2008

Read posted:

What are the main things you notice the absence of?

The thread sorting (and colouring) , highlighting, easy in-thread search box and user notes are the main things I used often.

Flipperwaldt
Nov 11, 2011

Won't somebody think of the starving hamsters in China?



Read posted:

What are the main things you notice the absence of?
loving quick reply and edit with live preview. Built in no bullshit imgur uploader.

axeil
Feb 14, 2006

Tornhelm posted:

You say that, but living without SALR has been painful as gently caress.

Wait is SALR not coming to New Firefox?

Yet another reason to never upgrade.

dont be mean to me
May 2, 2007

I'm interplanetary, bitch
Let's go to Mars


axeil posted:

Wait is SALR not coming to New Firefox?

Yet another reason to never upgrade.

Old Firefox could last for ten thousand years and SALR would still get clobbered by the move to XenForo.

Maybe.

fishmech
Jul 16, 2006

by VideoGames
Salad Prong

dont be mean to me posted:

Old Firefox could last for ten thousand years and SALR would still get clobbered by the move to XenForo.

Maybe.

I really see no reason why it should, as there's nothing about XenForo that requires drastic changes to the sorts of things SALR scrapes.

biznatchio
Mar 31, 2001


Buglord
Surely someone will update SALR to support TitanXenforo when it arrives Real Soon Now.

No. 9
Feb 8, 2005

by R. Guyovich
Yeah I wish someone could just fork the basic thing.

Decius
Oct 14, 2005

Ramrod XTreme

Read posted:

What are the main things you notice the absence of?

The button in the navbar that takes you to the last unread post of a thread, since I tend to have the regular threads I post in open all week long on several computers. Typing in &goto=newpost like a cave man is annoying.
Search inside a thread I miss a lot too.

isndl
May 2, 2012
I WON A CONTEST IN TG AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS CUSTOM TITLE
In theory it should be dead simple to make a standalone extension to add a button that appends that to the current URL and go, right?

Kheldarn
Feb 17, 2011



Decius posted:

The button in the navbar that takes you to the last unread post of a thread, since I tend to have the regular threads I post in open all week long on several computers. Typing in &goto=newpost like a cave man is annoying.

Um... I don't have SALR installed, but I see a button to the left of each thread title that shows how many new posts in a thread, and takes me to the newest unread post when clicked. Isn't that the same thing?

astral
Apr 26, 2004

Kheldarn posted:

Um... I don't have SALR installed, but I see a button to the left of each thread title that shows how many new posts in a thread, and takes me to the newest unread post when clicked. Isn't that the same thing?

They're talking about a button SALR can add to the bottom corner of the browser in multi-page threads that lets you jump to the first unread post.

Relin
Oct 6, 2002

You have been a most worthy adversary, but in every game, there are winners and there are losers. And as you know, in this game, losers get robotizicized!
what did they do, introduce new memory leaks

it used to use like 800mb of memory now it uses 1500mb

i only notice because it now runs so poo poo on this old laptop

Decius
Oct 14, 2005

Ramrod XTreme

Relin posted:

what did they do, introduce new memory leaks

it used to use like 800mb of memory now it uses 1500mb

i only notice because it now runs so poo poo on this old laptop

Slightly so:

Relin
Oct 6, 2002

You have been a most worthy adversary, but in every game, there are winners and there are losers. And as you know, in this game, losers get robotizicized!
jesus christ

dis astranagant
Dec 14, 2006

Decius posted:

Slightly so:


I've noticed the same thing since about 56b1. Since my box only has 8gb to go around I often have to close Firefox just to be able to alt-tab properly

dis astranagant fucked around with this message at 07:39 on Nov 3, 2017

Geemer
Nov 4, 2010



Every time Firefox crashes for me, whether it's a tab or the whole thing, I write in the crash reporter comment box that they should fix their several-year-old GC bugs instead of sticking their fingers into their ears and going "LALALALA FAULTY RAM LALALALA!"
I've only been wrong twice in the last year.

Those two times were a new top crash that was immediately WONTFIXed and a different 6 year-old bug.
But, gotta push those new and exciting changes that everybody is waiting for with bated breath!

dis astranagant
Dec 14, 2006

It doesn't even crash properly for me most of the time. Instead I give up and kill the processes after a few minutes of waiting for it to finish chewing on my ssd.

~Coxy
Dec 9, 2003

R.I.P. Inter-OS Sass - b.2000AD d.2003AD
I actually only updated to 57 because I was tired of gmail locking up the whole browser.

Turns out quantum doesn't actually fix that so I hope you are a loving idiot who keeps using firefox like I am.

Wheany
Mar 17, 2006

Spinyahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

Doctor Rope
Okay, greasemonkey reappeared and now both it and tampermonkey are running scripts on pages. This is understandable. I tried disabling tampermonkey, but i have some scripts that run on file:// protocol and the new greasemonkey doesn't seem to run those scripts :negative:

Nalin
Sep 29, 2007

Hair Elf
I once saw one of my Firefox processes taking up 6GB of memory. Using about:performance, I was able to identify a couple tabs that were running on that process, but it wasn't that helpful. It seems that Mozilla actively tries to prevent you from being able to figure out which tabs are being run on which process; it is so infuriating. Anyways, what I ended up doing was going through my tabs and closing them, seeing if the memory dropped, then CTRL+SHIFT+T to re-open them. Eventually I found the runaway tab and my memory dropped down from around 6GB to 300MB or so. So, success.

I still can't believe that Mozilla ends up killing every single possible way to identify where the problems are. I am fairly sure it is some sort of Javascript garbage collection bug caused by extremely lovely webpages, but I just am unable to actually figure it out since there are literally no tools available anymore.

Nalin
Sep 29, 2007

Hair Elf
But I guess if you can figure out how about:memory works, you might have better luck with things.

Ola
Jul 19, 2004

Reached 5 GB the other day. Not sure which page caused it, but ad block fighting against an ad script can cause runawas like that I suppose. Another problem has (re)appeared on 56.0.2 for me. After a while, with many tabs open, the browser starts locking up for half a second every 10-ish seconds. It's particularly noticable when you're mid scroll. Apparently it has something to do with tab state saving and writing that info to disk. I use undo close tab a lot, so I don't want to disable it, but it's really annoying nonetheless. Maybe because I'm running single process.

The XKCD Larper
Mar 1, 2009

by Lowtax
FF 57 has forced me to detox from a serious dependence on Vimperator and Tree style tabs. Using the internet like a normal rear end person is good

xamphear
Apr 9, 2002

SILK FOR CALDÉ!

The XKCD Larper posted:

FF 57 has forced me to detox from a serious dependence on Vimperator and Tree style tabs. Using the internet like a normal rear end person is good

TST works awesome in v57 and has for a while? It should even autoupdate normally through AMO, no beta builds required.

Using the internet like a normal rear end person is completely awful, and if I wanted to do that, I'd have switched to Chrome 5 years ago.

pairofdimes
May 20, 2001

blehhh
Someone on Reddit found a bug that causes high RAM and CPU usage for some people:

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/7ait0j/fixworkaround_for_lag_and_high_cpuram_usage_on

It includes a config to set to disable the feature that's causing the problem.

The XKCD Larper
Mar 1, 2009

by Lowtax

xamphear posted:

TST works awesome in v57 and has for a while? It should even autoupdate normally through AMO, no beta builds required.

Using the internet like a normal rear end person is completely awful, and if I wanted to do that, I'd have switched to Chrome 5 years ago.

I guess I should qualify that. I am 100% dependent on Umatrix to make the internet not horrible and slow. TST was still legacy when I upgraded I think, and I got rid of it because I was having bad memory leaks the week before I upgraded as well.

It feels cool to browse that way but I've realized that it made me less organized, shortened my attention span, and whenever I had to use a browser with normal tabs I was sort of thrown off. I feel like it's easier to keep on task now when I have a limited amount of space to work with. If I need it for later but not right away, I make a bookmark.

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jokes
Dec 20, 2012

Uh... Kupo?

The XKCD Larper posted:

FF 57 has forced me to detox from a serious dependence on Vimperator and Tree style tabs. Using the internet like a normal rear end person is good

I tried Nightly out and being forced to drop a bunch of my extensions honestly is for the best. I also used to have a Stylish skin for the browser as a whole (Firefox Edge) but the new UI is just fine on its own and now I don’t have to deal with the Stylish privacy concerns.

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