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Every now and then, maybe once or twice a month, I'll start my computer up and Firefox will restore my previous session, usually blasting youtube much to my surprise. In about:config I have resume from crash, resume session once, and resuming after os restart all set to false but yet this keeps happening. Is there another option I'm missing that I need to disable to keep this from happening? Or is Windows itself somehow saving my Firefox session? I'm not sure if its ever done this on a restart, as I pretty much never restart my computer. Just full shutdowns.
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Fashionable Jorts posted:Every now and then, maybe once or twice a month, I'll start my computer up and Firefox will restore my previous session, usually blasting youtube much to my surprise. Quick googling: https://www.thewindowsclub.com/restore-previous-browsing-session-in-firefox suggests firefox will helpfully restore the session after a reboot.
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May 20, 2019 21:53
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Thanks, I'll give those a try. It may be a while until I find out if it doesn't work.
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May 20, 2019 22:59
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So maybe I'm behind the times, but I just found out about this today and figured I'd pass it on. Apparently Mozilla is planning to eventually encrypt all DNS lookups over HTTPS, which is nice in theory, but in practice they're doing this ignoring your OS's DNS and sending all DNS request to Cloudflare. Some people have privacy issues with this, I'm more concerned with the technical implications of Firefox using a different DNS than everything else on the system should you need to troubleshoot anything, or should Cloudflare's DNS go down. Right now this should still be off unless you're one of the randomly-selected Studies people unknowingly using it, you can force it off with a about :config setting, or point it toward Google or another HTTPS-aware DNS if you're so inclined. https://blog.usejournal.com/getting-started-with-dns-over-https-on-firefox-e9b5fc865a43
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May 21, 2019 05:08
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Knormal posted:So maybe I'm behind the times, but I just found out about this today and figured I'd pass it on. Apparently Mozilla is planning to eventually encrypt all DNS lookups over HTTPS, which is nice in theory, but in practice they're doing this ignoring your OS's DNS and sending all DNS request to Cloudflare. Some people have privacy issues with this, I'm more concerned with the technical implications of Firefox using a different DNS than everything else on the system should you need to troubleshoot anything, or should Cloudflare's DNS go down. Thanks for pointing that out, that's a thing I'm really not comfortable with. I think it's incredibly ironic that that usejournal site says Google can do no evil while just this past year it's come to light several times that they're storing and processing data people didn't even want them to store or didn't even know they were doing it. Also, I didn't even check in Firefox 66, but in 67 there's an option to use system proxy settings in the connection settings. I'd already set that feature to 5 in the about :config immediately after you posted that and it retained the setting when I updated. What it didn't retain was me turning off extension recommendations and now also feature recommendations, so I guess go through your preferences after you've updated.
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May 22, 2019 23:27
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May 23, 2019 05:39
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Oh wow they put a mini-clippy in the address bar now, I noticed this when searching something on youtube. Thanks for allowing me to turn that off, Firefox.
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May 23, 2019 20:55
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so i watch a lot of baseball via mlb.tv, which is a streaming service provided by mlb. since switching to firefox, whenever i full screen the stream, the stream demonstrates this...minorly glitchy effect. it's not subtle, but it's not overt. it just sort of streams, and then every half second glitches back to a frame or two from a half second ago. it does this constantly, but only in full screen mode, and only in firefox. in chrome, the feed runs seamlessly. and in firefox with the stream, at any size, in any window, also runs seamlessly. it's just whenever i full screen it. any ideas what might be up here? i've tried closing all other applications, and also the most memory-intensive tabs. it still does it, and i'm not really sure where to begin diagnosing.
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May 24, 2019 04:57
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abelwingnut posted:so i watch a lot of baseball via mlb.tv, which is a streaming service provided by mlb. since switching to firefox, whenever i full screen the stream, the stream demonstrates this...minorly glitchy effect. it's not subtle, but it's not overt. it just sort of streams, and then every half second glitches back to a frame or two from a half second ago. it does this constantly, but only in full screen mode, and only in firefox. in chrome, the feed runs seamlessly. and in firefox with the stream, at any size, in any window, also runs seamlessly. it's just whenever i full screen it. Ad block can mess with streams, try disabling addons one by one. Could also be that the browsers use different drivers/extensions (if there is such a thing anymore) for that particular media format, and that Chrome's is better.
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May 24, 2019 07:13
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Another possibility is that GPU drivers need updated. Firefox is a lot more prone to weird problems if there are drivers issues for hardware acceleration. Just riffing here.
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May 24, 2019 08:00
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abelwingnut posted:so i watch a lot of baseball via mlb.tv, which is a streaming service provided by mlb. since switching to firefox, whenever i full screen the stream, the stream demonstrates this...minorly glitchy effect. it's not subtle, but it's not overt. it just sort of streams, and then every half second glitches back to a frame or two from a half second ago. it does this constantly, but only in full screen mode, and only in firefox. in chrome, the feed runs seamlessly. and in firefox with the stream, at any size, in any window, also runs seamlessly. it's just whenever i full screen it. What's your graphics card, installed driver version and vram size?
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May 24, 2019 16:54
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why does ublock keep breaking loving constantly
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May 24, 2019 21:00
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Catboy Autonomist posted:why does ublock keep breaking loving constantly This hasn't been my experience. Are you using uBlock Origin?
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May 24, 2019 23:22
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I've noticed a couple times that uBlock stopped working, but it only seemed to happen when Firefox had an update pending for restart. Restarting would get everything working again.
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May 24, 2019 23:37
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astral posted:This hasn't been my experience. Are you using uBlock Origin? Yes Although it didn't even seem to work upon restarting either and it didn't even seem to reinstall correctly for some reason
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May 24, 2019 23:54
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Catboy Autonomist posted:Yes Odd, has never happened for me. Try refreshing your profile maybe?
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May 26, 2019 19:14
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endlessmonotony posted:What's your graphics card, installed driver version and vram size? geforce 8400gs, drivers 342.01, 1024mb. card puts out video to two monitors running at 1920x1200. WattsvilleBlues posted:Another possibility is that GPU drivers need updated. Firefox is a lot more prone to weird problems if there are drivers issues for hardware acceleration. Just riffing here. i have the latest version installed. Ola posted:Ad block can mess with streams, try disabling addons one by one. Could also be that the browsers use different drivers/extensions (if there is such a thing anymore) for that particular media format, and that Chrome's is better. i'm using ublock origin. might it mess with streams too?
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May 27, 2019 12:15
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abelwingnut posted:
It messes with youtube or spotify, in that it removes the ads. Perhaps something with the stream is triggering ublock, which causes high CPU usage or interrupted playback. Should be easy to check by disabling it.
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May 27, 2019 12:18
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abelwingnut posted:geforce 8400gs, drivers 342.01, 1024mb. card puts out video to two monitors running at 1920x1200. Yeah. Yeaaah. Those drivers are seriously buggy and they will demonstrate behavior like this under Chrome too, just less. Firefox has less workarounds for this poo poo, but long story short, you're running a desktop well beyond what that card can reliably handle and you're hardware decoding video on them and uh, that card just doesn't have the power. Or the memory. Or the drivers.
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May 27, 2019 12:30
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Stylus has lost all my styles. This wasn't the first time. gently caress.
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May 28, 2019 07:06
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Wheany posted:Stylus has lost all my styles. This wasn't the first time. gently caress. But it's all good because you take periodic backups of your computer and/or firefox profile and/or stylus styles, right?
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May 28, 2019 07:20
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astral posted:But it's all good because you take periodic backups of your computer and/or firefox profile and/or stylus styles, right? Who does this anymore? Related, does anyone know if any addon can store data with Firefox sync?
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May 28, 2019 07:30
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Ola posted:Who does this anymore? People who don't want to lose things like that, mostly.
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May 28, 2019 07:35
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astral posted:People who don't want to lose things like that, mostly. I can't think of anything I use that isn't just a trivial set of preferences, that doesn't have online storage of user data.
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May 28, 2019 07:50
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astral posted:People who don't want to lose things like that, mostly. I have a weekly calendar popup now to remind me to do poo poo like that. Burned far too many times in the
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May 28, 2019 07:53
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astral posted:But it's all good because you take periodic backups of your computer and/or firefox profile and/or stylus styles, right? gently caress you too, buddy!
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May 28, 2019 08:16
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Wheany posted:Stylus has lost all my styles. This wasn't the first time. gently caress. Are you sure it's actually lost your styles, not just can't show you your styles? I've had the second one happen a bunch with stylus, where either firefox or stylus updated and the style management UI was suddenly blank or hosed up some way. Especially when I was on the ESR branch of firefox. If you're positive your styles are actually gone and not merely invisible, and that this has happened before, I'd actually point to your profile being hosed in some way that is corrupting your localstorage. Also, seconding that anything you don't back up is something you don't care about.
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May 28, 2019 08:17
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Klyith posted:Are you sure it's actually lost your styles, not just can't show you your styles? I don't know and I don't know how I can tell the difference.
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May 28, 2019 08:23
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Wheany posted:gently caress you too, buddy! I was hoping it was one of those 
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May 28, 2019 08:37
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Wheany posted:Stylus has lost all my styles. This wasn't the first time. gently caress. This is me with SALR every time I login to a fresh browser.
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Wheany posted:I don't know and I don't know how I can tell the difference. On the manage styles page, try to write a new style and save it. If the problem is the same compatibility issues I've had, the UI will just be empty on some of those. Repeated loss of localstorage OTOH I don't know any easy answer to besides just exporting bookmarks, extensions, ublock settings, and so on to a fresh profile.
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May 28, 2019 10:21
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Is there a good automatic backup in particular?
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May 28, 2019 10:43
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Captain Invictus posted:Is there a good automatic backup in particular? include <user>\appdata\roaming\mozilla in your regular backup procedure. don't have a regular backup procedure? get one!
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May 28, 2019 11:06
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Klyith posted:include <user>\appdata\roaming\mozilla in your regular backup procedure.
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Youtube videos no longer automatically play when I open the tab since the last update. Every search for a setting invariably gives results about Autoplay which is not the same thing.
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May 28, 2019 13:14
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when it does it, look at the address bar, there's be an icon next to the https padlock that'll let you change that.
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May 28, 2019 13:27
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gary oldmans diary posted:Youtube videos no longer automatically play when I open the tab since the last update. When you say "open the tab", does that mean you want it to play when you open a tab without having it in focus? Or that it doesn't play when you open without focus, and still doesn't play when you click the tab to view it? Those media.autoplay settings are the right ones, but the combinations can be tricky, in addition to the permission mentioned by SIGSEGV.
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gary oldmans diary posted:Youtube videos no longer automatically play when I open the tab since the last update. Add an exception for youtube here: 
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The suggestions fixed it. Thanks!
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