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uBlock Origin is a much faster replacement for AdBlock Plus that supports ABP filters and is available for Firefox (including Mobile), Chrome, and Safari The uBlock dev quit, then came back a short time later and forked the project as uBlock Origin, this version is currently the most active Enable Firefox Tracking Protection for 44% faster load times and vastly improved privacy Don't forget that you did this, if site features don't work right try disabling protection for that site by clicking the shield icon in the address bar. Breaks embedded tweets on SA Useful Links Firefox development and new feature status SALR - Something Awful Last Read extension Bugzilla - Mozilla's bug tracker. If you think you've found a bug, search here to see if other people have reported it. Test Releases Nightly Developer Edition/Beta - Developer Edition releases are essentially alpha releases; but they are targeted for add-on and site developers for testing. 64-Bit Firefox Builds Official x64 builds with equal or better performance to the 32-bit builds will be available starting with Firefox Note: Don't use special snowflake third-party builds (Waterfox, Pale Moon), you miss out on security updates and add-on compatibility due to the lovely changes. Firefox is crashing/being slow/acting weird/using a lot of memory. How do I fix it?
I want Firefox to prompt me to save my tabs when I exit! Set browser.showQuitWarning in about :config to true. Firefox 7+ no longer shows http:// or https:// in the address bar. How can I get this back? Set browser.urlbar.trimURLs in about :config to false. Fangs404 fucked around with this message at 16:25 on May 2, 2017 |
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Looks good boss. You can pull Firefox 6 straight from FTP as we speak, but looks like the "official" release is for tomorrow (and the builds up there right now are still "not final"). I live and breathe based on Tab Mix Plus, so once that's confirmed working, I'll hit the upgrade button...
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# ? Aug 16, 2011 03:04 |
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I made this batch file to help me clean redundant pages out of my Firefox history like redirects, web carts, error pages, search results, and multiple pages of a single thread. You have to specify what to remove in 2 other files for that to work, otherwise it just compacts your Firefox history files for you without doing that. Requires sqlite3.exe. code:
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# ? Aug 16, 2011 03:59 |
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Hogburto posted:I made this batch file to help me clean redundant pages out of my Firefox history like redirects, web carts, error pages, search results, and multiple pages of a single thread. So if you last read page 14 of a thread after reading 1-13 it removes 1-13? ..or is that what you have in the .txt file?
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# ? Aug 16, 2011 04:03 |
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ryanbruce posted:So if you last read page 14 of a thread after reading 1-13 it removes 1-13? &page= &pagenumber= I haven't really filled those files out to much. I still want to output all the URLs and titles from my history and build and sort it out by frequency to find better patterns to match useless pages. Edit: I think most people would probably just use it to remove porn sites from their history. gary oldmans diary fucked around with this message at 04:48 on Aug 16, 2011 |
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Won't the thread title become outdated by next week? I updated to FF4, really hated it (I don't like it when the interface changes for no positive reason), and moved to Opera. Been using it for about 6 weeks. Good browser, but it's just not as good in terms of extensions. But the move made me realize something. I don't like Firefox, and I don't miss it. There's nothing special about the vanilla browser other than the fact that it's open-source. It's the 3rd-party extensions that make it special. So I'm planning on going back to FF3.x until the dust settles. If by FF8 (which supposedly really improves performance) the extension API is stable and all my favorite extensions are on board and and they fixed all those BS compatibility issues and it's all merry and future-proof, I'll update and I'll try to adapt to their poo poo interface. If not, hopefully a lot of those extension people will have written Opera versions by then, and I can move back to Opera. And if not that, then I'll just keep using 3.x until the Internet ends.
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MachinTrucChose posted:I updated to FF4, really hated it (I don't like it when the interface changes for no positive reason), and moved to Opera. Been using it for about 6 weeks. Good browser, but it's just not as good in terms of extensions. Thats funny because the Firefox 4 and Opera UIs are pretty much identical.
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# ? Aug 16, 2011 07:34 |
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MachinTrucChose posted:Won't the thread title become outdated by next week? There is almost no extension compatibility issues, 3.x is old and slow I have no idea why you'd willingly use it. All versions of firefox 4 and up vastly improve performance.
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trandorian posted:There is almost no extension compatibility issues, 3.x is old and slow I have no idea why you'd willingly use it. All versions of firefox 4 and up vastly improve performance. On my laptop (and some of my friends' hardware) FF 4 / 5 actually proved to workslower and be a massive resource hog compared to FF 3.5. It has gone so far as to act subpar compared to IE9 with 10-20 tabs open and say 2-3 flash objects active, where it tended to freeze and/or crap itself while IE worked just fine (albeit slower). I'm using Win 7 x64 Prof on an intel i7 and 4 gigs of DDR3 RAM and I haven't been using FF because I cannot be sure if it suddenly won't go catatonic Basically any version above 3.5 (I don't recall what was the case with 3.6.+) proved to be vastly inferior to the previous releases in terms of resource management / stability. Although it really works nice if there are only 3-5 tabs open (which usually isn't the case when I'm using it). And it's a crying shame, as I was really pleased with the new Opera-like menu look Small edit: For reference, I had no problems at all running sessions with up to 319 tabs open (one time record, don't ask, don't remember why) in FF 3.5. Sedes fucked around with this message at 12:52 on Aug 16, 2011 |
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Yeah, I used 3.6.something and then waited until Firefox 5 before upgrading. For the first week everything was fine. Then I started getting waves of disk thrashing. They were all the same, I was just clicking around when suddenly Firefox became unresponsive, disk thrashing and using 100% CPU on 1 core. This lasted for about 10 seconds, not a long time but they came so often that after two weeks I had it and downgraded to 3.6.19. I tried everything too. Disabling page prefetching, hardware acceleration, limiting disk cache, etc. Nothing worked. Oh yeah, clean profile too of course. So here's waiting for Firefox 6 to try again. Hopefully with better luck. Or maybe someone knows the solution to this?
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MachinTrucChose posted:Won't the thread title become outdated by next week? Oh sorry, bro, Chrome thread is that way FF5 is pretty speedy for me, considering I leave it open 24/7 with like 110 tabs. 3.5 would get cranky after awhile, but 5 handles the obnoxious number of tabs happily. For some reason though, I've never been a huge user of Firefox on OS X, I stick to Chrome/Safari. Firefox just seems...slower on OS X.
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# ? Aug 16, 2011 15:08 |
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MachinTrucChose posted:Won't the thread title become outdated by next week? How does it feel to be a future member of a botnet?
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# ? Aug 16, 2011 16:34 |
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MachinTrucChose posted:Won't the thread title become outdated by next week? I don't get the "interface" issues people have with Firefox. With just a few clicks, version 4/5/6 (and probably 7 and beyond) can look just like Firefox 3, 2, or whatever. Put the tabs on bottom, put the status bar back, etc.
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# ? Aug 16, 2011 18:35 |
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Xenomorph posted:I don't get the "interface" issues people have with Firefox. With just a few clicks, version 4/5/6 (and probably 7 and beyond) can look just like Firefox 3, 2, or whatever. These are the same people who turn off Aero in Windows 7 and then bitch about how it doesn't perform any differently from XP or Vista.
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# ? Aug 16, 2011 18:41 |
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Xenomorph posted:I don't get the "interface" issues people have with Firefox. With just a few clicks, version 4/5/6 (and probably 7 and beyond) can look just like Firefox 3, 2, or whatever. Yeah, I feel the same way. You can still get the performance/under-the-hood improvements by customizing the theme/userChrome.css if you really don't like the interface. But then again, I still don't understand how you can't like the interface. 4/5/6 is so much cleaner than 3.x. My FF5 just auto-updated for 6. It's gone live!
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# ? Aug 16, 2011 18:43 |
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Is there a way to turn off the domain name highlighting in the address bar in Firefox 6? It's annoying. Fake edit: This poo poo:
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# ? Aug 16, 2011 18:44 |
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m2pt5 posted:Is there a way to turn off the domain name highlighting in the address bar in Firefox 6? It's annoying. http://blog.ffextensionguru.com/2011/06/30/domain-highlighting-in-firefox-6/
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# ? Aug 16, 2011 18:48 |
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Much better, thank you.
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# ? Aug 16, 2011 18:54 |
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I wonder how this will work with Ubuntu's release versioning. It used to be that an Ubuntu release would fix the major and minor versions of Firefox (along with everything else on the system), so e.g. Maverick will always have Firefox 3.6. Natty shipped with Firefox 4, but will automatically update you to 5. I wonder what the cutoff will be. Oneiric is coming along nicely (at least the Kubuntu daily builds that I've been playing with), so it wouldn't surprise me if Natty will stay with version 5.
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Lysidas posted:I wonder how this will work with Ubuntu's release versioning. It used to be that an Ubuntu release would fix the major and minor versions of Firefox (along with everything else on the system), so e.g. Maverick will always have Firefox 3.6. Natty shipped with Firefox 4, but will automatically update you to 5. I wonder what the cutoff will be. Oneiric is coming along nicely (at least the Kubuntu daily builds that I've been playing with), so it wouldn't surprise me if Natty will stay with version 5. I think I read that the Ubuntu guys decided that keeping browsers up to date was a good thing, so this isn't such an issue any more.
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# ? Aug 16, 2011 19:19 |
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Yes, thank you. Bolding the domain would have been fine, but making the rest more difficult to read was unacceptable.
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# ? Aug 16, 2011 20:14 |
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Sigh. So, if you use 'overflow-y: scroll' on Lion, you get an empty scroll bar ALONGSIDE the 'regular' scroll bar. FIREFOXXXXXXX!!!
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# ? Aug 16, 2011 20:28 |
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Bieeardo posted:Yes, thank you. Bolding the domain would have been fine, but making the rest more difficult to read was unacceptable. Changing the weight would have meant the length of the url would change when you clicked in the field. That's worse, in my opinion.
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# ? Aug 16, 2011 20:33 |
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The Dark One posted:Changing the weight would have meant the length of the url would change when you clicked in the field. That's worse, in my opinion. They could make the url pink or bright blue or something.
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Is anyone having trouble with Chatzilla with Firefox 6? The chat window doesn't seem to scroll correctly after the update anymore. edit: nevermind, looks like my out of date theme was at fault. The great M fucked around with this message at 22:49 on Aug 16, 2011 |
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Were there any performance improvements in 6? I don't know if it's placebo, but 6 feels snappier than 5.
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# ? Aug 16, 2011 22:31 |
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I believe it was supposed to be a little bit faster for Linux users because they switched compilers but the big speed/memory increases are for 7 and 8.
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Ryokurin posted:I believe it was supposed to be a little bit faster for Linux users because they switched compilers but the big speed/memory increases are for 7 and 8.
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mobn posted:These are the same people who turn off Aero in Windows 7 and then bitch about how it doesn't perform any differently from XP or Vista. I don't think that's entirely fair. Aero and the new start menu are pretty unambiguous improvements over XP. Tabs-on-top saves some space, but it takes longer to navigate menus with the consolidated menu button.
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Toast Museum posted:I don't think that's entirely fair. Aero and the new start menu are pretty unambiguous improvements over XP. Tabs-on-top saves some space, but it takes longer to navigate menus with the consolidated menu button. But you very rarely need to get at anything that's been collapsed into the menu button unless you're doing some configuration. It's totally ancillary to normal browsing.
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# ? Aug 17, 2011 00:08 |
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My forward and back buttons are hosed. Often I'll hit back and it'll do nothing - I have to press it a second time for anything to happen. Then when it does go back, it greys out the forward button so I can't go forward back to the newest page. If I press it once and it doesn't go back, the forward button ungreys but pressing it seems to only refresh the page newest page, which I never left. I don't even know this poo poo's bonkers.
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# ? Aug 17, 2011 00:14 |
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Interesting - I hadn't heard of Waterfox before. How does it compare to Pale Moon?
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Nam Taf posted:My forward and back buttons are hosed. Often I'll hit back and it'll do nothing - I have to press it a second time for anything to happen. Then when it does go back, it greys out the forward button so I can't go forward back to the newest page. Its something to do with ads. With Adblock Plus switched off I see that behaviour, with it on everything works smoothly
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Is there an extension that will add my custom search sites (wikipedia, google maps, pornsite.ca, etc) to the right-click contextual menu à la the Google toolbar? Preferably integrating with the search engines in my FF search bar (that I've added those custom sites with the "Add to Search Bar" extension)?
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Toast Museum posted:Tabs-on-top saves some space, but it takes longer to navigate menus with the consolidated menu button. It sure does sometimes. Fortunately the Alt key will make the "old" menu pop back into place and you can navigate from there.
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Waffnuffly posted:Interesting - I hadn't heard of Waterfox before. How does it compare to Pale Moon? I personally haven't used any 3rd party builds. They seem useful, though - enabling SSE/SSE2 and whatnot. I just added Pale Moon and 2 others to the OP.
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# ? Aug 17, 2011 03:06 |
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For some reason I thought the Firefox button and tabs-on-top were related. If I can save some space and keep the tabs on the bottom, I'm good with that. Moving the tabs to the top doesn't put them inline with the Firefox button anyway, so in terms of space usage it doesn't seem to matter whether the tabs are on top or bottom.
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# ? Aug 17, 2011 03:06 |
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Toast Museum posted:For some reason I thought the Firefox button and tabs-on-top were related. If I can save some space and keep the tabs on the bottom, I'm good with that. Moving the tabs to the top doesn't put them inline with the Firefox button anyway, so in terms of space usage it doesn't seem to matter whether the tabs are on top or bottom. What? It saves quite a bit of space having them on top. The firefox button and tabs are inline with eachother.
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# ? Aug 17, 2011 04:19 |
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Neu posted:What? It saves quite a bit of space having them on top. When the window is maximized.
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Golbez posted:When the window is maximized. Something like https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/movable-firefox-button/ would solve the problem.
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