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actionjackson: Jan 12, 2003

I'm curious, I have firefox on a mac, and I have outlook web mail for my work mail. It had two factor authentication for a while, but a few months ago it just completely skipped this part and went to my inbox. Which was great for me of course as doing the six digit code was annoying, and this is a private WFH computer. After I had to change my password unfortunately it stopped and gave me the auth screen again. Any idea why this happened?

It seems to only occur on firefox.

# ? Jul 21, 2022 15:35

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# ? Apr 23, 2024 12:18

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

Been a while since the last time this happened, but the latest update hosed up all my custom CSS settings. Everything's either too big or too small now.

# ? Jul 29, 2022 14:29

Hargrimm: Sep 22, 2011; W A R R E N

Megillah Gorilla posted:

Been a while since the last time this happened, but the latest update hosed up all my custom CSS settings. Everything's either too big or too small now.

Nothing changed for me at all this time, was nice to not have to do even minor userChrome.css tweaks for once. The release notes do mention a change to the UI relating to some Windows accessibility settings if you might be using those.

# ? Jul 29, 2022 15:27

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

Yeah, Firefox now recognises Windows UI settings, like zoom. Got all my text where I want it, which was just zooming out, but my tabs are just huge. Three tabs takes up my entire screen, I used to have eight.

Give it a day or so and someone will have a solution up on github or reddit.

EDIT: From reddit: open about:config and enter "ui.textScaleFactor" select number and set it to "100".

Everything back to normal now.

Megillah Gorilla fucked around with this message at 14:21 on Jul 30, 2022

# ? Jul 29, 2022 15:53

bad boys for life: Jun 6, 2003; by sebmojo

uBlock Origin is causing pages to stutter as I scroll, I notice the counter of blocking go up whenever it happens. This wasnt happening a few weeks ago.

Is this happening to anyone else? About to give up on firefox. Cant figure out how to fix it.

# ? Aug 1, 2022 11:45

Truga: May 4, 2014; Lipstick Apathy

what page is this happening on? sounds like a really lovely ad spamming javascript is trying to serve you popups as you scroll lmao

# ? Aug 1, 2022 14:40

bad boys for life: Jun 6, 2003; by sebmojo

Truga posted:

what page is this happening on? sounds like a really lovely ad spamming javascript is trying to serve you popups as you scroll lmao

every page, this site when i scroll, cnn, just about anything

going to try another adblocker

# ? Aug 1, 2022 16:25

Truga: May 4, 2014; Lipstick Apathy

what is it blocking though? hit f12, click network, start scrolling

# ? Aug 1, 2022 16:32

Rexxed: May 1, 2010; Dis is amazing!
I gotta try dis!

Sounds like you might have adware on your system and it's stopping it but it's fighting it if it's constantly blocking stuff.

# ? Aug 1, 2022 19:44

Stare-Out: Mar 11, 2010

Might not be a Firefox thing but what the hell is happening with Twitter embeds? The links and hashtags in them are suddenly bold and white, the likes and replies are colored as though I've clicked on them and sometimes they're not. Is this Twitter or Firefox?

# ? Aug 3, 2022 16:54

NihilCredo: Jun 6, 2011; iram omni possibili modo preme:
plus una illa te diffamabit, quam multæ virtutes commendabunt

Stare-Out posted:

Might not be a Firefox thing but what the hell is happening with Twitter embeds? The links and hashtags in them are suddenly bold and white, the likes and replies are colored as though I've clicked on them and sometimes they're not. Is this Twitter or Firefox?

It's Firefox's Enhanced Tracking Protection, since twitter embeds let Twitter know that you're visiting the disreputable Something Awful� forums.

You can turn it off from the shield icon in the URL bar. If you have uBlock Origin (of course you do) it also seems to block the actual tracking requests anyway, without breaking the embed.

# ? Aug 3, 2022 18:19

Freakazoid_: Jul 5, 2013; Buglord

I've got a couple different emails, one of which is an old hotmail account. Firefox keeps bugging me to make it my primary email. It's the only one that does this and I can't seem to get it to stop. How do I get firefox to cut it out?

# ? Aug 3, 2022 18:28

CatHorse: Jan 5, 2008

Freakazoid_ posted:

I've got a couple different emails, one of which is an old hotmail account. Firefox keeps bugging me to make it my primary email. It's the only one that does this and I can't seem to get it to stop. How do I get firefox to cut it out?

Firefox does not do that. You have some kind of malware.

# ? Aug 3, 2022 18:32

Stare-Out: Mar 11, 2010

NihilCredo posted:

It's Firefox's Enhanced Tracking Protection, since twitter embeds let Twitter know that you're visiting the disreputable Something Awful� forums.

You can turn it off from the shield icon in the URL bar. If you have uBlock Origin (of course you do) it also seems to block the actual tracking requests anyway, without breaking the embed.

I switched it off on the site but it didn't change the weird looking links. Thing is, I've had it on since forever, for uBlock too, but it's only happened for a few days. Weird.

E: I mean the links in embeds appear as bold/white instead of just blue like on Twitter.com. That can't be a tracking issue.

Stare-Out fucked around with this message at 18:37 on Aug 3, 2022

# ? Aug 3, 2022 18:34

Geemer: Nov 4, 2010

Stare-Out posted:

I switched it off on the site but it didn't change the weird looking links. Thing is, I've had it on since forever, for uBlock too, but it's only happened for a few days. Weird.

E: I mean the links in embeds appear as bold/white instead of just blue like on Twitter.com. That can't be a tracking issue.

Considering it also happens to me on edge for android, I'm willing to put the blame firmly on Twitter.

# ? Aug 3, 2022 18:45

Stare-Out: Mar 11, 2010

Geemer posted:

Considering it also happens to me on edge for android, I'm willing to put the blame firmly on Twitter.

Okay, yeah I figured as much. At least I can rule Firefox out.

E: No bold/white links, but the likes and replies are off; the first one appeared on page load, the second after a refresh. The second is the "normal" embed.

Stare-Out fucked around with this message at 19:28 on Aug 3, 2022

# ? Aug 3, 2022 18:48

astral: Apr 26, 2004

That looks more like they're a/b testing a new design than anything else. Most likely nothing to do with Firefox.

# ? Aug 4, 2022 02:43

NihilCredo: Jun 6, 2011; iram omni possibili modo preme:
plus una illa te diffamabit, quam multæ virtutes commendabunt

Stare-Out posted:

I switched it off on the site but it didn't change the weird looking links. Thing is, I've had it on since forever, for uBlock too, but it's only happened for a few days. Weird.

E: I mean the links in embeds appear as bold/white instead of just blue like on Twitter.com. That can't be a tracking issue.

Oh. I thought you meant that the embeds just appeared as plain links, because that's what happened to me on the desktop until i turned ETP off.

# ? Aug 4, 2022 09:39

Freakazoid_: Jul 5, 2013; Buglord

MikusR posted:

Firefox does not do that. You have some kind of malware.

I'm getting the all clear from both windows defender and malwarebytes.

It seems to have stopped on its own after messing with uMatrix, it was probably blocking a script from remembering my preference.

This is a new pc, fresh windows and firefox install, I should have figured. Would've been very upset if this got infected with malware so soon.

# ? Aug 4, 2022 18:20

WattsvilleBlues: Jan 25, 2005; Every demon wants his pound of flesh

Freakazoid_ posted:

I've got a couple different emails, one of which is an old hotmail account. Firefox keeps bugging me to make it my primary email. It's the only one that does this and I can't seem to get it to stop. How do I get firefox to cut it out?

I'm not sure what you mean at all, do you have a screenshot or anything?

# ? Aug 4, 2022 19:52

Freakazoid_: Jul 5, 2013; Buglord

Nalin posted:

lol when I said "Potential problems are future updates changing the way the browser is constructed and invalidating some of the changes in userChrome.css", this is what I meant.

It looks like the beforeselected-visible="true" attribute was moved onto the .tabbrowser-tab node. You can fix it with this:
code:
/* Inactive tabs: Separator lines. */
.tabbrowser-tab:not([beforeselected-visible="true"]) .tab-background:not([selected=true]):not([multiselected=true]) {
    border-right: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, .20) !important;
}
[brighttext="true"] .tabbrowser-tab:not([beforeselected-visible="true"]) .tab-background:not([selected=true]):not([multiselected=true]) {
    border-right: 1px solid var(--lwt-selected-tab-background-color, rgba(255, 255, 255, .20)) !important;
}
.tab-background:not([selected=true]):not([multiselected=true]) {
    border-radius: 0 !important;
}

Thanks for keeping this updated. The thicker bars aren't so bad, but I can't live without square tabs.

A request though: Is there a way to eliminate the gap between the menu bar and the tabs?

# ? Aug 5, 2022 00:35

~Coxy: Dec 9, 2003; R.I.P. Inter-OS Sass - b.2000AD d.2003AD

Here's how I have my menus and tabs that I find acceptable.

I think the relevant section is lines 136-338

https://pastebin.com/vYPuV70w

~Coxy fucked around with this message at 04:16 on Aug 5, 2022

# ? Aug 5, 2022 04:11

Nalin: Sep 29, 2007; Hair Elf

Freakazoid_ posted:

Thanks for keeping this updated. The thicker bars aren't so bad, but I can't live without square tabs.

A request though: Is there a way to eliminate the gap between the menu bar and the tabs?

code:

.titlebar-button {
    padding: 3px 17px !important;
}

The first value is the top/bottom padding and that's the value you want to change.
The height of the menu bar is controlled by the size of the minimize/maximize/close buttons. This changes the height of those buttons and brings the tabs closer to the top. On Windows 11, 3px and below seems to reduce the gap to nothing.

# ? Aug 10, 2022 00:35

Freakazoid_: Jul 5, 2013; Buglord

Nalin posted:

code:
.titlebar-button {
    padding: 3px 17px !important;
}
The first value is the top/bottom padding and that's the value you want to change.
The height of the menu bar is controlled by the size of the minimize/maximize/close buttons. This changes the height of those buttons and brings the tabs closer to the top. On Windows 11, 3px and below seems to reduce the gap to nothing.

Perfect, thank you.

# ? Aug 11, 2022 04:26

mobby_6kl: Aug 9, 2009; by Fluffdaddy

Is there any way to immediately stop all script execution on a page? Not disable scripts, just halt execution? Without going to the dev tools I mean. That (or hitting Escape) was one of the options I've found but it's not great/doesn't work

# ? Aug 12, 2022 17:29

Klyith: Aug 3, 2007; GBS Pledge Week

mobby_6kl posted:

Is there any way to immediately stop all script execution on a page? Not disable scripts, just halt execution? Without going to the dev tools I mean. That (or hitting Escape) was one of the options I've found but it's not great/doesn't work

There used to be a great extension called SuperStop that would halt scripts (and gif animations), but it hasn't worked for quite a while. I think FF removed the hooks for halting. (ESC doesn't halt all scripts anymore either.)

# ? Aug 12, 2022 17:34

actionjackson: Jan 12, 2003

not sure why, but twitter embeds on the forums are no longer working for me. If I turn off cosmetic filtering in ublock origin they come back - has something changed? i've been using ublock origin with cosmetic filtering on for a long time and never had problems with embeds until now.

this is what it looks like when filtering is on. I think the embed comes from platform.twitter.com so I'm not sure why they are not showing up. also I have no idea with the plus and minus signs mean.

actionjackson fucked around with this message at 16:27 on Aug 23, 2022

# ? Aug 23, 2022 16:22

Klyith: Aug 3, 2007; GBS Pledge Week

actionjackson posted:

not sure why, but twitter embeds on the forums are no longer working for me. If I turn off cosmetic filtering in ublock origin they come back - has something changed? i've been using ublock origin with cosmetic filtering on for a long time and never had problems with embeds until now.

this is what it looks like when filtering is on. I think the embed comes from platform.twitter.com so I'm not sure why they are not showing up. also I have no idea with the plus and minus signs mean.

When something breaks like that with ublock, it'll generally be fixed in a day or two when the filters you're subscribed to update. Websites like twitter change all the time, something that blocks ads today might block embeds the next day. If it doesn't fix itself, you might have a filter in your own My Filters section that's blocking stuff.

The + and - signs show how many requests were allowed (+) or blocked (-) by ublock's filters. One +/- means <10 requests, 2 = 10-100, 3 = over 100. They're fairly ignorable other than showing you that something is extremely active, which might mean you want to allow it (because it's a critical part of the site) or block it (because it's an ad network that's super invasive).

# ? Aug 23, 2022 17:13

Flipperwaldt: Nov 11, 2011; Won't somebody think of the starving hamsters in China?

The fact that the embeds work when cosmetic filtering is disabled means that what's happening is because of one of your cosmetic filters. What these do is not represented in the panel you made a screenshot of afaik.

# ? Aug 23, 2022 19:51

actionjackson: Jan 12, 2003

Flipperwaldt posted:

The fact that the embeds work when cosmetic filtering is disabled means that what's happening is because of one of your cosmetic filters. What these do is not represented in the panel you made a screenshot of afaik.

ok, but I haven't changed anything in ublock origin, it just started happening yesterday for no reason that I can discern

# ? Aug 23, 2022 23:36

Inceltown: Aug 6, 2019

actionjackson posted:

ok, but I haven't changed anything in ublock origin, it just started happening yesterday for no reason that I can discern

That doesn't mean Twitter didn't change something which caused your filters to break.

# ? Aug 24, 2022 00:01

actionjackson: Jan 12, 2003

Inceltown posted:

That doesn't mean Twitter didn't change something which caused your filters to break.

is there anyway to pinpoint where the issue is? the log just says there was a script from platform.twitter.com/embed...

actionjackson fucked around with this message at 01:52 on Aug 24, 2022

# ? Aug 24, 2022 01:44

Klyith: Aug 3, 2007; GBS Pledge Week

actionjackson posted:

is there anyway to pinpoint where the issue is? the log just says there was a script from platform.twitter.com/embed...

seems twitter.com/i/jot is on your blocklist.

So if you click on the red line over in the left column where your cursor becomes a magnifying glass, you'll get a infobox with "Filter list:" that will tell you which filter (either a subscription list or yours) has that block.

# ? Aug 24, 2022 02:26

astral: Apr 26, 2004

That's a network filter though and would not explain why disabling cosmetic filtering restored it.

# ? Aug 24, 2022 02:45

actionjackson: Jan 12, 2003

astral posted:

That's a network filter though and would not explain why disabling cosmetic filtering restored it.

it looks like that filter came from easyprivacy, so I tried turning that off. same issue though.

the yellow lines are from my filters, which is this stuff I found somewhere that pretty much kills the algorithmically generated content on their page, but I've used those for a while without any issues

actionjackson fucked around with this message at 02:58 on Aug 24, 2022

# ? Aug 24, 2022 02:55

Klyith: Aug 3, 2007; GBS Pledge Week

actionjackson posted:

but I've used those for a while without any issues

Have you disabled them to see if they're causing the issues now?

You have to know, twitter and other ad-focused sites (ie all of them) will specifically do stuff to make it harder to distinguish between the stuff you want to see and the stuff they want you to see.

# ? Aug 24, 2022 03:15

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

My method of fixing a site when my cosmetic filters break something is going in uBlock's options and deleting every cosmetic filter for that site, Then a quick reload and making all new filters.

It's the lowest effort and quickest way I've found to get things back to how I want after a site has gone and changed things up because you never know what simple change is now messing everything up.

# ? Aug 24, 2022 04:55

actionjackson: Jan 12, 2003

yep you were right, did that and found this was the culprit

code:

! [User] liked
twitter.com##article :not([role="button"]>div>div>svg>g>path)[d$="13.157H12z"]:upward(article)

# ? Aug 24, 2022 16:32

ChickenOfTomorrow: Nov 11, 2012; god damn it, you've got to be kind

Would you be interested in installing an extension that hid those twitter irritations from the TL rather than using adblock? 'Cause that's what I do to hide suggestions and the message drawer and stuff

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# ? Apr 23, 2024 12:18

Geemer: Nov 4, 2010

ChickenOfTomorrow posted:

Would you be interested in installing an extension that hid those twitter irritations from the TL rather than using adblock? 'Cause that's what I do to hide suggestions and the message drawer and stuff

What is this extension called?

# ? Aug 26, 2022 15:44

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