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It's up to you to trust or distrust this fix, but it worked immediately for me. Could be I'm a sucker. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19826903 quote:But anyways, don't use this now, use the semi-official fix of clicking on this link and letting it install: https://storage.googleapis.com/moz-fx-normandy-prod-addons/e... You can clean it up afterward by following this instruction: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19827428 quote:I would just delete it from <profile>/extensions. edit: I'm an idiot and this was explained a page back. doctorfrog fucked around with this message at 20:25 on May 4, 2019 |
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Is new tab or new window not defaulting focus to the address bar for anyone else?
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May 28, 2019 23:42
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I was watching Netflix's Hill House show, and was wondering why they'd serve up their own programming looking like poo poo. Well, they just stream crappy quality to Firefox is how. This plugin signals to Netflix that it's OK to stream actual 1080p content. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/force-1080p-netflix/
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it's fine. tail looks more like fire and less like furry tail. that's fine too.
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doctorfrog posted:Is new tab or new window not defaulting focus to the address bar for anyone else? Welp it’s working after the latest update. Then Firefox suggested I pin tabs I want to be alerted to page content updates with, and I said sure, and that feature didn’t seem to work and it was gobbling up a buncha RAM anyhow so I stopped using it the same day.
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Jun 16, 2019 19:28
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Harik posted:The netflix 1080p plugin from a few days back got completely nuked, no trace remaining but some dead links to the same URL. Anyone know if the author has a site?
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I use Enhancer for Youtube to force settings like quality and to disable annotations and such. This is partly because I whitelist cookies and YouTube isn’t on the whitelist, and I was tired of setting all that stuff. Works pretty good for that.
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Jul 10, 2019 14:07
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Klyith posted:Firefox 69 This is about drat time and really good news. gently caress ads and autoplaying videos.
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Curious what makes Portable Firefox garbage. I’ve used it on and off for years.
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Sep 24, 2019 19:03
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Never heard about these either. Same. Still got 'em, though they're probably full of those little pinholes now. Now that I think about it, I used to keep stuff on Zip drives. One for documents, one for "assorted pictures from newsgroups."
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I don't see a lot of this, but I've been pretty drat happy with Firefox lately. The only thing I'd really wanna remove is Pocket: have it be a preinstalled extension at worst. New logo's fine.
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Nalin posted:Yeah. And if you hate Pocket, you can remove it from your URL bar with a right-click. Then it only exists as a single entry in your right-click menu. I hardly ever notice that it still exists. Avenging Dentist posted:Or just purge it outright by toggling extensions.pocket.enabled (note: this doesn't apply to the stuff in the new tab page, which is disabled through the Preferences UI). Both true. I actually use and like Pocket, but there's just this purity thing in my head that still resents stuff added by default without prior consent. Hangover I guess... from every moment of using a computer since the mid nineties.
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Nov 2, 2019 05:07
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Does about:memory give any clues?
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Nov 5, 2019 18:43
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Weird. Welp, there's safe mode and the Minimize memory usage button. Good luck with that 12 GB goiter, I hope it resolves itself.
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me. Although a couple times last year all my saved tabs vanished to the land of wind and ghosts, which was annoying but also kind of a relief. picture in picture!
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Sab669 posted:I don't really "understand" the Picture in Picture. I mean, like, I understand the purpose but what kind of hardware are you on? A single 1080p monitor? Some dinky 1366x768 laptop? I also probably do not have as nice a PC as you do, so maybe that's it also.
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Sab669 posted:I was a fool. Picture in picture is actually great. It's real nice to have. I do miss not having access to volume controls on the player and would not mind a globally configurable pause key, but it's like a backup camera on a car, you get dependent on it real fast.
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eames posted:Is there a way to show the netflix debug overlay in Firefox on macOS? I resubscribed for the first time since switching to FF but the quality seems close to 480p or worse. ctrl-option-shift-s isn't working. You can also search Netflix for Test Patterns videos, which include the resolution and some other stuff that Netflix is pushing to you.
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Applebees posted:Netflix will only deliver 720p to Firefox. From https://help.netflix.com/en/node/23742  https://github.com/vladikoff/netflix-1080p-firefox
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MohShuvuu posted:How do you install this? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/netflix-1080p/ Note the risk: quote:This extension isn’t monitored by Mozilla. Make sure you trust the extension before you install it.
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isndl posted:PIP is pretty great but I'd definitely like to have a way to kick it into fullscreen without clicking back into the original video tab. Right now it also stays in PIP mode if I fullscreen the original video frame without closing the PIP. agreed. I guess if you wanted that functionality bad enough, you could put the video tab on a different virtual desktop, and use OnTopReplica to replicate it on your primary desktop. Double clicking the replica window will fullscreen it.
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~Coxy posted:I feel like it's pretty scummy for Mozilla to spam their users.
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ghacks explains it to folks, like me, who don't know what it is: https://www.ghacks.net/2020/02/26/if-you-run-ublock-origin-use-the-firefox-version-as-it-offers-better-protection/
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Splinter posted:Is there much point to running Privacy Badger on top of Firefox tracking protection? Do I know for sure? No. But its policies make basic sense. If something isn't on the tracking protection list, it might catch 'em. Actually, if it catches anything, isn't it catching stuff basic protection is missing anyway? privacy badger web site posted:Privacy Badger starts blocking once it sees the same tracker on three different websites. Three strikes and it's out! If you use other privacy tools or ad blockers, Privacy Badger will learn less, but that's OK, it might catch things your other blockers miss.
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Lambert posted:I like listening to YT videos while on the go or when going to sleep. Being able to listen without any annoying interruptions and with the screen off is valuable. youtube-dl can rip to a sound file. I did it for lullaby stuff for my kid when she was a baby and I didn't want a screen involved. Granted, this is probably not a solution for streaming. Speaking of which (and yes this is going off topic) I've used the old Streamripper program to rip days' worth of the equally ancient Sleepbot stream for sleep purposes.
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Im_Special posted:And in other news, a new Windows Scheduled Task added along with a new telemetry collecting program "default-browser-agent.exe" installed with 75.0. Yes, Mozilla people are switching. Ugh, why's everyone got to try to be like the big boy businesses and do their own little data-gathering operation. At least they respect my privacy setting, but I bet this is just the start.
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Bieeanshee posted:I was fine providing performance information when they asked me to, but I wouldn't have known about this if I wasn't reading this thread. If you ask me, I'm much more likely to say 'yes' than if you ask my forgiveness.  I turned it all off after this. This was a really dumb decision.
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Klyith posted:Just gonna Yeah, I'm cranky when software changes, but I'm more wary of the opt-in telemetry--however basic it may be, it's indicative of an internal attitude change--than the oddball user design choice. It's still a really good browser for my uses and privacy concerns. I think it has a large enough nerdshare that I'd know well in advance of it becoming a real dumpster fire.
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Users are more likely to stay engaged if they click on a video they hate then can scroll through comments they despise when they don’t hate the video enough.
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Folks, Simple Firefox Backup
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In my experience, it's usually some combination of scripts somewhere. I use Google Docs a lot in multiple open windows and that'll do it. The biggest offender I've found was Dark Reader, an add-on that churned through all the colors on a web page and made them dark-friendly. Maybe it's my years as a broke dude with an old computer, but when I want to play a game, I usually close stuff like Firefox. doctorfrog fucked around with this message at 00:40 on Jun 23, 2020 |
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Pinned tab with game running on it? What does about:performance say?
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250 people? How many are left? A thousand?
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Megillah Gorilla posted:If they were that good, they should have seen it coming. First, you fire the threat prediction team, then the threat management team.
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Fame Douglas posted:Microsoft Edge is good. It's Chrome, but it has tab mute (which is pretty much the only reason to use it over Chrome). Also, instead of annoying you with Google login prompts, it annoys you with Microsoft account login prompts. I use Edge for Netflix only, since Netflix doesn't stream high quality through Firefox. The little new tab page with your favorite bookmarks will occasionally insert links for Microsoft's "partners," which is advertising I don't think you can turn off. I'm a bit reactionary, but that's a dealbreaker all on its own. For my part, Firefox is still really good and this announcement sucks but I'm waiting before jumping ship. Mozilla seems like a really poorly run organization if they were hiring 1000 people to do what they've been doing (or I should say what of their products I've been consuming). You can put me in the minority "I would pay a reasonable sum for a good browser divorced from corporate bullshit" camp.
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Fame Douglas posted:I have never seen this, but maybe they just don't have any ads in my region. Do you have "Content" set to "off" in the Custom New Tab settings? I’m probably out of date, the option for me is Top Sites, Top Sites and Suggested Content, and A blank page. I’ve had “Top Sites” selected since starting to use it. Haven’t seen an ad tile for about a month, though.
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This isn't Firefox-specific, but it's a helpful item to pair with other ad-blocking and other nonsense de-fuckifiers. It's a bookmarklet, that, when clicked, removes those header and footer bars that clutter up sites like Medium and nytimes.com. https://dan.hersam.com/2019/09/06/cleaning-up-the-web/
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