Firefox - More fire and fewer cancer warnings than California

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Standish: May 21, 2001

RZApublican posted:

The most recent thing I've heard was that it's supposed to be a part of Firefox 8. Given what they're supposed to be doing in 8 with garbage collecting and other under the hood changes, it might actually happen this time, but I wouldn't hold them to it.

Firefox 8 is now Aurora, which does not get major new features added to it, so E10S definitely isn't going to be in that.

Process separation isn't even enabled in the Firefox 9 nightly builds yet (you have to build firefox yourself with a special compile flag) so I wouldn't count on it being in FF9 either.

# ¿ Aug 20, 2011 09:10

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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 05:10

Standish: May 21, 2001

Lum posted:

Don't know why I bothered, it doesn't seem any faster than 32bit. I guess it can use more than 2GB of memory now?

Plus it's more secure due to a larger address space for use by ASLR.

# ¿ Sep 5, 2011 17:08

Standish: May 21, 2001

Fangs404 posted:

I've been experiencing an issue with FF locking up for 5-10 seconds occasionally. It usually happens if I go to View Page Info or View Image Info, and it also sometimes happens when I just click on links or bookmarks. Have any of you experienced this?

I'm using a new profile, and the only extensions I'm using at ABP, DownThemAll!, Firebug, Imgur Uploader, Scriptish, and TinEye.

Try vacuuming your places database

# ¿ Sep 20, 2011 20:52

Standish: May 21, 2001

Golbez posted:

That's probably not going to help; it's been this way since 4.

apparently fixed in 8

# ¿ Sep 29, 2011 21:34

Standish: May 21, 2001

HalloKitty posted:

This is just about the codebase becoming so bloated they need more RAM to build it.

No, it's because they merged loads of DLLs into one mega-dll (xul.dll) to improve startup time. Then they started building with link-time optimisations, which scale exponentially with memory usage with the size of the object file.

# ¿ Dec 15, 2011 23:01

Standish: May 21, 2001

Selavi posted:

I just connected a new D-Link WIFI router to my computer, and now whenever I type a single word into the url bar, instead of searching Google, it takes me to the D-link error page. I tried going into about :config, but I think it is a router thing. How can I get my search back?

Tell your router to stop returning custom error pages for DNS lookup failures.

# ¿ Jan 21, 2012 09:13

Standish: May 21, 2001

pseudorandom name posted:

4.2.2.2 is a root server, you really shouldn't be contacting it directly

Here is a list of every single root server IP. 4.2.2.2 is not a root server.

ryanbruce posted:

What's the harm in using a root server?

It's faster to use a DNS server "closer" to you because content delivery networks will return a more local IP.

Google has a good explanation of this effect

# ¿ Jan 22, 2012 10:54

Standish: May 21, 2001

Anjow posted:

have hundreds of bookmarks that I am unable to copy over in bulk because when I try it just stops working again.

If you're copying over the places.sqlite file, try exporting as HTML/reimporting as HTML instead. If you've already doing that then try using Firefox Sync to migrate your profile as described here

# ¿ Jan 29, 2012 16:27

Standish: May 21, 2001

lokk posted:

How do I make FF11 go back to displaying single image files the way the older versions worked (image in top left corner, white background)? I'm not digging the centered screen stuff.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-default-image-style/

# ¿ Mar 14, 2012 22:46

Standish: May 21, 2001

WattsvilleBlues posted:

Isn't using an x64 build a bit pointless at the moment? What advantages do they have over x86 builds?

also 64-bit builds are more secure because ASLR has more bits to work with. 32-bit ASLR isn't much more than a speedbump.

# ¿ Aug 30, 2012 19:10

Standish: May 21, 2001

Lum posted:

Can someone tell me which setting causes this?

On my old Firefox profile, which I've had since (I think) the days of Firefox 3. My tabs and toolbars pick up their colour from the Windows theme, which I rather like. I do not have any custom themes or personas installed and the Firefox window changes colour with the Windows 8 colour scheme.

On my new Firefox profile, the tabs are grey, only the very background picks up my windows colour settings.

This is what my old profile looks like compared to the new one:

vs

I'd love to get that setting back. It's the only thing stopping me from actually running on a freshly reset profile.

Try setting ui.use_native_colors in about :config

# ¿ Jan 28, 2013 18:22

Standish: May 21, 2001

Pilsner posted:

Can anyone think of a way to make Firefox not even respond to system calls that open a specific URL or domain?

You could try this:http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/url_protocol_view.html

# ¿ Apr 5, 2013 21:28

Standish: May 21, 2001

Elphiem posted:

Firefox 21

I heard that it's now using system codecs, Will this have any effect on 360p or 480p on Youtube, or is it just for HD?

Unless you have specifically opted in to Youtube's HTML5 trial, you will keep on using Flash which has its own codecs entirely separate from Firefox/system codecs.

# ¿ May 15, 2013 17:23

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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 05:10

Standish: May 21, 2001

AllanGordon posted:

Hope someone makes an addon to remove the empty space above the tabs in the Australis UI. Only problem I have with it right now.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/australis-slimmr/?src=api

# ¿ Feb 9, 2014 18:10

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