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The Milkman posted:Anyone know what's up with Lightning? There's been no updates for it to work in Earlybird for a while now. Some automation stuff got horked (I'm guessing it happened around when Thunderbird's automation infrastructure switched to using the same as Firefox). You can follow the issue here if you like: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=756116
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Lord of Sword posted:Firefox automatically updated to 13 a few days ago, but Mouse Gestures Redox doesn't work past 3.6, and I literally can't use Firefox without it. I'll try updating the drivers and see if that works. You should be able to edit the maxVersion for the add-on and have everything work just fine. Find the .xpi in your profile folder, open it up (it's a renamed zip file), open install.rdf, and change the maxVersion to some huge number. Note that by doing this, there's always the potential for things to break in hilarious ways, but it's worked for me for ages.
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Jun 11, 2012 20:38
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Xander77 posted:The latest, I'm pretty sure. At least, it got updated a few weeks ago. Try looking in Options -> General -> Startup.
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Jun 12, 2012 21:11
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pipes! posted:Thanks for the vote of confidence, but the trouble the close only works until a new window is spawned. Try deleting localStore.rdf in your profile folder? Sometimes that file gets corrupted and it becomes impossible to customize things in Firefox. (Note that this will reset all your customizations, window positions, etc.)
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Jun 29, 2012 17:19
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pipes! posted:Long and short: I'd like no Add-on bar and running Lion, so I think I'm just poo poo out of luck. I think the next step is to just reinstall on all machines one by one. Regardless, sorry it took a bit to get back to you guys, and thanks for the help! Have you tried resetting your profile (Help -> Troubleshooting Information -> Reset Firefox)? That should keep your history, bookmarks, password, etc, but wipe out all your extensions and start you fresh. Then you can reinstall the extensions you need, and hopefully it'll work.
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Jul 2, 2012 06:41
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pipes! posted:Yup. I am edgecase, hear me roar Well then, much as I hate to suggest it, you can hide the add-on bar by adding the following to userChrome.css: code:
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Jul 3, 2012 17:51
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jeeves posted:Mozilla is stopping development on Thunderbird past next version. It will just be security patches from then on. It's true that that's all Mozilla employees will get paid to work on, yes. Community volunteers will still be able to add all the new features they like (provided they pass review, of course). This really isn't that much different from how it is now. Somewhere around 50% of the development in Thunderbird is from volunteers, and has been that way for years now. Unfortunately, the messaging of this announcement probably would have been a lot less controversial if someone hadn't leaked the internal memo. They could at least have waited until Monday when it was supposed to be announced publicly and then leaked stuff if they had a problem with the public version. Alereon posted:... there's nothing left to innovate. That's definitely not true, though. There are lots of things that could be done in Thunderbird: improving composition, redesigning the address book, etc. Still, Thunderbird's not going anywhere for a while, so don't worry. It's still supported, but Mozilla isn't going to pay people to work on new features. (Edit: I know Alereon mentioned this too, but it bears repeating.) Avenging Dentist fucked around with this message at 03:12 on Jul 10, 2012 |
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Decius posted:There was some more development happening after a very comatose state the last few years, and I'm dreading what this news will do to the enthusiasm of the people who cared to develop for TB in their free time. I wouldn't worry about this. Most of the people in the TB community are ready and willing to keep contributing. Incidentally, if there are people out there who'd like to start contributing to Thunderbird, shoot me a PM and I'll be
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Jul 10, 2012 18:50
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SeaTard posted:So apparently the new version of Firefox doesn't reload saved tabs when you restore them (such as from a browser crash/close). Anyone know how to turn that back on? I've wandered through about :config, but there was nothing obvious that might control that behavior. Options -> General -> Disable "Don't load tabs until selected" (If it's disabled, switch to "Show my windows and tabs from last time", toggle the checkbox, and switch back.)
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Jul 18, 2012 21:57
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law abiding rapist posted:I should probably reset my profile but then I lose everything, this is the same profile I've been using since FF 4. The install folder is still Mozilla Firefox 4.0 Beta 7. Two things: 1) The install location of Firefox doesn't affect your profile, which is in AppData (or your homedir). 2) You can reset your Firefox profile while keeping most of the important data (bookmarks, history, cookies, passwords, and form data) by going to Help -> Troubleshooting Information -> Reset Firefox. Then you just need to reinstall any extensions you want to keep and mess with prefs to get it back to how you like.
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Jul 19, 2012 22:56
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Does the video on this page give you problems too? If not, it's probably not an issue with the video decoding.
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Jul 20, 2012 00:49
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Ryokurin posted:I don't tend to use it because you have to restart the browser. That's the one thing that I like that Chrome does that Firefox cant, have a private window along with standard. That's changing "soon": https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=463027#c91
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Jul 21, 2012 04:24
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Robolizard! posted:Also the newtab page for firefox is really awful. Why would I want it to show the most recent stuff - I want it to list stuff I visit all the time, and not have stuff I just happened to load thrice in one session on there the next time I make a new tab. Open the Library (Ctrl+Shift+B) and drag any sites you really like onto the new tab page. If you don't tell Firefox what sites you want there, it'll just have to guess.
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Aug 7, 2012 19:15
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WattsvilleBlues posted:I've been surprised how many websites have Flash running in the background, doing nothing but (presumably) spying on me or something. Usually, sites use hidden Flash widgets to either play sounds or mess around with copy and paste, since you can't modify the clipboard with Javascript.
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Oct 10, 2012 08:08
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Im_Special posted:Maybe its a specific setting I have in TabMixPlus, but it's a known issue over at there forums with lots of people complaining, apparently their current dev build fixes this. I'll never understand why (non-abandoned) add-ons have trouble fixing their stuff before the final release of a given version. Everyone should know by now that there's a new release every 6 weeks, and that there's plenty of time to test your code against nightlies, alphas, and betas.
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Nov 20, 2012 22:35
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Sergeant Rock posted:The Release Notes for FF17 claim that it supports ECMAScript's String.contains : https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String/contains It was backed out: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=793781 Edit: I fixed the wiki page too. Avenging Dentist fucked around with this message at 12:13 on Nov 21, 2012 |
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Install Gentoo posted:What versions enable that h.264 support, or how can I check if what I'm using now does? 20.0+, and make sure media.windows-media-foundation.enabled is set to true. EDIT: Oh, and you need Win7+ for now. If you're on Vista, then 1)  and 2) it doesn't work yet (but it will eventually).
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Jan 29, 2013 21:58
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Im_Special posted:I never said it didn't get exploited or ever will again, only that it's now much more secure then it used to be and you only every hear about this kind of stuff about Adobe, when the alternatives are just a vulnerable and by many of the exact same exploits that are used against Adobe. That's the nice thing about pdf.js. It's implemented entirely in content-level Javascript, so the surface area for attack is exactly the same as Javascript in general. Plugins or native applications* just increase the surface area. That's not necessarily the end of the world, but unless you really need the features of Adobe/Foxit/Sumatra, it's smarter to use pdf.js. You can always fall back to an alternate PDF reader for files that don't work (or submit a patch to pdf.js!). * Really, anything whose code is "trusted" on some level.
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Feb 22, 2013 22:38
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midnightclimax posted:Is it possible to select the number of pages/bookmarks speed-dial displays? Like 3 instead of 9? (Not talking about the extension, but about the built-in one) browser.newtabpage.columns and browser.newtabpage.rows, presumably.
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Hogburto posted:E: To my original question: That media.windows-media-foundation.enabled only enables support for the specific h.264 codec that ships with Windows? Correct. Avenging Dentist fucked around with this message at 21:45 on Apr 7, 2013 |
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Oh, and to address your issue with CPU usage spiking, that's because Firefox doesn't use hardware acceleration for h.264 video yet. However, a patch to do so is in progress: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=847267
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~Coxy posted:Maybe Mozilla should stop wasting its money on lovely smartphone OSes and then they could implement H.264 properly. EDIT: Fine I'll be nice (why I'm doing this is beyond me). There are plenty of opportunities to get involved in Mozilla projects, it being open source and all. If you're not happy with the things an open source project is prioritizing, then get involved (this can include writing patches, or even just helping test pre-releases). That's what I did with Thunderbird. Avenging Dentist fucked around with this message at 07:56 on Apr 8, 2013 |
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Mujaji posted:Giantbomb.com has switched to using the browsers native full screen rendering instead of flash's implementation. So now on multi monitor setups when you change window focus it automatically leaves full screen, which is really annoying there are workarounds (f11 + windowed full screen) but I would rather just click one button. Is there some about :config setting or a plugin to make firefox keep fullscreen video playing on a second monitor when it loses focus? Switch to Firefox 22 for now? It has your bug fixed: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=724554
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m2pt5 posted:Is there a way to back up your extensions that's not FEBE? I believe I'm going to need to reset my profile soon and I don't want to have to go dig up all my extensions again, and while it appears to, FEBE refuses to install. You should be able to get at all of your extensions from your profile folder, and the old one is helpfully copied to your desktop when you run Reset Firefox: quote:After the reset is finished, your old Firefox profile information will be placed on your desktop in a folder named "Old Firefox Data."[1] That said, I didn't actually try this to confirm it.
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Dice Dice Baby posted:It's a good way to recover extensions that aren't actively being developed anymore, like Mouse Gestures Redox If you like Mouse Gestures Redox, you might like All-in-One Gestures, which I think has the same ancestor as Redox. I haven't tried it yet, though, so maybe it's a piece of poo poo!! EDIT: Tried it, it totally is! Avenging Dentist fucked around with this message at 00:27 on Apr 26, 2013 |
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WattsvilleBlues posted:I use FireGestures and it works well. My main issue with FireGestures is the anemic support for rocker gestures (and the lack of diagonal gestures). Someone also issued a pull request to improve rocker gestures, but the developer wasn't very responsive. One of these days I'm just going to write my own gesture add-on and make it not suck.
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For those of you who care about that sort of thing, Windows (Vista+) nightlies have hardware-accelerated h.264 video now: http://blog.pearce.org.nz/2013/05/hardware-accelerated-h264-decoding.html
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Gerudo Rivera posted:Shouldn't someone be able to select where new tabs open (right of the current tab, OF COURSE) without having to track down an addon? Isn't that what Firefox does by default? (Check the pref "browser.tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent" and make sure it's true). Gerudo Rivera posted:Or hide the loving X buttons that appear on every single tab? Set "browser.tabs.closeButtons" to one of the following: 0 (close button on active tab only), 1 (close button on all tabs), 2 (no close buttons), or 3 (a single close button at the end of the tab bar). Gerudo Rivera posted:I don't feel like these are bloat, or "power user" requests. Most are basic usability concerns & conveniences. Which is why the majority have hidden prefs. Gerudo Rivera posted:Year after year, features on cars that used to be "high end" (ABS, AC, power windows, GPS) have become standard. These browsers seem to be racing in the opposite direction. Instead of finding ways to naturally incorporate new functions without adding dozens of new toolbar buttons & slowing everything to a crawl, they're offering barebones frames & engines and expecting everyone to just plug the extra bits they want into the cigarette lighter. stop. This is a bad analogy. You'll note that what car manufacturers are doing is adding often-used features to all their product lines. But that's not what you're complaining about with browsers; you want the options to tweak your browser in whichever way you like best. Auto manufacturers don't do that either. Don't want ABS? Too bad, you're getting it. There are plenty of things being added to browsers (most obviously in terms of HTML support), but no, there aren't a lot more options being added because no one does that. Doing so adds a maintenance/testing burden onto developers (or automotive engineers) that just slows down their ability to add things that are useful to the majority.
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Pilsner posted:Well, what is the point of Firefox? It's free and made by a non-profit organization, as far as I can gather. There are no ads and no real point to it other than open source pride. I don't see why the Mozilla devs should be happy that Grandma now thinks that Firefox out of the box feels as simple as IE. Everything causes more work for the developers, so that point doesn't hold water. Not everything makes the same amount of work. Improving a given feature (and not adding a bunch of settings to tweak it) is less work than adding (or keeping) a bunch of options. Every configuration option adds complexity to the testing matrix (you have to ensure that combinations of options don't cause breakage), and requires devs to keep those options in mind every time they want to improve something in that area. Mozilla (or any other company) doesn't have infinite resources, and the time spent to maintain little-used options is time taken away from work on more widely-used areas. Pilsner posted:What would you say if FF cut support for extensions, because the majority probably don't use extensions anyway? 85% of people use add-ons in Firefox: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2011/06/21/firefox-4-add-on-users/
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~Coxy posted:Now that we finally have H.264 support, does anyone know of an Addon that implements click-to-play for HTML5 video/audio? Flashblock.
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Colonel Sanders posted:I started the HTML5 trial for Youtube, I am not really seeing anything different. Really the only thing I have noticed is that with flash, I can set Youtube to be full screen on one monitor and keep using the other monitor, but with HTML5 it kicks me out of full screen if I switch to another browser window. Is there any easy way to prevent this? http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3431449&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=65#post414697218
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Alereon posted:Also, register a bugzilla account and vote for that bug to increase its chances of getting fixed sooner. I'm fairly sure Mozilla developers pay little to no attention to votes, mostly because it's pretty difficult to tell when tons of people have found the bug independently or if it just got linked on Slashdot or something.
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midnightclimax posted:Anyone know how I can tell FF to reload a thread at the exact position I'm currently looking at? It keeps jumping back to the post that was previously the last one. That's the forums' fault, since it's explicitly telling Firefox to scroll to a particular anchor. If you're just navigating by page instead of going to the last unread post (i.e. the URL has no fragment id - the thing with the #), then you'll get what you want.
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Pilsner posted:... but all other than those google fonts look fine. However, since it's the same problem in Chrome I guess it's not really an FF bug. Presumably the Google fonts aren't optimized for non-ClearType rendering.
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Jul 21, 2013 21:55
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Disgustipated posted:That is by design. It won't show a preview of any https site. That's not the logic Firefox uses. It doesn't show previews of pages whose HTTP response headers include "Cache-Control: no-cache".
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Im_Special posted:I know about the option setting Tools > Options > Tabs > [ ] When I open a link in a new tab, switch to it immediately, which is indeed unchecked and this seems to work well for regular links, but bookmarks and this search engine search seem to ignore this rule. In about:config, toggle browser.search.context.loadInBackground to true.
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midnightclimax posted:I'm having trouble displaying a preview of Twitter on the newtab-page. It's probably related to it being https? I googled for a solution a while ago, but the fix was dependent on a feature in about :config that has since been removed. Or something. Right now I just get a blank square, and that's a bit annoying. This should be fixed in Firefox 25. It'll show a thumbnail of the page as though you weren't logged in, so as to prevent privacy issues.
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Fangs404 posted:Mozilla again postpones Firefox third-party cookie-blocking, this time for months You are aware that you can currently block 3rd-party cookies from unvisited sites, right? They just didn't make it the default yet.
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Fangs404 posted:I haven't had anything serious to edit in the OP in a while. Do you guys have any recommendations for changes to the OP to keep it current? New logo, a link to The Burning Edge, and maybe a link to Bugzilla under the Test Releases section?
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