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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > Firefox - More fire and fewer cancer warnings than California
 
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Mister Kingdom
Dec 14, 2005

And the tears that fall
On the city wall
Will fade away
With the rays of morning light

LeftistMuslimObama posted:

I have never before been mad about a Firefox update, but the last one changed my default search engine to Yahoo without asking me. That's pretty loving annoying.

I'd read somewhere that they were going to do that. At least you have the option to fix it. gently caress Yahoo.

I upgraded to 34, but Flashblock didn't work, so I went back to 33.1.1.

Mister Kingdom fucked around with this message at 04:14 on Dec 11, 2014

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Mister Kingdom
Dec 14, 2005

And the tears that fall
On the city wall
Will fade away
With the rays of morning light

Nalin posted:

An update to Flashblock was released, but from what I hear it can sometimes act a little wonky when e10s is enabled.

I upgraded to 34 and now everything seems to be okay.

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Mister Kingdom
Dec 14, 2005

And the tears that fall
On the city wall
Will fade away
With the rays of morning light
I don't know if this is a Firefox 35.0 thing or a SALR thing, but here goes.




See the popup box when I hover over the forum name? If I try to click on any of the choices, the box disappears. Otherwise, everything is fine.

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Mister Kingdom
Dec 14, 2005

And the tears that fall
On the city wall
Will fade away
With the rays of morning light

Read posted:

What are the main things you notice the absence of?

I can't edit my posts, so I had to disable it.

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Mister Kingdom
Dec 14, 2005

And the tears that fall
On the city wall
Will fade away
With the rays of morning light
Why has Firefox 58 become such a memory hog? It sometimes gets to a point that I have to close it and restart.

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Mister Kingdom
Dec 14, 2005

And the tears that fall
On the city wall
Will fade away
With the rays of morning light

Im_Special posted:

a) lovely computer.
b) To many lovely add-ons.
c) Visit lovely sites like facebook.

Well, gently caress you very much.

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Mister Kingdom
Dec 14, 2005

And the tears that fall
On the city wall
Will fade away
With the rays of morning light

isndl posted:

If you habitually leave sites open in background tabs you can try reloading them. I've found that some sites will just bloat over time (Javascript fuckery?) and a refresh frees up an easy three gigs after some disk churn while FF pulls the cache to dump it on my tablet that only has 8gb RAM.

I rarely have more than one tab open at a time. Version 57 was fine and gave me no trouble.

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Mister Kingdom
Dec 14, 2005

And the tears that fall
On the city wall
Will fade away
With the rays of morning light

Fangs404 posted:

How long have you been running the same profile? Might just be time for a refresh. Also, reevaluate each extension you're using to make sure you really need it.

I only use two extensions both of which I use regularly. I have no idea how old my profile is.

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Mister Kingdom
Dec 14, 2005

And the tears that fall
On the city wall
Will fade away
With the rays of morning light
I'm using Firefox 65, but this has been an issue for sometime:

When I click on a pdf, it tries to save the file rather than open it even though I set it to do so. How can I fix this?

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Mister Kingdom
Dec 14, 2005

And the tears that fall
On the city wall
Will fade away
With the rays of morning light

dont be mean to me posted:

Go to the General pane in Preferences (it has an about page but the Forums understandably don't want to risk making an about link - also the hamburger and title-bar (if enabled) menu say Options in Windows), down to Applications and make sure that whatever fancy name your OS has given files with .pdf extensions is set to Preview with Firefox.

When I click on the drop down box, I see this:


There is the option to choose which program I want, I can choose Firefox, but it doesn't change.

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Mister Kingdom
Dec 14, 2005

And the tears that fall
On the city wall
Will fade away
With the rays of morning light

dont be mean to me posted:

Not USE Firefox. There should be an option to Preview in Firefox that isn't there.

I'd try this first, and if that doesn't work
move on to this, and if that doesn't work... hmm. (all links Mozilla support)

I did not see the the Portable Document Format the first time! Now it's fixed.

Sorry for being a dumbass.

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Mister Kingdom
Dec 14, 2005

And the tears that fall
On the city wall
Will fade away
With the rays of morning light
65 has another annoyance. When you start typing on the URL line, a little dropdown line that says "search with" appears. Can this be disabled?

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Mister Kingdom
Dec 14, 2005

And the tears that fall
On the city wall
Will fade away
With the rays of morning light

Applebees posted:

browser.urlbar.maxRichResults = 0

Thanks!

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Mister Kingdom
Dec 14, 2005

And the tears that fall
On the city wall
Will fade away
With the rays of morning light

Im_Special posted:

This is what I did to fix my disabled addons, ymmv.

1) Close Browser

2) Open "extensions.json" with Notepad++ (@...AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\XXXXXXXX.default)

3) Replace all instances of "appDisabled":true with "appDisabled":false

4) Replace all instances of "signedState":-1 to "signedState":2

5) Save and start browser

6) Disable and re-enable all extensions in about :addons

7) Finally, make "extensions.json" Read only.

I tried this, but did not find any instances of "signedstate". I went ahead anyway and after restarting FF, it told me I had no extensions at all.

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