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Using Mac 3.6b3. Using the extensions.checkCompatibility tweak to enable incompatible add-ons isn't working for some reason, any ideas?

Nhex, Thursday, 19 November 2009 08:36 (fourteen years ago) link

Got the same on the Windows version. Think it has to do with this new feature.

"The extensions.checkCompatibility preference becomes less relaxed. In the past, it has been abused by users as a way to force incompatible extensions to work with newer Firefox versions. The preference is still there but it will have to be more explicit. For example to force them to work with Firefox 3.6, you wll have to add extensions.checkCompatibility.3.6 and set it to false. For future versions you will need to set extensions.checkCompatibility.3.7 to false and so on."
http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2009/11/still-some-new-tricks-in-firefox-3-6-beta-3/

James Mitchell, Thursday, 19 November 2009 10:14 (fourteen years ago) link

Right, just set this in about:config - because it's a beta, you have to add the preference as extensions.checkCompatibility.3.6b

James Mitchell, Thursday, 19 November 2009 10:20 (fourteen years ago) link

Fucking developers.

James Mitchell, Thursday, 19 November 2009 10:24 (fourteen years ago) link

thanks so much! how annoying.

Nhex, Thursday, 19 November 2009 16:26 (fourteen years ago) link

I dunno if it's just FF or all crappy browsers, but why won't it/they render the page when all the content is loaded except for some shitty ads?

George Mucus (ledge), Friday, 20 November 2009 10:08 (fourteen years ago) link

yes, odd especially as the ads are usually constrained to iframes or images of a known size.

two words: adblock plus.

koogs, Friday, 20 November 2009 10:20 (fourteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Just upgraded to 3.5.5 and now my awesome bar dropdown doesn't drop down when I click on it, this happen to anyone else? I click and I click and it just sits there, mocking me.

adamj, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 01:45 (fourteen years ago) link

one month passes...

my bookmark toolbar has disappeared and i've tried three different online "fixes"

Fuck Firefox. I'm ready to move to a different browser. Any suggestions

touch me i'm acoleuthic (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 22:14 (fourteen years ago) link

firefox has been so fucky with me lately i just switched to chrome which seems fine

nutrition na'vi (s1ocki), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 22:17 (fourteen years ago) link

i really want to use chrome, but it's 4.5 and up and my joint is a 10.4.11

touch me i'm acoleuthic (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 22:18 (fourteen years ago) link

Anyone else having weird "Remember password" issues? FF 3.5.7 on Win7. I have the damn box checked in my options, but the second I'm logging into a site, it disappears. I think it has something to do with the fact that I unchecked the "Accept cookies" box (I've got my exceptions set up).

Leee, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 04:26 (fourteen years ago) link

By "disappears," I mean the "Remember password" box gets unchecked. After I've actually logged in, it's checked again.

Leee, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 04:27 (fourteen years ago) link

firefox has been mad crashy for me lately. maybe i will try chrome!

tehresa, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 04:28 (fourteen years ago) link

whiney just buy snow leopard, only $30 (or are you running on a powerpc mac)

dyao, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 04:29 (fourteen years ago) link

do i need snow leopard, btw?

tehresa, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 04:29 (fourteen years ago) link

not really, just makes your mac a lil faster, and futureproofs you for the time being

dyao, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 04:31 (fourteen years ago) link

i have never been able to use firefox w/ tiger, very slow and crashy
i don't think i will get a new OS until this computer dies though

harbl, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 04:33 (fourteen years ago) link

oh i have 10.4.11 too. i use camino i dunno

harbl, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 04:34 (fourteen years ago) link

now there's a word I haven't read in a long time

dyao, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 04:35 (fourteen years ago) link

i really want to use chrome, but it's 4.5 and up and my joint is a 10.4.11

― touch me i'm acoleuthic (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, January 12, 2010 5:18 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

can't u up to 4.5 w/o paying? system update styles?

nutrition na'vi (s1ocki), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 04:35 (fourteen years ago) link

you can also try webkit (it's what safari is based on)

http://nightly.webkit.org/

dyao, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 04:35 (fourteen years ago) link

why does everyone hate camino i don't get it

harbl, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 04:35 (fourteen years ago) link

mozilla power, mac style if i recall correctly

harbl, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 04:36 (fourteen years ago) link

I used to use camino back when I had a powerbook, but firefox's extensions + chrome's speed have made it redundant

dyao, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 04:39 (fourteen years ago) link

yeah i mean i would be using firefox if it was not so slowwwwwwww on this thing

harbl, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 04:39 (fourteen years ago) link

i used webkit a lot. it also locks up a lot but runs a lot better than safari did (for some reason reg safari was impossibly slow for me).

tehresa, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 04:43 (fourteen years ago) link

actually using webkit right now!

tehresa, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 04:44 (fourteen years ago) link

fyi i am running 10.5.8 and also had lots of issues w/ java stuff in firefox.

tehresa, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 04:44 (fourteen years ago) link

try chrome tehresa! or are you on a powerpc?

dyao, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 05:00 (fourteen years ago) link

macbook
i am playing around with it some now.

tehresa, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 05:04 (fourteen years ago) link

is there a reason google's own browser doesn't come with a google search bar in the browser?
where do i add this?

tehresa, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 05:54 (fourteen years ago) link

the browser bar is the search bar

dyao, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 06:00 (fourteen years ago) link

well then.
lol @ me!

tehresa, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 06:01 (fourteen years ago) link

can't u up to 4.5 w/o paying? system update styles?

― nutrition na'vi (s1ocki), Tuesday, January 12, 2010 11:35 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

how do i do that? i'm pretty dumb when it comes to this stuff sometimez

touch me i'm acoleuthic (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 06:26 (fourteen years ago) link

you can't, i think he meant chrome version, you meant mac os

bnw, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 06:39 (fourteen years ago) link

Well, this is embarrassing.

Firefox is having trouble recovering your windows and tabs. This is usually caused by a recently opened web page.

lex submerge (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 14 January 2010 16:43 (fourteen years ago) link

how do i do that? i'm pretty dumb when it comes to this stuff sometimez

― touch me i'm acoleuthic (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, January 13, 2010 1:26 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

sys prefs -> system update -> check for updates -> install

nutrition na'vi (s1ocki), Thursday, 14 January 2010 16:45 (fourteen years ago) link

it would tell you automatically if you had anymore free updates though (i think you get 5? i believe i started at 10.4.6). i don't have any, that's why i'm still at 10.4.11.

harbl, Thursday, 14 January 2010 16:46 (fourteen years ago) link

If fonts in Firefox are suddenly borked, it's due to a NoScript bug. I posted a workaround in the NoScript thread.

Reverse Cowgirl (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 19 January 2010 21:22 (fourteen years ago) link

been having trouble with firefox on shutdown - 100% busy, hanging processes called things like 'n' and 'qtstimer' (quicktime plugin). today my internet is very stopy starty, doing things like not downloading stylesheets. bad.

anyway, have just updated to 3.6 to see if it's any better. it now comes with skins, er, personas so you can make it hard to see anything in your bookmark toolbar and make it more obvious you are browsing...

http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/

koogs, Thursday, 21 January 2010 18:42 (fourteen years ago) link

3.6 did seem slightly better, at least it shut down correctly.

the way your persona changes when you rollover that above page is disturbing.

koogs, Thursday, 21 January 2010 20:16 (fourteen years ago) link

i dig it! problem is i'm on Tree Style Tab, and the vast majority of personas don't take that into account (understandably) so you end up with part of an image + a weird background color as the background to all the vertically stacked tabs 95% of the time

Nhex, Thursday, 21 January 2010 20:21 (fourteen years ago) link

the new behaviour for new tabs is confusing me - middle click now opens a tab to the right of the current one, not at the end. it is probably a better idea (and is configurable) but i am old and set in my ways.

koogs, Friday, 22 January 2010 12:08 (fourteen years ago) link

That's how ie does it. I approve.

take me to your lemur (ledge), Friday, 22 January 2010 12:10 (fourteen years ago) link

btw I opted in to YouTube new html5 way of playing videos; goodbye shitty, roach infested flash

dyao, Friday, 22 January 2010 12:41 (fourteen years ago) link

In Firefox 3.6 I have to ALT+right click if I want to see Google Maps right click menu. If I just right click, I get Firefox' right click menu with the outline of Google's rightclick menu behind the top left corner. :-/

StanM, Sunday, 24 January 2010 09:06 (fourteen years ago) link

Damn thing about the Youtube HTML5 support is that Apple and Google want to support H.264 video while Opera and Firefox want to go with Ogg Theora, so a lot of videos still won't play in FF3.6 even with the video tag spport. The codec problem is a major reason Flash is a standard now, so this is kind of silly...

Nhex, Sunday, 24 January 2010 09:11 (fourteen years ago) link

Sure Ogg would have better support if it didn't have a stupid name.

take me to your lemur (ledge), Sunday, 24 January 2010 09:22 (fourteen years ago) link

ogg doesn't have a big company with vested interests behind it.

and theora is generally considered to be last generation, which doesn't help. h.264 is increasingly supported by dedicated hardware decoders leaving the cpu to so other things. but there are licensing fess to pay.

koogs, Sunday, 24 January 2010 11:01 (fourteen years ago) link


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