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.
try chrome tehresa! or are you on a powerpc?
― dyao, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 05:00 (fourteen years ago) link
macbooki 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
― 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
― 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
i tried living with it but...
in about:configbrowser.tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent = false
and sanity is restored
― koogs, Monday, 25 January 2010 19:13 (fourteen years ago) link
having a really frutrating problem when trying to access the Guardian website:
- The site will not load at all. The heading in the title bar shows up but the main display screen remains greyed-out, and the status usually says 'transferring data from ad.guardian.co.uk'.- This happens for about 2 weeks at a time then suddenly it'll stop and the site will load fine for a few days, then stop again.- I use the latest version of Firefox but this problem also occurs when I try Opera and IE.- I've tried wiping my history, cached files, temporary internet files, temporary files, cookies, logins, etc. It makes no difference.
I think it's something to do with the ads as I've managed to access it by using one of those proxy sites that clear all CSS type things, but those kind of sites require a subscription and I'd rather access the Guardian site 'cleanly'.
anyone got any ideas what I can do to fix this?
― NI, Thursday, 28 January 2010 13:41 (fourteen years ago) link
adblock. or put ad.guardian.co.uk in your hosts file.
the page is waiting to hear back from the ad server before it renders. this is bad.
― koogs, Thursday, 28 January 2010 13:44 (fourteen years ago) link
great thanks! i'll try out the adblock thing now. weird how it affects both opera and firefox the same way, i get the feeling it's something to do with java/flash.
― NI, Thursday, 28 January 2010 14:45 (fourteen years ago) link
very often page dn and home/end keys have no effect
also copy/paste sometimes not even available
― bracken free ditch (Ste), Saturday, 6 February 2010 12:25 (fourteen years ago) link
sod it, switched to chrome instead
― bracken free ditch (Ste), Saturday, 6 February 2010 12:34 (fourteen years ago) link
I keep getting a pop up box saying "Please enter the master password for [My Name]" and it's impossible to get rid of, and I've no idea what this password is. I've checked in my Firefox preferences and the option to ask for the master password is unchecked, so no idea why it's asking me. I'm assuming this is a virus of some kind?
― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Monday, 8 February 2010 10:58 (fourteen years ago) link
this is probably not possible, but i was wondering if there's a way to set a default application for a .doc file or an mp3 instead of having to manually choose "office -> word" or "itunes" -- i see the box that says "do this automatically with files of this kind" but i don't want to ALWAYS open the file, but when i do want to open the file, i don't want to have to choose the application when i always choose word or itunes
i hope that made sense and is possible
― nagl wayne (J0rdan S.), Monday, 15 February 2010 09:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Tools > Options > Applications, innit?
― James Mitchell, Monday, 15 February 2010 10:26 (fourteen years ago) link
well i can get it to where i can choose which app i want to be the default, but then it will automatically open the file in that app instead of asking me if i want to save or open
maybe i'm being too picky but it's a pain in the ass to have word laboriously open and grind my computer to a halt to open a file that i don't want to look at immediately and it's equally a pain in the ass to have to choose office -> word when i do want to read a file immediately
― nagl wayne (J0rdan S.), Monday, 15 February 2010 10:51 (fourteen years ago) link
man talk about first world problems -_-
― nagl wayne (J0rdan S.), Monday, 15 February 2010 10:52 (fourteen years ago) link
chrome can do this iirc (but it's not ff)
― dyao, Monday, 15 February 2010 11:01 (fourteen years ago) link
i have enough browsers that don't work exactly to my liking
― nagl wayne (J0rdan S.), Monday, 15 February 2010 11:06 (fourteen years ago) link
can you not just right click on any links you don't want to look at immedaitely and choose 'save as' from the pop-up menu?
― koogs, Monday, 15 February 2010 11:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, if you want to keep the one-click behavior to open the program, just right click > save as every time you want to save it. Depends which one you do more - if you Save to file more often, let the dialog box open every time, otherwise have it default to open.
― Nhex, Monday, 15 February 2010 15:02 (fourteen years ago) link
So I've updated to 3.6 because "they" kept telling me to, and now the German's are telling me to stop using it. What should I do?http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8580716.stm
― Ned Trifle II, Monday, 22 March 2010 20:34 (fourteen years ago) link
I've updated to beta 3.6.2 just in case. It's a release candidate, to be released on March 31st, so that shouldn't have too many problems left.
― StanM, Monday, 22 March 2010 20:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Ah, they're skipping 3.6.1 AND 3.6.2, there's this 3.6.3 already:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-mozilla-1.9.2/
― StanM, Monday, 22 March 2010 20:45 (fourteen years ago) link
this last week has been a firefox shitstorm tbh, will skip directly to 3.6.3 imo
― ✌.✰|ʘ‿ʘ|✰.✌ (Steve Shasta), Monday, 22 March 2010 20:54 (fourteen years ago) link
The alpha release of 3.7 (AKA Minefield) is pretty solid. The UI update is nice, too.
― James Mitchell, Monday, 22 March 2010 21:14 (fourteen years ago) link
3.6.2. released a week early (3.6.3 is beta after all - confusing)http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/23/firefox_zero_day_fix/
― StanM, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 18:35 (fourteen years ago) link
3.6.3, why u freeze network?
― Blecch Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 15 April 2010 11:12 (fourteen years ago) link