Fun with Firefox

lol, NotScripts sounds like an addon that blocks everything that ISN'T Javascript

Firefox IE Tab add-on just saved us from a load of hassle tonight - upgraded to IE9 this week and our British Gas Top Up wouldn't work any more because it ONLY works in IE6-8. And we'd run out of gas, and my wife was in the middle of washing her hair. All the shops I know of with a top up machine are closed by now, and I can't seem to find a way of installing IE8 on Windows 7. Found some dude's blog post of how to get around it using Firefox and we have hot water again. This seems like a first world problem?

Seems like a predictable Microsoft dumb shit problem tbh

lol, NotScripts sounds like an addon that blocks everything that ISN'T Javascript

From what I can tell it offers to let through all scripts by default. The single biggest concern I have about that sentence is the "from what I can tell" part. Also, it demands that you set a 20+ letter password in a text file. A TEXT FILE.

my super secret password is "stupidfuckingpassword" btw

To be fair to Microsoft, I think it's British Gas with the problem. I'm pretty sure there is no reason why the page has to be rendered with IE6-8 other than British Gas's shitty software checks the browser version and won't proceed otherwise. I guess could've tried spoofing the user-agent or something but I'm no expert at HTTP programming so just installing a FF add-on was a great solution.

Oh yeah, I know what you mean. 'er indoors uses the Weight Watchers points tracker (she's not overweight fyi coz she uses weight watchers ^__^) which until a few months ago would only run on IE and Netscape. NETSCAPE. We don't have Windows at home so I had to add a user agent to Chrome just so she could access the thing that she pays $40/mth for.

for some reason i can no longer edit/print/work with google docs in firefox - it lets me open the docs but tells me there's a browser error and i need to refresh, except that doesn't do anything.

I am not loving this new interface.

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^^^ that was annoying for the first few days, but I got used to it.

Anyone with 4.0 have problems with viewing certain videos sites, specifically Vimeo videos? I can't view shit with this new browser.

Been using FF4 at work, didn't seem to be horrible so now I've finally installed it at home if only for quicker startup. One thing I don't like though, is that pressing F6 doesn't take you directly to the address bar anymore (it takes you to the tab bar, from which you can tab to the address bar).

I've always been using Cmd/Ctrl+L for that

So do I, but sometimes I only have one hand to type with and there's no real way for me to finish this sentence in a way that's not perved.

i checked for updates the other day and it recommended FF5 Beta. recommending a beta over the current stable version is a bit odd imo. (but given it's on my windows partition i won't ever use it!)

xp time to start using gestures. no, mouse gestures!

I'm making a gesture RIGHT NOW.

HEYO!

Upgraded kind of by accident and one slightly weird thing is that Google home page appears without Doodle. How to rectify?

OK, this "Switch to tab" thing is pretty neat.

Doodle has finally appeared for Les Paul's birthday. Thing crashes on a nightly basis though.

http://www.google.co.uk/chrome

Yeah, been using that on another machine.

uggggh i hate new firefox

http://old-print.net/8211924/8211924324.jpg

roffle

5 out now

this shit goes up to 11

who uses konqueror

Been using FF4 at work, didn't seem to be horrible so now I've finally installed it at home if only for quicker startup. One thing I don't like though, is that pressing F6 doesn't take you directly to the address bar anymore (it takes you to the tab bar, from which you can tab to the address bar).

Alt + D works! Stumbled by accident on that one, my one-hand browsing is happy.

(raises eyebrow)

Say, that's a good look for you, can you hold it for a little longer...

(frowns)

Awww. :(

*hugs*

waht is different between 4 and 5

1

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9217813/Mozilla_ships_Firefox_5_holds_to_new_rapid_release_plan

"Although the company said it added more than 1,000 improvements to the browser, most were minor bug fixes or tweaks. Among the most significant changes were enhanced support for HTML5 and new support for CSS (cascading style sheet) animations.

Firefox 5's user interface is nearly identical to Firefox 4, for instance."

doesn't sound essential although it pretty much insisted i upgrade this morning (and then failed to connect to the upgrade server...)

Pretty much as essential as any point release, this really should've been 4.1 - security fixes are enough to get the upgrade, though I can't think of a single site that uses WebGL. They're considering the major release numbers to be 3.6 and 5, I believe.

Is it as crashy as 4, bc this shit is driving me up the wall

hasn't crashed in the 4 hours i've been using it, but then i never had any trouble with 4.

yes, they've adopted the chrome technique of uping the major number every 6 months. just because bigger numbers look like the thing has more of a history. it's all hype. (and is causing the plugin developers a headache apparently)

That's a good point, Koogs. It's the biggest downside of all these new upgrades, constantly being confronted with addons that aren't working anymore. This is bugging me to no end.

Other than that, unlike Vegemitegrrl, FF 4 has been more stable for me than its predecessors.

I'm not averse to the idea of my computer being a piece of shit...

skipped 4, went straight to 5

feels a little faster, but it takes like 10 seconds (and sends firefox to using 50% of cpu) to load gmail, which is weird and bad

5 doesn't load for me. I had to downgrade to 3.6.

There's already an update available... lol

If you have firefox crashes, try making a new profile. Backup your bookmarks, take a note of your addons, google firefox profile manager on how to proceed in detail (I don't know by heart, mine doesn't crash)

^ thought they recommended this for every major upgrade, even

at work i appear to have 4 copies of each bookmark (not adjacent to each other so i never see the bottom 3 copies unless i scroll (and scroll and scroll) down).

ubuntu lucid is still on 3.6 and you don't get the option to upgrade until the package is upgraded (you can install it separately but it's a hassle)

Is there any reason that, with Firefox 5, there's a different font that appears on this site?

could be the html5 kicking in (if you upgraded from 3). i've noticed a different default font (smaller, serif) in text input boxes (but not here) and rounded corners on the Add a Post box.