Fun with Firefox

...but you have to click on the tabs manually?

i mean u can just put a bookmark button on a toolbar

Yeah, I suppose I could. I'm not saying my way is best, not at all, just explaining how I use FF. One new feature that has proven to be useful is the "pin as app tab" thing, which basically the same thing.

(are people confusing KB with MB here? the number quoted is in KB, typically 1000s or 100,000s of KB)

Why do you all have so many tabs open????

― weakness for Cinnabon; rampant heterosexuality (Je55e), Thursday, August 25, 2011 9:31 PM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark

ya as a general rule i keep gmail, grooveshark, ilx, fb, and tweetdeck open all day & running, and in turn those 5 generate stuff for me to open in even more new tabs throughout the day

At work this week I've had 5-10 tabs open at any given time. At home, 4 in one set and maybe 6 or 7 others in a "someday" set.

I feel agitated having this many open, though that is changing as I realize that how I use my browser is changing.

Anyway, 10 seems like a lot to me, and 20+ would make me freak out.

Sometimes (maybe four times a year) I get to 30 and chuck a massive closing fit.

Oh yeah, I chopped off the last three digits and wrote K instead of M, but don't know if anyone else did

God I never have anymore than 5-6 tabes open at once, and thats at work where half of them are work related pages. Gmail's the only permanently-opened tab I really leave.

I've stuck with FF3.X on work and home machines. I'm not running into any problems at all. The only weird one now is at work, upgraded to Acrobat 9 and now FF randomly crashes when I try to open some PDFs.

God I never have anymore than 5-6 tabes open at once

gay thread or tmi imo

Yeah loled at my own typo I must admit.

Why does Firefox run perfectly fine on my XP computer at work, but like an absolute dog on my MacBook pro at home? I've had to resort to Chrome which is okay but I'd rather be using FF.

generally find both browsers run better on windows than osx

Why has an app telling me the temperature in Franktown, CO installed itself in my top bar?

updated the old instance of firefox on windows this morning.

the update page said flash was out of date, click here to update it.

the flash installer ALSO installed google chrome WITHOUT ASKING.

so now i have 4 browsers installed...

My Firefox did it again, upgraded to 6 without me asking it to; in fact, with me explicitly saying "Ask Later"

No more menu item for "View Source".. Years of muscle memory down the drain

^^ that has been bugging me to no end. Ctrl+U doesn't even work wtf!

ctrl-u...

i got the 'security updates' popup this morning and then it failed to find the update site. it's done this before. has it ever worked? or is the site in question just inundated by the gazillion firefox installations requesting updates?

Tools > Web Developer > Page source, no?

God, they're getting really douchey in their tickets: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=657088

LOL

"Instead of hitting this strange key combo"

ha

http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2011/08/16/microsoft-sends-mozilla-tiny-cupcake-to-celebrate-small-firefox-release/

They should send a thank you card.

"Instead of hitting this strange key combo you can use Chrome"

which is what most people will do if all this keeps up

No doubt.

lol, microsoft are megadouches

Microsoft are just mad that no one wants to use their shitty browser.

Mozilla should in return send IE and dial-up modem.

lol

i have Page Source under View and also ctrl-u works for me

"hey we made this easier for you"
"BUT ITS DIFFERENT I HATE IT"
--everyone, ever, about everything

otm

Blimey---having read the above, I just closed 63 tabs (don't ask) and went from 1.2GB to 550MB memory use

i have Page Source under View and also ctrl-u works for me

― mookieproof, Friday, 2 September 2011 04:48 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

in FF 6??

yep

sorry, no View, Page Source but ctrl-u works.

ctrl-U has to be the most awkward shortcut possible on a standard keyboard layout

Thanks koogs. It updated to 6.0.1 already (?) and ctrl+u works again.

don't let them ctrl-U

:-)

if you have the Web Developer toolbar installed you now have two entries in the tools menu, both called Web Developer (with the W underlined in both cases). Web Developer toolbar also adds ctrl-shift-u as a view source shortcut...

my 6.0 still refuses to connect to the update server to upgrade. just sits there, going backwards and forwards...

For those following my URL display problems, I disabled two incompatible add-ons (IE View and Weather Bug) and URLs and favicons are now displaying properly.

i've never really "gotten" firefox

What do you use?

don't let them ctrl-U

― JoeStork, Friday, September 2, 2011 8:55 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

<3

WTF: I closed FF and when I opened it again later, the session restore completely failed. I had a ton of tabs opened in a group for later reference, and they're gone. What a pisser.

if i have more than ten tabs open in ff my machine slows to an unbearable crawl. been that way since 3.6. which is why i only use it when I have to.

depends on what's in the tabs for me. i can have 30 or 40 tabs of text open with no problem, but if more than a few have video or mad java things quickly go to hell

ya i can have 10 ilx threads but if one of them is a youtube heavy ilm thread everything goes to shit.