Fun with Firefox

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.

why do you all not use chrome?

because with firefox's extensions/add-ons/greasemonkeys i can make the browser *exactly* the way i want it. and i'm more than willing to endure a longer startup time as long as everything else works ok

i'm sure chrome will be similarly configurable soon-ish, but i haven't noticed it yet

No good Chrome equivalent of NoScript

why do you all not use chrome?

― dayo, Monday, September 5, 2011 1:47 AM (54 minutes ago) Bookmark

i do use chrome, i just also obsessively dl new versions of firefox to see what they're doing that's diff.

yeah I only use firefox to use this one language add-on, I just noticed it was updated to support 4.0 - but no news of 6.0!

got too used to firefox. need to try chrome again cuz the first goround it was not as good as ffox. these days, i'm willing to bet it's caught up.

<q]why do you all not use chrome?

― dayo, lundi 5 septembre 2011 03:47 (11 hours ago) Bookmark</q>

just for the three finger page up/down swipe basically

i use chrome but i use ff when doing web development because of firebug (and also because I need to use every browser when I'm doing web development)

i really like chrome

and its extensible, too! i dont use a lot of plugins (2), but i'm sure there's stuff equivalent to what ppl use in ffox

I use Safari for personal browsing, firefox for work stuff. Firefox actually gets all cachey on me more often and I dunno, safari doesn't change its stripes every six months. I'm still on ff 3.2.6 because everyone has said how much the new firefoxes suck.

And chrome, I've just never gotten into it. Reminds too much of one of these things. I don't know why.

http://www.basscentre.com/user/products/large/hohner-b2a.jpg

I'm not sure what the connotation of that guitar is.

I switched to Chrome at work b/c FF was running super slow, but I didn't switch at home b/c at the time Chrome didn't have enough extensions that I like on FF. I guess it has more now? But I don't switch b/c of the hassle of customizing it like I want it.

i have 40 extensions

braggin 2011

My Firefox just updated to 7.0, and suddenly I'm seeing all these ads I never saw before. My installed ad blocker plus seems gone, and I can't install it again because there's a "connection problem" with Mozilla?

I am getting so fucking fed up with all browsers paying more attention to the rat race instead of just making, you know, a FUCKING BROWSER THAT JUST WORKS.

^ assumed this post was lex

There is an issue with Firefox 7 that may have caused some or all of your add-ons to be hidden. We are preparing an update to Firefox that will fix this and restore any hidden add-ons. Until that update is available, you can restore your add-ons with the simple workaround below.

Hoos <3

I felt extremely Lex-y when posting it too, but for fucking fuck sakes. IA to the max.

it's more baffling to me that so many people just passively accept this bullshit

Thanks James, but I still get:

"The add-on could not be downloaded because of a connection failure on addons.mozilla.org"

Sigh.

Lex otm. En-fucking-raging.

saw this earlier, if it helps:
http://lifehacker.com/5845069/add+on-recovery-tool-restores-missing-add+ons-in-firefox-7

(posted already, sorry)

Thanks Koogs. That's what James linked too as well, but for some reason the add-on server is down, so I can't download the add-on recovery add-on... :-S

xp

I held out against chrome for a long time but after just 1 day with it I'm done w firefox forever. soz dudes

I can't believe that neither FF nor Chrome have password protection for the whole browser.

You all know you can stop automatic updates in Firefox, yeah?

Wow, Firefox just picked up 'Firefox' as a spelling error and suggested

Firebox
Fire fox
Fire–fox
Firefly

lol

Fuck Firefox for the last time. Switched to Chrome this morning.

Firefox 7.0.1 crashing like an absolute bastard on my Macbook. Anyone having any similar problems? Could be an issue with gfxCardStatus but not sure.

Could well be. It was locking me into dedicated graphics and sucking up my battery so I stopped using it.

Ok, so I 'downgraded' to Firefox 3.6 (I wasn't mad about going back to Chrome again) and all seems to be fine. Still running gfx too.

does that button on the popup window suggesting you upgrade to 9.01 ever work for anybody? whenever i press it it just sits there for hours doing nothing and i end up downloading and installing externally.