Fun with Firefox

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.

Jesus, theyre on v9 now?
I gotta get on chrome

10 now. i seem to have missed 9 completely.

linux still on 3.6... web pages are now complaining to me about the age of it (albeit mostly mozilla.org related sites...)

The occasional day that passes without a Firefox update seems so peaceful

Does anyone have any experience with Firefox Sync? It's supposed to allow you to sync bookmarks/passwords/prefs on multiple computers and devices. I'm a bit reluctant to try it for some reason.

Does it allow you to "un-sync" after having synched? As in, erasing the sync info from, say, my work computer? Anyone?

I've only used Sync to restore my bookmarks every time I'm playing around with installing new operating systems on multiple computers.

You can control what is synced (history, bookmarks, preferences, etc) and how often, and you can un-sync as far as no longer linking the computers. I would imagine you would have to clear history and delete bookmarks to completely remove traces. Maybe even uninstall, delete profile folder, re-install.

I doubt you can put it back exactly like it was prior though. Maybe maintaining separate firefox profiles on the work computer would allow that.

Thanks for the info Zach! I can't really "afford" to just try it out (syncing between work and home I mean) but will try it between my laptop-desktop.

what exactly has changed from firefox 4-12?

i guess i shouldn't care -- it's just arbitrary numbers -- but it breaks my extensions too often.

Every version fixes hundreds of bugs, apparently, e.g. http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/12.0/releasenotes/buglist.html

anyone noticed the tabs flickering from time to time? like they are being rewritten, slowly.

the "upgrade now" link in the popup window hasn't worked for me for the last 6 iterations - just sits there 'connecting...'. increasingly tempted by the long term support release...