Firefox issues

(sorry :-( it's annoying sometimes)

okay firefox aficionados, riddle me this:

1. How come in FF on Mac, after a couple hours, the browser randomly stops recognising style sheets? This happens most often with Bebo pages and E4/C4 (I use FF for work; I'm not an avid Bebo/C4/E4 user otherwise).

2. How come in FF on Mac, after a couple hours, the browser stops knowing how links work? Refreshing doesn't do anything, and trying to click a link doesn't do anything. It pretends to do stuff but then just lands on the same page with no changes.

The only solution I've found for these issues (usually occuring around the same time) is to force quit the browser and start again (which is a bit annoying during a shift).

3. How come in FF on Windows, certain sites result in tabs being disabled? For example, if I open up site E, I can no longer click on the tabs for sites A-D and have them show in the main window. The only way I can get to them is by cycling through with the keyboard, and then magically the tabs start being clickable again.

I have tried reinstalling and restarting and all that rubbish but nothing helps... except maybe you, dear ILX. please? anyone?

grrr it just did both 1 and 2 to me again

worst browser ever

If something spooky like that happens I usually create a new profile (first export your passwords and favorites so you can import them again) and that's always fixed it.

http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Profiles

i had a variation of problem 2 with FF so i switched to camino and i think it stopped

1. Update to latest
2. Delete preferences
3. Disable add-ons

If the problem persists, you have something wrong with yr computer and should reinstall the OS.

oh man I was really hoping it wouldn't be something to do with my add-ons, but that might be it (makes sense, because I think this only started after I installed it). problem is, if I remove the add-on (flashblock), moderating Bebo sites becomes about a million times more annoying. guuhhh.

thanks for the suggestions.

http://www.privoxy.org

Guaranteed not to fuck with FFX.

NoScript, I love you, but STOP UPDATING EVERY TWO DAYS YOU FUCK

― StanM, Monday, October 13, 2008 7:15 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark

Is it possible to get addons to update in the background, without bugging the user or redirecting to their homepage after installation? If there isn't, (and http://noscript.net/faq#qa2_6 doesn't bloody work), then it's goodbye NoScript here.

I miss drag to new window tabs in safari

Kinda thinking about using Flock now that it supports legit FF add ons

can you change the order of the toolbars in firefox 3, i.e I want the Google Toolbar to be underneath the Yahoo Toolbar.

i suspect that if you go to view > toolbars > customize, you can drag them where you want them

I've lost all my bookmarks AND I can't go back to the last pages, there's no history or anything, BUT it has saved my passwords. Is this some kind of virus? Should i stop typing now and get the hell out of here?

It won't bookmark anything either.

Sounds like your profile has has corrupted. If you're on Windows, it'll be somewhere under C:\Documents and Settings\blah blah\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\ - make a copy of it just in case, then delete the original and restart FF.

(path)\firefox.exe -profilemanager

3.5.2, die die die

I've been running it without worries -- what's up?

Generally slow, often unresponsive/beachbally. I googled around a little and I'm definitely not alone. Apparently there's a Skype extension that's causing a lot of trouble, but that's not applicable for me. I just backed up and reinstalled 3.5, we'll see how that goes.

Installed the beta of 3.6. Much faster on start-up and in general.

3.5.5 still hogs resources like you wouldn't believe, especially if you have gmail open or something ajax-heavy, wich seems really bullshit. I shouldn't check activity monitor and find my browser using 80% of CPU resources.

which platform?

under linux there used to be a problem where having lots of tabs loading would eat cpu. it was actually the little animations in each tab that was causing the problem (was an mng or something)... and changing that, using css, stopped it.

on Mac. I'm running Namoroka alpha now, still not much better.

Using Mac 3.6b3. Using the extensions.checkCompatibility tweak to enable incompatible add-ons isn't working for some reason, any ideas?

Got the same on the Windows version. Think it has to do with this new feature.

"The extensions.checkCompatibility preference becomes less relaxed. In the past, it has been abused by users as a way to force incompatible extensions to work with newer Firefox versions. The preference is still there but it will have to be more explicit. For example to force them to work with Firefox 3.6, you wll have to add extensions.checkCompatibility.3.6 and set it to false. For future versions you will need to set extensions.checkCompatibility.3.7 to false and so on."

Right, just set this in about:config - because it's a beta, you have to add the preference as extensions.checkCompatibility.3.6b

Fucking developers.

thanks so much! how annoying.

I dunno if it's just FF or all crappy browsers, but why won't it/they render the page when all the content is loaded except for some shitty ads?

yes, odd especially as the ads are usually constrained to iframes or images of a known size.

two words: adblock plus.

Just upgraded to 3.5.5 and now my awesome bar dropdown doesn't drop down when I click on it, this happen to anyone else? I click and I click and it just sits there, mocking me.

my bookmark toolbar has disappeared and i've tried three different online "fixes"

Fuck Firefox. I'm ready to move to a different browser. Any suggestions

firefox has been so fucky with me lately i just switched to chrome which seems fine

i really want to use chrome, but it's 4.5 and up and my joint is a 10.4.11

Anyone else having weird "Remember password" issues? FF 3.5.7 on Win7. I have the damn box checked in my options, but the second I'm logging into a site, it disappears. I think it has something to do with the fact that I unchecked the "Accept cookies" box (I've got my exceptions set up).

By "disappears," I mean the "Remember password" box gets unchecked. After I've actually logged in, it's checked again.

firefox has been mad crashy for me lately. maybe i will try chrome!

whiney just buy snow leopard, only $30 (or are you running on a powerpc mac)

do i need snow leopard, btw?

not really, just makes your mac a lil faster, and futureproofs you for the time being

i have never been able to use firefox w/ tiger, very slow and crashy
i don't think i will get a new OS until this computer dies though

oh i have 10.4.11 too. i use camino i dunno

now there's a word I haven't read in a long time

i really want to use chrome, but it's 4.5 and up and my joint is a 10.4.11

― touch me i'm acoleuthic (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, January 12, 2010 5:18 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

can't u up to 4.5 w/o paying? system update styles?

you can also try webkit (it's what safari is based on)

http://nightly.webkit.org/

why does everyone hate camino i don't get it

mozilla power, mac style if i recall correctly

I used to use camino back when I had a powerbook, but firefox's extensions + chrome's speed have made it redundant

yeah i mean i would be using firefox if it was not so slowwwwwwww on this thing