Firefox issues

Anyone notice Flash performance is kinda terrible in 4? I've noticed this on both Mac and Windows.

Firefox recommends you install this important security update: Firefox 6.0

*click*

The following add-ons are incompatible with this version of Firefox and will be disabled: pretty much fucking all of them - including my AV Safe Search. Thanks for the extra lack of security and reduced functionality you tits.

I should just stick with Chrome all the time tbh.

Firefox is checking for updates to your extensions, and will shortly tell you it can't find any.

Fun with Firefox

Fun with Firefox

don't say i didn't warn you...

Firefox is checking for updates to your extensions, and will shortly tell you it can't find any.

It found one (.NET framework assistant) - which I had previously switched off. It has now froze trying to install it (or it's a huge update - no progress bar to indicate um progress).

Did they force an update again while I wasn't looking? Suddenly started going so slow last night I had to CTRL-ALT-DELETE. It just took five minutes - literally five minutes - to go from start to ILX. Which, granted, is the most flash and java intensive site on the internet.

I have a Firefox error. It makes the ILX window big enough to read all the text.

dammit, suddenly the latest autoupdate makes firefox incompatible with my version of OSX, 10.4.11

"You cannot use the application "Firefox" with this version of Mac OS X"

really, why fuckin not? i could this morning... i am on chrome which is very bad.

anybody have any ideas here? i keep googling around to find which version will still work, and what just changed today, but i'm not having much luck.

Firefox versions incrementing faster than street numbers in J.G. Ballard's Concentration City.

this is why I disable auto update on EVERYTHING

There's basically no good Mac browser right now. Safari has this insane "lol i killed your tab" bullshit from iOS, Chrome is mental, Firefox is a heap, Camino is dog-slow, OmniWeb is ancient, Opera is Opera.

The fastest browser in all the speed tests on this machine is actually IE9 running under Windows. Lunacy.

I don't really like Safari (tho I'm using it), but I'm not sure what you mean w/ 'lol I killed your tab'? issue. Is it something I just haven't noticed?

The FF auto-update from last night is actually running a good bit faster for me, fingers crossed that it stays that way. There's a particular method of handling RSS feeds that makes Firefox my preferred browser, but I've been skating on the edge of going to Safari or Chrome as the main one.

If you keep lots of tabs open in Safari, eventually it starts purging the oldest ones (to save memory). When you click on an old tab, it reloads it from the server. So not only do you have to wait, but the page could have changed and you also lose anything you had typed into a form on that tab.

It's the same behaviour they have in Safari ON IPHONE. But iPhones have very little memory, and this Mac has a lot, so it's a stupid thing to copy.

The latest Chrome has something weird in the CSS that is breaking lots of sites for me (including ILX on the default theme)

That expains why I've never encountered that issue – I've never have more than a half dozen tabs open. My big beef w/ Safari is the way incredibly ugly and jittery way it handles text/line/layout during resizing.

xp i was seeing that too.. reinstalled the stable branch and now fonts are rendering like shit

Why does my monitor dim when firefox is displaying a page with a black or dark background? It's v annoying!

am getting boxes with unicode "FF44" in them instead of graphics on bbc.co.uk this morning

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00rwkjd

in the pink box to the right of "Listen Now"

Ok here with 16.0.1 + kubuntu.

yeah, after being trouble all this morning (on bbc2 schedule also) it's fine now. think they are using a custom font instead of graphics for the tiny things.

One day neither Firefox, Windows Explorer, nor Windows Mail will start up. No explanation as to why. I have connection to the internet, my virus definitions are up to date, and a program I use that works by remote desktop shows I am connected to the internet. Firefox starts in safe mode, but even if I reset it it won't start outside of safe mode.

http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/951898

So yesterday Firefox crashed and i tried to open it back up and it crashed again before it would even load. I tried again and got "open in safe mode" and i can use it in this but none of my plugins are available, etc. I also tried opening IE and it crashed befored starting as well. Anyone else having this problem? Looks like maybe this is an issue that just came up a day or so ago.

So I updated to Firefox v22 a few days ago, and suddenly all my fonts and icons are changed in size. Some too big, some too small. Evidently others are having this problem, and I read their explanation, but though it helped some, none of those suggestions have reverted everything back to normal. I've mucked with the default font size and tried the Theme Font & Size Changer. Still, several sites display some (but not all) text and/or graphics either too large or too small. ILX looks fine except that anything I type in the "Add a Post" box is tiny. If I zoom in to make the font larger so I can easily read what I'm typing, everything else becomes huge. Anyone else having this problem, or know a workaround?

sometimes, when a webpage needs a good think before displaying, firefox will disappear and then reappear a split second later. is most odd. (sound is also interrupted, like playback sometimes is during high cpu spikes). this is 22.

Anyone have trouble editing posts in the add a post window? if you spot an error in the middle of a sentence and touch the word to correct it, I get this thing where deleting characters happens in the middle of the sentence but adding characters still happens at the end. or the other way around.

This is firefox with google keyboard on a nexus 4. Chrome has different issues...

watching any streaming video content on firefox is so shitty. choppy as fuck. things play in chrome just fine, my internet connection is pretty stellar (i'm on a university campus), any ideas?

use chrome?

(wasn't there a 3d acceleration option where it'd use your video card to make things faster but it would often not work? ah - http://lifehacker.com/disable-firefoxs-hardware-acceleration-to-fix-slowness-749344037 )

i keep having a thing where moving to a new page will show me the element the mouse is over with a background of the old page, or white. as i move the mouse everything under it will appear. have to scroll to get it looking right.

Do you have a lot of extensions/add-ons installed in FF?

I do not like this new search box.

yeah, it sucks, especially the way it shoves the autocomplete suggestions over your custom search options

You can change the search box function back. I found this on the arstechnica forums.

Go to "about:config"
Find this key: browser.search.showOneOffButtons
Double-click it to change it to "false"
Restart

you're the man, dawg!

OMG so much better.

I have "search as you type" enabled, but when I'm on ILX and I type 's', it goes to SNA instead of searching for 's'. Anyone else experience this or know what's going on?

it's a feature stet added, noted here

CHANGELOG

Current version has a very annoying Network Protocol Error bug that's going to be fixed

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1528317#c13

firefox appears to have broken all add-ons. i'm seeing the web today without adblock and it's just a horrible place.

There's an update you can install to fix the bug. Save the exe file in the link below on disc and run it, that worked for me:

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/candidates/66.0.4-candidates/build3/win64/en-US/Firefox%20Setup%2066.0.4.exe

win64. pah.

i've downloaded an update already this morning, didn't help. there's a new point release. will try that.

that is a lot better. facebook now not just showing me random pictures of things with prices on them. no gizmodo video advert sidebars.

just restart and enable them all again. worked for me yesterday

also don't use adblock, use ublock origin

What I don’t understand is why this happened to my Firefox too when I have it set to not auto-install any updates?

it was some certificate thing that expired or didn't get signed anymore imo

weird that it affected the add-ons when i thought that stuff only affected things like SSL

The add-ons themselves are signed - so if we had an ILXor add-on, it would be signed to show it came from us and not some rando. It was a key certificate in the chain used to check those signatures that expired.

note to self: next time firefox wants to update itself, don't let it.

updated and now ilx and firefpx are missing something and everything looks like the 1980s

adblock is screwing the pooch. disable it and things are back to normal. linux.

disable adblock and install ublock origin

i already have both 8)

adblock apparently has an update, but i can't work out how to install it, so disabled for now.