Firefox issues

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.

did firefox on android recently get updated with a bunch of jank? i just want to visit websites thank you

yeah, the laatest version for Android is awful -- they discontinued support for almost all extensions and jettisoned a bunch of basic decades-old features like the tab bar, download manager, back button, and about:config. hopefully they'll accede to the demands of the screeching Firefox fanboys and restore some of that functionality with the next update. in the meantime I've switched to Kiwi, which is pretty decent alternative

I'm normally quite patient with application updates but fucking hell they really ballsed this up. I've mostly adapted to using the new UI but it's still hanging quite regularly.

fuck this garbage browser

starting to think the same

i'm guessing this has to do with android users? i'm having zero issues on any of my machines.

How so? I was hating it recently, lots of crashes, but now I'm having Chrome issues and I think it's just a weird RAM thing or some other app causing issues.

Still a ton of stupid annoying stuff in the Android version. Seems like they rewrote lots of the interface and barely tested it. Just typing into this box on ILX and it starts crunching.

My issues are with the windows version, albeit on an old (5 years!!!) and somewhat flaky pc:

1) the 'firefox is already running' dialog, needed by no other application in history (though chrome is a famous memory hog, maybe it just ignores orphaned processes)
2) this one is weird - slack and gmail and no other sites take an eternity to load, often it will just give up, the loading spinner will stop though the tab is still blank. multiple refreshes needed to get them to load.
3) i can't read messages in slack threads - it opens the sidebar, doesn't load any messages
4) slack brought it down completely yesterday

seems to be some bad firefox/slack confluence going on, i know the idiots at slack focus on chrome (you can't do video calls in firefox).

Slack posted an advisory yesterday, they were having trouble...

i installed the slack app to my desktop but still run slack in Firefox and that seems to have fixed a lot of those issues

will give that a go, ta.

Slack (and gmail, though only about 1/3rd as much as slack ime) is a notorious memory hog. How many workspaces are you using on slack?

only one!

Slack and facebook are the biggest memory hogs. Just closing a tab w/ slack or fb in Firefox instantly drops my overall memory usage w/ 15%, according to my memory cleaner app

Desktop Firefox is going thru a shonky phase at the moment imo

The Android version is currently dogshit, as others have indicated

in Mozilla's slight defense, the Android version now has a back button and a download manager, but the other issues haven't been resolved (including the lack of a tab bar) and the whole thing still feels like a beta. apparently the latest version of Nightly supports add-ons, but I haven't tried it yet and I'm still using Kiwi for the time being even though it's no longer being updated

something i complained about here (back button being disabled when clicking on image urls) is explained here:

https://support.mozilla.org/gl/questions/1254496

instagram and facebook now open in a container in firefox and that ditches all the history / referer details when making the new container. makes sense but i wonder whether i can force it to use a new tab for those links so i still have everything in the original tab.