If you've got a vulnerable version of Firefox, this probes random stuff out of memory. Ordinarily, this would be a bad thing, but if you keep probing random chunks of memory you get some really weird stuff. For example, after a few clicks I got, amongst a load of rubbish,
"The mood does shift after this hope creeps in awareness that change is the only constant we ll get out of this with each others help. No giving in despite how "
I have no idea where it came from, but it's great.
― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Thursday, 7 April 2005 12:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Thursday, 7 April 2005 12:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― Johnney B (Johnney B), Thursday, 7 April 2005 12:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 7 April 2005 14:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― caitlin (caitlin), Thursday, 7 April 2005 14:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Thursday, 7 April 2005 15:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― happy fun ball (kenan), Thursday, 7 April 2005 15:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 14 August 2005 03:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― M. V. (M.V.), Sunday, 14 August 2005 03:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Monday, 15 August 2005 00:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 31 October 2005 22:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― jdubz (ex machina), Monday, 31 October 2005 22:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 01:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 01:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 02:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― I do feel guilty for getting any perverse amusement out of it (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 03:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 07:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Remy (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 07:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 07:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 07:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Remy (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 07:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 07:32 (eighteen years ago) link
Tools -> Options -> Privacy -> Download Manager History -> Clear. Then, select "Remove files from the Download Manager upon successful download". ?
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 07:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 07:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― the firefox, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 13:57 (eighteen years ago) link
ive always wondered, can you gte firefox to do that thing you can do in explorer, whereby when you open new windows, they are replicas of the last window you were in, instead of the new window starting off blank or just as a default/home page?
i looked at the options a bunch of times and cant see anything that sounds like it will do this.
anyone? its totally minor, so i never bothered asking before.
― ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 14:31 (eighteen years ago) link
A P motion-1.mp3 A ; d 9 ? m U # 5 A H ? F % O Z \ Z b g d 7 # ; l q e 4 R u e A 5 H h y z B a q h k Y Z E 3 A ? F ? html H moz-icon://C:\DOCUME 1\HARIAS 1\LOCALS 1\TEMP\18_year_old_blondie_gets_sodomized_for_the_first_time-100-anal-2-scene1.wmv.torrent?size=32 downloadContextMenu b 10-daft_punk-emotion-1.mp3 ? s downloadContextMenu 10-daft_punk-emotion.mp3 s C:\Documents and Settings\Hari Ashurst\My Documents\My Pictures\Annie\lis.jpg moz-icon://C:\Documents and Settings\Hari Ashurst\My Documents\My Downloads\10-daft_punk-emotion.mp3?size=32 P Y y ; 33 ; d . P P P P P P & P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P s l C:\Documents and Settings\Hari Ashurst\My Documents\My Downloads\nnordnes_joinme.mp3-link.mp3 moz-icon://C:\Documents and Settings\Hari Ashurst\My Documents\My Downloads9-daft_punk-technologic.mp3?size=32 % _ ; 33 % e ; d ; P L ; Chris Morris - Blue Jam.torrent ; d P P P P P P & P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P
― Googley Asearch (Toaster), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― koogs (koogs), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 19:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 19:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 19:57 (eighteen years ago) link
it always weirds me out when people make similar products to competitors but then sort of make them worse, almost wilfully. for example, in OSX, Apple seemed to replicate the scrolling through windows with Alt Tab, but instead of scrolling thru windows, made it so it scrolled through open applications. Like, for fucks sake! you were so nearly there! but you fluffed it at the last minute!
Maybe its some copyright thing i dunno
― ambrose (ambrose), Thursday, 3 November 2005 10:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 3 November 2005 10:26 (eighteen years ago) link
firefox is kind of demanding! i installed the update, and it said in lolhueg letters, "You should update Adobe Flash Player right now."
RIGHT NOW!!!!!
― tehresa, Thursday, 29 October 2009 00:37 (fourteen years ago) link
now firefox crashes every time i try a google search :(
― tehresa, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 05:36 (fourteen years ago) link
choose your firefox persona... poll :|
― stop assuming I assumed something LOL (CaptainLorax), Saturday, 30 January 2010 05:26 (fourteen years ago) link
totoro
― koogs, Saturday, 30 January 2010 10:27 (fourteen years ago) link
have upgraded to firefox 4. rounded corners on Add a Post box, woo.
is there any way to run version 3 in parallel? even though i installed in a different directory and have renamed the old executable clicking on it still gets me another Firefox 4 instance.
― koogs, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 18:43 (thirteen years ago) link
ah, ok, you have to close all the ff4 instances and then use the old executable.
― koogs, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 18:44 (thirteen years ago) link
any nice themes for it? im using the mac osx one now...kind of chunky.
― Get me two meatball sandwiches Utah, TWO! (chrisv2010), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 18:47 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm waiting until the themes catch up to start using ff4.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 18:52 (thirteen years ago) link
I really enjoy how it says 'close group' and you say 'yes' and it kills all your tabs. Brilliant.
― Head goes goes goes (Schlafsack), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 21:44 (thirteen years ago) link
I have a spaceman spiff theme
― U2 the musical by Spiderman (CaptainLorax), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 22:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Not keen on ff4 in that they've moved the home and reload button to the right. Trivial but irritating.
― Cluster the boots (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 22:05 (thirteen years ago) link
move it back
― Head goes goes goes (Schlafsack), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 22:10 (thirteen years ago) link
right-click on tab bar, customise, draaaaaag
Oh, right I'll give it a go.
― Cluster the boots (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 22:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Okay, using it now. Love that it's faster. Most of my add-ons are still compatible. But where's Echofon hiding at now?
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 06:26 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh, never mind. The add-on bar is turned off by default.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 06:27 (thirteen years ago) link
it's more baffling to me that so many people just passively accept this bullshit
― lex pretend, Thursday, 29 September 2011 19:55 (twelve years ago) link
Thanks James, but I still get:
"The add-on could not be downloaded because of a connection failure on addons.mozilla.org"
Sigh.
― Young Swell (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 29 September 2011 19:56 (twelve years ago) link
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
― koogs, Thursday, 29 September 2011 20:04 (twelve years ago) link
(posted already, sorry)
― koogs, Thursday, 29 September 2011 20:05 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Young Swell (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 29 September 2011 20:06 (twelve years ago) link
I held out against chrome for a long time but after just 1 day with it I'm done w firefox forever. soz dudes
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 29 September 2011 22:52 (twelve years ago) link
I can't believe that neither FF nor Chrome have password protection for the whole browser.
― Je55e, Friday, 30 September 2011 21:38 (twelve years ago) link
You all know you can stop automatic updates in Firefox, yeah?
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 30 September 2011 22:30 (twelve years ago) link
Wow, Firefox just picked up 'Firefox' as a spelling error and suggested
FireboxFire foxFire–foxFirefly
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 30 September 2011 22:31 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 30 September 2011 22:59 (twelve years ago) link
Fuck Firefox for the last time. Switched to Chrome this morning.
― PoMo with a shotgun (snoball), Saturday, 1 October 2011 08:21 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― sam500, Thursday, 3 November 2011 13:02 (twelve years ago) link
Could well be. It was locking me into dedicated graphics and sucking up my battery so I stopped using it.
― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 3 November 2011 19:47 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― sam500, Friday, 4 November 2011 08:40 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― koogs, Thursday, 12 January 2012 09:59 (twelve years ago) link
Jesus, theyre on v9 now?I gotta get on chrome
― Beezow Doo Doo Zopittybop-Bop Bop (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 12 January 2012 15:52 (twelve years ago) link
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...)
― koogs, Thursday, 2 February 2012 09:38 (twelve years ago) link
The occasional day that passes without a Firefox update seems so peaceful
― Not only dermatologists hate her (James Morrison), Friday, 3 February 2012 00:12 (twelve years ago) link
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?
― HO WBEAUTIFUL IS THE GENTLYFALLINGBLOOD? (Le Bateau Ivre), Saturday, 18 February 2012 20:37 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― warren harding (Zachary Taylor), Saturday, 18 February 2012 23:07 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― HO WBEAUTIFUL IS THE GENTLYFALLINGBLOOD? (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 19 February 2012 19:07 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 25 April 2012 00:17 (eleven years ago) link
Every version fixes hundreds of bugs, apparently, e.g. http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/12.0/releasenotes/buglist.html
― StanM, Wednesday, 25 April 2012 16:05 (eleven years ago) link
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...
― koogs, Wednesday, 25 April 2012 16:19 (eleven years ago) link
what the what?
upgraded to ff20 this morning and now my right click menu (which i always use to navigate back a page) fills the entire height of the screen and is missing the 'back' option, instead containing a list of ALL the menu items in the world (play, pause, view background image, view mathml source...)
― koogs, Thursday, 4 April 2013 10:45 (eleven years ago) link
just upgraded, looks normal to me.
― riverrun, past Steve and Adam's (ledge), Thursday, 4 April 2013 10:47 (eleven years ago) link
https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/nightly-testers/2013-February/001829.html
― koogs, Thursday, 4 April 2013 11:12 (eleven years ago) link
think it's Firebug. disabling firebug stops it. adding it back restarts it.
― koogs, Thursday, 4 April 2013 11:51 (eleven years ago) link
I just downloaded an image and when it was finished, a big green arrow showed up for a second, like some kind of acid flashback. WTF? Is this a new Firefox feature? Seems like overkill.
― _Rudipherous_, Sunday, 14 April 2013 15:30 (eleven years ago) link
yeah it's the new download finished indicator thing. lets you access dl directory
― koogs, Sunday, 14 April 2013 17:05 (eleven years ago) link
So is Forecastfox just gone forever? Any other decent weather extensions?
― Je55e, Sunday, 27 July 2014 21:36 (nine years ago) link
i think firefox just wants you to update every 3 days so that people visit its homepage.
and today it's explaining the new tab screen to me, despite me having used it for months.
the very handy 'Youtube Link Title' script brok with the last update.
― koogs, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 09:55 (nine years ago) link
It's annoying. Still my preferred web browser though.
― millmeister, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 12:41 (nine years ago) link
(updating greasemonkey fixed my greasemonkey script problem fwiw)
new version introduces ads to the new tab page (which is what the popup window was telling me, had i read it)
― koogs, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 12:56 (nine years ago) link
That's a bit naughty. I use the 'Tab Mix Plus' extension to customise my tabs. New tabs can be opened as blank pages (about:blank).
― millmeister, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 13:09 (nine years ago) link
i haven't seen one yet. it may be limited to people who don't have 9 tabs worth of history to display.
― koogs, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 13:11 (nine years ago) link
why still use this over chrome, i'm curious?
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 13:38 (nine years ago) link
When I last tried Chrome on a desktop it resolutely refused to open in full screen mode. Plus various other little niggles. By not using it I also feel less entwined in the Google ecosystem.
― millmeister, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 14:15 (nine years ago) link
"i think firefox just wants you to update every 3 days so that people visit its homepage."
It has never once made me go to its homepage in windows/linux.
― svend, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 14:19 (nine years ago) link
it did today in windows (win8). might've been more of an update page than a homepage.
this, i think: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/desktop/
"Committed to you,your privacy andan open Web"
which seems at odds with the ads thing.
interesting thing on slashdot today. how they get a lot of their money from google (for being the default search) but how chrome could mean that google will just stop paying them soon, leaving them up shit creek.
― koogs, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 15:09 (nine years ago) link
At home I can't go to a URL from the address bar. EG I type in "google.com" and hit enter, nothing happens. :(
― Je55e, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 19:42 (nine years ago) link
http://www.cnet.com/news/in-major-shift-firefox-to-use-yahoo-search-by-default-in-us/
― koogs, Thursday, 20 November 2014 10:02 (nine years ago) link
For a couple weeks FF on my Mac hasn't let me go directly to a URL. Doesn't matter if I do or don't use www, http, https, etc. I type it in and it does nothing when I hit Enter or the arrow button. Anybody else? I guess I could google it.
Other weirdness, on my work computer, the spellcheck dictionary defaults to Spanish, and I am pretty sure I never even added Spanish to my list of dictionaries.
― Je55e, Monday, 22 June 2015 17:18 (eight years ago) link
Quick Googling suggests checking if you're in compatibility mode, and turning it off if you are.
Also sounds like maybe you've got a virus. :\
― Falconetti Pot (Leee), Monday, 22 June 2015 17:48 (eight years ago) link
Thanks. I will look into it.
Are you thinking virus w/r/t of the language thing or the URL thing?
― Je55e, Monday, 22 June 2015 20:39 (eight years ago) link
Both in conjunction, maybe -- though the first one sounds more likely.
― Falconetti Pot (Leee), Monday, 22 June 2015 20:49 (eight years ago) link
The problem w/ the address bar not letting me go to a URL was a problem w/ a plug-in, though I couldn't figure out which one.
The problem w/ the spell-check dictionary defaulting to Spanish is now happening on my HOME computer too. I have no dictionary add-ons, so I don't know how to get rid of Spanish. It's not just an inconvenience, it's blowing my self-esteem b/c I realize how bad my spelling has gotten.
― Je55e, Saturday, 4 July 2015 15:55 (eight years ago) link
Does FF sync browser data for a single account like Chrome does?
This is the first Google hit for
firefox spellcheck language
― :wq (Leee), Sunday, 5 July 2015 02:50 (eight years ago) link
Hi - sorry, I didn't see new answers.
My work and home computers were not synced, no. I tried that the support thing earlier, but it didn't work, but since I updated to the latest version of FF on computers, Spanish seems to have gone away. (I thought FF asked for updates automatically, but for some reason it never asked me if I wanted 39 or whatever.)
― Je55e, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 18:08 (eight years ago) link