Firefox issues

beta 5 has home back up at the top

mine doesn't

Are you all using Windows? I use Firefox (2.0.013) in Ubuntu Linux and it's fine. Flash videos crash it sometimes, but that's always happened.

hmm, i'm using mac beta 5

woah the beta has a different font. change is bad!

oh no it doesn't... i always increase the text size when reading ilx, it seems the beta has an extra level of zoom so now i have to increase it twice.

mac and linux code base would be similar, wouldn't it?

ugh, adblock plus is incompatible with 3b5 right now.

^ more than enough reason to stay on 2.0

Still takes forever to load.

ugh, adblock plus is incompatible with 3b5 right now.

Install Nightly Tester Tools - http://www.oxymoronical.com/web/firefox/nightly - and you can use it to make all your plug-ins compatible with whatever version of Firefox you're using.

they gotta come up with a better way of checking extension compatibility than just "it's newer! It'll break"

Can someone find what this whole preplaces/postplaces bookmarks bullshit is all about? I'm trying to manually edit my bookmarks file but they've gone and turned the whole procedure into some kind of sqlite database thing - you know, the kind of counterintuitive crap that's going to drive people away.

Firefox 3 really brings the... ugly. Don't you think? I don't like the keyhole style back/forward buttons.

Also - rounded address bar??

Zoomy, mind.

i had to scale down the java runtime settings from 1.6.0_05 to 1.6.0_03, because the browser kept seizing up out of nowhere

anyone else had this?
(i'm using xp64, firefox 2.0.0.13)

funny, looking back at my comments upthread. can't have been long after i was posting them that i gave up on firefox and switched to safari. never looked back :)

capricious? moi?

I looked back. It was crashing all the time for me. Also, Safari was to blame for this:

Security Showdown: OS X Caves First, Vista Buckles (Due To Flash), Ubuntu Wins

Firefox 3 really brings the... ugly. Don't you think?

Download the GrApple theme.

Is there an HTML/BBCode editor plugin for Safari similar to BBCodeXtra or Xinha?

is there any way to get FF to start a bit faster?

Safari is pretty great now, but I can't go back to a world without mouse gestures. Adblock, Flashgot, right click menu to custom search plugin (Context Search), are all fantastic too, but especially mouse gestures, it's a dealbreaker. I'm still on FF 2.x, though, updating all those plugins everytime a new beta comes out is a pain.

Firefox Preloader is a utility that is designed to load parts of Mozilla Firefox into memory before it is used to improve the its startup time.

I switched back to Safari this weekend but I might have to go back to Firefox for PicLens. GrApple might aid in transitioning back, thanks. It's just a re-skinning though, isn't it? It doesn't behave the same way as Safari does when windows are background and foreground.

It's a small thing, sure, but...

NHex (assuming you're on OS X): I use XGestures for all my mouse gesturing needs.

I can't use Allmusic.com on Firefox because it crashes all the time, but it seems to be a specific problem with that site, as it hasn't happened with anywhere else yet. I'm using 2.0.0.13.

Alba: Oh nice! I have to give that a try. And he's not charging a ridiculous amount, either, which is nice for once.

Allmusic is one of the most sluggish, crap-programmed sites I've ever been to, they've really got to overhaul that bastard.

The gestures I have assigned to my browsers are:

Right click+mouse left = back
Right click+mouse right = forward
Rock left (right mouse button then left mouse button) = go to address bar
Right click+mouse up = go to top of page
Right click+mouse down = go to end of page

The last two are particularly useful for ILE threads

I also have rock right defined as a cross-app "play/pause iTunes" command.

woah at piclens.

I've never used mouse gestures, I try not to use the mouse as much as possible.

Do you navigate ILE with your keyboard? I have never got the hang of that.

i had vimperator on for a while, but actual links are a bit easier with the mouse, yeh.

okay I've been using vi for most of my life but Vimperator gives me a raging headache.

everyone switch to safari, i did & it practically changed my life

jk its not really that great

agreed that allmusic is awful
ALWAYS slow for me too

so hey everybody
I keep getting fucked up errors from Flash 9 in FF 3.0 under Leopard when I'm browsing blogs with embedded video (jesse jackson's cut his nuts out is fucking everywhere) and it beachballs for like 20-30 seconds then complains about a script. Is this happening to anybody else, and does anybody know the issue?

i just need a place to vent that firefox's Find feature can suck it.
everytime i search for something on the page, it scrolls down a little and DOESN'T HIGHLIGHT ANYTHING

ad;kljasd;lfkjads;flkja;dslfkj!

i have a problem where i go to youtube and the video plays for 2 seconds then halts (no sound). this only happens after my firefox browser has been open for a couple of hours or more. it seems to be something to do with java or flash but i've turned all these off in the 'add ons' section, and redownloaded/reinstalled them but it still happens. it started happening a few months ago with firefox 2 but it's happening with firefox 3 too. any ideas what this could be?

i was also having a problem with bookmarks in firefox 3 - if i added new bookmarks they'd disappear when i restarted the browser. ive solved this by making sure i go to: bookmarks > organise bookmarks > import & backup and do both 'backup' and 'export html'. doing this ensures all bookmarks are there for good. just a little tip there for anyone else having this problem, hopefully mozilla will fix this properly soon.

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

(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.