Fun with Firefox

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.

Jesus, theyre on v9 now?
I gotta get on chrome

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...)

The occasional day that passes without a Firefox update seems so peaceful

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?

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.

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.

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.

Every version fixes hundreds of bugs, apparently, e.g. http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/12.0/releasenotes/buglist.html

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...

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...)

just upgraded, looks normal to me.

https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/nightly-testers/2013-February/001829.html

think it's Firebug. disabling firebug stops it. adding it back restarts it.

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.

yeah it's the new download finished indicator thing. lets you access dl directory

So is Forecastfox just gone forever? Any other decent weather extensions?

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.

It's annoying. Still my preferred web browser though.

(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)

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).

i haven't seen one yet. it may be limited to people who don't have 9 tabs worth of history to display.

why still use this over chrome, i'm curious?

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.

"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.

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 and
an 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.

At home I can't go to a URL from the address bar. EG I type in "google.com" and hit enter, nothing happens. :(

http://www.cnet.com/news/in-major-shift-firefox-to-use-yahoo-search-by-default-in-us/

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.

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. :\

Thanks. I will look into it.

Are you thinking virus w/r/t of the language thing or the URL thing?

Both in conjunction, maybe -- though the first one sounds more likely.

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.

Does FF sync browser data for a single account like Chrome does?

This is the first Google hit for

firefox spellcheck language

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.)