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 (ten years ago) link
just upgraded, looks normal to me.
― riverrun, past Steve and Adam's (ledge), Thursday, 4 April 2013 10:47 (ten years ago) link
https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/nightly-testers/2013-February/001829.html
― koogs, Thursday, 4 April 2013 11:12 (ten years ago) link
think it's Firebug. disabling firebug stops it. adding it back restarts it.
― koogs, Thursday, 4 April 2013 11:51 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
yeah it's the new download finished indicator thing. lets you access dl directory
― koogs, Sunday, 14 April 2013 17:05 (ten 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