Firefox issues

> you know when you try and download something big on firefox.. it seems to freeze the whole thing (and any other firefox window), while the download is in progress (and not tell you what progress it's making) until it's over.. is there a way to fix that??

is this mostly pdfs? if it is then PDF file association (within firefox) from 'use this plugin' to 'use this application'. now they'll download in background then start acrobat rather than freezing friefox for the duration.

might work with other file types as well.

Since Monday, Firefox crashes every time I try to reply to an email from my gmail account. Why?? I went on vacation for a week and since I got back it's fuxored. IT IS A MYSTERY DOT GEE EYE EFF.

I can't imagine it's any of my extensions, I would have noticed that before my vacation break as well and haven't added any since. Still, I might experiment.

laurel: have had something similar with bad swf files embedded in a page, mostly ads. use adblock to block them. (you might need to view source in a different browser in order to find them)

it's with any kinds of files koogs, and i wasn't even trying to launch them, just to save to disk. the program will just freeze for the duration of the download and then eventually comes back with a little popup on the bottom right corner and say "All files download is complete", and bring up the downloads window.

it's like somebody forgot to run the download process in a background thread.

or maybe it's the way firefox wants to tell me "You decided to download a 15MB file. Good Job. Moron."

i do that all the time (firefox, winxp...) and it's fine.

it's not me, it's you.

modem problems? virus checker? disk space?

there must be SOMETHING, but i dunno what.

disk space maybe but there's definitely more than 15MB.

laurel: http://groups.google.com/group/Gmail-Problem-solving/browse_thread/thread/01835027fc45a73e/e8eece8a4a569b8b?lnk=raot

someone with same problem since last monday. clearing cache, deleting cookie fixed it.

Andy, you are a star. Thank you.

Ned: maybe try safe mode (http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_mode#Mac_OS_X) and if that fixes things then start turning extensions on and off one at a time. Failing that, create a new OS X test user account and see if they have the same problem.

How dare you be sensible. I wanted to do something like reach into the computer and strangle the program.

You know what always breaks Firefox for me? The, um, All Music Guide.

Failing that, create a new OS X test user account and see if they have the same problem.

Before you resort to this, it might be worth quitting Firefox, moving ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox to, e.g. the Desktop, thus forcing Firefox to create a new profile the next time you launch it. If this fixes the problems then you're sorted. [If you want to restore your bookmarks, quit FF, find bookmarks.html in the old Firefox folder which is now on your Desktop and copy it to the same place in the new ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox folder, and restart.]

I was having system-wide slowness issues, Firefox downloads, Photoshop, you name it -- I finally just moved up getting my new system by eight months.

Ned, run Activity Monitor and see if there are any unidentified processes that are eating up CPU. Do you use a CPU monitor widget?

caek's advice is good.

Everyone, you have to remember to *think* in RUSSIAN.

Hahahaha

How often did I see that film on HBO in the early eighties? Oh, quite a few times...

2.0.0.6 for OS X is hopeless. fucking thing just hung on me trying to open a new tab ... wouldn't mind so much if i hadn't also been 95% through a 100+MB download. "restore session" doesn't restore the download ... i mean, come on, i used to have stuff on fucking OS9 that could resume a broken download. how come shitfox can't manage?

i'm going to hold out for the next update and see if it gets any better. if not, i'll go back to safari, which is also shit, but not *quite* as crash-happy.

I've just gone back to Safari and spent an hour or two researching and installing things that make it work in a way that means I won't miss Opera (Safari Stand for customisable keyword-led searching from the URL bar -- fuck using a fiddly drop-down menu. xGestures for letting me use mouse gestures to go back and forth between pages).

The one thing that really made me switch from Opera was the inability to submit from Scrabulous's messaging box. Funny the things browser choices hinge on.

I'm sure more people would use Opera if its default appearance weren't so fugly.

i've become pretty addicted to inquisitor for quick searches - http://www.inquisitorx.com/safari

Inquistor is *great*, but Leopard Safari kills it apparently. Grr.

You want Leopard to be crap?

If it's a shitty new dock or Inquisitor, I know which I'd etc

Good news, Firefox users, developers are finding out what's going on with the apparent memory leakage.

http://www.pavlov.net/blog/archives/2007/11/memory_fragment.html

FF 3 beta 1 is great but still beta (dragging & dropping of bookmarks is f*cked up, as is catsuppp dude's user name, since asian characters have now suddenly turned into boxes with numbers in them) :-/

that's what asian characters look like

^ nice

So that's why people always say "I'll have a 35 and a 42" in Chinese restaurants? Suddenly makes sense now, thanks!

FF 3 beta 1 keeps playing up on my Vista X64 machine. It installs fine and runs perfectly until I close it.

What happens then is that when I restart it "updates" to Firefox 2.0.10

Hmm..

firefox updated and wiped out my bookmarks, history, etc. annoying!

FOXMARKS

http://www.foxmarks.com

MOZBACKUP

http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/

http://www.uploadgeek.com/uploads456/0/1197784327416.png

lololololol

a(n) Detention?

Also, Guardians(s).

I guess it could be a hoax, but it's a popular topic at the moment:

http://www.google.be/search?q=firefox+detention

Also: people happen to get detention in Foxfire, the 1996 movie:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116353/

Firefox 3 beta 2 : anyone else experiencing loads of random hangs & crashes? beta 1 was a lot more stable, IMHO :-(

Anyway, this is pretty impressive, though:

http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.0b2/firstrun/

:-)

Having Niagra Falls at the top of my browser was a dumb idea.

somehow i have changed a setting on FF where i cant scroll through pages using arrow keys and "end" or "home"

its viewing pages like a word document, with a little blinking cursor. if i click "end" it doesn't jump to the bottom of a page, the cursor jumps to the end of that line. when i want to scroll up or down, i have to wait for the cursor to go up through every line of text until it reaches the top or the bottom of the page before i can change what i'm seeing. if i am scrolling down and a large iamge comes up, it jumps to the bottom of that image.

ive tried uninstalling and reinstalling a few times but the paroblem is still there. also, when i uninstall and reinstall, my bookmarks, browsing history and cookies are all intact.

help.

ok fixed:
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x18/gr8080/ff.jpg

but i still cant figure out why my settings, history and cookies would be saved when i uninstall and reinstall.

Uninstalling probably doesn't remove your config/preferences. You'd have to manually delete those files.

Hitting F7 turns 'caret browsing' (for that is what it's called) on and off - there is a pop-up warning you about it, and asks if you are sure you want to turn it on, but you can disable the pop-up, and then you've no idea whether you've accidentally turned it on or not, until you try and scroll the page with the keys.

thanks!

Everytime I try and access a page at The Sun it (something) closes firefox down. Can anyone explain why this might be. It only happens at The Sun (so far)!

I mean it's not a bad thing particularly but...it's odd.

it's annoying

had to change that this morning. wordy fix below

about:config <-- in address bar. "accept risk and continue"
browser.compactmode.show <--- set to true. exit about:config. maybe restart firefox.

find 'customize' under 'more tools' in the drop down menu that is an icon that looks like 3 small horizontal lines

set density to compact.

protip-- if you use menu bar and bookmarks toolbar, drag the bookmark toolbar items onto the menu bar from the customize screen

oops! one more important step-- turn off the bookmarks toolbar if you move the bookmark toolbar items up to the menu bar or never use it.

hmm, didn't seem to change anything. Although my Density setting was "Compact (not supported)".

try turning off your bookmarks toolbar

ah but it's the bookmarks toolbar i want the compact to affect. Is that not possible to change then?

i can't confirm it myself because i'm running ESR but apparently setting browser.proton.enabled to false in about:config unfucks things a bit

enjoy it until mozilla inevitably removes it next version

There is also browser.uidensity that should be set to 1 (if it isn't already)

xp, chih, tried it and things got even more compact :)

I think Ste meant the Bookmarks dropdown menu from the menubar was no longer compact. I decided to test disabling all Proton entries in about:config and discovered the one that fixes the issue by resetting to how it was before.

set to false:
browser.proton.contextmenus.enabled

and while were at it we might as well set the entry chihuahuau mentioned to false as well:
browser.proton.enabled

i dunno if this is new but i'm forever closing tabs i don't want to close.

the visible tab is highlighted in a lighter colour than usual, the tab the mouse is over is highlighted using a darker colour than usual. it's easy to glance up, see a highlighted tab and hit middle button to close it without registering it was the wrong kind of highlight.