Firefox issues

OMG so much better.

I have "search as you type" enabled, but when I'm on ILX and I type 's', it goes to SNA instead of searching for 's'. Anyone else experience this or know what's going on?

it's a feature stet added, noted here

CHANGELOG

Current version has a very annoying Network Protocol Error bug that's going to be fixed

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1528317#c13

firefox appears to have broken all add-ons. i'm seeing the web today without adblock and it's just a horrible place.

There's an update you can install to fix the bug. Save the exe file in the link below on disc and run it, that worked for me:

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/candidates/66.0.4-candidates/build3/win64/en-US/Firefox%20Setup%2066.0.4.exe

win64. pah.

i've downloaded an update already this morning, didn't help. there's a new point release. will try that.

that is a lot better. facebook now not just showing me random pictures of things with prices on them. no gizmodo video advert sidebars.

just restart and enable them all again. worked for me yesterday

also don't use adblock, use ublock origin

What I don’t understand is why this happened to my Firefox too when I have it set to not auto-install any updates?

it was some certificate thing that expired or didn't get signed anymore imo

weird that it affected the add-ons when i thought that stuff only affected things like SSL

The add-ons themselves are signed - so if we had an ILXor add-on, it would be signed to show it came from us and not some rando. It was a key certificate in the chain used to check those signatures that expired.

note to self: next time firefox wants to update itself, don't let it.

updated and now ilx and firefpx are missing something and everything looks like the 1980s

adblock is screwing the pooch. disable it and things are back to normal. linux.

disable adblock and install ublock origin

i already have both 8)

adblock apparently has an update, but i can't work out how to install it, so disabled for now.

did firefox on android recently get updated with a bunch of jank? i just want to visit websites thank you

yeah, the laatest version for Android is awful -- they discontinued support for almost all extensions and jettisoned a bunch of basic decades-old features like the tab bar, download manager, back button, and about:config. hopefully they'll accede to the demands of the screeching Firefox fanboys and restore some of that functionality with the next update. in the meantime I've switched to Kiwi, which is pretty decent alternative

I'm normally quite patient with application updates but fucking hell they really ballsed this up. I've mostly adapted to using the new UI but it's still hanging quite regularly.

fuck this garbage browser

starting to think the same

i'm guessing this has to do with android users? i'm having zero issues on any of my machines.

How so? I was hating it recently, lots of crashes, but now I'm having Chrome issues and I think it's just a weird RAM thing or some other app causing issues.

Still a ton of stupid annoying stuff in the Android version. Seems like they rewrote lots of the interface and barely tested it. Just typing into this box on ILX and it starts crunching.

My issues are with the windows version, albeit on an old (5 years!!!) and somewhat flaky pc:

1) the 'firefox is already running' dialog, needed by no other application in history (though chrome is a famous memory hog, maybe it just ignores orphaned processes)
2) this one is weird - slack and gmail and no other sites take an eternity to load, often it will just give up, the loading spinner will stop though the tab is still blank. multiple refreshes needed to get them to load.
3) i can't read messages in slack threads - it opens the sidebar, doesn't load any messages
4) slack brought it down completely yesterday

seems to be some bad firefox/slack confluence going on, i know the idiots at slack focus on chrome (you can't do video calls in firefox).

Slack posted an advisory yesterday, they were having trouble...

i installed the slack app to my desktop but still run slack in Firefox and that seems to have fixed a lot of those issues

will give that a go, ta.

Slack (and gmail, though only about 1/3rd as much as slack ime) is a notorious memory hog. How many workspaces are you using on slack?

only one!

Slack and facebook are the biggest memory hogs. Just closing a tab w/ slack or fb in Firefox instantly drops my overall memory usage w/ 15%, according to my memory cleaner app

Desktop Firefox is going thru a shonky phase at the moment imo

The Android version is currently dogshit, as others have indicated

in Mozilla's slight defense, the Android version now has a back button and a download manager, but the other issues haven't been resolved (including the lack of a tab bar) and the whole thing still feels like a beta. apparently the latest version of Nightly supports add-ons, but I haven't tried it yet and I'm still using Kiwi for the time being even though it's no longer being updated

something i complained about here (back button being disabled when clicking on image urls) is explained here:

https://support.mozilla.org/gl/questions/1254496

instagram and facebook now open in a container in firefox and that ditches all the history / referer details when making the new container. makes sense but i wonder whether i can force it to use a new tab for those links so i still have everything in the original tab.

firefox has been at the crayons again, changing stuff, making it look dumber.

top bar with the tabs in it now looks a lot taller but the favicons and tab names are the same size so you lose vertical space for no real gain.

yeah that spacing ffs. I had to create a lot more bookmark folders because eff having to scroll to see my bookmark lists

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.