Firefox issues

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'll likely be the embedded flash player. Mine doesn't close down but it freezes and prevents me switching tabs for a few seconds.

Can I do anything about it?

Turn off javascript when you go to that page.

Or read something else.

adblock the offending object. (you'll need to use ie7 or something to find out what the offending object is)

firefox often crashes on entry to a myspace page - however that's probably the fault of the clunky coding on myspace. Apart from that Firefox is superb.

Firefox is just trying to protect you from the abject horror of myspace and the Sun.

does anyone still bother with myspace?

i have never joined myspace, however i use it extensively for initial music listening. Music radio in the UK in the post Peel era is mostly crap, so i do my own research.

Anyone else finding Firefox flakier than usual since the last update? Mine crashes several times a day.

FF 3 beta 4 ? I've completely ditched 2.x since this beta is better than that one. The previous betas all had problems (for me that is), this one doesn't anymore.

(I think most of the difference is caused by the plugins used)

2.0.0.13

The only add-ons running are the British-English dictionary and AVG Safe Search. I might go for the beta and see if that helps.

re: Anyone else finding Firefox flakier than usual since the last update? Mine crashes several times a day.

yes, particularly with yahoo mail also getting rid of yahoo messenger from the taskbar helps a bit.

more info:

Firefox crashes
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Firefox+crashes

Taking away the home button on Firefox is a fucking stupid idea. I've got to hit alt+home to go back to my homepage and it really pisses me off.

uh

Put it back up there?

It was never there to start with! Version 3.0b4, by the way.

When you go to view->toolbars->customize, does it appear there?

No

For the last 3-4 weeks, FF opens ILX as vertical sidebar on the left hand side of the browser (much like the history window). This only happens with ILX. Anyone has an idea what the problem might be?

they want you to use the bookmarks toolbar, so that's where they've put the home button. view -> toolbars -> bookmarks toolbar

xpost

Fucking hell. Thanks.

I'm using the beta 3 on a Mac and it seems very stable and doesn't seem to hog memory as much as it used to.

There's a FF3 Beta 5 as of today

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html

RC = the new beta.

first impression: very fast

If I were you I'd be a little more careful and take some time for my second impression.

When you go to view->toolbars->customize, does it appear there?
Open that, then drag it up from the bookmarks bar to the main bar. It'll stick.

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.