Firefox issues

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.

ugh, adblock plus is incompatible with 3b5 right now.

Install Nightly Tester Tools - http://www.oxymoronical.com/web/firefox/nightly - and you can use it to make all your plug-ins compatible with whatever version of Firefox you're using.

they gotta come up with a better way of checking extension compatibility than just "it's newer! It'll break"

Can someone find what this whole preplaces/postplaces bookmarks bullshit is all about? I'm trying to manually edit my bookmarks file but they've gone and turned the whole procedure into some kind of sqlite database thing - you know, the kind of counterintuitive crap that's going to drive people away.

Firefox 3 really brings the... ugly. Don't you think? I don't like the keyhole style back/forward buttons.

Also - rounded address bar??

Zoomy, mind.

i had to scale down the java runtime settings from 1.6.0_05 to 1.6.0_03, because the browser kept seizing up out of nowhere

anyone else had this?
(i'm using xp64, firefox 2.0.0.13)

funny, looking back at my comments upthread. can't have been long after i was posting them that i gave up on firefox and switched to safari. never looked back :)

capricious? moi?

I looked back. It was crashing all the time for me. Also, Safari was to blame for this:

Security Showdown: OS X Caves First, Vista Buckles (Due To Flash), Ubuntu Wins

Firefox 3 really brings the... ugly. Don't you think?

Download the GrApple theme.

Is there an HTML/BBCode editor plugin for Safari similar to BBCodeXtra or Xinha?

is there any way to get FF to start a bit faster?

Safari is pretty great now, but I can't go back to a world without mouse gestures. Adblock, Flashgot, right click menu to custom search plugin (Context Search), are all fantastic too, but especially mouse gestures, it's a dealbreaker. I'm still on FF 2.x, though, updating all those plugins everytime a new beta comes out is a pain.

Firefox Preloader is a utility that is designed to load parts of Mozilla Firefox into memory before it is used to improve the its startup time.

I switched back to Safari this weekend but I might have to go back to Firefox for PicLens. GrApple might aid in transitioning back, thanks. It's just a re-skinning though, isn't it? It doesn't behave the same way as Safari does when windows are background and foreground.

It's a small thing, sure, but...

NHex (assuming you're on OS X): I use XGestures for all my mouse gesturing needs.

I can't use Allmusic.com on Firefox because it crashes all the time, but it seems to be a specific problem with that site, as it hasn't happened with anywhere else yet. I'm using 2.0.0.13.

Alba: Oh nice! I have to give that a try. And he's not charging a ridiculous amount, either, which is nice for once.

Allmusic is one of the most sluggish, crap-programmed sites I've ever been to, they've really got to overhaul that bastard.

The gestures I have assigned to my browsers are:

Right click+mouse left = back
Right click+mouse right = forward
Rock left (right mouse button then left mouse button) = go to address bar
Right click+mouse up = go to top of page
Right click+mouse down = go to end of page

The last two are particularly useful for ILE threads

I also have rock right defined as a cross-app "play/pause iTunes" command.