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Linux Aurora does lots of fun things with Youtube, like unpausing all open Youtube tabs when a new one is opened and starting two audio streams when loading video without loading a new page, one of which cannot be paused and starts one second offset from the other.
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Does someone know what just happened? Firefox randomly uninsatalled some plugins. (Classic Theme Restorer and Tabmix Plus) Thankfully re-installing them restored all my settings so I didn't have to actually do work. But another question: Am I the only one who thinks that it's sad that I have to use add-ons to restore functionality the browser had easily accessible in menus a couple versions ago? It's like they want every browser to look like chrome somehow so they hide the real options in the config.
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# ? Nov 15, 2014 10:57 |
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IGgy IGsen posted:But another question: Am I the only one who thinks that it's sad that I have to use add-ons to restore functionality the browser had easily accessible in menus a couple versions ago? It's like they want every browser to look like chrome somehow so they hide the real options in the config.
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# ? Nov 15, 2014 15:51 |
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Pilsner posted:That's how Firefix evolves, it seems. They randomly flail around, removing options or functionality at a whim with random argumentation such as "it was bloat" or "this is hard to maintain" or "this is functionality that add-ons should support", then 5-10 versions later it sometimes gets re-introduced anyway. UI elements on the main toolbar change place every 2-3 versions. I've been using FF for close to 10 years, and am still an overall fan, but there is no sense or discipline to this pattern in my eyes. Oh well. Out of interest, what have they removed and reintroduced in later versions?
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# ? Nov 15, 2014 20:52 |
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Pilsner posted:That's how Firefix evolves, it seems. They randomly flail around, removing options or functionality at a whim with random argumentation such as "it was bloat" or "this is hard to maintain" or "this is functionality that add-ons should support", then 5-10 versions later it sometimes gets re-introduced anyway. UI elements on the main toolbar change place every 2-3 versions. I've been using FF for close to 10 years, and am still an overall fan, but there is no sense or discipline to this pattern in my eyes. Oh well. I have to point out, most of the configuration of Firefox has been in about :config and extensions since Firefox first became Firefox.
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# ? Nov 15, 2014 21:00 |
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WattsvilleBlues posted:Update to 33.1 and see if that helps. 33.1 didn't help. 33.1.1 seems to have partially helped, but switching to the tab with youtube still takes a second sometimes.
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# ? Nov 15, 2014 23:53 |
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Freakazoid_ posted:33.1 didn't help. 33.1.1 seems to have partially helped, but switching to the tab with youtube still takes a second sometimes. Have you tired updating your graphics drivers and/or resetting Firefox?
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# ? Nov 16, 2014 00:51 |
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VisAbsoluta posted:What is the best add-on for saving videos from streaming pages in general?
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# ? Nov 16, 2014 02:30 |
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VisAbsoluta posted:What is the best add-on for saving videos from streaming pages in general? Not an addon, but very powerful. http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/
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# ? Nov 16, 2014 02:41 |
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What's a good way to force a page to display using a character set that isn't in this list: Specifically, I'm after forcing a site to display in Western (DOS) as it's usually called, since it uses DOS western codepage characters for drawing.
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# ? Nov 16, 2014 02:46 |
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Mine has a "more encodings" menu just below auto-detect. It doesn't have a "Western (DOS)", but it does have half a dozen ISO standards and IBM code pages.
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Nintendo Kid posted:What's a good way to force a page to display using a character set that isn't in this list: Probably other bugs related to this somewhere.
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# ? Nov 16, 2014 04:07 |
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Aleksei Vasiliev posted:You can't, they're removing support for those. Provide justification for why you need them in that bug and maybe they won't! Well I was assuming there might be an extension that covered it to use for this purpose.
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# ? Nov 16, 2014 04:17 |
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Aleksei Vasiliev posted:You can't, they're removing support for those. quote:We believe IBM852 and IBM850 not to be necessary for the Web, since Presto-Opera got away with not supporting them and Chrome continues to get away with not supporting them.
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# ? Nov 16, 2014 04:44 |
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Nintendo Kid posted:Well I was assuming there might be an extension that covered it to use for this purpose.
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# ? Nov 16, 2014 06:16 |
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Aleksei Vasiliev posted:post an example of a textfile.com file that FF misdetects, I want to see if I can fix it http://textfiles.com/anarchy/CARDING/aicard.txt Is one. Here's the Firefox rendering: Here's what it should look like with the DOS codepage (taken in Notepad++):
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# ? Nov 16, 2014 06:24 |
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Well for that particular file using Cyrillic (DOS) works fine
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# ? Nov 16, 2014 06:28 |
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Asked this one before but didn't get an answer - for some reason firefox stopped opening html/swf etc files from folders. Trying to open them just opens a blank firefox tab. Meanwhile, trying to open the very same from the firefox library rather than the folder opens them just fine.
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# ? Nov 16, 2014 07:44 |
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Well this update (FF33) has broken the Tab Utilities addon in a rather ridiculous way. With that addon installed, typing into the address bar and pressing enter does nothing. Also at some point Status-4-Evar has stopped working properly. I'd like to have it so that when I hover over a link, the URL of that link is shown in the statusbar so that I know it's not goatse.cx or whatever. Anyone know of a workaround or replacement for these?
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# ? Nov 16, 2014 17:40 |
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Lum posted:I'd like to have it so that when I hover over a link, the URL of that link is shown in the statusbar so that I know it's not goatse.cx or whatever.
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# ? Nov 16, 2014 17:47 |
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FRINGE posted:This should be basic functionality. Yeah, this is in the default FF. Maybe the extension you were using disabled it so that it could implement its own thing?
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# ? Nov 16, 2014 17:48 |
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Try going in and forcing Status-4-Evar to update itself, or check for a new version manually. I think I had to do that when Aurora went to 33, because it doesn't seem to use the auto-updater.
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# ? Nov 16, 2014 18:25 |
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I already updated it manually. No joy. The default in FF these days is to have a little popup with the new URL, but as I'm an old fart who started out with Netscape 2 or something like that, I kinda prefer having it at the bottom on a statusbar. It's possible it's conflicting with classic theme restorer, but with status-4-evar removed, I couldn't find a way to make classic theme restorer do it either, even though the option is there.
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# ? Nov 16, 2014 18:36 |
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I'm using Status-4-Evar right now and it's showing URL links in the status bar without issues. Try making sure it's configured correctly, or reinstalling it?
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# ? Nov 16, 2014 19:00 |
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Same with me. Status-4-Evar 2014.07.06.05 Go into Customize and make sure "Status Text" is in your status bar.
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# ? Nov 16, 2014 20:58 |
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Nalin posted:Go into Customize and make sure "Status Text" is in your status bar. That fixed it. No idea why that had disappeared. Thank you. Now I just need a fix for Tab Utilities and I'm sorted.
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# ? Nov 16, 2014 21:57 |
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Status-4-Evar seems to be a bit flaky when dealing with updates. I have to turn things off and on, or remove and reinstall it every other major FF version update. Aside from that though it's fine.
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# ? Nov 17, 2014 00:15 |
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Lum posted:Well this update (FF33) has broken the Tab Utilities addon in a rather ridiculous way. With that addon installed, typing into the address bar and pressing enter does nothing. Yeah, waiting for Tab Utilities to update is always the most obnoxious part of firefox updates. Really, the only really crucial feature for me is being able to set up middle clicking on empty space in the tab bar or on the new tab button to re-open closed tabs. That, more than anything else, is what's kept me in firefox instead of moving to Chrome. I'd heard a while back that the dev of Tab Utilities had friggin died. Did it get picked up by a new developer or was this just internet rumors run amok again?
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# ? Nov 17, 2014 03:45 |
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Read posted:Not an addon, but very powerful. http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/
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# ? Nov 17, 2014 09:00 |
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Lum posted:Well this update (FF33) has broken the Tab Utilities addon in a rather ridiculous way. With that addon installed, typing into the address bar and pressing enter does nothing. You actually lucked out- it's been broken for at least the past three updates, and that's not the only problem it's causing. So far as I'm aware, TU only breaks the address bar on the New Tab page or the Private Browsing splashscreen. Load a bookmark / pinned tile, then try again. Blue Footed Booby posted:I'd heard a while back that the dev of Tab Utilities had friggin died. Did it get picked up by a new developer or was this just internet rumors run amok again? It's the same dev. They missed a self-imposed deadline by months and went radio silent, resurrected within a day when the person who had been doing unofficial updates declared intent to take over the addon. I wish that person had gone ahead and made a competitor, because here we are again- no dev activity since May. While I'm at it, I also wish tab opening prefs weren't outside Classic Theme Restorer's purview, because it covers everything else I need from TU. Spindle fucked around with this message at 11:12 on Nov 17, 2014 |
# ? Nov 17, 2014 10:53 |
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Bugzilla-1100482 posted:We're concerned about the number of bugs we're still finding in the stagefright demuxer, and the time it's taking to fix them. We think therefore it's best to disable this feature for the Firefox 34 release. Well, that's unfortunate. I got used to having Flash uninstalled and it was glorious. Looks like I need to run 35 BETA until they fix up the demuxer issues.
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# ? Nov 18, 2014 16:26 |
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I'm confused, why would they disable it on Windows and Android as well Or at least that's what the link seems to imply.
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# ? Nov 18, 2014 17:28 |
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RZApublican posted:I'm confused, why would they disable it on Windows and Android as well They are just stating that Android/Windows will fall back to previous implementation; pre 34 behavior (without the new demuxer work they have been working on in the core). It shouldn't be noticeable.
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# ? Nov 18, 2014 17:43 |
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jink posted:They are just stating that Android/Windows will fall back to previous implementation; pre 34 behavior (without the new demuxer work they have been working on in the core). It shouldn't be noticeable. Ah, that makes sense.
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# ? Nov 18, 2014 17:49 |
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Neo Helbeast posted:I can longer see Blip videos at all, does anybody know off hand if my firefox version(29.B(?)) is what's causing it? A quick search didn't come up with anything. http://smartypants.com/blogs/index.php/2014/02/23/blip-tv-worst-video-player-ever/ Blip can't run videos in HTML5 because that doesn't allow their ads. So they force Firefox to play in Flash and that's why it just hangs. The link above helps with some answers, but generally the fault is with Blip.
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# ? Nov 19, 2014 23:57 |
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IGgy IGsen posted:Does someone know what just happened? Firefox randomly uninsatalled some plugins. (Classic Theme Restorer and Tabmix Plus) Thankfully re-installing them restored all my settings so I didn't have to actually do work.
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# ? Nov 20, 2014 05:06 |
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Alereon posted:Do you have Avast! Antivirus? It seems this is a known bug with Avast. Well, that explains where most of my addons went this morning. Thanks!
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# ? Nov 20, 2014 15:28 |
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Loving the new search UI:
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# ? Nov 22, 2014 01:35 |
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jink posted:Loving the new search UI: yeah how do i make this go away
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# ? Nov 22, 2014 05:23 |
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# ? May 16, 2024 17:15 |
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Speaking of customizing Firefox, I'm always curious how people have their browsers set up. I used to read posts on Lifehacker about this kind of stuff like five years ago but I don't think they do that kind of content anymore, do you guys do any particularly novel stuff? Any noteworthy & underappreciated addons?
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# ? Nov 22, 2014 09:12 |