LeftistMuslimObama posted:A couple troubleshooting steps (keeping in mind I'm shooting in the dark): Cheers, ill give that a shot when im back from work.
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CyberPingu posted:Sorry if this has been covered before in this thread, I have the same issue after opting into the HTML5 version of YouTube. Not really looked into fixing it, because I don't swap audio outputs that often, but just wanted to mention that it's not just you.
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Jul 9, 2015 21:40
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Does everyone's ff choke on that page, or is it just me: http://www.streetartutopia.com/
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Jul 12, 2015 10:09
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Works fine here.
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Jul 12, 2015 10:28
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Hmkay, maybe it's time to nuke this profile. e: maybe it's ghostery or ublock, because it keeps choking on load (with a new profile). midnightclimax fucked around with this message at 11:12 on Jul 12, 2015 |
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Jul 12, 2015 10:40
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midnightclimax posted:Hmkay, maybe it's time to nuke this profile.
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Jul 12, 2015 13:12
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midnightclimax posted:e: maybe it's ghostery or ublock, because it keeps choking on load (with a new profile).
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Jul 12, 2015 15:40
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Firefox was crashing for me all the time so I decided to renew the profile. But in doing that I lost my media hint extension (to watch US Netflix) Now I see it's not free anymore and I can't get the old version installed back on firefox? Any good alternative? Or is there a way I can install the old version back on it? Hola Unblocker is a no go for me. I used to use it untill I found out that it was a malware inficted POS.
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Jul 12, 2015 16:53
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Sefal posted:Firefox was crashing for me all the time so I decided to renew the profile. But in doing that I lost my media hint extension (to watch US Netflix) Now I see it's not free anymore and I can't get the old version installed back on firefox? Any good alternative? Or is there a way I can install the old version back on it? Hola Unblocker is a no go for me. I used to use it untill I found out that it was a malware inficted POS.
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Jul 12, 2015 17:37
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Alereon posted:You should probably subscribe to a VPN service if you want to do this. Any service offering this for free is doing something nefarious with your data or Internet connection, like Hola. That does sound good. Does anyone know of a good vpn service?
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Jul 12, 2015 18:04
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Do you want a general purpose one or one dedicated to Hulu/Netflix/other American services?
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Jul 12, 2015 18:09
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Sefal posted:Firefox was crashing for me all the time so I decided to renew the profile. But in doing that I lost my media hint extension (to watch US Netflix) Now I see it's not free anymore and I can't get the old version installed back on firefox? Any good alternative? Or is there a way I can install the old version back on it? Hola Unblocker is a no go for me. I used to use it untill I found out that it was a malware inficted POS. If you still have your old profile directory backed up, you can try to find the .xpi file in %appdata%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<profile name>\extensions and install that on your new profile. Not sure if it'll work, but you could give it a shot.
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Jul 12, 2015 18:20
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Geemer posted:If you still have your old profile directory backed up, you can try to find the .xpi file in %appdata%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<profile name>\extensions and install that on your new profile. Thank You! This worked. I went to my Username Folder. Opened previous versions. Had 1 from last week. Copied the media hint xpi file and inserted that into my current profile. And it works. But a vpn for general use might still be a good idea.
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Jul 12, 2015 19:50
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Is there a Thunderbird thread?
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Jul 13, 2015 02:54
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dud root posted:Is there a Thunderbird thread? Traditionally, people have commented here. I'm a volunteer* Thunderbird developer and I can try to answer any questions you have, although I don't know much about the instant messaging stuff. * But so is everyone on Thunderbird these days.
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Jul 13, 2015 03:47
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Oh cool thanks. I was wondering about the method I use to backup my emails- I've been manually copying the entire abc.default profile folder from AppData/Roaming to say dropbox, then back again on a new windows install. The issue is..it just works- without prompting for the passwords. Seems like anyone could just copy that folder onto USB and have login access to my emails?
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Jul 13, 2015 04:43
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dud root posted:Oh cool thanks. I was wondering about the method I use to backup my emails- I've been manually copying the entire abc.default profile folder from AppData/Roaming to say dropbox, then back again on a new windows install. The issue is..it just works- without prompting for the passwords. Seems like anyone could just copy that folder onto USB and have login access to my emails? Yeah, the local copies of all your messages are just stored in a folder* on your computer. However, you can secure that folder using any lower-level method you like: file permissions, partition-level encryption (e.g. TrueCrypt/VeraCrypt), or other similar tools. Really, if someone has access to your computer to copy your Thunderbird profile, you're in pretty deep poo poo, and there's not too much Thunderbird could do to help. That said, you can't get new emails without your password, but the profile also saves your mail password if you request it to. You can tell Thunderbird not to store local copies of your messages if you're really nervous, but that makes it a lot harder to search for old emails, so I don't really recommend it. Go into "Account Settings -> Synchronization and Storage" and turn off "Keep messages for this account on this computer" if you want to disable that. * One file per mail folder for older accounts, and one file per message for newer accounts. Eventually, everything will be migrated to one-file-per-message.
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Jul 13, 2015 05:29
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Grim Up North posted:The current 64 bit Developer Edition goes "Add Dictionaries ..." -> Add a dictionary -> "Enable Spell Check" -> "the "Languages" menu appears" for me. (Menu labels translated to English by me). Here, I have:  If I add a dictionary using that menu option and restart, I still only have Add Dictionaries in the menu and nothing else. I shouldn't have to restart anyway.
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Jul 13, 2015 12:47
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I like to use this old ultraportable Thinkpad from 2005 for browsing sometimes. It's a 1.5 ghz single core system with 1.5 GB of RAM, so it'd be really great if I could force any HTML5 video/audio/animated content to be click-to-play or simply blocked unless I need to use it for a specific page, because to be honest such stuff runs like poo poo on this. What's the current best solution for doing that in Firefox? I mean it was easy when everyone used flash and java for that sort of stuff because you can easily make that blocked completely or click to play, but it seems really hard to do unless I manually add ublock filters constantly.
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Jul 16, 2015 04:46
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Nintendo Kid posted:I like to use this old ultraportable Thinkpad from 2005 for browsing sometimes. It's a 1.5 ghz single core system with 1.5 GB of RAM, so it'd be really great if I could force any HTML5 video/audio/animated content to be click-to-play or simply blocked unless I need to use it for a specific page, because to be honest such stuff runs like poo poo on this. Most HTML5 apps are just accelerated ECMA (JavaScript). So NoScript or something similar. Whitelist is now your only friend.
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Jul 16, 2015 08:14
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Nintendo Kid posted:What's the current best solution for doing that in Firefox? I mean it was easy when everyone used flash and java for that sort of stuff because you can easily make that blocked completely or click to play, but it seems really hard to do unless I manually add ublock filters constantly. Have you tried FlashBlock? My understanding was that it (despite its name) gave you some control over HTML5 video as well.
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Jul 16, 2015 18:26
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FlashBlock doesn't really work anymore. Apparently "Click To Play Per Element" will work, but I haven't been able to make it happen.
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Jul 17, 2015 04:35
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FlashBlock works fine on my browser. And yeah, it can block html5 video too.
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Jul 17, 2015 07:34
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Not having Flash or Java, and meticulously filtering everything with uBlock and uMatrix has sped up the browser notcieably. I once tried an extension which unloads idle tabs, but it didn't work too well. Now I tried UnloadTab again and it seems to work fine. Now even FF's memory usage is under control *happy camper*
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Jul 17, 2015 11:17
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td4guy posted:FlashBlock works fine on my browser. And yeah, it can block html5 video too. Doesn't block anything for me, hasn't done since about Firefox 22.
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Jul 18, 2015 00:07
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Ihmemies posted:Not having Flash or Java, and meticulously filtering everything with uBlock and uMatrix has sped up the browser notcieably. I once tried an extension which unloads idle tabs, but it didn't work too well. Now I tried UnloadTab again and it seems to work fine. Now even FF's memory usage is under control *happy camper* Many thanks for mentioning uMatrix! I liked HTTP Switchboard on Chrome and didn't realize there was a version available for Firefox.
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Jul 19, 2015 18:30
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Ihmemies posted:I once tried an extension which unloads idle tabs, but it didn't work too well. Now I tried UnloadTab again and it seems to work fine. Now even FF's memory usage is under control *happy camper* Wow. If i didn't stumble on your post i think i would have never seen that. I'm the kind of guy who has multiple tabs open at all time. I think at one time on my laptop when i had to restart it to install updates. It asked me if i wanted to close 232 tabs (that was when i was in college. now i hover around 40 tabs). I'm going to love that extension Thank You!
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Jul 21, 2015 10:42
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I don't know where to ask this, but hopefully this is an okay place to do so. I'm not particularly computer-literate, but now that Firefox is trying to block Flash by default and I kept seeing people calling for the end of Flash, I thought I should just uninstall it altogether. But there really are a lot of things that are inaccessible to me without Flash. Is there an alternative to it, or do I just have to re-install it and hope the vulnerabilities don't cause me any problems? Sorry for the likely stupidity of this line of questioning, but like I said, I'm not super knowledgeable about computers and whatnot. I know y'all are talking a bit about the Flash situation but I'm not sure I can glean what I'm after from what's already been said.
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Jul 23, 2015 02:25
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That's not a dumb question at all, a lot of stuff has Flash alternatives (like HTML5) but when it comes down to it there are definitely some things that you strictly need Flash for, in the future hopefully Shumway (a Mozilla project that aims to supplant Flash as an swf renderer) will make this problem moot but for now your options are use Flash and take a risk (which you can mitigate by only allowing Flash on trusted sites) or don't and lose access to some of the web.
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Jul 23, 2015 02:38
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Read posted:That's not a dumb question at all, a lot of stuff has Flash alternatives (like HTML5) but when it comes down to it there are definitely some things that you strictly need Flash for, in the future hopefully Shumway (a Mozilla project that aims to supplant Flash as an swf renderer) will make this problem moot but for now your options are use Flash and take a risk (which you can mitigate by only allowing Flash on trusted sites) or don't and lose access to some of the web. Thanks. I guess I will have to consider going back to Flash for now.
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Jul 23, 2015 03:39
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The blocking was only temporary - of you install the current version it'll work fine.
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Jul 23, 2015 07:33
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Any reason why uBlock is keeping YouTube (HTML5) from autoplaying the next video in a playlist when fullscreen? Any way that I can turn that off? So far, I manage just by disabling uBlock, reloading, and then re-enabling; which autoplays and blocks future ads.
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Jul 23, 2015 08:18
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On a topic adjacent to uBlock, people who use uMatrix instead of NoScript can you tell me why specifically you prefer uMatrix? I'm considering switching but I don't really understand why exactly I should other than people saying so.
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Jul 23, 2015 08:40
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dissss posted:The blocking was only temporary - of you install the current version it'll work fine. Can an update be forced, or do you have to either download the installer or wait for the update?
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Jul 23, 2015 12:12
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(Double post due to phone posting.) Read posted:On a topic adjacent to uBlock, people who use uMatrix instead of NoScript can you tell me why specifically you prefer uMatrix? I'm considering switching but I don't really understand why exactly I should other than people saying so. I like that it has white lists you can subscribe to so lots of websites work pretty well off the bat without having to futz around figuring out which scripts are needed to actually display the content.
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Jul 23, 2015 12:14
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I have to say, I find its interface pretty confusing for manually setting a site's permissions. I'll have to play with the whitelists some more.
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Jul 23, 2015 15:46
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hooah posted:Can an update be forced, or do you have to either download the installer or wait for the update? Pretty sure the standard way to update it (on Windows, at least) is to download the new installer exe from Adobe.
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Jul 23, 2015 17:41
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hooah posted:Can an update be forced, or do you have to either download the installer or wait for the update?
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Jul 23, 2015 18:20
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Read posted:On a topic adjacent to uBlock, people who use uMatrix instead of NoScript can you tell me why specifically you prefer uMatrix? I'm considering switching but I don't really understand why exactly I should other than people saying so. It's a lot more granular in its control template (which you may or may not prefer) and its permissions are temporary by default. The documentation for HTTP Switchboard (the predecessor to uMatrix) will give you a good sense of the configuration options, and includes a comparison to Noscript (and options for using it in the same way as Noscript operates). Beyond that, it'll be easiest for you to just install it and try it out for a while.
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Disgustipated posted:PatchMyPC is pretty great. I have it scheduled to do it every week, and you can manually run it yourself whenever you want. Does a whole lot more than just update flash too. I'd been using FileHippo's App Updater, but this is much better. Thanks.
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