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trilljester posted:Anyone experiencing weirdness with YouTube? I've got a video playing in a tab and if I click on another tab and then go back to the YouTube tab, it pauses and reloads the video. Granted, I don't lose my position in the video but it's annoying. I'm on FF 67.0.4. I've been experiencing this for a while as well. Maybe it's some bandwidth/power saving feature where only the audio is streamed if it's not the current tab, so when you refocus it has to load up the video?
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Jul 8, 2019 22:42
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I get that video reload thing only when the tab has been inactive for a long time. But I've only got 67.0.4 just now, it didn't happen on a deliberate try but I'll see if it happens later. I too lost my local settings, but it wasn't that big of a deal. Perhaps my fiddlings in about:config have been reset too, hard to tell haha. Worth re-checking your privacy settings, there's various software where these tend to get mysteriously re-enabled whenever there's a big update. And maybe it's just placebo or something else, but it feels like the pages are rendering prettier somehow. Sharper, more contrast.
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Jul 9, 2019 10:31
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I'm having a weird issue with Firefox. It will just randomly freeze for a few moments, sometimes freezing my entire PC. I've uninstalled\reinstalled, reset the profile, removed all addons, disabled hardware acceleration. Win10 1803 if it helps. I'm just kind of at a loss. It happens on multiple PCs for me so I imagine it's a default setting?
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Jul 9, 2019 16:49
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Firefox no longer loads userChrome.css or userContent.css by default. Users who wish to customize Firefox by using these files can set the toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets preference to true to restore this ability. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/69.0beta/releasenotes/ Starting with Firefox 69, currently in beta.
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Jul 9, 2019 23:43
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Ola posted:I get that video reload thing only when the tab has been inactive for a long time. But I've only got 67.0.4 just now, it didn't happen on a deliberate try but I'll see if it happens later. When the issue is present, it usually doesn't take more than 30s unfocused for the video to reload on refocus. What's strange is that I've only experienced it on my laptop and never my desktop, which is why I thought it might be some resource usage reduction.
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Jul 10, 2019 00:58
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Speaking of Youtube, is it Youtube itself or something with the browser that causes the video to suddenly go to the lowest quality setting when you skip through it? I don't know if it's a Firefox issue but it's the only browser I'm getting it on. It seems to happen mostly on long videos (2 hours+)
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Jul 10, 2019 01:17
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Don't most video players have their default quality set as "auto", so when you are skipping through, you're resetting that buffer it had and so youtube lowers the quality to prevent the video from stopping.
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Jul 10, 2019 01:26
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They do yeah, but it happens even when I manually set the quality, which I have to do anyway every time the video gets set to the lowest quality setting.
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Jul 10, 2019 02:01
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WattsvilleBlues posted:Firefox no longer loads userChrome.css or userContent.css by default. Users who wish to customize Firefox by using these files can set the toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets preference to true to restore this ability. Thanks for the heads-up on that, I just added that to my config in advance. Looking at the history of this change, it's actually a good and reasonable result. Tl;dr they started with just removing userContent and leaving userChrome alone for the UI customization, but then thunderbird and other users made the case that they needed it. So it's now a pref for both chrome and content, and this isn't a prelude to axing it entirely. Stare-Out posted:They do yeah, but it happens even when I manually set the quality, which I have to do anyway every time the video gets set to the lowest quality setting. I think they do it for bandwidth conservation. Every time you skip it has to re-buffer and on long HD videos that adds up.
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Jul 10, 2019 02:31
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Klyith posted:Thanks for the heads-up on that, I just added that to my config in advance. As long as you install 68 before 69, the pref will automatically get set if you have either file in your profile folder: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1550157
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Jul 10, 2019 02:37
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Klyith posted:I think they do it for bandwidth conservation. Every time you skip it has to re-buffer and on long HD videos that adds up. I guess that's true. I was hoping it was some obscure bandwidth-related Firefox setting but it's no surprise it's on Youtube's side. Still, it's a pain to have to re-set the quality every time I seek through the video.
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Jul 10, 2019 02:42
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I think a lot of streaming providers have optimizations which can have that kind of effect. Some video players hate when I skip around, they'll just sit and spin forever and never start streaming again. Spotify hates when I skip through a song to quickly check it out, two or three skips and it stops buffering. It breaks something along the way, hard to say what, as the chain of API steps is probably very long and complicated. Delivering lowest quality first when there's been some upset probably saves them tons of bandwidth/connection count on decaying connections.
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Jul 10, 2019 12:47
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I use Enhancer for Youtube to force settings like quality and to disable annotations and such. This is partly because I whitelist cookies and YouTube isn’t on the whitelist, and I was tired of setting all that stuff. Works pretty good for that.
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Jul 10, 2019 15:07
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Firefox's new Add-ons Manager sure is looking good nowadays... EDIT: Relevant Im_Special fucked around with this message at 16:40 on Jul 10, 2019 |
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Jul 10, 2019 16:37
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Im_Special posted:Firefox's new Add-ons Manager sure is looking good nowadays... Yeah, it's bad. It took me like 30 seconds to figure out how to disable a single add on the first time. Every change they've made to the add ons page, going back to when the first hid the version number, have been not to my liking.
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Jul 10, 2019 20:40
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xamphear posted:It took me like 30 seconds to figure out how to disable a single add on the first time. That's really not excusable on your end, it's very obvious.
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Jul 10, 2019 21:39
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The Dave posted:That's really not excusable on your end, it's very obvious. Okay, thank you.
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Jul 11, 2019 01:38
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The Dave posted:it's very obvious. No it's loving not, managing add-ons now feels extremely confusing to the point, where you spend a lot of time just pressing random stuff, and hover over everything to see all the tool-tips, just to find where you should go to change one option. Also imagine putting "Options" and "More Options" in the same menu and thinking this is good UI design.
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Jul 11, 2019 06:59
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At least they seem to be aware of the feedback: https://twitter.com/caitmuenster/status/1149086598199312385
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Jul 11, 2019 22:32
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I guess all it takes to get Mozilla to bend is to reach the top of reddit where even the Stockholm Syndrome users can't even pan the fire out. Funny because Moz was locking criticism about this very issue over on their Bugzilla site and labeling it as WontFix.
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Jul 11, 2019 23:43
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xamphear posted:At least they seem to be aware of the feedback: Firefox: representing usability regression since 2004.
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Jul 12, 2019 05:12
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Im_Special posted:Moz was locking criticism about this very issue over on their Bugzilla site and labeling it as WontFix. Aside from the (past) google funded years driving the previously successful trajectory into the ground, I cant even imagine what the gently caress is being discussed in product meetings now.
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Jul 12, 2019 10:45
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What is the flag to launch Firefox in a Private Window now? Within like the past 3-4 version updates "-private-window" doesn't seem to work anymore. I've got Visual Studio configured to debug with FF like so:  And yea it just opens a regular window now
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Jul 12, 2019 13:00
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 Works fine for me when using this setup (Win 10, VS 2017, Firefox 68): Though it looks like your system is older. Maybe it's broken in 32bit builds? Seems kinda strange though.
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Jul 12, 2019 14:02
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Win 7 / VS2013 but like I said it was working up until just very recently. Probably like FF v66 or v67?  I only started posting in this thread a month ago yesterday and it was definitely working at least then 
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Jul 12, 2019 14:21
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Is there a reasonable explanation for why Firefox on Windows keeps erasing all of my preferences and extension settings? It seems like every few weeks all of my browser settings go back to their defaults, my uMatrix rules are erased, and all of my Tampermonkey scripts get deleted. This doesn't happen on my MacBook, and both computers are signed in to my Firefox Sync account.
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Jul 14, 2019 20:24
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Sab669 posted:Win 7 / VS2013 but like I said it was working up until just very recently. Probably like FF v66 or v67? Same answer you’ll get from anyone sane, but why don’t you upgrade to VS2019 & Windows 10? They’re 1000x better.
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Jul 14, 2019 21:36
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wooger posted:Same answer you’ll get from anyone sane, but why don’t you upgrade to VS2019 & Windows 10? They’re 1000x better. Because work computer / not my decision
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Jul 14, 2019 22:10
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i vomit kittens posted:Is there a reasonable explanation for why Firefox on Windows keeps erasing all of my preferences and extension settings? It seems like every few weeks all of my browser settings go back to their defaults, my uMatrix rules are erased, and all of my Tampermonkey scripts get deleted. This doesn't happen on my MacBook, and both computers are signed in to my Firefox Sync account. Try verifying your database integrity? There's a header "Places Database" a ways down in about :support with a button to verify integrity. It should also fix issues it encounters, unless it's hosed too hard. At which point it might just be easier to create a whole new profile. Other than that, I got nothing.
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Jul 14, 2019 22:16
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When is the new logo meant to land for the browser?
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Jul 14, 2019 22:55
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WattsvilleBlues posted:When is the new logo meant to land for the browser? unannounced, so far they've just "revealed the new branding" i vomit kittens posted:Is there a reasonable explanation for why Firefox on Windows keeps erasing all of my preferences and extension settings? It seems like every few weeks all of my browser settings go back to their defaults, my uMatrix rules are erased, and all of my Tampermonkey scripts get deleted. This doesn't happen on my MacBook, and both computers are signed in to my Firefox Sync account. Someone else was having that just a few pages ago. Copy of your firefox shortcut and add -p to the target line for the profile viewer. It's probably creating multiple profiles and sync is the only reason it's not apparent. I don't know why, but they did something to their profile system so it's got a hair trigger for ignoring an existing profile and just making a new one.
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Jul 15, 2019 03:04
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Cool, the latest version of Firefox broke hitting del to remove urlbar dropdown entries. Now you have to go through the history sidebar. 
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Jul 19, 2019 01:54
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Geemer posted:Cool, the latest version of Firefox broke hitting del to remove urlbar dropdown entries. Now you have to go through the history sidebar. Try shift+delete
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Jul 19, 2019 02:44
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xamphear posted:At least they seem to be aware of the feedback: Wontfix!
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Jul 19, 2019 05:09
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Im_Special posted:Wontfix! More won't fix. EDIT: 
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Jul 19, 2019 05:34
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Im_Special posted:I guess all it takes to get Mozilla to bend is to reach the top of reddit where even the Stockholm Syndrome users can't even pan the fire out. Funny because Moz was locking criticism about this very issue over on their Bugzilla site and labeling it as WontFix. The only way of getting any company to respond to feedback for over a decade has been humiliating them on social media
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Jul 19, 2019 06:21
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Winning!quote:As a dev, I can tell you that the vast majority of managers care nothing about current users and design products 100% for people who do not use the product, believing that this is the only way to grow the userbase. So they look at their competitors and copy their features. It's a terrible mistake that very rarely attracts any new users (who already have a product they like and don't want an imitation), but often very successfully loses existing users to the competition, who no longer like the current product. Real estate is expensive. Better not use too much. https://i.imgur.com/MQVzFRU.png Heres one of their geniuses. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIGuElYZZzQ
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Jul 19, 2019 07:18
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Is there an easy way to use the old version of twitter again?
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Jul 19, 2019 07:27
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Jippa posted:Is there an easy way to use the old version of twitter again? Changing your user agent to an older version of IE is what works apparently, I don't have the new Twit so I haven't tried that myself though
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Jul 19, 2019 10:48
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Applebees posted:Try shift+delete Thank you so much, that was driving me up the walls. I love it when Mozilla decides to suddenly change the way things work without telling me what the new way is! 
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