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nielsm: Jun 1, 2009

Stare-Out posted:

Latest update did something weird where fullscreening Youtube makes the screen go gray for a good second. Anyone else getting this or did an extension break?

That might be an extension you're running. When I fullscreen a YouTube video right now I get a short fade to black and fade back in, which I don't think has happened before.

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# ? May 29, 2024 06:58

Stare-Out: Mar 11, 2010

nielsm posted:

That might be an extension you're running. When I fullscreen a YouTube video right now I get a short fade to black and fade back in, which I don't think has happened before.

I think that's been default behavior for a while because I remember having to tweak about :config to get rid of it along with the "X is now fullscreen" thing with every new install for a few years now. But yeah I figured it would be an extension, I'll look into it.

E: You can get rid of the fade in/out with these

full-screen-api.transition-duration.enter = "0 0"

full-screen-api.transition-duration.leave = "0 0"

# ? Oct 25, 2023 16:54

Nettle Soup: Jan 30, 2010; Oh, and Jones was there too.

Thanks, that's much better!

# ? Oct 25, 2023 17:26

doctorfrog: Mar 14, 2007; Great.

Is there a way to keep all videos, like every single one, no matter what, from automatically playing in Firefox?

e: I should be clear, I have "Block Audio and Video" set as the default, which mostly doesn't appear to do anything.

doctorfrog fucked around with this message at 21:16 on Oct 25, 2023

# ? Oct 25, 2023 21:04

Szmitten: Apr 26, 2008

doctorfrog posted:

Is there a way to keep all videos, like every single one, no matter what, from automatically playing in Firefox?

e: I should be clear, I have "Block Audio and Video" set as the default, which mostly doesn't appear to do anything.

I was confused what you meant but I think it's because that's semi-default behaviour for opening in new tabs.

# ? Oct 26, 2023 14:07

Digital Jedi: May 28, 2007; Fallen Rib

I get a weird overlay issue when I right click on certain menus, fields etc.
It overlays on top of the site's menu that pops up

# ? Oct 26, 2023 15:35

101: Oct 15, 2012; Vault Dweller

doctorfrog posted:

Is there a way to keep all videos, like every single one, no matter what, from automatically playing in Firefox?

e: I should be clear, I have "Block Audio and Video" set as the default, which mostly doesn't appear to do anything.

Are you on macOS?

# ? Oct 26, 2023 15:50

Klyith: Aug 3, 2007; GBS Pledge Week

Digital Jedi posted:

I get a weird overlay issue when I right click on certain menus, fields etc.
It overlays on top of the site's menu that pops up

Do you have an extension to always show the context menu?

# ? Oct 26, 2023 16:12

Digital Jedi: May 28, 2007; Fallen Rib

Klyith posted:

Do you have an extension to always show the context menu?

I originally figured I did but nope. After some more googling, I had
dom.event.contextmenu.enabled set to false. Guess that allowed it to open anytime

# ? Oct 26, 2023 17:16

BlankSystemDaemon: Mar 13, 2009

Digital Jedi posted:

I originally figured I did but nope. After some more googling, I had
dom.event.contextmenu.enabled set to false. Guess that allowed it to open anytime

Shift-click does the same as setting dom.event.contextmenu.enable, in case you want the feature sometimes.

# ? Oct 26, 2023 19:47

Echophonic: Sep 16, 2005; ha;lp; Gun Saliva

Ok, dumb question that boils down to "get some discipline, you dingus."

Is there an add-on that will start a timer once I hit a URL and chime at me after a bit? I keep getting sucked into rabbit-holes of shortform junk on Youtube and Facebook and a little chirp every so often when I am would probably help.

# ? Oct 26, 2023 22:31

Klyith: Aug 3, 2007; GBS Pledge Week

Echophonic posted:

Ok, dumb question that boils down to "get some discipline, you dingus."

Is there an add-on that will start a timer once I hit a URL and chime at me after a bit? I keep getting sucked into rabbit-holes of shortform junk on Youtube and Facebook and a little chirp every so often when I am would probably help.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/leechblock-ng/ is a "every configuration option possible" type add-on, so will need a bit of setup, but it can do timers.

And IMO needing these types of timers aren't about a lack of discipline when the problem is about losing track of time. The self-discipline is listening to your reminders and doing the thing you know you need to do.

My personal experience is that I can get into major night-owl problems because evening is when I'm on, my concentration is a loving laser late at night. Lock-out stuff didn't work at all for me, because it always interrupted something and I needed 10 more minutes. Text-to-speech reminders of the time and that it is too drat late work pretty great, because I could build in a natural taper-off.

# ? Oct 27, 2023 02:28

gourdcaptain: Nov 16, 2012

doctorfrog posted:

Is there a way to keep all videos, like every single one, no matter what, from automatically playing in Firefox?

e: I should be clear, I have "Block Audio and Video" set as the default, which mostly doesn't appear to do anything.

Go into about :config and set media.autoplay.blocking_policy to 2. This does wonders in my experience, albeit Mozilla notes it may break some sites.

# ? Oct 27, 2023 03:52

Eeyo: Aug 29, 2004

With private browsing, is there a way to get the tabs and cookies behavior to be more like Safari? I prefer Safari's version where there is nothing shared between tabs/windows.

I know there's no option in the settings (I think?) but maybe an extension that will do something like that?

# ? Oct 27, 2023 15:56

actionjackson: Jan 12, 2003

weird question maybe, but is there anyway to make it so that when I open firefox, it doesn't open maximized? it is a bit annoying if I use my computer at night and then my screen if flooded with a white background

# ? Oct 27, 2023 16:00

doctorfrog: Mar 14, 2007; Great.

gourdcaptain posted:

Go into about :config and set media.autoplay.blocking_policy to 2. This does wonders in my experience, albeit Mozilla notes it may break some sites.

I'll try it, thanks. (I assume this is a real option and not instructing me to write "11" on my amp with a sharpie and to turn the volume knob really hard.)

edit: ok I see it here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Media/block-autoplay

# ? Oct 27, 2023 19:00

god please help me: Jul 9, 2018; I LOVE GIVING MY TAX MONEY AND MY PERSONAL INCOME TO UKRAINE, SLAVA

Bah, I got hit with the youtube stick and finally can not load anything on youtube. It's just completely gone now.

Edit: the video loaded after 2 minutes?

Only registered members can see post attachments!

god please help me fucked around with this message at 23:44 on Oct 27, 2023

# ? Oct 27, 2023 23:40

Szmitten: Apr 26, 2008

Yeah this seems to be a universal Youtube issue and unrelated to adblocking specifically. Opening a video in a new tab causes it to fail, opening in a private window works, clicking through from the main page also works. Speculation there's a fuckup in some change, some cookie clearing (Youubte and Google) might work but that's inconvenient. Also the page will load eventually.

# ? Oct 28, 2023 00:54

Sindai: Jan 24, 2007; i want to achieve immortality through not dying

Clearing my youtube and google data (not just cookies) worked for me. The giveaway was that if I simply signed out of my account the problem went away.

# ? Oct 28, 2023 11:44

Atopian: Sep 23, 2014; I need a security perimeter with Venetian blinds.

My stern resolution to never have a youtube account looking better every day.

Add that to a bunch of blocker addons and it must at least be tricky for youtube to figure out who I am each time.

# ? Oct 28, 2023 11:48

Computer viking: May 30, 2011; Now with less breakage.

Atopian posted:

My stern resolution to never have a youtube account looking better every day.

Add that to a bunch of blocker addons and it must at least be tricky for youtube to figure out who I am each time.

Oh that's a commitment to a part - I sporadically look at youtube in a private tab, and boy howdy is that a cesspit compared to what it recommends to me.

# ? Oct 28, 2023 11:49

Atopian: Sep 23, 2014; I need a security perimeter with Venetian blinds.

Yeah, I get a lot of Nazi and Nazi accessory recommendations.
It's sort of helpful in a way. Whenever I wonder "why is society like this?", I can visit the page that YouTube gives to people it doesn't know anything about and be reminded.

# ? Oct 28, 2023 12:04

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

actionjackson posted:

weird question maybe, but is there anyway to make it so that when I open firefox, it doesn't open maximized? it is a bit annoying if I use my computer at night and then my screen if flooded with a white background

You can set Firefox to open with a dark about :blank and make new tabs black before they load up so you don't get brief flashes of blinding white every time you click a link.

It's in about :config, but because I'm an idiot I can't find what I changed right now to make it work :sigh:

e: I think it was browser.display.background_color and browser.display.background_color.dark

Megillah Gorilla fucked around with this message at 14:33 on Oct 28, 2023

# ? Oct 28, 2023 14:31

actionjackson: Jan 12, 2003

thanks! i did the first and made it a perfectly medium gray (#808080)

actionjackson fucked around with this message at 00:45 on Oct 30, 2023

# ? Oct 30, 2023 00:43

NVB: Jan 23, 2010; Grimey Drawer

god please help me posted:

Bah, I got hit with the youtube stick and finally can not load anything on youtube. It's just completely gone now.

Edit: the video loaded after 2 minutes?

Just copy the video URL and open a Private Window and video will play. it will still load the page and works fine. You can then just click back to the normal window after watching if you have to make important post in "Comments" or do the whole Like & Subscribe & hit the Notification Bell cr*p every YT channel spouts multiple times throughout video's.

If your using uBlock Origin you can click the icon and open the settings and hold Shift & click Purge Cache then press Shift and click Update now on the Filter List Page.

Sorry Friend/s if i'm coming of like a complete and utter ^Jerk worked from 1pm and got home & 7am and the Junkies across the road decided to have a fight club meeting in the middle of the street so was woken up by 2 methed to the gills Wannabe Gangsta's screaming at each other while there Ice-Bunny covered junkie girlfriends were screeching like wild animals.

Just Exhausted and very Tired due to only getting 2hours sleep and the Caffeine isn't kicking in yet.

# ? Nov 1, 2023 23:52

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

actionjackson posted:

thanks! i did the first and made it a perfectly medium gray (#808080)

Glad it worked.

The fact you can be in dark mode on your OS and dark mode in Firefox and still have blinding white flashes before the page loads is just terrible a design oversight.

# ? Nov 2, 2023 14:19

slidebite: Nov 6, 2005; Good egg

NVB posted:

Just copy the video URL and open a Private Window and video will play. it will still load the page and works fine. You can then just click back to the normal window after watching if you have to make important post in "Comments" or do the whole Like & Subscribe & hit the Notification Bell cr*p every YT channel spouts multiple times throughout video's.

If your using uBlock Origin you can click the icon and open the settings and hold Shift & click Purge Cache then press Shift and click Update now on the Filter List Page.

I never thought of copy/pasting into a private window. It's so obvious, but I am oblivious lol

What does the shift-click update now do versus just doing it without a shift?

# ? Nov 2, 2023 14:53

BlankSystemDaemon: Mar 13, 2009

slidebite posted:

I never thought of copy/pasting into a private window. It's so obvious, but I am oblivious lol

What does the shift-click update now do versus just doing it without a shift?

Covered earlier in the thread when I asked about it, and I later found out exactly how it works: it invalidates the in-memory cache of the list that Firefox might have.

Obviously it does nothing if you, like me, have disabled Firefox's memory caching and instead use file caching because your filesystem has a much better caching implementation.

# ? Nov 2, 2023 15:24

doctorfrog: Mar 14, 2007; Great.

e: my issue was with Windows, not blameless ol' Firefox.

doctorfrog fucked around with this message at 22:52 on Nov 5, 2023

# ? Nov 5, 2023 22:37

Klyith: Aug 3, 2007; GBS Pledge Week

doctorfrog posted:

e: my issue was with Windows, not blameless ol' Firefox.

Having seen the thing you edited out, check your event log for ShellExperienceHost or some other appx crap that's not working.

And if so, get ready for a fun time, and my sympathies. My recommendation would be to go straight to using a win10 installer usb stick to do an in-place upgrade, which is both good at fixing whatever problem makes appx go to poo poo with less disruption to your stuff than a Reset PC w/ Keep Files.

# ? Nov 5, 2023 23:45

NVB: Jan 23, 2010; Grimey Drawer

slidebite posted:

I never thought of copy/pasting into a private window. It's so obvious, but I am oblivious lol

What does the shift-click update now do versus just doing it without a shift?

It's all good friend. We all learn something new everyday

Hope either solution helps you.

Sidenote you can still grab the video and have it play in VLC & You don't get forced-fed onto your Device the super awesome totally not spyware tracking cookies - spamware - advertisement's forced onto you.

# ? Nov 7, 2023 11:14

doctorfrog: Mar 14, 2007; Great.

Klyith posted:

Having seen the thing you edited out, check your event log for ShellExperienceHost or some other appx crap that's not working.

And if so, get ready for a fun time, and my sympathies. My recommendation would be to go straight to using a win10 installer usb stick to do an in-place upgrade, which is both good at fixing whatever problem makes appx go to poo poo with less disruption to your stuff than a Reset PC w/ Keep Files.

It was simpler than that, luckily, and almost pure user error. A few days earlier, I had disabled task thumbnails altogether, using Winaero Tweaker. Upon re-enabling it, it reset the number of permitted thumbnails per application to 1. So, any app with more than one window wouldn't show the thumbnails. I just happened to notice it in Firefox. (Why Firefox went ahead and altered its internal option on its own--if it did--is beyond me.)

Almost, but not quite, entirely user error.

Better still, I went back to disabling thumbnails, since I decided I don't really use them anyway. Everyone wins!

# ? Nov 11, 2023 02:54

runaway dog: Dec 11, 2005; I rarely go into the field, motherfucker.

so I'm not really sure where to post this, but for some reason all my google logins keep getting logged out whenever I close the browser, my 3 gmail accounts and youtube specifically, I've tried deleting cookies, turning off all of my add-ons, restarting, reinstalling firefox, even tried edge same deal, the option for deleting cookies on browser close is not checked, managed to get my gmails all stayed logged in like once, then I logged into youtube and they all got booted again and now I'm back to square one, kinda losing my mind here, phone seems unaffected but I'm too scared to log out any of my accounts there.

# ? Nov 14, 2023 23:39

karoshi: Nov 4, 2008; "Can somebody mspaint eyes on the steaming packages? TIA" yeah well fuck you too buddy, this is the best you're gonna get. Is this even "work-safe"? Let's find out!

code:

js:(function () { 
tis = document.getElementsByClassName('timg_container');
console.log(tis.length);
for (let t of tis) {
   let j = jQuery(t);
   j.toggleClass("expanded");
   j.toggleClass("constrained");  
 } })();

Are you a lazy slob? Is clicking your mouse too much effort :effort:

? Add the code as a bookmark and it will toggle all timg'es in the page for you. Nice if you're catching up with the comics thread or other image heavy thread.

You must replace the initial "js" with "javascript", cloudflare blocked my post to protect y'all from my 31337 hax0r1ng.

# ? Nov 15, 2023 05:08

Knormal: Nov 11, 2001

runaway dog posted:

so I'm not really sure where to post this, but for some reason all my google logins keep getting logged out whenever I close the browser, my 3 gmail accounts and youtube specifically, I've tried deleting cookies, turning off all of my add-ons, restarting, reinstalling firefox, even tried edge same deal, the option for deleting cookies on browser close is not checked, managed to get my gmails all stayed logged in like once, then I logged into youtube and they all got booted again and now I'm back to square one, kinda losing my mind here, phone seems unaffected but I'm too scared to log out any of my accounts there.

If it's happening in Edge too and only to Google-associated logins sounds like it's not a Firefox thing but something with your Google account that your PC isn't staying trusted. Do you have Google set to 2FA?

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/54490?hl=en

# ? Nov 16, 2023 03:52

runaway dog: Dec 11, 2005; I rarely go into the field, motherfucker.

Knormal posted:

If it's happening in Edge too and only to Google-associated logins sounds like it's not a Firefox thing but something with your Google account that your PC isn't staying trusted. Do you have Google set to 2FA?

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/54490?hl=en

Actually logging directly into the google account page and booting a bunch of old logins, changing the pw, and resetting 2fa, seems to have fixed it? If so I'm grateful.

# ? Nov 16, 2023 04:35

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

Looks like youtube is trying out new bullshit, this time directly targeting Firefox users. Adding a 5 second delay before every video.

All this is from reddit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/17ywbjj/whenever_i_open_a_youtube_video_in_a_new_tab_its/
https://www.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/comments/17zl69x/youtube_has_started_to_artificially_slow_down/

quote:

To clarify it more, it's simply this code in their polymer script link:

setTimeout(function() {
c();
a.resolve(1)
}, 5E3);

which doesn't do anything except making you wait 5s (5E3 = 5000ms = 5s). You can search for it easily in

https://www.youtube.com/s/desktop/96766c85/jsbin/desktop_polymer_enable_wil_icons.vflset/desktop_polymer_enable_wil_icons.js

Which you can apparently get around by spoofing Chrome.

https://i.imgur.com/tANfKQ3.mp4

Obligatory caveat - I am not a code guy, so I don't know if their explanation is bullshit or legit. But I have been seeing exactly this effect for the last day or so.

I just assumed it was my lovely Australian internet connection.

# ? Nov 20, 2023 14:41

Jack Trades: Nov 30, 2010

Wow that's a pathetic level of pettiness.

# ? Nov 20, 2023 14:56

Geemer: Nov 4, 2010

They've been caught doing that poo poo before, multiple times.

# ? Nov 20, 2023 15:15

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# ? May 29, 2024 06:58

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

drat, I shouldn't be surprised this isn't the first time.

It just seems to unbelievably blatant, putting it right in a publicly viewable script like that, though.

# ? Nov 20, 2023 15:21

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