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I've been trying to use more Firefox to stick it to chrome, but is there any way to get it to prioritize URls I've typed in before? Sometimes it seems to subbornly refuse to suggest URLs I've just been to. Let's say I type in "amazon.com", hit enter. Then create a new tab, type "amaz" and it still won't auto-fill it. I think Opera and/or Vivaldi would remember that because it's pretty clearly something I want to go to.
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Is there any way to immediately stop all script execution on a page? Not disable scripts, just halt execution? Without going to the dev tools I mean. That (or hitting Escape) was one of the options I've found but it's not great/doesn't work
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Aug 12, 2022 17:29
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You'd think they would finally do something useful like implement touchscreen gestures that has been an open issue for 5 years instead of constantly loving with the UI (though I haven't noticed any changes recently) https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1443710
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Nov 2, 2022 19:04
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Does Firefox actually resume (as opposed to restart) downloads? It seems that whenever I've had an issue and a download stopped, it would always start from the beginning. Not a problem at home at 100mbs but I'm now traveling and the connection maxes out at like 70KB/s it seems. So I'll probably have to run the download overnight and can't afford to restart it from 0.
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Dec 8, 2022 18:16
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Malloc Voidstar posted:does the server you're downloading from support resuming? I don't actually know for sure, I've been trying to download this tool from DJI for the past two hours, it always fails eventually, and restarts from 0: https://dl.djicdn.com/downloads/dji_assistant/20190327/DJI+Assistant+2+1.2.5.exe
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Dec 8, 2022 22:57
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So recently performance tests of FF vs Chrome made the rounds (probably not for the first time): https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-Chrome-109-Benchmarks At first I was like whatever, it's fast enough, I don't even need to look. But then I thought... if there's a difference in performance, there's also a difference in efficiency and... Holy poo poo, I tested it and Edge on my Celeron laptop is only half as fast as Firefox on a 13900k. Almost 80% more energy than Edge to do the test as well.  E: forgot to update the screenshot with axis labels, it's CPU power over time in seconds That's a pretty extreme test but I also tried just reloading the youtube front page four times and it's about 37% more energy. Doesn't matter on the desktop but I think I'll go try Vivaldi on the battery and performance challenged laptop. That's a bummer. 
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Jan 23, 2023 20:48
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Im_Special posted:Christ, I knew things were bad, but didn't know things were that bad... At least we got the Maze Solver thingy. WattsvilleBlues posted:Is this an insurmountable lead that Chrome has or could Firefox catch up conceivably?
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Jan 24, 2023 21:37
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Samsung's browser has some ad-block options as well if you want to try something on AndroidKlyith posted:So which websites will be faster chrome vs firefox may depend quite a bit on what they're going and the balance of javascript vs normal page layout. Youtube homepage, which is entirely built on javascript? Chrome, definitely. Other websites? I dunno. I just tried going to the nytimes frontpage on both vivaldi and firefox. Load page, then press refresh so both are using cached images, firefox is visibly faster to render the page (and reflow the deleted ad spaces, because I'm using ublock on both).
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Jan 25, 2023 01:07
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Ok, the history panel is driving me nuts. I can set it to group by date or date & site. But the moment I try to search for something, it just dumps an unordered, disorganized list of pages. Like if I know I opened a page about "raccoons" yesterday and try to search for it, I'll see like a hundred results from the last year and no way to narrow it down. Is this just how it works or am I missing something? I don't have it on this pc but Opera/Vivaldi had a much more useful history.
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Mar 30, 2023 21:47
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Nullset posted:You probably want https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/better-history-ng/. It's inspired by Vivaldi, though it's not as polished. I haven't touched Firefox's history since I found it. Thanks, that does look much better. I can't believe I put up with the stock one.
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Apr 2, 2023 15:57
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Wheany posted:I'm getting videos autoplaying in background tabs i have not focused on.
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Jun 13, 2023 10:15
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Wheany posted:I had a problem where youtube and google maps were unusably slow to load, but not in a private window. So it must be some extension. I disabled most of my extensions and sure enough, they started working usably again. Then I started enabling them one by one and the problem never reappeared. I had issues with youtube chugging horribly to the point videos would be sometimes unplayabe. Loading is ok but the framerate could be choppy and it would sometimes stop to "buffer" for like 10-15 seconds. Really bizarre and not the first time it happens, I ended up restarting and it fixed it. But I'd try private window next time to see if it's maybe an extension acting out.
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Aug 2, 2023 11:42
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Youtube still works on my desktop with ublock, but the Samsung browser on my phone with whatever adblock plugin seems to be causing issues sometimes. The player window will stay empty, or it will start playing and freeze at some point. But usually works after reloading the page. I suspect if they succeed with blocking the adblocks, people will start mirroring the more popular content elsewhere 
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Oct 10, 2023 08:37
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slidebite posted:Stupid question, but how is the FF browser for android? Does it allow plug ins like ublock? It has pretty limited extension support (i.e. not everything from desktop, so no sponsor skip for example) but uBlock does/did work. Not noticeably better than Samsung's blocker though so I keep using that on the phone as chromium tends to be more efficient.
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Oct 10, 2023 18:05
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Oooh there we go! Just closing the window for now works though.
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Oct 12, 2023 21:34
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yt now has a timeout before the close option appears on the "adblock isn't allowed" popup: At least I don't think it did this before. This doesn't show up every time though, I did the ublock update dance so let's see if that killes it for a while.
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Oct 16, 2023 19:54
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Ihmemies posted:Chromium based browsers seem to get axed next summer, with forced ads due to removal of manifest v2. Alternatives seem to be: I do have Vivaldi installed but the UI feels laggy somehow despite Chrome supposedly being faster, so I stick to FF even on my N5100 laptop.
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pmchem posted:what's the best firefox (for PC) adblocker to play youtube and crap without ads? The same ones I think, ublock origin and sponsor block
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