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Knormal: Nov 11, 2001

hooah posted:

So, uh, Google Maps is now giving me a black map. It'll load fine, then the tab loading indicator spins again and I just see black, except the search box and related bits. I've tried disabling uMatrix, uBlock, HTTPS Everywhere, and Privacy Badger, and still the same problem. Is there a quick way to try a new profile without touching my current one?

Edit: Interestingly, this doesn't happen on my laptop with the same Firefox profile and extensions. The only difference I can figure is the desktop has Windows 10 Pro and the laptop has 10 Home. Both have Firefox 40.

Easiest way is Help > Restart with Add-ons Disabled. It's not a true clean profile, but if it's an add-on issue that might catch it.

The quickest way to do a true new profile is to go to C:\Users\whatever\AppData\Roaming and rename the Mozilla directory to Mozilla.bak or something. The next time you launch Firefox it'll start with a blank profile. When you want to go back just delete the new Mozilla folder it created and rename Mozilla.bak back to Mozilla.

# ¿ Aug 13, 2015 06:26

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# ¿ May 15, 2024 03:16

Knormal: Nov 11, 2001

Newf posted:

Anyone know how to recover cached stylesheets, and whether firefox caches html itself? I just refreshed a webpage whose CSS I had been cribbing, and of course it's down for the count.

You might be able to pull something out of about :cache. The HTML and CSS should both be in your cache directory somewhere, but good luck finding out which of the randomly-generated filenames is the one you're looking for.

# ¿ Aug 21, 2015 03:22

Knormal: Nov 11, 2001

I find it incredibly annoying to run anything not maximized. I wonder how much of that breakdown is still grew up on Mac vs. grew up on Windows?

A Yolo Wizard posted:

Firefox is now putting "suggested pages" into that page that appears when you open a new tab and all your frequent links are shown. How do i turn that off?

In about : config it's either browser.newtabpage.enabled or browser.newtabpage.enhanced to false, I have both set to false and get a blank page.

Edit: Oh hey they finally put an actual option for it back in.

# ¿ Aug 25, 2015 06:07

Knormal: Nov 11, 2001

Microsoft declared Silverlight dead in the water years ago, I really don't get why so many big companies still use it for streaming video. I hate Flash as much as anyone, but at least it's still actively maintained.

# ¿ Aug 29, 2015 08:11

Knormal: Nov 11, 2001

hooah posted:

I recently refreshed my laptop, and now I can't find the Multi Links extension I have on my desktop. All I used it for was to right-click + drag to open multiple links from a page (e.g. from SA's bookmarks page). Does anyone know of something that would replace this, or a way to transfer it from my desktop to my laptop?

You can also just straight-up copy the profile from your desktop to your laptop, that keeps all your settings, add-ons, etc.

# ¿ Sep 26, 2015 02:43

Knormal: Nov 11, 2001

Alereon posted:

You can keep a separate install of a Firefox 32-bit ESR release around for your Java websites, if run with the --no-remote flag it won't interfere with the running Firefox instance as I recall.

But unless the 64 Win version uses a different path for the profile I'd also recommend making a copy of your profile and pointing the ESR version to with the -profile option, otherwise every time you switch between them Firefox will check your profile for version compatibility and might do some weird stuff. We use the ESR at my work and I've never had an issue with it moving a profile from a newer to older version, but I wouldn't trust it to do it constantly with my main profile.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Command_Line_Options

# ¿ Nov 4, 2015 19:42

Knormal: Nov 11, 2001

Lum posted:

Of the top of my head, its mostly old content that is still around. Newgrounds, Homestar Runner, AlbinoBlackSheep. Probs also Homestuck too.

Don't forget streaming porn!

# ¿ Dec 19, 2015 06:03

Knormal: Nov 11, 2001

Speaking of about :config fuckery, just in case anyone else has this problem, I had to set media.fragmented-mp4.enabled and media.fragmented-mp4.ffmpeg.enabled back to true to prevent FF 43 on Linux from crashing every time it tried to play an MP4. I'd toggled them to false manually a while back to get HTML5 on Youtube working before it was officially supported, so no one to blame but myself on this one, but I learned that trick from this thread months ago so maybe I can save someone else some troubleshooting.

Marinmo posted:

So in sum, where the few differences between browsers will lay in the future is basically speed and features/ease of use and perhaps partially extensions (at least until Firefox caught up with WebExt), and I honestly don't see Firefox winning any of them convincingly now or in the future. Speed perhaps, but I'm not so sure it translates into a real world gain as much as say having a big extension library enhances the user experience. Previous experience tells me Mozilla will probably find a way to squander whatever advantages they might have too, but I'm hopeful they've learnt something from losing roughly half of their market share over the last few years and turn the ship around. I'll believe it when I see it though.

When they switch to WebExt I really see a lot of the hardcore users moving over to whatever fork will inevitably appear to keep old extensions working, and if enough people do that then I don't see the extension writers redoing everything from scratch for the new API, which will lead more people to switch to the fork, and so on. I really think this could be the cause of another Firefox rising from Netscape's ashes situation.

# ¿ Dec 20, 2015 08:57

Knormal: Nov 11, 2001

We use ESR at work. Each ESR version is supported for security patches and maybe severe bugs for a full year after release, but then there's a new ESR version released every nine months, so there's a three-month overlap to give everyone time to upgrade.

# ¿ Jan 26, 2016 03:53

Knormal: Nov 11, 2001

astral posted:

Great! Since you aren't sure about why that happened, it might also be worth a moment to check https://www.howsmyssl.com/ (which I just learned about, else I'd have suggested it sooner) and see if it has any complaints.

That's cool, thanks. But it seems kind of weird "Probably okay" is the best result. That seems kind of... unsatisfying.

# ¿ Apr 21, 2016 07:31

Knormal: Nov 11, 2001

Lum posted:

Is NPAPI actually now deprecated on Linux then?

I installed Fresh Player which is an NPAPI->PPAPI wrapper that lets me use Chrome's pepper flash, then I tried to install pipelight so that I could use Silverlight. The former is showing up but not the latter.

I don't think so, at least not on the release channel. I've still got vanilla Flash installed which I'm pretty sure is NPAPI and it's still working.

# ¿ Jun 6, 2016 03:52

Knormal: Nov 11, 2001

Sir Unimaginative posted:

Flash is literally the only outside NPAPI plugin allowed in Win64 Firefox because we are all dead and this is Hell.

EDIT: OpenH264 and Adobe EME might be NPAPI plugins too but either way they're delivered by Mozilla itself.

Oh yeah, forgot about that. Welp.

# ¿ Jun 6, 2016 06:48

Knormal: Nov 11, 2001

UntunedGuitar47 posted:

Welp, i can't watch YouTube videos in HD anymore in Firefox. It just plays a couple of seconds, buffers for some seconds, plays a couple of seconds, buffers, yadda yadda and defaults back to 480p or worse, which works perfectly fine apart from looking like poo poo. The "Stats for Nerds" show, that the connection speed is allright, but the buffer health is loving poo poo.

I have reset Firefox and all that jazz, but the problem persists. Watching the same videos in Chrome is no problem at all and my Google-Fu fails me to find anything regarding this problem. Anyone got a pro-tip?

Try doing a completely new profile rather than just the reset option, the reset isn't 100% clean. Is YouTube using Flash or HTML5 video?

Lum posted:

Is it just me or so so many sites just not render right in Firefox any more? Do people only give a poo poo about the khtml/webkit based browsers now or something?

It's really starting to get unusable and gonna be forced to switch to loving Chrome at this rate, unless someone's made a webkit tab extension for FF.

Yeah, I haven't seen this at all either. Any other example sites that don't require me ordering a pizza from across the Atlantic? I don't want to have to tip that much.

# ¿ Jun 21, 2016 03:15

Knormal: Nov 11, 2001

mike12345 posted:

48 seems snappier. But that new drop-down location bar history thing - ugh, not so good.

Agreed, is there a way to get it to show the actual URL again, rather than just the page title and domain? I thought they said they were going to ease up on dumbing things down.

Edit: Ah, Classic Theme Restorer, Location Bar (3), "Alternative Appearance". Once again an add-on is needed to restore a feature.

Knormal fucked around with this message at 06:21 on Aug 6, 2016

# ¿ Aug 6, 2016 06:12

Knormal: Nov 11, 2001

isndl posted:

Does CTR have a setting somewhere to push the page status/URL target pop-up in the bottom left onto the status bar, or am I going to need another add-on for that? I'm not seeing an option for it in the CTR settings but it's pretty easy to miss things given how many options there are.

Install Status-4-Evar alongside Classic Theme Restorer, and ignore its horrible stupid name.

# ¿ Sep 4, 2016 06:13

Knormal: Nov 11, 2001

ThermoPhysical posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGsDWRxfjTk&t=3396s

Anyone got any info or confirmation on this?

Apparently, both Firefox and Chrome write their respective recovery sessions every 15 seconds. Firefox supposedly does 10GB a day and this will eventually kill an SSD faster than normal unless you tweak the settings.

Crossposting from the SSD and Chrome threads, apparently Firefox and Chrome are the main ones that do this? Chrome supposedly does 1GB per hour.

This came up on the last page:

mike12345 posted:

Interesting tidbit linked from Hacker News

https://www.servethehome.com/firefox-is-eating-your-ssd-here-is-how-to-fix-it/

As someone mentioned, SSDs should be able to cope with it, but what do I know.

I set my session store info to 30 minutes(1800000 ms) like the article suggested and haven't seen any negative issues. Even if the article's blowing the issue out of proportion I figure it can't hurt. I suspect it won't correctly restore my session if Firefox crashes now, but I'm not one of those people who constantly leave hundreds of tabs open so whatever. I haven't noticed any different behavior from exiting cleanly.

# ¿ Oct 11, 2016 03:58

Knormal: Nov 11, 2001

Kheldarn posted:

When I open a new tab, I don't need to have the focus on the address bar, because there's already something in it. Firefox puts the focus there, and makes it empty. If I hit Escape, or click on a non-link on the webpage, then it puts the URL back. This even happens if I go to Bookmarks, and chose to open something in a new tab.

Are you talking about opening a new tab, or opening a link in a new tab? If you're just opening a new tab, what do you expect to already be in the address bar?

# ¿ Dec 17, 2016 08:22

Knormal: Nov 11, 2001

Truga posted:

I installed fedora several months ago on my laptop, it fedora doesn't even have flash in repos I think, took me over a month to even notice it's not installed.

No Linux repo will (legally) have Flash, because of Adobe's licensing. There is a Adobe-maintained Flash repo available for Fedora if you Google it, but yeah you're not missing much. I still have it installed for the handful of sites that still use it for video, and because I don't really see any reason to not have it installed now that it's click-to-activate. Because of that I don't think it's the huge security risk it used to be.

# ¿ Jan 3, 2017 06:49

Knormal: Nov 11, 2001

I'd do a chkdsk /r too, that sounds like you've got wonky system-level stuff going on.

# ¿ May 3, 2017 02:50

Knormal: Nov 11, 2001

Alereon posted:

Don't do this, it does nothing helpful on modern drives. They don't report bad sectors unless the drive is so badly failing that it would have thrown and error when you tried to boot the machine. If you want to check the health status of a harddrive, use Crystal Disk Info (standard edition portable zip doesn't have anime or ads).

It'll still find and fix NTFS issues.

# ¿ May 3, 2017 20:09

Knormal: Nov 11, 2001

EoRaptor posted:

I have a weird problem. I tend to right click -> save as images that are inlined in the forums. Those hosted on imgur save as just a block of html, not the image itself. I'm not sure if what's causing this, but I'm hoping someone has something similar happen and can suggest a fix?

What do you get if you right click > view image? The image itself or an imgur page or something?

# ¿ Jun 7, 2017 03:55

Knormal: Nov 11, 2001

Does anyone have any recommendations for sites outlining what's tweakable in userchrome.css? I've never really messed it with before but I have a feeling I'm going to want to play around with stuff in 57. Obviously I could just Google this, but thought I'd ask if anyone had any personal favorites, also I'm guessing most of the Google results are going to be for pre-57 versions.

# ¿ Oct 17, 2017 04:58

Knormal: Nov 11, 2001

~Coxy posted:

Edit: oh, there's a new repo for userchrome hacks. Makes sense. Have a look here: https://github.com/Aris-t2/CustomCSSforFx

Perfect, thanks.

Avenging Dentist posted:

Do the thing I said and you can change basically anything you like:

And thanks too.

# ¿ Oct 18, 2017 03:26

Knormal: Nov 11, 2001

Well with some userChrome.css tweaks I find 57 tolerable. I never had any speed or memory issues before, and performance seems completely identical to me. But whatever, progress I guess. I do still have a few annoyances if anyone knows a fix for.

I'm the one guy left who doesn't use tabs all that much, I browse with a lot of different windows instead. Is there a way to hide the tab bar when you only have one tab open? Because that's my normal browsing state, and now I lost another 50 pixels or whatever of screen real estate to a constant tab bar.
I used to use the add-on Open link in... to be able to override links hardcoded to open in a new window, to redirect them to open in the current window or a tab or something. I don't want every new window link to open in a new tab instead, I know about that option, I just want to be able to redirect new window links when I want. Is there a userChome hack to add custom things to the context menu?
Addition: Apparently you can't middle-click in a page to load a url that's in the clipboard anymore, I'm not sure if that was just a Linux thing or not but I used that all the time.

Knormal fucked around with this message at 06:59 on Nov 16, 2017

# ¿ Nov 16, 2017 06:53

Knormal: Nov 11, 2001

I just saw a commercial on TV for Firefox 57. Huh.

Anyway if anyone else cared about this:

Knormal posted:

Addition: Apparently you can't middle-click in a page to load a url that's in the clipboard anymore, I'm not sure if that was just a Linux thing or not but I used that all the time.

there's a setting in about :config for it, set middlemouse.contentLoadURL to true.

I'm finding 57 okay so far, there's a few little things I miss but the userChrome tweaks still let me customize the interface more than any other browser so I'm satisfied. I won't be jumping ship. I just don't get why they wouldn't make options in Settings to change those things, since they're still possible, rather than making me edit a text file. I don't mind doing it, but that's way beyond what the average user's going to want to do. But then again I guess the "average user" is coming from Chrome anyway now and won't care about those style choices.

# ¿ Nov 20, 2017 05:55

Knormal: Nov 11, 2001

Fuzz posted:

So is there no more browser.tabs.CloseButtonLoc or whatever it was called? How do I move my tabs out of the status bar to under the address bar, and also make the close tab X uniformly on the far right for all tabs?

Tabs on bottom are one of the things covered by the CustomCSS stuff, but since it's kind of hard to find stuff in there here's what you'll need to do. Find your Firefox profile, make a folder in there called "chrome", make a text file in there named "userChrome.css", and copy the below into it:

code:

/* -----------Tabs on Bottom--------------*/
/* tabs toolbar adjustment */
#main-window[tabsintitlebar] #toolbar-menubar[autohide="true"][inactive="true"] ~ #TabsToolbar, 
#main-window[tabsintitlebar][sizemode="maximized"] #toolbar-menubar[autohide="true"][inactive="true"] ~ #TabsToolbar,
#main-window[uidensity=compact][tabsintitlebar] #toolbar-menubar[autohide="true"][inactive="true"] ~ #TabsToolbar,
#main-window[uidensity=compact][tabsintitlebar][sizemode="maximized"] #toolbar-menubar[autohide="true"][inactive="true"] ~ #TabsToolbar,
#TabsToolbar{
  -moz-padding-start: 2px !important;
}
#main-window[tabsintitlebar][sizemode="normal"]:not([inFullscreen]) #TabsToolbar {
  margin-top: 0px !important;
}

/* fix for application/hamburger button in titlebar */
#main-window[tabsintitlebar][inFullscreen] #toolbar-menubar[autohide="true"][inactive="true"] ~ #nav-bar  #PanelUI-button {
  visibility: collapse !important;
}

/* tab height */
#tabbrowser-tabs,
#tabbrowser-tabs > .tabbrowser-arrowscrollbox,
.tabbrowser-tabs[positionpinnedtabs] > .tabbrowser-tab[pinned] {
  min-height: 25px !important;
}

/* toolbar order (start) ************************************/
#print-preview-toolbar,
#printedit-toolbar,
#titlebar {
  -moz-box-ordinal-group: 0 !important;
}
#navigator-toolbox #toolbar-menubar {
  -moz-box-ordinal-group: 1 !important;
}
/* navigation toolbar */
#navigator-toolbox #nav-bar {
  -moz-box-ordinal-group: 2 !important;
}
/* bookmarks toolbar */
#navigator-toolbox #PersonalToolbar {
  -moz-box-ordinal-group: 3 !important;
}
/* 3rd party toolbars */
#navigator-toolbox toolbar {
  -moz-box-ordinal-group: 10 !important;
}
/* tabs toolbar */
#navigator-toolbox #TabsToolbar {
  -moz-box-ordinal-group: 100 !important;
}
/* toolbar order (end) **************************************/

/* toolbar colors */
#TabsToolbar:not(:-moz-lwtheme){
  -moz-appearance: none !important;
  background-image: linear-gradient(#ebebea,#ebebea) !important;
}

/* remove color overlay for lw-themes */
#main-window:not([style*='--lwt-header-image:url("resource:///chrome/browser/content/browser/defaultthemes/compact.header.png");']) :-moz-any(#nav-bar,#PersonalToolbar,#TabsToolbar):-moz-lwtheme{
  background: unset !important;
}

/* adjust compact themes */
#main-window[style*='--lwt-header-image:url("resource:///chrome/browser/content/browser/defaultthemes/compact.header.png");'] :-moz-lwtheme-brighttext #TabsToolbar:-moz-lwtheme {
  background-image: linear-gradient(#323234,#323234) !important;
}
#main-window[style*='--lwt-header-image:url("resource:///chrome/browser/content/browser/defaultthemes/compact.header.png");'] :-moz-lwtheme-darktext #TabsToolbar:-moz-lwtheme {
  background-image: linear-gradient(#f5f6f7,#f5f6f7) !important;
}

/* toolbar borders */
#main-window #navigator-toolbox::after {
  /*border-bottom: unset !important;*/
  opacity: 0 !important;
}
#TabsToolbar{
  margin-bottom: 0px !important;
  border-bottom: 1px solid #5f7181 !important;
}
#main-window[sizemode="normal"]  #TabsToolbar:not(:-moz-lwtheme){
  border-left: 1px solid #5f7181 !important;
  border-right: 1px solid #5f7181 !important;
}

#main-window:not([inFullscreen="true"])[tabsintitlebar] #TabsToolbar{
  -moz-margin-end: 0px !important;
}

#main-window[tabsintitlebar] #TabsToolbar .titlebar-placeholder{
  visibility: collapse !important;
}

#main-window[tabsintitlebar][sizemode="normal"] #toolbar-menubar[autohide="true"][inactive="true"],
#main-window[tabsintitlebar][sizemode="maximized"] #toolbar-menubar[autohide="true"][inactive="true"] {
  margin-top: 21px !important;
}

#tabbrowser-tabs .tab-drop-indicator {
  margin-bottom: 0px !important;
}

#PersonalToolbar:-moz-lwtheme,
#nav-bar:-moz-lwtheme {
  background-image: none !important;
  box-shadow: none !important;
  border-top: none !important;
  border-bottom: none !important;
}

/* remove tab fog */
#TabsToolbar:not(:-moz-lwtheme),
#TabsToolbar:not(:-moz-lwtheme)::before,
#TabsToolbar:not(:-moz-lwtheme)::after {
  box-shadow: unset !important;
}

/* remove 'dragging tab' margin/padding nonsense */
#TabsToolbar[movingtab] {
  padding-bottom: unset !important;
}

#TabsToolbar[movingtab] > .tabbrowser-tabs {
  padding-bottom: unset !important;
  margin-bottom: unset !important;
}

#TabsToolbar[movingtab] + #nav-bar {
  margin-top: unset !important;
}

/* scroll buttons */
#TabsToolbar:not(:-moz-lwtheme) #alltabs-button,
#TabsToolbar:not(:-moz-lwtheme) .tabbrowser-arrowscrollbox > .scrollbutton-up,
#TabsToolbar:not(:-moz-lwtheme) .tabbrowser-arrowscrollbox > .scrollbutton-down {
  fill: black !important;
}

I don't know about getting a single close button back, I don't see anything obvious for that on the CustomCSS site, their documentation's pretty bad.

Note that you'll probably need to change the "background-image: linear-gradient(#ebebea,#ebebea) !important;" line for your system, that's the hex value of the background color of the tab bar, which for some reason if left to default is just slightly off from the color of everything else in the UI.

# ¿ Nov 21, 2017 04:45

Knormal: Nov 11, 2001

anatoliy pltkrvkay posted:

Individually, which I do.

The Close Other/Close Right work more or less fine, although the "Are you sure?" dialogue every time is annoying.

You should be able to turn that warning off with browser.tabs.warnonclose.

# ¿ Nov 24, 2017 22:37

Knormal: Nov 11, 2001

slidebite posted:

Hey longshot question here: is there any issues with FF causing an Nvidia driver kernal crash? I've been having an issue lately since I got a 1080ti and think it's hardware related BUT I just realized it only happens when I am in FF browsing. I can't try another browser for a while as I am not home for a bit but thought I'd ask. Only a couple plugins...uorigin and a streaming media saver.

I suspect it isn't...but I'd be darn curious to know if anyone has heard of such a thing.

It might be a hardware thing that only Firefox is (currently) triggering. Hardware issues can be weird like that, where Firefox is making a function call in a way that nothing else is so it's hitting a bad spot in RAM or something. If Firefox had a problem with Nvidia cards it'd be a pretty big issue and you'd probably hear about it here. Disabling hardware acceleration is more of a workaround since you shouldn't need to on a modern mainstream chipset. Also the standard question, are you on the latest Nvidia drivers?

What kind of streaming media saver? Is it trying to do live video capture?

# ¿ Jan 1, 2018 08:21

Knormal: Nov 11, 2001

m2pt5 posted:

Is there an addon for Quantum that will add an "Open in current tab" option to the context menu for links, or at least for links with a 'target' attribute? (If not, would it be possible/practical to make one?)

It's currently not possible to add things to the Firefox interface, only move or hide things that are already there. They're supposed to restore the ability to add elements at some point. The "open link in" add-on is the one thing I still really miss.

Nalin posted:

I've found two addons that might work for you.

One is this:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/target-_blank-toggler/

That looks good, but

Ehhhhh.....
Is that something necessary to scan the page and find the links with a target attribute with the way Firefox handles security? Because that sounds hella suspicious for what that add-on's doing.

# ¿ Jan 6, 2018 03:57

Knormal: Nov 11, 2001

Avenging Dentist posted:

I'm pretty sure that's just because it's injecting content scripts into all HTTP(S) pages. I skimmed over the source and didn't see it doing anything strange.

Applebees posted:

The extension scans every page to find links, therefore it is accessing the data of every website you visit.

By looking at the functions used, the permissions system can say that the extension is reading data and injecting scripts. It cannot say what it is doing with that data or what the scripts do.

Thanks. To me "website data" means the data that site's caching on your PC like cookies, not the data actually displayed on the page. I would have called that "page content" or something. But I don't know enough about Firefox plugins to audit the code myself.

# ¿ Jan 6, 2018 22:52

Knormal: Nov 11, 2001

hooah posted:

Seems to be no different. I also forgot to mention that sometimes gifv's (at least from imgur) look like this on SA:

This thing is just blank if I go to the direct imgur link, either.

For one thing, that looked blank for everyone because you linked to the page, not the image

Have you tried creating a new profile? It doesn't sound like a profile issue, but it's worth a try. Instructions are linked in the OP, #7.

# ¿ Jan 16, 2018 03:57

Knormal: Nov 11, 2001

Do you have anything set in the proxy settings? Also if you're going to poke around about:config I'd do a search for "dns" and see if anything of those look changed. But really that sounds like one of those weird issues where it's going to be quicker to make a new profile and copy all your bookmarks, addons, etc. over than spend time trying to fix it.

# ¿ Feb 16, 2018 05:18

Knormal: Nov 11, 2001

stevewm posted:

Mozilla finally going down the route to add GPO support to FireFox: https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2018/01/11/announcing-esr60-policy-engine/

They are starting with a platform-agnostic and deployable JSON file, once all settings are supported via this method they will start making them changeable via GPO.

Sweet, we use Firefox at my place and this'll help a lot.

Of course, the majority of our PCs are stuck on an ancient version because of a "mission critical" NPAPI plugin, but by the time that dies out they'll hopefully have the GPO kinks worked out.

# ¿ Mar 10, 2018 00:53

Knormal: Nov 11, 2001

Is anyone else getting lots of "this tab crashed" and occasional full browser crashes since upgrading to 60(.0.1)? I'm on Linux, and have no add-ons, but lots of CSS/about:config tweaks that I'm not looking forward to troubleshooting.

# ¿ May 27, 2018 11:10

Knormal: Nov 11, 2001

Lutha Mahtin posted:

I'm not getting any on Android, and I'm pretty sure I've seen that dialog in the Android app a few times over the years. The only tweak/addon I have is a standard install of uBlock though, so I'm probably not the most useful person to compare with.

Weirdly this seems to have gone away over the past few days, even though there hasn't been an update. Unless some third-party update like a graphics driver did something, but it didn't feel like that kind of problem.

# ¿ May 31, 2018 06:44

Knormal: Nov 11, 2001

Lum posted:

I'm now down to only two legacy extensions that I haven't managed to replace. Does anyone have any suggestions for:

Download manager tweak: I used this mainly to move the download window into a tab that I could leave open

Add a bookmark for about :downloads?

# ¿ Jun 12, 2018 10:14

Knormal: Nov 11, 2001

Lum posted:

Well poo poo, that actually works!

Are there any add-ons that add back the extra buttons? That one added, retry, stop, delete etc as buttons which was quite nice (and I forgot wen't standard!)

Last time I looked into it, maybe a month ago, there still was no way to actually add anything to the UI, so I'm guessing no.

Arcon posted:

nah, used a fresh install on a stock Pixel 2 XL.

Pixel 2 XL counts as a tablet according to Android's UI definition, from what I remember

# ¿ Jun 21, 2018 06:44

Knormal: Nov 11, 2001

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/62.0/releasenotes/

quote:

Updates for enterprise environments:

AutoConfig is sandboxed to the documented API by default. You
can disable the sandbox by setting the preference
general.config.sandbox_enabled to false. Our long term plan is to
remove the ability to turn off the sandboxing. If you need to
continue to use more complex AutoConfig scripts, you will need to use
Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR).

Does anyone get what this is saying? We just started using autoconfig.js at my work to lock down some about :config settings, did it used to be able to do more and now they're saying that's all it'll do?

Also, what's the deal with this?

quote:

In advance of removing all trust for Symantec-issued certificates in Firefox 63, a preference was added that allows users to distrust certificates issued by Symantec. To use this preference, go to about :config in the address bar and set the preference "security.pki.distrust_ca_policy" to 2.

# ¿ Sep 6, 2018 07:11

Knormal: Nov 11, 2001

Kerning Chameleon posted:

Firefox update seems to broken the userChrome.css hack to put tabs back on the bottom, where god intended.

drat straight.

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Anyone have a workaround for this yet?

Replace whatever css settings you had in your userChrome.css before with the contents of https://github.com/Aris-t2/CustomCSSforFx/blob/master/classic/css/tabs/tabs_below_main_content.css and https://github.com/Aris-t2/CustomCSSforFx/blob/master/classic/css/tabs/tabs_below_main_content_fx65.css. There's also a https://github.com/Aris-t2/CustomCSSforFx/blob/master/classic/css/tabs/tabs_below_navigation_toolbar_fx65_macOS_fix.css if you're one of those people.

There's a _v2 and other variants at https://github.com/Aris-t2/CustomCSSforFx/tree/master/classic/css/tabs, I didn't mess around with them but they might have more options if you need them.

Edit: The new themes don't seem to play well with KDE's color settings. Is there an easy way to customize colors? I'm sure it's in that CSS site somewhere but if someone can save me some time by pointing it out to me I'd appreciate it.

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Knormal: Nov 11, 2001

Knormal posted:

Edit: The new themes don't seem to play well with KDE's color settings. Is there an easy way to customize colors? I'm sure it's in that CSS site somewhere but if someone can save me some time by pointing it out to me I'd appreciate it.

Never mind, for anyone else who gets this it's literally the first lines in the tab CSS settings I'd linked above. They're just commented out for some reason, I just had to re-enable them and specify my color.

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