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Ryokurin posted:

So far the biggest change I see in 8 (although this may had existed in nightly) is that on the first start it gives you a window where you can disable 3rd forced plugins and the Aurora button is blue.

Yes it was in nightly, there are actually quite a few projects regarding add-ons coming to fruition. Add-on SDK 1.0 (JetPack) is a big one and we are looking at a bunch of ways to help add-on developers with it. You can see the full set of stuff here http://blog.mozilla.com/futurereleases/2011/08/19/firefoxaurora8/

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 15:45

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Standish posted:

Firefox 8 is now Aurora, which does not get major new features added to it, so E10S definitely isn't going to be in that.

Process separation isn't even enabled in the Firefox 9 nightly builds yet (you have to build firefox yourself with a special compile flag) so I wouldn't count on it being in FF9 either.

Out-of-process plugins (OOPP) has shipped in Firefox 3.6.4 in June 2010.

Out-of-process tabs for Fennec is utilized in the Mobile builds.

# ¿ Aug 22, 2011 03:41

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mobn posted:

Right, but we're talking about separate processes per tab in the desktop browser..

All those things are components for e10s, I can tell you its being worked on very actively to expand it to more areas.

# ¿ Aug 22, 2011 22:07

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In case anyone cares to see how add-ons are doing for compatibility you can see stats here https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/compatibility/report/7.0

# ¿ Aug 22, 2011 22:08

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cregets posted:

I just upgraded to 6.0 but now my back/forward mouse buttons wont work anywhere, not just here on SA. I already have AdBlockPlus installed and it is working, just the buttons on the mouse are not. Any suggestions? Google turned up nothing so far.

What OS are you on? & what kind of mouse?

# ¿ Aug 23, 2011 21:59

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GreenBuckanneer posted:

Am I the only one who thinks that these releases are way too fast? I keep having to force compat checking to off, it messes up my greasemonkey scripts and such since they don't carry over, I hate it

Also it keeps bothering me to update and I'm not interested because of the previous reasons.

Why not just use the Add-On compatibility checker to permanently suppress checking?

# ¿ Sep 8, 2011 19:59

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For those wanting an update on Win64 bit they guy who is point on it blogged an update this morning.
http://armenzg.blogspot.com/2011/09/win64-status-update.html

# ¿ Sep 9, 2011 17:40

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Ryokurin posted:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/add-on-compatibility-reporter/?src=api

A direct link to what MS Spy was talking about. Install restart choose what you want to use and restart again and you are good. It's the only reason I use Aurora currently.

It makes nightly and Aurora tolerable for me as well. Add-on developers need to get out of the habit of marking an add-on as compatible for a given version only. There are enough users and testing on AMO to tell when an add-on looses compat, most can ride the train and not have a care in the world.

My only issue right now is that it does not appear to be working for Thunderbird, I want to run the beta but all my add-ons go out of compat and I can't seem to get the checking to suppress. I have to have my enigmail add-on or I can't read encrypted mail sent to security@moz...grrrr.

# ¿ Sep 9, 2011 17:43

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MrMoo posted:

That post could have been written a little better, what branches are actually supported as it reads as most are not:

I think it's only in nightly

# ¿ Sep 16, 2011 05:12

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xamphear posted:

I have this problem as well. Also, lately the flash plugin has been crashing randomly after I switch from the physical session to an RDP session (or vice versa) without closing and reopening firefox, upon playing a flash video.

I'm 99% sure it could be solved by disabling hardware acceleration in both firefox and flash, but I'm not willing to take the performance hit during my physical sessions, so I just deal with it and kill plugin-container.exe and firefox as necessary.

Have you all filled bugs on this behavior?

# ¿ Sep 28, 2011 14:14

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xamphear posted:

You kidding me? Filing bugs on open source projects gives me nightmares.

Why? I think we make it pretty easy.

# ¿ Sep 28, 2011 17:13

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SouthLAnd posted:

So far, 7 seems a little bit quicker, and I've noticed it uses considerably less memory with my usual 8-12 tabs open.

I just installed 10 on my mac and it feels even faster, lets hope it stays that way as it moves along. I just joined the bleeding edge club running nightly of both Firefox and Thunderbird.

# ¿ Sep 28, 2011 17:14

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Briantist posted:

Sure haven't. But this bug seems to be roughly the same issue.

I think the issues might be related, but you are at least getting something, not completely black right?

# ¿ Sep 28, 2011 17:17

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BrainWeasel posted:

Some time ago I denied an automatic update from FF3.x to 4.0, and ever since then I'm not even getting the option to migrate upwards; only the 3.x bugfixes are offered. Is there a way to re-enable checking for major version updates once I've refused one?

There is no upgrade path from FF3.x to newer version that I am aware of. If you want to upgrade to a newer version I would just download and install over the top. Once that is done you should be offered updates to newer versions.

# ¿ Sep 28, 2011 19:37

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Toast Museum posted:

Wait, so is this a problem with 7.0 in general, or is it only an issue if it was installed via the updater?

As Alereon said this is a bug with 7.0 in general, we will be re-spining the build with a fix very quickly. It was a bug introduced by the new add-on prefrences work.

If you have an add-on that is in a state where it is ready to update and you update Firefox the add-on disappears. If you install/uninstall another add-on the lost add-on reappears. So it's not really lost but the db with all the states and what not got messed up.

Again, we are fixing it and will have this out very quickly. You can also use the add-on recovery tool https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fx7-recovery/ to fix this issue in the interim.

# ¿ Sep 29, 2011 23:17

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7.01 is released and the fix for the add-on issue is in there.

# ¿ Sep 30, 2011 01:42

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TwoKnives posted:

When are we likely to see the Chrome-like UI changes appear in the nightlies, or were those mock-ups just ideas that won't necessarily be implemented?

Right now I think these are concepts that are being explored and we have not yet committed to them completely.

# ¿ Oct 1, 2011 03:41

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mobn posted:

This also leads to aforementioned crippling lag, and doesn't disable the screensaver, so it doesn't really count as a proper fullscreen implementation.

Your right it's not a proper full-screen, F11 is a different animal. We are actually working on Full-Screen (DOM) at the moment that would be a proper full screen. http://blog.pearce.org.nz/2011/09/mozilla-full-screen-api-progress-update.html

# ¿ Oct 7, 2011 17:00

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Just an FYI, we are planning on offering a 3.6 -> 7.0 upgrade notice (some of you had killed off previous notices), these are one time offers from Moz and are not part of your usual upgrade notices. However, as some of you have already noticed Sync is having some back-end problems that are being worked on and instead of compounding that with a bunch of new users we are going to fix it first then do the upgrade offer.
For some more info check the blog of Christian Legnitto.
http://christian.legnitto.com/blog/2011/10/06/postponing-the-firefox-3-6-x-7-0-advertised-update/

# ¿ Oct 7, 2011 17:03

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Alereon posted:

On that note, I really wish Mozilla would find some way to deal with their Netscape-era development practices that make the project so horribly inefficient. They KNOW that Bugzilla is a black hole where filed bugs will never be looked at by anyone and where patches languish years waiting for reviews, yet all they seem to do about it is schedule bug days to sprint through a portion of the backlog, and they often still have more bugs at the end of the bug day than at the start. I see plenty of posts on Planet Mozilla from people recognizing the nearly insurmountable barriers to becoming a Firefox contributor, and they have a contributor engagement team, but things seem to keep getting worse with time.

Yes we know triage and review are issues, as is prioritization of non-feature work. There are multiple efforts underway to try and address these issues and make things better. But that necessitates change and the project is very adverse to process change IMO (I don't know why). This is a problem the community is going to have to address (and by community I mean not just paid people).

# ¿ Oct 13, 2011 15:30

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Mak0rz posted:

What's that theme that allows you to put the tabs in the title bar on Mac OS versions? I went through all ten pages of this thread and couldn't find it for the life of me. Maybe it was in the old thread.

Is the theme buggy at all?

Do you mean tabs on top? or OneLiner (prospector labs thing)http://mozillalabs.com/prospector/2011/07/28/oneliner-moves-navigation-to-the-tabs-toolbar/

# ¿ Oct 24, 2011 21:24

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Zenzirouj posted:

Has anyone else had a problem recently with Firefox hanging for 10-30 seconds every 10 or so minutes? This probably started within the past two weeks. It just goes unresponsive and looks like it's freezing, but then after a little while it will look like it's quickly closed and reopened, but nothing will have changed.

I don't have many addons and I've tried disabling them successively with no change. The only thing I can think of that would have changed is a new version of Firefox.

Have you tried a clean user profile?

# ¿ Oct 31, 2011 23:21

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angrytech posted:

How easy is it to install and manage a firefox sync server?

Great question, I honestly don't know anyone personally that runs one. You could try the serives-dev mailing list https://wiki.mozilla.org/Services/services-dev

# ¿ Oct 31, 2011 23:23

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Zenzirouj posted:

This was the step that fixed it; thanks. Is there any easy way of importing my saved passwords and junk? The addons and bookmarks were easy enough to replace.

And Jago, do you just mean the list you get when you click on Downloads? Because I keep it cleared.

I believe you can use sync to do this, otherwise I think you will have to copy the folders from the old profile. Use this as a guide http://kb.mozillazine.org/Password_Manager

# ¿ Nov 1, 2011 17:05

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Xenomorph posted:

I didn't see it mentioned the past few pages.

Gmail's new look is just absolutely terrible on Firefox 7. It seems to work just fine under IE (9) and Chrome (15).

It looks fine, but performance is bad. Really bad. Slow, choppy animations for everything.

I have not tested with 7 but I am running 9 and it seems fine.

# ¿ Nov 5, 2011 20:48

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Cpt.Wacky posted:

So FF8 is out and they added this new thing with users selecting their add-ons (or plugins or who knows what the gently caress since Mozilla can't call them anything consistently): http://blog.mozilla.com/addons/2011/08/11/strengthening-user-control-of-add-ons/

One of the comments says they'll provide information for OEMs and enterprises, but I can't find anything on that blog about it.

We install Adblock+ by default on all of our PCs, and not in the the user profile. Is there anything describing this change in more technical detail and ways to minimize how much end users have to see and click on extra poo poo?

fligtar's post (the one you quote) is agood one. add-ons = extensions by the way.
plug-ins are different.

And here is a decent news story on ver 8 goodness http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57320795/firefox-8-new-rules-for-add-ons/

# ¿ Nov 8, 2011 23:07

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Thought you all would be interested in this:
Make Firefox Add-ons default to compatible
http://theunfocused.net/2011/11/19/solving-firefoxs-add-on-compatibility-problem/

# ¿ Nov 22, 2011 00:51

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ChrisAsmadi posted:

Does anyone know of an extention or greasemonkey script that bypasses that tracking stuff for news articles on Facebook (such as the Guardian or Independant ones) and just takes me straight to the webpage with the article without being tracked?

~~Have you looked at ghostery?~~ I would also recommend Priv3

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 15:45

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Wiseblood posted:

Is anyone having trouble getting embedded Youtube videos to play? Videos embedded here with the video tag work fine, so the problem seems to be videos embedded with the iframe code. For example:

http://www.1up.com/do/blogEntry?bId=9092422

I see the title, and a play button in the center, but no preview image and I can't get the video to play. I'm having this problem on both my desktop and laptop using Firefox 8.0. I tried disabling Adblock and even tried safe mode and still can't get it to play. And it works fine in IE9.

maybe related to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=705037 ?

# ¿ Dec 13, 2011 23:37

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