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The Dark One: Aug 19, 2005; I'm your friend and I'm not going to just stand by and let you do this!

Bieeardo posted:

Yes, thank you. Bolding the domain would have been fine, but making the rest more difficult to read was unacceptable.

Changing the weight would have meant the length of the url would change when you clicked in the field. That's worse, in my opinion.

# ¿ Aug 16, 2011 20:33

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 21:38

The Dark One: Aug 19, 2005; I'm your friend and I'm not going to just stand by and let you do this!

WattsvilleBlues posted:

Nah the non-DLM version suicides too. The sooner the world sheds itself of Flash, the better. Assuming HTML5 video is more secure. About which I don't even know what I'm talking about.

As terrible as Flash is, places like youtube have a long way to go before HTML5 video becomes a worthwhile alternative. in terms of performance and functionality.

# ¿ Oct 5, 2011 02:08

The Dark One: Aug 19, 2005; I'm your friend and I'm not going to just stand by and let you do this!

The geolocation stuff that Firefox is capable of is pretty startling. I've seen services using my IP address get within about twenty kilometres of my house, but somehow Google Maps was able to locate me pretty much exactly.

# ¿ Oct 12, 2011 18:58

The Dark One: Aug 19, 2005; I'm your friend and I'm not going to just stand by and let you do this!

Are there any known issues with Firefox and AMD drivers? I updated mine and now the text in the address bar and tab titles is all weird and unpleasant.

# ¿ Nov 28, 2011 05:11

The Dark One: Aug 19, 2005; I'm your friend and I'm not going to just stand by and let you do this!

How's the WebGL performance in the upcoming versions of Firefox? I tried that experimental version of Google Maps with 9 and it felt like the screen was 90% aliased edges.

# ¿ Jan 21, 2012 20:52

The Dark One: Aug 19, 2005; I'm your friend and I'm not going to just stand by and let you do this!

I saw a couple articles mention that in 10.0, the forward button only shows up when you hit back. I just updated, and my forward button is there regardless of where I am in the history of that tab. :raise:

# ¿ Feb 1, 2012 05:12

The Dark One: Aug 19, 2005; I'm your friend and I'm not going to just stand by and let you do this!

astral posted:

Do you have any buttons between the 'forward' button and the location bar? If so, it'll stay around.

Nope, this is what it looks like on my end:

e: disabling SALR doesn't change anything.

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# ¿ Feb 1, 2012 06:24

The Dark One: Aug 19, 2005; I'm your friend and I'm not going to just stand by and let you do this!

YggiDee posted:

Move that reload button out of the way.

Alright, I'm an idiot. My brain ignored the words location bar because I always call it the address bar. Looks pretty, but I'm not giving up on my reload button or moving it to the left.

# ¿ Feb 1, 2012 06:32

The Dark One: Aug 19, 2005; I'm your friend and I'm not going to just stand by and let you do this!

For those who've been using the non-release channels, how much (if any) increase in responsiveness have you noticed on SPDY-friendly websites?

# ¿ Mar 14, 2012 03:04

The Dark One: Aug 19, 2005; I'm your friend and I'm not going to just stand by and let you do this!

You might be able to hide certain sites from popping up in the new tab page, but if he's really worried about his personal info being visible to people who he's letting use his PC, then wouldn't their ability to press Ctrl-H and bring up his entire browsing history be a bigger problem?

# ¿ Jun 7, 2012 05:32

The Dark One: Aug 19, 2005; I'm your friend and I'm not going to just stand by and let you do this!

GI_Clutch posted:

The worst part is that it also traps media keys. If I'm watching a youtube video, I need to click out of Firefox to mute or change the volume using my keyboard. It's really fun when you click play, forgetting your speakers are turned up and the sound comes blasting out at ridiculous levels and you scramble for the mute button or volume dial and nothing happens.

Yeah, I'm experiencing all of this, plus frequent plugin crashes (11.3 r300 error popup messages).

# ¿ Jun 20, 2012 23:14

The Dark One: Aug 19, 2005; I'm your friend and I'm not going to just stand by and let you do this!

The Dark One fucked around with this message at 16:09 on Oct 10, 2012

# ¿ Oct 10, 2012 16:07

The Dark One: Aug 19, 2005; I'm your friend and I'm not going to just stand by and let you do this!

I didn't see it in the release notes, but that grey highlighting in the awesomebar is new to 16, right?

# ¿ Oct 10, 2012 16:09

The Dark One: Aug 19, 2005; I'm your friend and I'm not going to just stand by and let you do this!

The click-to-start thing doesn't seem to play very nicely with the Acrobat reader plugin in Firefox 16. Is anyone else encountering this issue?

# ¿ Oct 19, 2012 21:14

The Dark One: Aug 19, 2005; I'm your friend and I'm not going to just stand by and let you do this!

You could set plugins.click_to_play to true, but that would work on everything, including flash or quicktime or whatever else you have installed. That wouldn't stop Java from re-enabling itself, but Firefox wouldn't actually load the plugin without your consent.

# ¿ Nov 22, 2012 03:21

The Dark One: Aug 19, 2005; I'm your friend and I'm not going to just stand by and let you do this!

Did Firefox 17 change the default behaviour of alt+mousewheel scrolling?

I found these settings in about:config, but I don't know what values need to be applied to get it to the way I like. Can anyone help?

mousewheel.with_alt.delta_multiplier_z
mousewheel.with_alt.delta_multiplier_y
mousewheel.with_alt.delta_multiplier_x
mousewheel.with_alt.action

# ¿ Nov 23, 2012 23:37

The Dark One: Aug 19, 2005; I'm your friend and I'm not going to just stand by and let you do this!

e: a mistaken sync option seems to be at fault. I have no idea why a NoScript button being added next to the navigation buttons would change the way they look so drastically, though.

The Dark One fucked around with this message at 07:46 on Nov 28, 2012

# ¿ Nov 28, 2012 07:39

The Dark One: Aug 19, 2005; I'm your friend and I'm not going to just stand by and let you do this!

my stepdads beer posted:

All you font issue bros:

code:

    gfx.font_rendering.directwrite.enabled: true;
    gfx.font_rendering.directwrite.use_gdi_table_loading: false;
    gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.force_gdi_classic_max_size: 6;
    gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.force_gdi_classic_for_families: ''; (delete the string)
    gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.rendering_mode: 5;

edit: if you're on windows

This led to some weird rainbow effects in my Ls and Is.

# ¿ Jan 27, 2013 22:27

The Dark One: Aug 19, 2005; I'm your friend and I'm not going to just stand by and let you do this!

XP doesn't have Media Foundation, so your Firefox on your laptop won't be able to take advantage of it.

# ¿ Jan 30, 2013 01:08

The Dark One: Aug 19, 2005; I'm your friend and I'm not going to just stand by and let you do this!

My Win 7 machine installed this update last night, and since the reboot, I've been getting graphical corruption in some text and images in Firefox. Has this happened to anyone else?

e: like this:

The Dark One fucked around with this message at 00:52 on Feb 28, 2013

# ¿ Feb 28, 2013 00:49

The Dark One: Aug 19, 2005; I'm your friend and I'm not going to just stand by and let you do this!

Alereon posted:

Do you have the latest graphics drivers installed?

Updating to the latest Radeon drivers cut it down to something only showing on every couple of pages, but it didn't remove it entirely. :/

# ¿ Feb 28, 2013 05:45

The Dark One: Aug 19, 2005; I'm your friend and I'm not going to just stand by and let you do this!

I don't know if this is a Firefox issue or a forums issue, but I'm getting this issue with click-to-play Flash elements embedded with the [video] tag. It doesn't happen every time, and I can refresh the frame until Firefox notices things properly, but it's still annoying.

# ¿ Mar 20, 2013 03:00

The Dark One: Aug 19, 2005; I'm your friend and I'm not going to just stand by and let you do this!

I've noticed with 20.0 that the first time I open a link in a new window after having closed a private window, that new window will have two tabs. Sometimes the extra tab is blank, other times, it's a random page from my browsing history.

The Dark One fucked around with this message at 20:16 on Apr 5, 2013

# ¿ Apr 5, 2013 20:13

The Dark One: Aug 19, 2005; I'm your friend and I'm not going to just stand by and let you do this!

Its not so much fixing an issue as it is turning off hardware acceleration to avoid the corrupted rendering that was going on.

# ¿ May 14, 2013 23:16

The Dark One: Aug 19, 2005; I'm your friend and I'm not going to just stand by and let you do this!

Click the little # symbol at the bottom of the post.

# ¿ Jun 28, 2013 20:03

The Dark One: Aug 19, 2005; I'm your friend and I'm not going to just stand by and let you do this!

I haven't used a bookmarks button in ages, but in version 22, I was able to plop in from the Customize interface.

# ¿ Jun 29, 2013 03:43

The Dark One: Aug 19, 2005; I'm your friend and I'm not going to just stand by and let you do this!

It would be nice if the browser could scan a user's about:config the first time after the patch and point them to the replacement add-on if it saw that they had the 'hide the tab bar' flag turned on. Savvy people might know about the change ahead of time, but the moms and dads of the internet who customized their interface years ago probably wouldn't even know where to start looking if their browser changed itself like that on them.

# ¿ Jul 7, 2013 21:15

The Dark One: Aug 19, 2005; I'm your friend and I'm not going to just stand by and let you do this!

I like the flexibility of the stock behavior. You can hit Alt-Enter to open the URL or search string in a new tab, or just the regular Enter to use the current tab.

# ¿ Sep 3, 2013 21:30

The Dark One: Aug 19, 2005; I'm your friend and I'm not going to just stand by and let you do this!

Make sure browser.tabs.closeButtons is set to 1 in about:config.

# ¿ Nov 23, 2013 21:39

The Dark One: Aug 19, 2005; I'm your friend and I'm not going to just stand by and let you do this!

Read posted:

There also some kind of slow release Firefox, I forget what it's called.

Extended Support Release.

# ¿ Feb 20, 2014 03:43

The Dark One: Aug 19, 2005; I'm your friend and I'm not going to just stand by and let you do this!

Pilsner posted:

For reference, here are some useful shortcuts:

Cycle tab pages: Ctrl+PgUp and Ctrl+PgDown

I like Ctrl-Tab and Ctrl-Shift-Tab for that.

There's also Ctrl-Shift-T to reopen a tab you'd closed and Ctrl-Shift-N to re-open a window you'd closed.

# ¿ Mar 22, 2014 01:56

The Dark One: Aug 19, 2005; I'm your friend and I'm not going to just stand by and let you do this!

I wish there was a little more contrast on the background tabs. When I have more than one tab from the same site open, it feels harder than it should be to read and find the right one.

# ¿ Apr 29, 2014 07:30

The Dark One: Aug 19, 2005; I'm your friend and I'm not going to just stand by and let you do this!

Mozilla is going to pay Adobe to be able to plop a DRM module in Firefox in order to conform to the W3C's Encrypted Media Extensions standard.

# ¿ May 15, 2014 01:40

The Dark One: Aug 19, 2005; I'm your friend and I'm not going to just stand by and let you do this!

When I try to open a locally-stored PDF document in Firefox, it brings up a dialog box prompting me to use another program. I tried pointing it at itself, but that just brings up the dialog prompt again. What am I doing wrong?

# ¿ Oct 1, 2014 20:46

The Dark One: Aug 19, 2005; I'm your friend and I'm not going to just stand by and let you do this!

Knormal posted:

Does it work for Internet-based PDFs? What OS?

Internet-based PDFs work fine. The OS is Win 8.1 Pro.

# ¿ Oct 3, 2014 07:54

The Dark One: Aug 19, 2005; I'm your friend and I'm not going to just stand by and let you do this!

The fresh profile was able to open the local PFDs without a hitch. Do any of these settings look out of place?

# ¿ Oct 6, 2014 20:13

The Dark One: Aug 19, 2005; I'm your friend and I'm not going to just stand by and let you do this!

It worked liked that by default with my mouse. v :shobon:

# ¿ Nov 7, 2014 03:28

The Dark One: Aug 19, 2005; I'm your friend and I'm not going to just stand by and let you do this!

I just updated to 33.0.3 and if I go to https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/desktop/ and scroll down to their animated graphs, it freezes up. Anyone else see this behaviour?

# ¿ Nov 9, 2014 09:36

The Dark One: Aug 19, 2005; I'm your friend and I'm not going to just stand by and let you do this!

Yeah, when that happens I just refresh the page and the control will show up.

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 21:38

The Dark One: Aug 19, 2005; I'm your friend and I'm not going to just stand by and let you do this!

I've noticed that seeking in HTML5 videos is far worse than it was with Flash Youtube. I also had a video's audio randomly cut out until I skipped back far enough and then forward enough.

# ¿ Feb 19, 2015 01:29

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