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I've been using this [ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/anti-aliasing-tuner ] addon since I started using Firefox 4 and was horrified with the font rendering. Has worked an absolute treat, and it looks like it's been updated to support pre-release versions too. Oh, it looks like he doesn't recommend it for 6 > Still, might help someone out with 4/5.
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Seb posted:I have a question about min tab size. Just use Tab Mix Plus. That way, you can also enable multi-row, which I massively prefer to everything getting unusably small. Having to scroll through tabs would be a UI disaster.
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jeeves posted:FF8 is final. It is a bit silly when they have the retirement dates for 8 and 9 mapped out already, if you go by Wikipedia. Seems like they're just drawing a line in the sand, and going with whatever the most stable nightly is at that time, planned out. Curious, especially since it's not really a race. I won't argue the version numbers as such, because that's pretty tired. HalloKitty fucked around with this message at 21:45 on Nov 7, 2011 |
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jeeves posted:Whatever FINALLY gets them to make loving x64 builds a priority is fine by me. That poo poo is like perpetually 3-4 versions in the future, even when they started rolling out their retarded quicker version numbers. No, this has nothing to do with the final build. It'll be 32-bit. This is just about the codebase becoming so bloated they need more RAM to build it. I love Firefox but it really needs a clean-slate rebuild. The only reason I keep using it is because of the addons, and that's the simple truth. Alereon posted:That's how plug-ins work now (plugin-container.exe), not sure why you think this would help. I don't know about you, but pseudorandom name's comment sounded like sarcasm to me HalloKitty fucked around with this message at 23:32 on Dec 14, 2011 |
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Current GPU drivers are all well and good, but GPU drivers for what. You never mentioned what graphics card. That CPU & 4GB RAM is perfectly decent for web use by any standard. However, all this hosing of profiles is insane. I never have any problems like that regarding performance. gently caress, I used Firefox 2 until about the time Firefox 4 launched (yeah, don't even comment). I had web page rendering issues because of hosed profiles (going from Firefox 2), but never performance issues as such. Firefox often seems to render webpages slower than IE9 though. The scrolling is a lot choppier on the same machine. It's a shame Firefox has ended up this way.. I remember when it started it was essentially supposed to be an open, lean core, with anything extra being down to third party developers. HalloKitty fucked around with this message at 23:44 on Dec 14, 2011 |
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WattsvilleBlues posted:I have a fair bit of emotional loyalty to Firefox, which pains me to say because it cements the fact I am a raging nerd who has feelings for software. You're just stealing my thoughts now.
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Standish posted:No, it's because they merged loads of DLLs into one mega-dll (xul.dll) to improve startup time. Then they started building with link-time optimisations, which scale exponentially with memory usage with the size of the object file. Alright, but did Firefox really start up slowly for others? I have other performance issues, like one rogue tab making the whole browser unresponsive, but not startup..
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Ghostery works, but the problem I have with it is that it can be too heavy on the blocking. If it's by an ad company, I can tell you it does a great job of blocking excessive amounts of things. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostery Seems it was bought out, but the stats collection is strictly opt-in. At home, I use Ghostery, AdBlock Plus, AdBlock Plus Pop-up Addon, and NoScript. It's often initially excessive, but it makes the internet a lot less.. noisy. HalloKitty fucked around with this message at 11:45 on Dec 22, 2011 |
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Xenomorph posted:Yeah, I had to remove Chrome from older, low-memory systems. Besides eating up all my RAMs from just displaying a page, it keeps its Google Updater running in background even when the browser is closed. Yeah. I even saw Opera running on Windows 2000 with 128MB RAM, Celeron 400. It wasn't as unusable as it sounds.
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nexus6 posted:Chrome: I can see you've never used Tab Mix Plus for Firefox. It's probably one of the most popular addons there is, and fixes all tab related gripes.
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Yeah, exactly. Imagine how annoying it would be if every other Windows Update randomly corrupted your profile. A pretty poor show, not really something to defend Mozilla over.
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Lum posted:As someone who once looked after NT4 Server/Workstation networks, I remember well how common "Reset the user's profile" was used as a fix for all sorts of poo poo. To be fair, I've had problems since then as well, where the quickest solution is deleting the local profile. But it's nearly always because a user has done something ridiculous, or some crappy software updater has made a right mess of something. But since I've been deploying 7, I've seen that solution required once, and that was to do with Flash. Somehow Flash had got itself in a total mess, and refused to work properly. Deleting the local profile fixed that, but it's Flash, so I can't really blame Windows. HalloKitty fucked around with this message at 10:01 on Feb 20, 2012 |
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Question Mark Mound posted:Mouse gestures - I couldn't live without these! I used them all the time in Opera and when I moved to Chrome I was at a loss until I installed them. I personally use All-in-One Gestures. I too am a lover of simple gestures. gently caress going all the way to toolbar or having to aim the mouse at a context menu. However, another seemingly unrelated reason I recommend this addon is because it fixes a personal point about non-IE browser I absolutely hate. Click the middle mouse button, get that round marker that lets you scroll by moving the mouse (I use this often). Now, how do you cancel it? Do you click? That's no good, because now you have to worry what's under the cursor. Do you mouse wheel? By default that just scrolls some more. Installing All-in-One Gestures magically fixes this, and if you notch the mousewheel one, it removes the scrolling point, without moving the page, just like it does in IE. It drives me nuts to use a browser that works any other way. Question Mark Mound posted:Being unable to close pinned tabs - I can't remember whether or not Opera could do this, but drat it'd be useful. I find myself closing stuff I want permanently open all the time! Anything you want to do with tabs? Always get Tax Mix Plus. I'm pretty sure you can do what you want with it, and no doubt a lot more. HalloKitty fucked around with this message at 11:49 on Mar 13, 2012 |
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astral posted:I just click the middle mouse button again, which causes no problems whatsoever. I could swear I tried this at one time, but maybe I was just used to ending scrolling with a flick of the wheel so much that that's what I wanted. Either way, it's not really important to most, and I understand the complaint looks pretty ridiculous HalloKitty fucked around with this message at 12:47 on Mar 13, 2012 |
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Dice Dice Baby posted:Does AIO gestures support wheel gestures? (i.e. holding RMB and scolling switches tabs) It can do scrolling through tabs this way, or scrolling through page history, depending on what you want. I also often use the mousewheel scrolling on the tab bar, just toss my mouse to the top of the screen and roll the wheel to rummage through, although I think Tab Mix Plus can probably do that too. 
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Biodome posted:Yeah, but you're missing the search google for "whatever" option. Best right click menu option ever.
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butts! posted:Apparently the internet is some kind of hearty but extremely trippy layered cake: 
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Tunga posted:What is this and how do I do it? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tilt/?src=search
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Fangs404 posted:You don't need an add-on. This is built into FF 11. However, it looks like the add-on offers quite a bit of extra functionality/analysis. Ah, I'm still on 10, so that'd explain it.
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Golbez posted:I'm enjoying the cat drugs, and actually it has educated me about our own site. For example, most other professional sites you'll see just layer upon layer of blue DIVs. Ours? Four nested red tables, all four taking up nearly the entire page. :facepalm: Had a similar experience. Our current (and new, I should add) helpdesk system is a clusterfuck of tables on tables with tables inside tables with single cell tables inside that, and so on. It looks like a factory block. Want to see it? No? Tough; here it is: 
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Golbez posted:Where did that bar on the left come from? Ah, this is using the Tilt 3D addon, not the built in FF functionality.
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NOTinuyasha posted:Post hot div pics and the tablest ticketing systems u got I'll add to this again, with a surprisingly simple looking page:  But what horrors lay beneath? 
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Magic Underwear posted:Wasn't WebM just a lovely version of H.264 that still managed to infringe on any number of H.264 patents? I'm glad they came to their senses. Not really. Visually, pretty much. But it's not worlds apart. VP8 is the best choice we've got for free codecs, instantly replacing the genuinely archaic Theora.
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NoScript is the final solution I still favour, but I acknowledge it isn't for all.
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I use All-in-One Gestures, have done for many years. Still updated and works with 13.
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ICA posted:How do I do this? about :config - a lot more advanced settings are accessed this way edit: whoops, completely missed pseudorandom name's post HalloKitty fucked around with this message at 22:38 on Jun 20, 2012 |
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Dodoman posted:I like the favicons on the bookmark bar So do I. I use Roomy Bookmarks Bar to compress my bookmarks bar down to nothing but favicons until mouseover. Super convenient.
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WattsvilleBlues posted:1. Apple's design choices are often form over function. Nothing truer. Why iPad and iPhone don't have microSD slots is beyond any reasonable design decision, and has made every other manufacturer think it's fine to charge you $50 for 8GB of flash because you can't add it yourself. gently caress this practice.
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I don't know, but I use Tab Mix Plus, and it has an option "Do not close window when closing last tab" which I use. Again, I don't pay too much attention the default options, but Roomy Bookmarks Bar which I use JUST to show favicons can be coerced into showing just text. I'm sure someone else has a better suggestion, but this is the stuff I have in my browser anyway.
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pseudorandom name posted:Because a microSD slot occupies more space and uses more power than NAND flash soldered to the main board. MicroSD occupies space.. Yeah, barely any.. uses more power? Really? Apple has recently stuck insane resolution panels in their devices and had to uprate the battery big time. You honestly are trying to make an excuse based on power consumption against microSD? Give me a break. HalloKitty fucked around with this message at 21:00 on Jun 30, 2012 |
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How is it Adobe always breaks poo poo? I too have been having the random video corruption, especially when scrolling past and back.
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Closely related: I just use DuckDuckGo (SSL) as my search engine in Firefox, and the results often prioritise Wikipedia, and you can type !wiki before to search Wikipedia explicitly.
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Vain posted:My computer only has 768MB of ram and whenever I visit a page that is image heavy my PF usage jumps from ~500MB to over 1GB and my computer grinds to a halt. Is there any settings I could change that would help, or is it just a case of needing more RAM? You should probably buy another computer. If you have a machine that crap, and don't have money to piss away, just check ebay for ex-corporate desktops, that's my recommendation. Here's a quick search for Dell Optiplexes with Core 2 Duos and at least 2GB RAM for less than $100 (buy it now, not auctions).. HalloKitty fucked around with this message at 11:32 on Dec 21, 2012 |
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Lum posted:oh god. Ask Jeeves! I was shocked earlier, I tried it out of the blue; it came up with a useful result, better than Google or DuckDuckGo (which is what I mostly use). (I was asking about letter frequency in Danish) So it may actually not be a useless website, but they sure do piss everyone off by bundling toolbars with everything, which is probably why everyone vaguely hates Ask Jeeves..
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Pilsner posted:Can anyone think of a way to make Firefox not even respond to system calls that open a specific URL or domain? My issue is that I have a "freemium" application that does a nag browser call every once in a while. I'm 99% sure it does this simply by calling "http://www.nagwebsite.com" as a system command. This is interpreted a HTTP protocol call of course, which makes Firefox handle it and load the site. I want to intercept this so FF, or any other default browser, doesn't even respond. Just do it the good old fashioned way and add it to your system hosts file.. Edit: oh wait, sorry, it will still of course try to launch the browser with a local or nonsense address
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Dr Blah PhD posted:
I have literally just this page open, and my usage is only roughly half:  So I guess.. buy more RAM, don't give a gently caress?
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Dodoman posted:That's definitely odd. I only have a single tab open and I'm using 293mb of RAM. Today it's only saying around 430.. with the same one tab open. I'm guessing as someone said, Flash, or it could simply be that earlier web browsing resulted in RAM never being freed up. I also am sure I have the setting to never cache to disk, only to RAM, so that may explain the high usage. Either way I have 16GiB RAM and the usage doesn't bother me.
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Now it seems like Firefox is being utterly pedantic about which element I'm mousing over at the time, and more often than not, that means I cannot loving move the page. This is infuriating, and worked fine before this. Edit: Maybe it's to do with all-in-one gestures. The thing I found in the first place to make "autoscrolling" work fine. By default in Firefox it sucks. God, give me version 20. Double edit: What's with this BS lazy loading of tabs? When I restore a session, a tab looks like it has loaded, but doesn't actually bother to load until I select it. That's just stupid. Preload to increase responsiveness! HalloKitty fucked around with this message at 20:37 on May 24, 2013 |
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Gerudo Rivera posted:Make sure that "Don't load tabs until selected" isn't checked in the "Tabs" tab of the options page. Hah, fair enough. I should have looked for that. Thing is, I could swear that was never set before. Double edit: Although some pages just flat out don't let me use the scroll wheel. But that was Yet Another Smooth Scrolling. Disabling that fixed that. Hope it gets fixed soon, the default scrolling is not customisable enough. Triple edit: gently caress it, none of the extensions updated themselves, but manually updating has fixed the problems so far, it seems. HalloKitty fucked around with this message at 20:43 on May 24, 2013 |
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Xander77 posted:Are there any add-ons that allow you to pause a youtube video and load it entirely (or better yet, allow you to hop around a loaded video without forcing it to reload?) I don't know, but I still use Download Helper to pull the video down locally if I actually want to skip around like that. Don't know if there's a more well-recommended addon these days.
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