yeah, it gives me a headache, I disabled it in the advanced options.
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yeah, it gives me a headache, I disabled it in the advanced options.
Uno Venova
Banned
Nice, this actually helps.
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The Autumn Wind
Click the little grid icon in the upper-right corner of the page.
That hides it, yes, but if you change browser.newtab.url to about:blank, then it will go back to the way it was before.
CrookedRain
Member
Do you have it set to automatically install updates in the settings? If you ever changed it to prompt but not install, I don't think they changed the setting to automatically update
Oh... Gotta check that.
As long as it doesn't interrupt my browsing, like forcing me to close this, opens a download window and messes up my settings like the last time i updated Firefox...
EDIT and messing up my addons.
Are you updating from 3.6? Otherwise I can't fathom what the big deal is. I've never had an update (meaning the time I'm unable to browse w/ Fx) last more than 15 seconds.
If your add-ons are now unsupported there are probably modern replacements, but I can't help you without any more details.
DiipuSurotu
Banned
Then turn if off...
Aurora 15a has been released.
From the notes:
- preliminary native PDF support
- support for SPDY networking protocol v3
- improvements around memory leaks caused by some add-ons
- javascript debugger integrated into developer tools
- new layout view added to Inspector
- the CSS word-break property has been implemented
- new responsive design tool allows web developers to switch between desktop and mobile views of sites
- native support for the Opus audio codec added
- the <source> element now supports the media attribute
- the <audio> and <video> elements now support the played attribute
From the notes:
- preliminary native PDF support
- support for SPDY networking protocol v3
- improvements around memory leaks caused by some add-ons
- javascript debugger integrated into developer tools
- new layout view added to Inspector
- the CSS word-break property has been implemented
- new responsive design tool allows web developers to switch between desktop and mobile views of sites
- native support for the Opus audio codec added
- the <source> element now supports the media attribute
- the <audio> and <video> elements now support the played attribute
Updated from 12 to 13, i just didn't have auto-update enabled.
Didn't have issues... But i have had previously issues updating within Firefox 3 (3.xx-3.yy), IIRC.
Haven't really liked Firefox since FF2. Uses too much system resources (though FF12-13 are better in this regard), UI was made worse looking (addon fixes this... but this should not require an addon). And this whole thing (FF13) still crases when one tab crashes, don't really like that.
If moving my passwords and bookmarks weren't such a chore (since i have so many of those), i'd ditch Firefox and start using Chrome or Chromium.
15 is definitely a big-time release. A lot of new features and improvements finally made it through. I think url autocomplete is enabled by default in 15 too.
It definitely seems like they have gotten memory usage under control. I agree that having one tab crash the whole thing is annoying, but for me it only happens on Linux Fx, so I just never use Firefox on linux and I'm all good.
You can import both directly from Firefox using Chrome's import option. I have never tested it, though.
Any browser uses more system resources nowadays than 6 years ago. Firefox won't be moving to one process per tab any time soon (if ever), so that's that. Appearance is subjective, but that's the advantage of Firefox -- you can make it look however you want.
I think I liked it better with the old smooth scrolling than without, but now I kind of already adjusted to it turned off.
Uno Venova
Banned
Wow, it really has come a long way. I'd pretty much given up on it for my ASUS eeePC netbook usage for being so slow, but I just upgraded from 12 to 14 in the beta channel, and what a difference. It now beats opera in performance, which used to be my go to for speed. Chrome still runs like crap on the netbook for some reason lol
Not sure if everyone here is privy to this, but apparently Australis was up on the UX channel the other night, but has since been taken down. Interensting to know that they're gearing it up for release already, or at least they could be as far as releasing it on UX.
Uno Venova
Banned
Hope that look comes soon, looks nice.
The only thing different there is the look of the tabs bar. I thought the new design had other changes such as a combined url/search bar and a repositioned settings button.
BoboBrazil
Member
Ever since my beta version updated to 14 the plugin container has been crashing every so often. Has this been happening to anyone else?
flash keeps crashing on me since the update today
Uno Venova
Banned
Just happened to me on nightly, just using stable now.
BoboBrazil
Member
Have you updated to the newest flash? I haven't had any problems with flash. The plugin container just randomly crashes. I can still look at websites fine afterwards and the plugins still work, so not sure exactly what's happening?
Yeah, but I'm using the regular FF 13. I can refresh and it fixes itself but it's happened 5 times or so now, all on YT. Not sure if that's the same thing as plugin container tho
Tom's hardware does far more comprehensive tests, if you're interested. From what I've seen, Firefox is slightly 'better' than Chrome on windows, Safari just barely 'the best' on Mac, and Chrome dominates linux. But most of these tests don't necessarily matter, as a setup can vary so much from one to the next.
As for the UX stuff, I hope it comes soon but I'm not holding my breath. UX is definitely a lot farther away than Nightly, and major aspects of Australis (such as tabs in title bar on mac) are seemingly a long way out.
Elvin Atombender
Member
I'm also getting Flash crashes now and then since I updated both Firefox and Flash the other day.
I just updated and maybe I messed up, but I could've sworn it also updated all my add-ons without asking. I have an older version of an add-on that I never update because the newer versions were terrible, is there any way to roll it back?
EDIT: nevermind, I forgot that they have older versions on the add-on page, got it back now.
...and yeah flash is crashing a lot lately, I was hoping this update would fix that, but I guess not judging by the posts here.
EDIT: nevermind, I forgot that they have older versions on the add-on page, got it back now.
...and yeah flash is crashing a lot lately, I was hoping this update would fix that, but I guess not judging by the posts here.
Vanillalite
Ask me about the GAF Notebook
Sadly I'm of this belief as well. I think we won't get this integrated into FF until sometime in 2013 actually. I don't hate the current FF UI, but I definitely wish this was getting more of a priority.
Just happened to me today.
Also today, when starting up firefox, first it froze, and then my computer restarted. I ran CCleaner and a scan for viruses, but I'm wondering if starting Firefox was what made my computer do that...
Bumping this up with some news:
http://www.ghacks.net/2012/06/10/flash-player-update-fix-freezes-crashes-in-firefox/
This may help people that are affected. I hope Adobe puts out a fix soon.
http://www.ghacks.net/2012/06/10/flash-player-update-fix-freezes-crashes-in-firefox/
This may help people that are affected. I hope Adobe puts out a fix soon.
undu
Member
When there a lot of disparities in performance in many aspects I think it's stupid to say there's an overall winner, rather there are trade-offs for using a browser instead of others.
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When I click new tab, I now see what is presume are often-visited sites. Can I customize what shows up on it?
Yeah you can drag your bookmarks into them and pin the ones you want to keep.
And also 'x' out any pages you don't want to be on there.
Looks a lot like the 'quick controls' mode in the Android browser, except you have a couple of ugly icons permanently displayed over the webpage, and you can't access all the functions on just one side of the screen so it's less good for one-handed use.