GhostRidah
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Sweet! Thank you, that was it lol
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Sweet! Thank you, that was it lol
ROBOKITTYZILLA
Member
I kicked Chrome to the curb and have been using Waterfox on my home PC and Firefox at work but there are couple of things bothering me.
Why do the spellcheck suggestions never leave my context menu even after I add to dictionary or make a correction? It's incredibly annoying since I use a lot of addon commands via the right-click context menu. Happens in Firefox 16.0.1 and in Waterfox 15.0.
Second is memory usage. Firefox 16.0.1 uses significantly less memory than Chrome but Waterfox 15.0 uses significantly more than Firefox. Is this because Waterfox uses more memory to assist with tasks and load or are there some significant updates from Firefox 15 to Firefox 16 that reduced the memory usage?
Edit: Nevermind about the spell check. It looks like one of my addons was causing this problem. Still concerned about the memory usage though.
Why do the spellcheck suggestions never leave my context menu even after I add to dictionary or make a correction? It's incredibly annoying since I use a lot of addon commands via the right-click context menu. Happens in Firefox 16.0.1 and in Waterfox 15.0.
Second is memory usage. Firefox 16.0.1 uses significantly less memory than Chrome but Waterfox 15.0 uses significantly more than Firefox. Is this because Waterfox uses more memory to assist with tasks and load or are there some significant updates from Firefox 15 to Firefox 16 that reduced the memory usage?
Edit: Nevermind about the spell check. It looks like one of my addons was causing this problem. Still concerned about the memory usage though.
64 bit, in general, will use more memory than the 32 bit firefox. It could just be that. most memory improvements at this point for firefox are incremental.
RedAssedApe
Banned
Clearing history takes forever for me if I haven't done it in some time. Pretty annoying. It never used to take this long in earlier iterations.
PjotrStroganov
Member
Wow, does Firefox sync suck. To get another machine synced, you first need a key set up on your original PC. Just let me log in with a username and password like Chrome.
So setting up sync sucks, but that is just one part of sync.
However I agree, I think they are working on changing that.
A 64-bit application can access (and utilize) all of your RAM. I'm not sure if there's a way to tweak how much it uses (I'm sure there is), but by default it's going to use a lot more RAM than any other browser out there.
Switched to Waterfox from Firefox a few weeks ago and I absolutely love it.
I switched this morning but I miss the downloads list from Nightly
I switched this morning but I miss the downloads list from Nightly
I don't know how that list works, but I despise the default firefox downloads window. This addon to put downloads in a status bar is infinitely better.
Mr. Enigma
Member
I stopped using Waterfox when it fell behind. Whoever is doing it finally caught up with 16.0.1, but it's outdated again with no 16.0.2 version.
It didn't hurt anyways since Firefox 16 was a massive improvement over 15. I really like where they're going with this. At this rate, they'll be even with Chrome shortly, especially considering how much Chrome has shot itself in the foot lately.
It didn't hurt anyways since Firefox 16 was a massive improvement over 15. I really like where they're going with this. At this rate, they'll be even with Chrome shortly, especially considering how much Chrome has shot itself in the foot lately.
I don't understand why they complicated the process so much. Both Chrome and Opera requires you to simply log in using your account (it's especially easy in Chrome, since you simply use your G+/Gmail account). Why do you need the key in Firefox? If they wanted to make the process more secure, requiring you to confirm the synchronization via an e-mail message would be much easier.
LabouredSubterfuge
Member
Another vote for Waterfox here. Runs wonderfully for me.
PjotrStroganov
Member
For me the problem was that I didn't have a key after reinstalling win 8. A dumb mistake on my part. Luckily, most bookmarks were also synced on chrome so I didn't lose too much. At least it cleaned up my FF installation.
Vanillalite
Ask me about the GAF Notebook
Not that I dislike Opera or anything, but why blame Firefox? Why not just get rid of the offending add-on?
I switched this morning but I miss the downloads list from Nightly
I don't know if this helps any, but there is a 64-bit version of nightly...
Scroll to bottom of list.
From what I've read though, it's not as optimized as Waterfox.
Angelus Errare
Banned
Man the font rendering on my firefox is completely fucked and I don't have hardware rendering on.
Stealth: Well fuck, my font rendering issues are gone completely now that I enabled hardware rendering...wtf?
Stealth: Well fuck, my font rendering issues are gone completely now that I enabled hardware rendering...wtf?
Buggy Loop
Member
I went from Chrome to Firefox 16 not too long ago, was nice till i went to youtube and the videos keep freezing firefox for a few seconds while the audio continued. Its not my PC for sure, latest video drivers, latest flash, latest firefox version, nothing worked. I decided to go with Opera and i've been satisfied so far but its really bugging me that firefox had that only flaw for me. Anyone would know why? GTX460 and Phenom X6 1090T, SSD drive. I dont think its hardware specs, i mean i run all modern games at near max quality, its not going to be youtube videos that will test this hardware, most likely an incompatibility between firefox and flash.
added_time
Member
Have you tried to disable protected mode in flash? Doing that fixed all issues for me on 3 different computers:
To disable Protected Mode, open the mms.cfg file located in:
Windows 32bit: C:\windows\system32\macromed\flash
Windows 64bit: C:\windows\syswow64\macromed\flash
then add this line to it and save the file:
ProtectedMode=0
archnemesis
Member
I see an emoticon and I have no special extension installed for viewing those. Maybe it's because I have Asian languages installed.
Yeah seeing it in Nightly tooI see nothing :/
nvm, I see it when I'm in nightly.
Is that on a PC?
archnemesis
Member
Yes, a AMD/ATI Windows 7 Professional 64-bit PC.
Edit: I'm on 16.0.2, stable release channel.
I see it on Nightly in OSX.
Buggy Loop
Member
Wow, seems to be working so far, thank you.
added_time
Member
Glad it worked for you! I did the same thing on my brother's computer and he was so happy that it fixed everything too.
Souldriver
Member
Aaaaaand my problem is back again.
My website history is burned into FF. No matter how much or with what tools I try to delete my history, a random selection of websites keep showing up. Mind you, not in a dropdown menu, but in the autocomplete manner within the awesomebar. Type "n" and it will show "neogaf.com" in grey in the bar. It does not appear in the dropdown menu, indicating that it is in fact not really in my browsing history anymore. Yet it always shows up within the bar.
My website history is burned into FF. No matter how much or with what tools I try to delete my history, a random selection of websites keep showing up. Mind you, not in a dropdown menu, but in the autocomplete manner within the awesomebar. Type "n" and it will show "neogaf.com" in grey in the bar. It does not appear in the dropdown menu, indicating that it is in fact not really in my browsing history anymore. Yet it always shows up within the bar.
CrookedRain
Member
Press the delete key while it's highlighted?
Souldriver
Member
That only works with the drop down menu items from the awesomebar. When you click delete during the auto-complete function of the awesomebar however, you just delete the letter(s) after your cursor. You know, regular "del" function in a text field.
Example: I can't remember the last time I've gone to gamerankings.com. My browsing history is completely empty. And yet, this happens when I type in "ga" in the awesomebar. Note that there isn't a dropdown menu. It's just the autocomplete function.
CrookedRain
Member
Souldriver
Member
Wow, this is the first time I'm directed to a page that talks about my exact problem. Thanks!
There's still no solution though. I've ended up disabling the autocompletion function instead. Kinda fixes it I guess...
GhostRidah
Member
Any addon like the chrome gmail extension that when you get a email a pop up bubble shows up?
Vanillalite
Ask me about the GAF Notebook
Just enable desktop notifications in Gmail itself????
GhostRidah
Member
I think that requires a gmail tab open all the time, which I don't want.
Souldriver
Member
gmail notifier, x-notifier, ... there are enough of those add-ons for FF.
Angelus Errare
Banned
Anyone know of a Firefox mod that allows me to set the save location on a per file type per site basis? I know Firefox has this built in for the most part, but it's got limitations.
Yup.
I was told a while ago that this was caused by some sort of hitch in the anti-virus scan that runs when a download completes. The boolean controlling the autoscan can be toggled in the about:config menu.
Try looking it up and see if it works.
It didn't work for me, so I switched to Chrome
archnemesis
Member
It might just be my imagination, but the freezing seems way less noticeable when I replaced the normal download window with the Download Statusbar add-on.
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I backedup my profile for Firefox and Thunderbird, reinstalled my PC, but it doesn't do anything if I copy/paste the content in the profiles in the default created profiles.
That's how it says to restore profiles, but it doesn't do anything. It's as if I pasted nothing. Any idea?
Restoring the bookmarks was easy. Should be as easy for the profile.....
That's how it says to restore profiles, but it doesn't do anything. It's as if I pasted nothing. Any idea?
Restoring the bookmarks was easy. Should be as easy for the profile.....