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Dear Firefox,

Discussion in 'SCIENCE!!' started by waywardOne, Apr 20, 2012.

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  1. Alex_Steel Moderately Perfect Patron

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    #26
    Click here and disable ads!
    Yeah, I know. Personally I don't use that add-on but I was sure there would be one and indeed there was.
    As I said, I'm not sure what he meant so I thought a button on the toolbar would make it one click instead of *gasp* two. ;)

  2. circ Prophet

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    Son. When this doggoned Googlemathingie gets isself some of them sidebars going, you tell that Googlemathingie he can come 'round these here parts. Doggoned thing look like them middle ages o' computing son.

  3. EG Nullified

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    #28
    I don't know what these sidebars are, but I don't like them. Won't stand for them. Won't even sit listlessly for them. I think it's about time I took a walk.

  4. toro Scholar

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    #29
    Yes, Chrome is better. It definitely sends faster and more private data to Google and that's always a fucking good thing.
    PorkaMorka Brofists this.

  5. joeydohn Learned

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    If Firefox is feeling sluggish try using one of the vacuum places addon, that really helped my issues when I went over 10k bookmarks.

  6. Coyote Learned

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    I just use an older version of Firefox; it has all the features I need with less bloat, and I have yet to come across any add-ons I want to use that don't run on it. Is there any reason not to do this (e.g., security issues that were patched in recent versions)?

  7. Monk Scholar

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    #32
    You need to turn off the options in the privacy settings.

  8. laclongquan Liturgist

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    #33
    Firefox is the only web browser with integrated epub reader. As the only analgirl ready for regular action, she will always desirable.

  9. toro Scholar

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    #34
    I'm not using it ;)

  10. Oriebam Formerly M4AE1BR0-something

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    Does anyone know how to back firefox's shit up or how to up the hardware-related browsing history page limit?

    chrome has a lot of annoying shit, the interface also annoys me

    not every user is like you

    basic fact man

    google doesn't allow that stuff on their official extension download site, something to do with youtube I guess

  11. circ Prophet

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    Not sure if it's what you'd calli backup, but you can export the bookmarks. That's kind of backing up no? Just hit ctrl+shift+b and then it's pretty straight forward.

    As for memory. Well, after browsing youtube or videos and images for a while, it's not unusual for FF or some other browsers but especially FF with its shit memory handling, to use up 1+ gigs of memory. I don't consider that a small amount even as I have 8 gigs. And it lags the entire system the fuck down. So please CF, learn to memory.

  12. EG Nullified

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    In %appdata%, go to the FIrefox folder. Copy the applicable session.

    Backup complete.

    (There's a limit to history? I don't think I've hit it letting it run many many months . . . )

    As far as RAM goes, I've had firefox take as much as 2 GBs, mainly due to some flash app running in a constant loop, redownloading itself. It's awesome.

    I tend to use FlashGot in Firefox for Flash; JDownload is pretty good outside of any browswer, despite the terrible ad service when you download it for the first time (well, no worse than NMA's file host, I guess.)

  13. joeydohn Learned

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    I've had 30k entries in my history before, Firefox really slows down around that point. Have you got an addon or setting to wipe history after a certain amount or time?

  14. Oriebam Formerly M4AE1BR0-something

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    I don't
    IIRC at around 250k entries if you have 2/4(not sure) gb of RAM it starts deleting stuff, according to the guys at browser related websites

  15. joeydohn Learned

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    I can't see having 250k items in your history being at all usable from my experience with just 30k. I'm not sure how it would be useful either, I bookmark anything I want later and have an addon called History Deleter that removes any jpg/png urls after 1 day and any other url after 5 days.

    Oh yeah I forgot to mention I use a program called MozBackup for saving all firefox/thunderbird userdata and you can password it too.

  16. Oriebam Formerly M4AE1BR0-something

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    I might have been mistaken

    firefox here just starts up slowly(sometimes it starts up glitched, too), takes a lot of memory and crashes a lot

    will look into mozbackup

  17. EG Nullified

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    A visual guide to backing up Firefox:

    [IMG]

    Simply amazing.

    (If it's glitching I'd really recommend you reinstall it or update it. Or disable graphics acceleration. Or update your video card drivers.)
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