Test of forum edit problem by a Moderator
Adding some test text in a quetion. Possibly forum quotes feature has damaged editing feature. edited by the-edmeister - 01-02-2015 17:47 CST blah blah blah Also are we… (read more)
Adding some test text in a quetion.
Possibly forum quotes feature has damaged editing feature.
edited by the-edmeister - 01-02-2015 17:47 CST
blah blah blah
Also are we shooting ourselves in the foot, giving a warning and effectively blocking our own troubleshooter app.
P.S. And is there a bug filed for warnings about outdated Flash on Linux. I have not checked
Firefox
Share between several platforms, dual/multiple boot
Hi here!! I review a lot of mozilla docs (out dated or without complete info), forums, googling ... about how to share firefox/thunderbird/ligthing data between platforms… (read more)
Hi here!! I review a lot of mozilla docs (out dated or without complete info), forums, googling ... about how to share firefox/thunderbird/ligthing data between platforms on dual/multiple boot system. Every user in same trouble are repeating (copy/paste) in the solution to share the SAME FULL PROFILE on all platforms. I review profile data and folders and I can see files and config data that are platform dependent; then I think that share FULL PROFILE between is not the best approach, for example Linux and Windows will produce several problems (and a lot of problems with the add-ons) In these same mozilla docs recommends to share only data and maintain custom profile for each platform, but not more info how to do it. Please can some kind advanced :) provide some info about the correct approach. Or a better tech info about how is possible the recommendation of sharing same profile between platforms without problems. Because with the current doc info, there is no way to get a clear answer (Almost I can't :~). Thx guys!
Security device dialog pops up.
Firefox is my primary browser, I use it on Linux, Windows OSX and Android. I'm writing this on Ubuntu, but really referring to my experience across all platforms. The dia… (read more)
Firefox is my primary browser, I use it on Linux, Windows OSX and Android. I'm writing this on Ubuntu, but really referring to my experience across all platforms.
The dialog box for the "Software Security Device" could be improved in a few ways from my point of view:
1. It seems to pop up randomly. Very often this "randomness" is because (I assume) some tab in the background needs passwords. But from the context that I'm aware of it just looks "random"
2. It pops up. Very hard to work around this one I know, but having a text-accepting dialog pop up when I'm typing text is (notoriously) annoying. To have it pop up, capture some of my text, and then not let me see the text is doubly annoying. Like most people, I'm not a touch typist, so I'm looking at the keyboard, not the screen.
3. It won't let me see the text. This is a general problem with password forms, which is slowly changing as they add "Show password text" checkboxes. The Software Security device needs it more than most because, being the "master password" it is longer and more complicated than all the other ones. 99% of the time there really is no-one who is, nor could be, looking over my shoulder. Having the text masked by default is rational, but not being able to unmask it is security theatre, not security.
4. It pops up when it is already up! This hasn't happened to me very often, merely occasionally, but when it does it is by far the most annoying thing on this list because it just doubles the frustration of everything else. And it should be the easiest thing to check: if the dialog is already up, then do not pop it up again.
5. It is confusing. What "device" are you talking about, and why is Firefox asking about it? I'm used to this one now, but must admit it really confused me when it showed up on my phone, where it must have been referring to the phone, not the browser. Why is there no mention of the "Master password" which was the phrase you used when I was setting it up, and which all the help refers to? Quick test: how many times does Firefox's help/documentation mention the "Master password", and how many times the "Software Security device". (Consider this an upvote for this page: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Self_Explaining_Password_Dialog).
Thank you for taking the time to read this and (hopefully) pass my points on to the relevant Issue Trackers, or upvting them on my behalf. Hopefully it wasn't too ranty.
It's people like you who make my life so much better.
How can I prevent creating new files at folder pending?
There are more and more .dmp and .extra. I want to stop it. I dont want to waste my hard drive space. The last time it was really hard to delete about 30 Gb of them. I w… (read more)
There are more and more .dmp and .extra. I want to stop it. I dont want to waste my hard drive space. The last time it was really hard to delete about 30 Gb of them. I was trying to reinstall FIrefox, but it was no use.
I have been phished and can't adjust settings without them being sent to an automatic redirected site
opened an email over a month ago from a friend. I got phished. Two days ago they sent the same email under my address and conversed with the recipients, impersonating m… (read more)
opened an email over a month ago from a friend. I got phished. Two days ago they sent the same email under my address and conversed with the recipients, impersonating me to assure them it was safe and give further instruction. The have also tried to gain further access info to one of my credit cards. I have changed my password, but when I attempt to secure it Firefox notifies me the information will automatically be redirected to a site. can't perform the administration.
Firefox 35.0 not playing flash when set to activate
Since upgrade Firefox to 35.0, some sites like plus.google.com and http://player.radio.com/listen/station/995-wycd/ will not give me the Allow to run "Adobe Flash"? at th… (read more)
Since upgrade Firefox to 35.0, some sites like plus.google.com and http://player.radio.com/listen/station/995-wycd/ will not give me the Allow to run "Adobe Flash"? at the top of the browser. Therefore cannot run Flash on thes sites. If I set to Flash to Always Active it will run.
I can not get the menu button to work
I am running Firefox on Linux Mint 13 Maya. For some reason many of the buttons in Firefox (not on webpages but in FireFox itself) do not respond to mouse clicks. I have… (read more)
I am running Firefox on Linux Mint 13 Maya. For some reason many of the buttons in Firefox (not on webpages but in FireFox itself) do not respond to mouse clicks. I have tried Safemode, refresh/restore and uninstall/reboot/reinstall. Still the same problem. I have a hard time accessing settings because the menu button is one of those that "depresses" but does not respond to any mouse clicks. Also I can not activate or deactivate plugins because of the same problem.
An error in Firefox code
I am a web developer, and i am using Iceweasel 31.7.0 (which is based of Firefox) under Linux Debian wheezy. A problem appears when i am writing a javascript code. My goa… (read more)
I am a web developer, and i am using Iceweasel 31.7.0 (which is based of Firefox) under Linux Debian wheezy.
A problem appears when i am writing a javascript code. My goal is to determine a size of screen (i am using typical pc, not any mobile device). So i am writing:
var body = window.document.body.style
// block to determine width body.height = '1px' for ( var i = 0; ; i++ ) {
body.width = i + 'px'
window.document.documentElement.scrollLeft = 1
if ( window.document.documentElement.scrollLeft != 0 )
break } i--
// block to determine height body.width = '1px' for ( var k = 0; ; k++ ) {
body.height = k + 'px'
window.document.documentElement.scrollTop = 1
if ( window.document.documentElement.scrollTop != 0 )
break } k--
body.width = ( i ) + 'px' body.height = ( k ) + 'px'
So after this code both scroll line appears! When it should not be because i an k variables are choosen maximum without scroll. And, moreover, an error disappears (both scroll lines disappears) when two blocks switched by place each other (first determine height, then width).
I'll appreciate at least confirmation that it is an error, even if you cannot provide a patch for Iceweasel. Thank you.
Spell checker switching languages
This has gone on for awhile and is really getting annoying. There have been times I have had to reset the language 4 times in about an hour. Anything I type in email, on… (read more)
This has gone on for awhile and is really getting annoying. There have been times I have had to reset the language 4 times in about an hour. Anything I type in email, on line forms or forums it does it, not every email but if I write a couple it will switch on one of them. I don't know if its web sites I go to or my location in Korea that does it. Usually Canada or UK English. I am using Mageia 4 and FF 38.2.0 Is there a fix for this?
We operate in a very restricted DNS environment and downloading sites with signed wildcard SSL is very slow so how do we disable all checks and keep HTTPS?
If we were using a self-signed certificate we could add an exception. But we use a DigiCert wildcard certificate. Our sites use a very restricted DNS with maybe a dozen U… (read more)
If we were using a self-signed certificate we could add an exception. But we use a DigiCert wildcard certificate. Our sites use a very restricted DNS with maybe a dozen URLs for which a name resolves to an IP. When Firefox is used to access our sites over HTTPS it is slow and often fails to load bu serving up error messages on the security of the site. I believe this is because it is looking to verify the certificate or revocation. We do not have this issue using HTTP. I have disabled "Query OCSP" but it has not helped.
Any assistance would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Firefox in Linux Mint 17.2: when opening a new tab, the cpu maxes out and causes the entire system to crash. I had already turned off hardware acceleration.
This has occur with both MATE and Cinnamon versions of Linux Mint 17.2. Firefox runs fine until I open a new tab. Then sometimes the cpu maxes out and I have to kill Fire… (read more)
This has occur with both MATE and Cinnamon versions of Linux Mint 17.2. Firefox runs fine until I open a new tab. Then sometimes the cpu maxes out and I have to kill Firefox. On the last instance, the entire system crashed; I am guessing a kernel panic or VMWare killed the virtual machine.
firefox on linux crashes repeatedly
about:crashes is consistently empty. But there is always a dialogbox asking me to quit or restart and if I want to tell mozilla about the crash. Once it crashed with this… (read more)
about:crashes is consistently empty. But there is always a dialogbox asking me to quit or restart and if I want to tell mozilla about the crash. Once it crashed with this stacktrace:
Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted. [Switching to Thread 0x7fb0fcdff700 (LWP 3024)] 0x00000035564328a5 in raise () from /lib64/libc.so.6 (gdb) where
0 0x00000035564328a5 in raise () from /lib64/libc.so.6 1 0x0000003556434085 in abort () from /lib64/libc.so.6 2 0x000000355642ba1e in __assert_fail_base () from /lib64/libc.so.6 3 0x000000355642bae0 in __assert_fail () from /lib64/libc.so.6 4 0x000000355944d24c in _XAllocID () from /usr/lib64/libX11.so.6 5 0x000000355b804f61 in XRenderCreatePicture () from /usr/lib64/libXrender.so.1 6 0x00007fb10ff0ccfc in ?? () from /build/peterf/firefox/libxul.so 7 0x00007fb10ff0d284 in ?? () from /build/peterf/firefox/libxul.so 8 0x00007fb10ff1f732 in ?? () from /build/peterf/firefox/libxul.so 9 0x00007fb10ff20c53 in ?? () from /build/peterf/firefox/libxul.so 10 0x00007fb10ff211e8 in ?? () from /build/peterf/firefox/libxul.so 11 0x00007fb10ff21496 in ?? () from /build/peterf/firefox/libxul.so 12 0x00007fb10ff151fb in ?? () from /build/peterf/firefox/libxul.so 13 0x00007fb10ff22a0d in ?? () from /build/peterf/firefox/libxul.so 14 0x00007fb1105dadad in ?? () from /build/peterf/firefox/libxul.so 15 0x00007fb1105dbd19 in ?? () from /build/peterf/firefox/libxul.so 16 0x00007fb10fdfa8b6 in ?? () from /build/peterf/firefox/libxul.so 17 0x00007fb110623846 in ?? () from /build/peterf/firefox/libxul.so 18 0x00007fb11066c6f8 in ?? () from /build/peterf/firefox/libxul.so 19 0x00007fb11066cdff in ?? () from /build/peterf/firefox/libxul.so 20 0x00007fb11066cea3 in ?? () from /build/peterf/firefox/libxul.so 21 0x00007fb110673af7 in ?? () from /build/peterf/firefox/libxul.so 22 0x00007fb110673cdb in ?? () from /build/peterf/firefox/libxul.so 23 0x00007fb10fdbd562 in ?? () from /build/peterf/firefox/libxul.so 24 0x00007fb10fdbd6f2 in ?? () from /build/peterf/firefox/libxul.so 25 0x00007fb1102c9522 in ?? () from /build/peterf/firefox/libxul.so 26 0x00007fb1102cfbfd in ?? () from /build/peterf/firefox/libxul.so 27 0x00007fb1102cfc7a in ?? () from /build/peterf/firefox/libxul.so 28 0x0000003556c07851 in start_thread () from /lib64/libpthread.so.0 29 0x00000035564e767d in clone () from /lib64/libc.so.6
(gdb) quit
Another time it just exited with exit code 6.
But it happens repeatedly.
I was first thinking that it got killed by OOM killer, since there was a big virtual machine running with 8GB associated with it, while the machine got 16GB.
I'm already starting firefox by deleting LD_LIBRARY_PATH before...
Here is another stacktrace:
(gdb) where
- 0 0x00000035564328a5 in raise () from /lib64/libc.so.6
- 1 0x0000003556434085 in abort () from /lib64/libc.so.6
- 2 0x000000355642ba1e in __assert_fail_base () from /lib64/libc.so.6
- 3 0x000000355642bae0 in __assert_fail () from /lib64/libc.so.6
- 4 0x00000035594463d2 in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libX11.so.6
- 5 0x000000355942a52d in XGetWindowProperty () from /usr/lib64/libX11.so.6
- 6 0x000000355e46ab64 in gdk_property_get () from /usr/lib64/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0
- 7 0x00007ff556d3b7d9 in ?? () from /build/peterf/firefox/libxul.so
- 8 0x00007ff556d3b84f in ?? () from /build/peterf/firefox/libxul.so
- 9 0x00007ff556d14505 in ?? () from /build/peterf/firefox/libxul.so
- 10 0x00007ff556d1624d in ?? () from /build/peterf/firefox/libxul.so
- 11 0x00007ff555a8c9c7 in ?? () from /build/peterf/firefox/libxul.so
- 12 0x00007ff556e42c6f in ?? () from /build/peterf/firefox/libxul.so
- 13 0x00007ff556e42d70 in ?? () from /build/peterf/firefox/libxul.so
- 14 0x00007ff556e42dbf in ?? () from /build/peterf/firefox/libxul.so
- 15 0x00007ff55599fd96 in ?? () from /build/peterf/firefox/libxul.so
- 16 0x00007ff5559a8109 in ?? () from /build/peterf/firefox/libxul.so
- 17 0x00007ff5559bed6b in ?? () from /build/peterf/firefox/libxul.so
- 18 0x00007ff555ec9522 in ?? () from /build/peterf/firefox/libxul.so
- 19 0x00007ff556d242b5 in ?? () from /build/peterf/firefox/libxul.so
- 20 0x00007ff5572245d3 in ?? () from /build/peterf/firefox/libxul.so
- 21 0x00007ff557258365 in ?? () from /build/peterf/firefox/libxul.so
- 22 0x00007ff55725a9eb in ?? () from /build/peterf/firefox/libxul.so
- 23 0x00007ff55725ac86 in XRE_main () from /build/peterf/firefox/libxul.so
- 24 0x00000000004086ab in _start ()
(gdb) q
Vertical colored bars on left side of window?
Arch Linux, 64-bit Radeon HD 7750 w/ Mesa 10.6.4 Gnome 3.16.2 Firefox 40.0.2 (problem does not occur on FF 39.0.3) Any Firefox window has a colored vertical region (20-… (read more)
Arch Linux, 64-bit
Radeon HD 7750 w/ Mesa 10.6.4
Gnome 3.16.2
Firefox 40.0.2 (problem does not occur on FF 39.0.3)
Any Firefox window has a colored vertical region (20-or-so pixels wide) beginning just under the system title bar and extending down to the bottom of the FF window. The region begins as a single color(1) but then, as the viewport changes(2) this region is segmented into sub-regions of independently varying colors. Multiple windows maintain their own independent colored region.
If multiple firefox windows are opened, each has its own region. Context menus (e.g. right clicking anywhere in the FF window) also have such a region. Disabling all extensions, plugins, and themes has no effect.
(1) The colors I've observed are always fundamental (cyan, magenta, yellow, green, blue, red, gray). When the color is set or changed (described below) the color seems to be set at random - that is to say I cannot distinguish a pattern as to how
(2) Scrolling the viewport or invoking a browser modal/prompt/file dialog will cause the entire region to change to one other color. Certain (I can't nail down the rhyme or reason) block-level changes to a page will cause a sub-region to appear, horizontally aligned with said block. Page-wide changes "reset" these sub regions. Animations on the page causing color changes (such as the fading in of a modal overlay div or the slow sliding up of the Firefox address bar when entering fullscreen) will cause rapid color change during the period of animation/transition. Blurring the Firefox window or using the PrintScreen button will also reset the entire region back to one color so I'm unable to get a screengrab of varying subregions.
Is this a problem with Firefox? Where should I file a bug report? Mozilla? Gnome? X? Mesa?
I would like to wrap the text in my tabs to more than one line
Hi everybody. As already mentioned, i would like to wrap the tab-titles to more lines so i am able to display more information of the title. Unfortunately i cannot find a… (read more)
Hi everybody.
As already mentioned, i would like to wrap the tab-titles to more lines so i am able to display more information of the title. Unfortunately i cannot find a way to do this except the more or less poor addon "tabtweak". I have tried manipulating the style via userChrome.css but all of my efforts wont have any effect on the length/overflow of the displayed text.
Here is what i have tried so far:
/*@namespace url("http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul"); /* set default namespace to XUL */
.tabbrowser-tab:not([pinned]) .tab-text {
border: !important;
word-wrap: break-word !important;
word-break: normal !important;
white-space: wrap !important;
height: 3em !important;
overflow-y: visible !important;
overflow-x: visible !important;
overflow: visible !important;
text-overflow: visible !important;
display: inline-table !important;
max-width: none !important;}
It would be awesome if someone is able to help out here. Soultice
Firefox crashes
help me, where launching firefox command line in normal-mode and safe-mode crashes Crash ID: bp-6dbca3e5-d17d-4364-9b09-4301e2150905 (process:11163): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_… (read more)
help me, where launching firefox command line in normal-mode and safe-mode crashes
Crash ID: bp-6dbca3e5-d17d-4364-9b09-4301e2150905
(process:11163): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion 'sys_page_size == 0' failed
BuildID: 20150826185640 CrashTime: 1441460722 EMCheckCompatibility: true Email: oscarfio@hotmail.com FramePoisonBase: 7ffffffff0dea000 FramePoisonSize: 4096 InstallTime: 1441407720 Notes: OpenGL: NVIDIA Corporation -- GeForce 610M/PCIe/SSE2 -- 4.4.0 NVIDIA 340.76 -- texture_from_pixmap
ProductID: {ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384} ProductName: Firefox ReleaseChannel: release SecondsSinceLastCrash: 46 StartupTime: 1441460721 TelemetryEnvironment: {"build":{"applicationId":"{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}","applicationName":"Firefox","architecture":"x86-64","buildId":"20150826185640","version":"40.0.3","vendor":"Mozilla","platformVersion":"40.0.3","xpcomAbi":"x86_64-gcc3","hotfixVersion":null},"partner":{"distributionId":null,"distributionVersion":null,"partnerId":null,"distributor":null,"distributorChannel":null,"partnerNames":[]},"system":{"memoryMB":7868,"cpu":{"count":8,"vendor":null,"family":null,"model":null,"stepping":null,"extensions":["hasMMX","hasSSE","hasSSE2","hasSSE3","hasSSSE3","hasSSE4_1","hasSSE4_2"]},"os":{"name":"Linux","version":"3.19.0-28-generic","locale":"it-IT"},"hdd":{"profile":{"model":null,"revision":null},"binary":{"model":null,"revision":null},"system":{"model":null,"revision":null}},"gfx":{"D2DEnabled":null,"DWriteEnabled":null,"adapters":[{"description":"NVIDIA Corporation -- GeForce 610M/PCIe/SSE2","vendorID":"NVIDIA Corporation","deviceID":"GeForce 610M/PCIe/SSE2","subsysID":null,"RAM":null,"driver":null,"driverVersion":"4.4.0 NVIDIA 340.76","driverDate":null,"GPUActive":true}]}},"settings":{"blocklistEnabled":true,"isDefaultBrowser":false,"e10sEnabled":false,"telemetryEnabled":false,"locale":"en-US","update":{"channel":"release","enabled":true,"autoDownload":true},"userPrefs":{}},"profile":{}} Theme: classic/1.0 Throttleable: 1 Vendor: Mozilla Version: 40.0.3 useragent_locale: chrome://global/locale/intl.properties
This report also contains technical information about the state of the application when it crashed.
remove internal popups and automatic suggestions
Since the last upgrade iv started to recive popups from within firefox asking me to rate firefox, "tips" and trixs, also the searchbar got auto suggestions on installing … (read more)
Since the last upgrade iv started to recive popups from within firefox asking me to rate firefox, "tips" and trixs, also the searchbar got auto suggestions on installing search for pages i visited etc etc...
How do i turn off all these things?!? I just dont want any suggestions or want to rate anything...
I really really find it very irritating with these changes in UI and these things that break my concentration.
after a update what is making web pages that I am scrolling down on, atomaticaly go back to the top all the time within seconds of trying to scroll down
I did not update to maverick OS but after a recent weekly update for Linux and or Firefox every time I try to scroll down on a web page it will automatically go back to t… (read more)
I did not update to maverick OS but after a recent weekly update for Linux and or Firefox every time I try to scroll down on a web page it will automatically go back to the top of the page. it will not let me stay put long enough to even read or see much of anything and it don't matter how long I wait or how many times I try to scroll down it will not stay put.
Why does Firefox fail to load pages correctly? No problems with Chromium.
It is getting to where FF doesn't load most pages correctly or at all, with or without plugins installed, and regardless of whether the cache is cleared or not. FF is ex… (read more)
It is getting to where FF doesn't load most pages correctly or at all, with or without plugins installed, and regardless of whether the cache is cleared or not. FF is extremely slow too, even after a fresh install. FF is also not sandboxed. I have no such problems with Chromium.
Tech folks are telling me FF is dying. I was hoping FF would beat Google because I hate Google. I'm finding myself using Chromium most of the time and I hate how its preferences and plugins are limited compared to FF and it doesn't load the home page I specify, instead loading a useless mess of preset links I don't approve. But I have to say I'm at the point of ditching FF completely, which is a disgusting feeling of defeat because now it seems Google dominates the PC browser and it's not even customization-rich and I don't even get to assign my home page to the home button.
If I had to give FF a grade, it would be F. It's like an old car that only goes 25mph and only drives on a rapidly decreasing number of roads where upon the instrumentation fails to light up or the engine might stop altogether. What kind of legacy is this? I'm tired of google maps not displaying correctly. Missing fields, maps, buttons, and graphics all the time. What's the deal? FF used to be great but now it's useless to me; I don't understand why it's still around. Are there plans to redo FF to address all these issues?
If pages would just load correctly I'd even tolerate slower program loading. Sandboxing would be a huge plus and I don't think it's that difficult to achieve. Much has been done to beautify the FF gui while its basic ability to display pages properly and securely is heavily neglected. May I ask where this is going? Give me reasons to stick with FF... Isn't FF worth fixing up?
Thanks, A user concerned about browser monopolies and diminished ability to browse the web productively and in alignment with my computing needs.
FF 40.0.3 for Linux / Ubuntu 13.04
Linux - fullscreen flash video opens on wrong monitor
When i click fullscreen button on a flash video (for example video embedded from Vimeo) it opens fullscreen on the wrong monitor. Not the one on which the action has been… (read more)
When i click fullscreen button on a flash video (for example video embedded from Vimeo) it opens fullscreen on the wrong monitor. Not the one on which the action has been started, but on my laptop built in screen. Extremely annoying as I can't get fullscreen flash running on my external monitor , which I use as my main one. In Chrome it works correctly (but I know it uses Pepper). I'm running Firefox 40.0.3, on Fedora 21 (Linux 4.1.6 . Gnome 3.14).
Show all possible PDF applications
I have written several local shell scripts to handle how to open a PDF. When Firefox asks me how to open a PDF, I would like to see all of them in the dropdown menu. Howe… (read more)
I have written several local shell scripts to handle how to open a PDF. When Firefox asks me how to open a PDF, I would like to see all of them in the dropdown menu. However, I can only see the one that I had previously selected, so whenever I want to use another one, I have to click "Other..." and go through my filesystem to their respective paths. Is there a way to permanently make several applications appear in that dropdown menu?