GMH deals with updating Waterfox to version 46
Discord doesn't let me run with Waterfox 36, so looks like I had to update it.
*updates*
Some GUI problems popped up. And some add-ons started warning me. Took me a bit to find how to force them to update, but then they worked out right. I have my Tree-Style Tabs back.
Now for two more important problems.
1. The search bar doesn't display the active search engine in a drop-down list like it used to. The previous about:config fix using browser.search.showOneOffButtons doesn't seem to work anymore.
2. "Tabs sharing devices" now absorbs the Alt+D that normally acts as a shortcut for going to the address bar, when I have my microphone shared with Discord.
*updates*
Some GUI problems popped up. And some add-ons started warning me. Took me a bit to find how to force them to update, but then they worked out right. I have my Tree-Style Tabs back.
Now for two more important problems.
1. The search bar doesn't display the active search engine in a drop-down list like it used to. The previous about:config fix using browser.search.showOneOffButtons doesn't seem to work anymore.
2. "Tabs sharing devices" now absorbs the Alt+D that normally acts as a shortcut for going to the address bar, when I have my microphone shared with Discord.
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code that supported that preference is gone as of Firefox 43.
Well, fuck.
I'll try that, but it's disappointing that Mozilla would take away a more useful version for this newer excuse for a searchbar and not provide an option to go back.
I am, at least, glad to know that the workaround has been taken out. That leads me to believe that this change is now permanent and gives me enough incentive to try other browsers out. :/
I find it hilarious that firefox is "committed to you..." as stated on their main page - and then viciously removes all these options that allow users to browse how we like it.
If firefox had any respect for its users it would never remove options, especially when their new features (like the one search) are heavily criticized.
Exactly. I'm not sure how anyone could even try the new one and feel it's half as useful or easy to use as the old one. I'm glad I'm not the only one that feels that way.
When they first did it, there was the workaround and I saw backlash so I always figured they'd change it back OR at least give an option in the menu to select the style. Since they've now, apparently, completely removed it I've got nothing holding me back to Firefox now.
see why updating is bad now?
also obligatory HAY CENTIE because i'm complaining about updates
see sooner or later this add-on's gonna stop being supported and then i'll need to find another log to jump to
brb
Only other issue so far is that the suggested destination when I start typing a URL now says "Visit heapershangout.com" and has a slightly larger breadth...but that's hardly an issue.
As for the Alt+D override bug, I guess it's known and I'll just have to live with it, keeping it in mind when I'm using Discord. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1197404
Also "silly name change"?
I had run into a problem earlier where Waterfox 36 couldn't update itself without breaking itself, so that's why I stuck with that for so long. Heck, this was the one time I actually WANTED to update my browser.
There's no option to "ask me every time" for setting cookies.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1101070
Apparently it was removed in Firefox 44+.
Apparently the reasoning was:
If you set the preference for third party cookies to "ask me every time" Firefox displays a modal dialog box for every cookie it encounters. This is bad for a number of reasons:
-It exposes far too much detail about the underlying implementation of the Web
-It forces the user to make a ridiculous number of decisions before visiting a Web site. For instance, amazon.com produces 8 dialog boxes, and ebay.com 15.
-Even informed users will not always have enough information to make an informed choice.
Uh, I'd been making those choices and working through those dialog boxes for years, just fine.
And "exposing too much detail"? How in the world is this a problem at all? That's a good thing!
But so basically my web browsing so far today and last night has all been done with accepting cookies and keeping them until they expire. All of them. Great, my Google cookies are now fucked up beyond belief and I've also got various other random shit on here now.
Fuck.
This is a key feature I've been using since like Firefox 1.
The cookies thing is still making me hesitant to use this as my primary browser for a lot of things -- I might need to shift more of my risky browsing to my standalone Chromium, which clears cookies on each exit.
Hmm. I should have it set correctly already.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/disable-built-pdf-viewer-and-use-another-viewer
I have one entry for "PDF file" and another for "Portable Document Format (PDF)". One is set to "Always Ask" and the other is set to "Save File". Let's set both to Save.
Well, now it works right.
There is no option to "preview in firefox". It's like it was cosmetically renamed "always ask".
I actually have a Firefox installation somewhere here; I'll have to check how that will interact with this install.
PaleMoon is like classic Firefox! Like the good old days!
Or I could use PaleMoon as my main browser and update Chromium as my dedicated Discord browser (assuming that it works) and dump Waterfox.
Hmm...
Incidentally this is how I end up with fifty million browsers.
So my best choice is actually to just split everything fifty million ways.
Waterfox is now my "entertainment" browser -- with logins to HH, IJBM, HB, Steam, Discord, etc..
PaleMoon will now be my doing proper stuff browser.
Or so I hope.
On the other hand, I care more about things like being able to tab through clickable buttons and links on a webpage (which is why I haven't switched to Opera despite multiple attempts), cookie management (Waterfox 46's lack of this might be alleviated by the Cookie Manager plugin for Waterfox 46, and I think I might actually adopt that going forward), Alt+D to the address bar, and the fact that I like to keep my multiple GMail accounts separate (and thus want to use separate browsers or browser sessions for them) -- especially for ones that carry confidential information.
I mean, heck, ideally, for things like bank accounts and such, I should just be using a browser that's totally separate from my regular web browsing, anyway.
It updated properly to Waterfox 47. No more broken update.
Firefox has a faster way of sharing web pages, apparently.
"Find the Hello icon to get started"
"Once you've found a page you want to discuss, click the icon in Waterfox to create a link. Then send it to your friend however you like!"
...or I can Ctrl+D Ctrl+C then paste
meanwhile, the Hello feature actually DOES require a Signup/Signin, unlike how they imply.