Firefox...the end of an era?

[Bleipriester]

Of course, flash works well with Firefox. On the other hand, flash is dying and is being replaced by HTML5. So it doesn´t matter at all.

 

[Darkwind]

Firefox does not even support Flash anymore. Flash has not worked on my Firefox in over 10 months.

It's been working for everyone else. I know. A lot of porn sites use Flash. Firefox could never allow Flash to not work.

It sounds like some of you have problems with bad profiles. Over a span of years, crud builds up. To fix:

1. Type "about:support" in the URL bar, hit return.

2. Hit the "Refresh Firefox" button.

Bookmarks will be preserved, but all settings go back to default, and all addons will be nuked. Which is for the best, as bad addons are often the cause of the problems. So you do that, you see if things work, then you start putting the addons back in one at a time.

Did all that. None of it worked.

 

[Delta4Embassy]

Still using v2.0.0.20 just fine. Not missing Flash or anything else. Use this site just fine and everything else worth using.

 

[Iceweasel]

I have FF set to clear everything but log in information when I close it. Helps to keep it from getting bloated with God knows what.

 

[longknife]

Have you guys ever tried Opera? It's very similar to Firefox but it's way better.

I don't know what the hell happened buy my Opera just took a dump. I removed and uploaded it and it still gives me all sorts of weird characters.

I'm going to restart my pc in a bit and try uploading it again.

I'm stuck with Firefox at the moment and it seems slot.

 

[Ringel05]

Firefox does not even support Flash anymore. Flash has not worked on my Firefox in over 10 months.

It's been working for everyone else. I know. A lot of porn sites use Flash. Firefox could never allow Flash to not work.

It sounds like some of you have problems with bad profiles. Over a span of years, crud builds up. To fix:

1. Type "about:support" in the URL bar, hit return.

2. Hit the "Refresh Firefox" button.

Bookmarks will be preserved, but all settings go back to default, and all addons will be nuked. Which is for the best, as bad addons are often the cause of the problems. So you do that, you see if things work, then you start putting the addons back in one at a time.

Did all that. None of it worked.

Then you have another problem. Did you update Flash? FF auto-blocked Flash due to some serious vulnerabilities, you have to allow flash to work. Check your Add-ons and Extras, see if Flash is disabled.

 

[longknife]

Thanks but I've just removed Opera and gone to Firefox 64bit program, using Chrome for this and other discussion forums.

 

[Darkwind]

Firefox does not even support Flash anymore. Flash has not worked on my Firefox in over 10 months.

It's been working for everyone else. I know. A lot of porn sites use Flash. Firefox could never allow Flash to not work.

It sounds like some of you have problems with bad profiles. Over a span of years, crud builds up. To fix:

1. Type "about:support" in the URL bar, hit return.

2. Hit the "Refresh Firefox" button.

Bookmarks will be preserved, but all settings go back to default, and all addons will be nuked. Which is for the best, as bad addons are often the cause of the problems. So you do that, you see if things work, then you start putting the addons back in one at a time.

Did all that. None of it worked.

Then you have another problem. Did you update Flash? FF auto-blocked Flash due to some serious vulnerabilities, you have to allow flash to work. Check your Add-ons and Extras, see if Flash is disabled.

I've done all of that. I've even removed it and installed a previously working version. Flash works in every browser I have except Firefox.

 

[Bleipriester]

Firefox does not even support Flash anymore. Flash has not worked on my Firefox in over 10 months.

It's been working for everyone else. I know. A lot of porn sites use Flash. Firefox could never allow Flash to not work.

It sounds like some of you have problems with bad profiles. Over a span of years, crud builds up. To fix:

1. Type "about:support" in the URL bar, hit return.

2. Hit the "Refresh Firefox" button.

Bookmarks will be preserved, but all settings go back to default, and all addons will be nuked. Which is for the best, as bad addons are often the cause of the problems. So you do that, you see if things work, then you start putting the addons back in one at a time.

Did all that. None of it worked.

Then you have another problem. Did you update Flash? FF auto-blocked Flash due to some serious vulnerabilities, you have to allow flash to work. Check your Add-ons and Extras, see if Flash is disabled.

I've done all of that. I've even removed it and installed a previously working version. Flash works in every browser I have except Firefox.

Try Cyberfox, then.

 

[Toro]

Timely thread.

FF started being a pain in the ass a few days ago. I don't know why. I didn't change anything. But suddenly, pages weren't loading, or taking forever to load. I Refreshed it, but some sites are just slow.

I've even resorted to occasionally surfing on <gasp> Safari.

 

[Ringel05]

Timely thread.

FF started being a pain in the ass a few days ago. I don't know why. I didn't change anything. But suddenly, pages weren't loading, or taking forever to load. I Refreshed it, but some sites are just slow.

I've even resorted to occasionally surfing on <gasp> Safari.

For you (and many others) if it just happened it's probably due to FFs most recent update.

Okay, something I forgot, had to do it the last time FF updated on mine. There was a problem with some graphics cards and FF, update your graphics drivers and if that doesn't work disable hardware acceleration in FF.

Disable Firefox s Hardware Acceleration to Fix Slowness and More

Same possible issue with Flash Player, disable hardware acceleration in Flash Player.

https://www.lds.org/bc/content/ldso...ow-to-disable-flash-hardware-acceleration.pdf

 

[longknife]

I have a problem in that I keep getting notices that :script is not responsding. I go to Java and download the latest - and nothing happens.
Partially solved the problem - now using Chrome for this and other discussion forums.

 

[Ringel05]

I have a problem in that I keep getting notices that :script is not responsding. I go to Java and download the latest - and nothing happens.
Partially solved the problem - now using Chrome for this and other discussion forums.

Warning Unresponsive script - What it means and how to fix it Firefox Help

 

[Darkwind]

I've done ALL of that. LOL

What I did find..oh about 2 months ago...was an addon that allows you to play video without flash....then just disable the flash player in firefox...

For those websites that have flash only (no html5 canvass elements), you'll have to use another browser to see the flash.

Here is that plugin.

Video WithOut Flash Search Add-ons for Firefox

Its called "Video without Flash"

 

[AquaAthena]

Have you guys ever tried Opera? It's very similar to Firefox but it's way better.

I started with Opera when I got this computer, just to give something different a chance. Then Chrome, and now back to Firefox (which is most of my history). I don't remember what Opera's issues were but there were reasons I came back to Firefox.

I was on Firefox when it was still Nutscrape Navigalator.

I used Firefox for years. I switched to Chrome but I forget why. I think it might've been that the search bar defaulted to Yahoo and I couldn't figure out how to change it back to google.

BINGO...I hate Yahoo.
It is the worst search engine on the planet...and it isn't that you can't figure it out...FF removed Google as a search bar option.

Agree! Just switched back to Google this morning. FF tried to do a number on us by switching us to Yahoo.

Here's how:

How to remove Yahoo as Firefox s default search engine - CNET

I'm going to do a number on FF by switching to Chrome!

 

[Ringel05]

I've done ALL of that. LOL

What I did find..oh about 2 months ago...was an addon that allows you to play video without flash....then just disable the flash player in firefox...

For those websites that have flash only (no html5 canvass elements), you'll have to use another browser to see the flash.

Here is that plugin.

Video WithOut Flash Search Add-ons for Firefox

Its called "Video without Flash"

Then you have a config problem in FF. probably protected mode:

Disabling Protected Mode in Flash 11.3
To disable (or re-enable) Protected Mode in Flash 11.3 and above, use one of these methods:

• (Starting in Firefox 38) In the Firefox (Tools) menu, click "Add-ons -> Plugins -> Shockwave Flash Options (button)", clear the "Enable Adobe Flash protected mode" checkbox and restart the browser. (To re-enable Flash Protected Mode, re-check the checkbox.) [45]
• (Starting in Firefox 35 on Windows 7/Vista, Firefox 36 on Windows 8) Toggle the "dom.ipc.plugins.flash.disable-protected-mode" preference to "true" in about:config and restart the browser. (To re-enable Protected Mode, set the preference back to "false"). [46]. [47] [48]v
• Edit the Flash mms.cfg file

To disable Protected Mode, use a text editor to add the line ProtectedMode=0 to the Flash "mms.cfg" file, located in one of these locations: [49]
(Windows 32bit) C:\Windows\System32\Macromed\Flash
(Windows 64bit) C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash
For example, on a Windows 7 64-bit system, open the C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash folder, copy the file "mms.cfg" to the desktop, open it in Notepad, add a new line ProtectedMode=0 and then close Notepad, saving your changes. Next, go back to the C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash folder, rename the original file to "mms.cfgBAK" (to save it as a backup) and then drag and drop in the modified "mms.cfg" file from the desktop. To re-enable Flash Protected Mode, either restore a backup of the original mms.cfg file, if you saved one, or else re-edit the mms.cfg file to remove the ProtectedMode=0 line you added. Updating Flash Player or installing a newer version does not automatically re-enable Protected Mode.

Flash - MozillaZine Knowledge Base

If you don't have 11.3 the procedure should be pretty much the same.

 

[Ringel05]

Have you guys ever tried Opera? It's very similar to Firefox but it's way better.

I started with Opera when I got this computer, just to give something different a chance. Then Chrome, and now back to Firefox (which is most of my history). I don't remember what Opera's issues were but there were reasons I came back to Firefox.

I was on Firefox when it was still Nutscrape Navigalator.

I used Firefox for years. I switched to Chrome but I forget why. I think it might've been that the search bar defaulted to Yahoo and I couldn't figure out how to change it back to google.

BINGO...I hate Yahoo.
It is the worst search engine on the planet...and it isn't that you can't figure it out...FF removed Google as a search bar option.

Agree! Just switched back to Google this morning. FF tried to do a number on us by switching us to Yahoo.

Here's how:

How to remove Yahoo as Firefox s default search engine - CNET

I'm going to do a number on FF by switching to Chrome!

Switched me to Yahoo also, I just switched it back to Google. I'd use Chrome but, as I've said before, Chrome doesn't have a Menu Bar, I like my menu bar so I'll deal with the occasional stupidity some companies do to make money.

 

[Ringel05]

Had a browser thread a while back where I covered a bunch of alternative browsers for those who don't like the "big boys".
Here's an updated list;
10 obscure highly specialized browsers that will make you forget about Chrome Firefox and IE PCWorld

I was using Lunascape for a while, give the user a choice of search engines (Trident, Gecko and WebKit). Might go back to it.

 

[Darkwind]

I've done ALL of that. LOL

What I did find..oh about 2 months ago...was an addon that allows you to play video without flash....then just disable the flash player in firefox...

For those websites that have flash only (no html5 canvass elements), you'll have to use another browser to see the flash.

Here is that plugin.

Video WithOut Flash Search Add-ons for Firefox

Its called "Video without Flash"

Then you have a config problem in FF. probably protected mode:

Disabling Protected Mode in Flash 11.3
To disable (or re-enable) Protected Mode in Flash 11.3 and above, use one of these methods:

• (Starting in Firefox 38) In the Firefox (Tools) menu, click "Add-ons -> Plugins -> Shockwave Flash Options (button)", clear the "Enable Adobe Flash protected mode" checkbox and restart the browser. (To re-enable Flash Protected Mode, re-check the checkbox.) [45]
• (Starting in Firefox 35 on Windows 7/Vista, Firefox 36 on Windows 8) Toggle the "dom.ipc.plugins.flash.disable-protected-mode" preference to "true" in about:config and restart the browser. (To re-enable Protected Mode, set the preference back to "false"). [46]. [47] [48]v
• Edit the Flash mms.cfg file

To disable Protected Mode, use a text editor to add the line ProtectedMode=0 to the Flash "mms.cfg" file, located in one of these locations: [49]
(Windows 32bit) C:\Windows\System32\Macromed\Flash
(Windows 64bit) C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash
For example, on a Windows 7 64-bit system, open the C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash folder, copy the file "mms.cfg" to the desktop, open it in Notepad, add a new line ProtectedMode=0 and then close Notepad, saving your changes. Next, go back to the C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash folder, rename the original file to "mms.cfgBAK" (to save it as a backup) and then drag and drop in the modified "mms.cfg" file from the desktop. To re-enable Flash Protected Mode, either restore a backup of the original mms.cfg file, if you saved one, or else re-edit the mms.cfg file to remove the ProtectedMode=0 line you added. Updating Flash Player or installing a newer version does not automatically re-enable Protected Mode.

Flash - MozillaZine Knowledge Base

If you don't have 11.3 the procedure should be pretty much the same.

LOL

I tried all that.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

If your browser is unstable blame Adobe Flash. I wish to God there was an alternative to their shit. Get flashblocker, it helps.

Yep, Flash sucks balls. It causes so many problems in Chrome.