Why you SHOULD be using Firefox

lsg1r · 10 Sep 2021 at 12:42

Yep, more junk we didn't ask for that gets 'automatically turned on' and in my case ignores my settings that specifically states I did not want it.....studies turned off here too.
Had to go on to reddit to find the about:config rule to get rid of it...

From what I can find online seems to be money driven decision....um maybe if they listened to their users they wouldn't be needing to find new and unwelcome ways to monetise existing users because there would be more of them using the old things....

Buffalo2102 · 10 Sep 2021 at 19:08

Indeed.

I just want a modern, private, simple, secure browser with a bit of UI customisation and the ability to add/remove extensions for any additional functionality that I need. I don't want surveys, sidebars, pockets, sync, suggestions or anything else but it seems that I can't get that anymore.

Robbo · 11 Sep 2021 at 11:12

I shut my computer down last night, turned it on this morning and now my Firefox fonts on this forum only have messed up. I've had this issue years ago but the 'fix' from back then hasn't worked now. Other XenForo forums look fine...

This is how they look:

Any suggestions? I hate it.

Edit ::

Sorted. If anyone else has a similar issue, go to about:config, and then find: gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.force_gdi_classic_for_families - delete all the fonts listed, and restart Firefox.

Longbow · 11 Sep 2021 at 23:38

Robbo said:
Sorted. If anyone else has a similar issue, go to about:config, and then find: gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.force_gdi_classic_for_families - delete all the fonts listed, and restart Firefox.

How does it look now? Sharp like below?

Robbo · 11 Sep 2021 at 23:40

Like this:

How it should be!

V F · 11 Sep 2021 at 23:46

Hmm... I'm curious to see...

They all look like pure crap on iOS but fine on Windows.

@Longbow Yours reminds me of Windows XP.

mrk · 12 Sep 2021 at 00:13

Mine look like before deleting the fonts:

After:

Longbow · 12 Sep 2021 at 02:03

V F said:
@Longbow Yours reminds me of Windows XP.

Windows 7, I don't like the cleartype smoothing on it, so it's turned off.

mrk said:
Mine look like before deleting the fonts:

After:

Before looks better, the after fonts are too blurry/soft.

lsg1r · 15 Sep 2021 at 21:30

So they've finally 'announced' firefox suggests, the sponsored ad's in the address bar we never asked for.... https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-news/firefox-suggest/

LOL... supposedly 'opt in' and america only at first.... funny I'm in the UK and had to use about:config to disable it and I'm sure it will be changed to opt-out pretty quickly.... oh how I love the way firefox is focusing on the junk we don't need :rolleyes:

edit: and the irony in the first paragraph of their announcement...

Today, people have to work too hard to find what they want online, sifting through and steering clear of content, clutter and click-bait not worthy of their time. Over time, navigation on the internet has become increasingly centralized and optimized for clicks and scrolling, not for getting people to where they want to go or what they are looking for quickly.

they've just done the exact thing they're complaining about when they've stuck adverts in the address bar when I'm trying to either go direct to a site or open an old site...

Orcvader · 17 Sep 2021 at 15:50

Looking at the bug list seems the bookmark menu bar will be compact again in v93: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1725873

As for Firefox Suggest, it looks like they're not finished yet. This bug points that they're moving the setting somewhere else, and the article to enable/disable it is out of date: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1729587

V F · 17 Sep 2021 at 21:16

lsg1r said:
So they've finally 'announced' firefox suggests, the sponsored ad's in the address bar we never asked for.... https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-news/firefox-suggest/

LOL... supposedly 'opt in' and america only at first.... funny I'm in the UK and had to use about:config to disable it and I'm sure it will be changed to opt-out pretty quickly.... oh how I love the way firefox is focusing on the junk we don't need

edit: and the irony in the first paragraph of their announcement...
they've just done the exact thing they're complaining about when they've stuck adverts in the address bar when I'm trying to either go direct to a site or open an old site...

There is nothing more that really presses me right off is that. Forcing adverts on me. Get the hell out of here with that crap. It's getting to the point I'm going to have to get a PiHole.

Glanza · 5 Oct 2021 at 17:32

93 Released, some substantial changes in this version: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/93.0/releasenotes/

mrk · 5 Oct 2021 at 17:50

Nice just updated!

Orcvader · 6 Oct 2021 at 12:47

93 fixed the bookmark menu padding in compact mode, I no longer have to use CSS to fix it.

Ice Tea · 9 Oct 2021 at 10:43

https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/08/mozilla_adding_sponsored_search_results/

Sponsored search results anyone?

Buffalo2102 · 9 Oct 2021 at 11:30

OK, that's enough for me. I'm looking for an alternative as I don't like the way this is heading at all.

lsg1r · 9 Oct 2021 at 14:25

Ice Tea said:
https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/08/mozilla_adding_sponsored_search_results/

Sponsored search results anyone?

oh do keep up, we were on about this middle of last month

Buffalo2102 said:
OK, that's enough for me. I'm looking for an alternative as I don't like the way this is heading at all.

The below should fix it for now, although supposedly the settings should disable it (it didn't for me because I don't even have said option in settings) and it shouldn't be outside the US (or at least it's supposed to be like that).... funnily I had suggestions in the UK with no way to turn them off outside of about:config....

Orcvader said:
Someone tagged me on the Reddit thread with a fix for the Firefox Suggest, go to about:config and set browser.urlbar.groupLabels.enabled to false.

Buffalo2102 · 9 Oct 2021 at 15:22

lsg1r said:
oh do keep up, we were on about this middle of last month

The below should fix it for now, although supposedly the settings should disable it (it didn't for me because I don't even have said option in settings) and it shouldn't be outside the US (or at least it's supposed to be like that).... funnily I had suggestions in the UK with no way to turn them off outside of about:config....

I already fixed it for now and since I'm outside the US I'm probably fine anyway for a while. But, as I said, I don't like the direction that Mozilla are taking with this and it looks inevitable that I'm going to have to find an alternative at some point anyway.

Ice Tea · 10 Oct 2021 at 09:56

Buffalo2102 said:
OK, that's enough for me. I'm looking for an alternative as I don't like the way this is heading at all.

With all the information we give to Google then maybe it's time we just give in.

lsg1r said:
oh do keep up, we were on about this middle of last month .

My bad.

The_Arbiter · 12 Oct 2021 at 19:40

As this is kind of the official FF thread, i'll ask a question in here.

My browser is spazzing out from this morning. Nothing has changed as far as i'm aware, Edge and Brave work fine/ normal. However my GPU did spaz out last night in a game, and this morning there were lots of little strange squares about on the screen, but all disappeared shortly after.

All websites are missing some text/ letters, and there's black sharp lines a few inches long at random angles across random areas. When i move my mouse various parts of any website disappear and reappear, such as the text and lines.

All very strange. Does FF use the GPU more than compared to other browsers?

[edit]
Turned off hardware acceleration in browser, that seems to have fixed it.