Sometimes Firefox really pisses me off

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Drunkard #1

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Today it found a new way to torture me.

I was browsing a local Usenet website (the one that shall remain nameless), when I switched Firefox to porn mode, to browse something else (not porn, believe it or not). After I finished browsing, I exited Firefox, but didn't exit porn mode first. All fine, so far. Then when I opened Firefox again, the Usenet site pops up.

Now I don't find the Usenet site's forum avatars particularly tactless, but they're not the sort of thing you want popping up unannounced when you open Firefox (while someone's standing behind you). But they did, so I'd just like to say **** YOU Firefox, you lost serious points today.

While I'm ranting, why does Firefox lock down as soon as I click print? I print-to-fax quite often, and I'd really like to be able to switch tabs while I'm using the print-to-fax wizard (to, for example, get a fax number from the gmail tab). IE lets me switch tabs, so minus another 10 000 to Firefox.

And finally, when are we going to be able to tile our tabs, like Opera's done for the past 12 years?

Actually, I think I'm going to switch to Opera; I would never have moved from IE if it was able to remember passwords!

I'm on a role, so I'd just like to say Linux sucks, and Open office can't compete with MS Office, and I mean Office XP (2002), not Office 2010!

Anyway...

Does anyone know how to completely disable session restore in Firefox. Thanks.
 
LOL....I can smell your fear of Linux five miles away. Don't be scared, oh drunken one! Thousands of humans sat sweating for hours in front of their pcs to give Linux to you for FREE....and you're complaining about it?

*Google Chrome calls it "Incognito" mode, where the browser does not list the site in your history and wont open it the next time you start Chrome.
 
When u close ffox for thje first time it asks u if u want to save what u were doing, and u probb did, and also ticked the tick box saving 'don't show this again' so each time u close ff is save pages and reloads on restart. Set all settings to default, and then next time choose 'no' when exiting when it asks u to save and leave checkbox unticked so that when u do exit in future u can decide to save session or not - 'to avoid those embarressing ' I swear I wasn't looking at porn awkward moments'. :D
 
I recommend Chrome wholeheartedly. Opera's great too. Heck, even Safari is a lot faster than Firefox these days.
 
The problem isn't private browsing, that works fine. And FF opens with Google as my home page normally, not where I left off. But if I exit while in private browsing mode, then FF opens where I left off before I activated private browsing mode.

Eg: 1. browse to MyBB,
2. switch to private browsing,
3. browse to xkcd,
4. exit firefox.

Now I'd expect FF to bring up Google, next time I start. But it doesn't, it brings up whatever I was looking at before I switched to private browsing (MyBB, in this example).

As for Linux, lately, Ubuntu has been wearing down my netbook's SSD continuously. I switched back to a 10 year old notebook, with half the RAM and MHz, and Windows 98 SE, and found it easier to use. I think I'm going to install Windows 2000 onto my netbook. And I'm going to give Chrome a try.
 
Drunkard #1 said:
As for Linux, lately, Ubuntu has been wearing down my netbook's SSD continuously. I switched back to a 10 year old notebook, with half the RAM and MHz, and Windows 98 SE, and found it easier to use. I think I'm going to install Windows 2000 onto my netbook.
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Rather put Windows XP Home on it.

And I'm going to give Chrome a try.
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Hooray! Just a word of warning.....Google Chrome is the fastest internet browser available today, so you might feel a bit of dizziness if you're used to Mozilla Slowfox, sorry Firefox.
 
"Porn Mode" in FF???
Synaesthesia said:
I recommend Chrome wholeheartedly. Opera's great too. Heck, even Safari is a lot faster than Firefox these days.
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BS, my FF is faster then Chrome
 
Synaesthesia said:
I recommend Chrome wholeheartedly. Opera's great too. Heck, even Safari is a lot faster than Firefox these days.
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I must say I agree with the google chrome..

In my expirence, in speed:

google chrome, IE 8, opera and then firefox...

But it could also be because of my computer.. mmm
 
Tpex said:
"Porn Mode" in FF???

BS, my FF is faster then Chrome
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DAM missed this one too...

If I click on google chrome and firefox (Almost at the same time... )

google chrome loads up first.. and then firefox.. (This applies to most websites as well...)
 
switch to private browsing = ctrl+shift+p

by the way, my chrome also loads up quicker than firefox, BUT, chrome is still default install (ie: without plugins and other add-ons) whereas, firefox has a couple of add-ons that make my life easier. Thus, I would kind of expect firefox to be a little slower... so I'm definately not complaining...
 
Maybe Chrome might help you here. This is the message that appears when you select a new "Incognito" window :

You've gone incognito. Pages you view in this window won't appear in your browser history or search history, and they won't leave other traces, like cookies, on your computer after you close the incognito window. Any files you download or bookmarks you create will be preserved, however.
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wishblade said:
by the way, my chrome also loads up quicker than firefox, BUT, chrome is still default install (ie: without plugins and other add-ons) whereas, firefox has a couple of add-ons that make my life easier. Thus, I would kind of expect firefox to be a little slower... so I'm definately not complaining...
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I'm running the following add-ons for Chrome and it does not slow my browser down :

Aniweather
Chromium Wheel Smooth Scroller
Mini Google Maps
Ultimate Chrome Flag
Downloads

Chrome is still lightning fast. :)
 
although kingrob, i think the issue that the op has is that private browsing works fine, but when switching back to standard browsing, the previous normal browsing page that was being viewed automatically is loaded, instead of the expected home page.
 
well, here's the additional, advanced settings tab of firefox. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!!!!!! If you change something and it breaks firefox, it's on your own shoulders and you only have yourself to blame!!!!

Open a new tab, and type in the following, without quote marks: 'about:config'

If you can find out what each option is used for, you can perhaps remove the undesired behaviour from firefox :D
 
wishblade said:
although kingrob, i think the issue that the op has is that private browsing works fine, but when switching back to standard browsing, the previous normal browsing page that was being viewed automatically is loaded, instead of the expected home page.
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I think that if I "stopped private browsing" before closing FF, my home page (Google) would load when I next opened FF. The problem is if I close the browser before switching back to normal mode; then the last "normal" page visited loads, when I next open FF, not my home page.

wishblade said:
well, here's the additional, advanced settings tab of firefox. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!!!!!! If you change something and it breaks firefox, it's on your own shoulders and you only have yourself to blame!!!!

Open a new tab, and type in the following, without quote marks: 'about:config'

If you can find out what each option is used for, you can perhaps remove the undesired behaviour from firefox :D
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I've looked there. Search for sess and all the session restore options are listed, but the step by step guides from google tend to focus on disabling "restore from crash", not completely disabling session restore. I was hoping someone knew which option I should change.
 
kaisterkai said:
DAM missed this one too...

If I click on google chrome and firefox (Almost at the same time... )

google chrome loads up first.. and then firefox.. (This applies to most websites as well...)
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I got nothing against chrome, I keep it on my PC because I need it sometimes, but I find it noticeably slower then FF, then again on FF I have adblock and fasterfox installed

Tacet said:
Mozilla Developer Preview 3.7 Alpha 5 has a privacy mode.
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I'm sure thats been in FF a wile?
 
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