Anyone have problems with Head-Fi and Firefox?

[bigears]

Head-Fi and Firefox...

I use Firefox 1.0 at Head-fi
and have minor issues ocasionally.

a) sometimes if i am offline checking last posts
and try to subscrive a thread,
i log on and the page changes to main page

When that happens i have to do a search
find that thread to subscrive it.


b) sometimes the buddy list does not load all.
The green/online and the grey/offline,
even if done several times.
Only shows who is online or offline
but with no link to them. This happens often.

c) i used to have some issues in the past
not been able to open threads,
but since i formated my disk
and reinstaled the software they almost disapear.
Could been a firewall/bug issue.

d) sometimes Jude does not answer pm´s
(mine and of others) quickly enough.
Fresh example:
Request for acess to OUTSIDE

Sent to: mbriant 12-29-2004 05:22 AM Unread
Request for acess to OUTSIDE

Sent to: jude 12-29-2004 05:22 AM Unread
[size=medium]Must be a Firefox software problem

[/size]

I think Head-fi should be animal friendly
not open fire against Foxes (Firefox)...

I made me really sad to see in a recent head-fi poll,
[size=medium]100 headfiers = 57.14% prefered to fire Foxes.[/size]

There are are also firefoxes fans:
"Any Firefox fans out there?"
http://www6.head-fi.org/forums/showt...php?t=95565&hi

ghlight=firefox

And fans that tweak Foxes... (cruel)

"FireFox Tweaks"
http://www6.head-fi.org/forums/showt...php?t=94198&hi

[size=medium]Poor Foxes...[/size]

 

[zachary80]

I have had icons (new thread, post reply, report post) get switched with each other and avatars repeatedly,

 

[breez]

I have the problem occasionally.

 

[Genetic]

Quote:

Originally Posted by bigears d) sometimes Jude does not answer pm´s (mine and of others) quickly enough. Fresh example: Request for acess to OUTSIDE Sent to: mbriant 12-29-2004 05:22 AM Unread Request for acess to OUTSIDE Sent to: jude 12-29-2004 05:22 AM Unread [size=medium]Must be a Firefox software problem [/size]

Latest news regarding your request: ACCESS DENIED....

Amicalement

 

[Stephonovich]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Duncan Has anybody had a good look into the 'about:config' options of FF? I've just been nosing around, and one that looks interesting is 'browser.turbo.enabled' that is defaulted (at least on my installation) as false... i've just set it to true... will see what happens

HOLY ****... not sure why I never caught that one. If you've got broadband, set that puppy to true. Insane. Combined with the usual pipelining, maxrequests, and nglayout.initialpaint.delay (have to create that one - make a new integer with that name, set value to 0), pages load hella fast. M$'s site is up with most graphics in about 1 seconds; fully loaded in 3. This, on a 1500/256 ADSL connection. CNN is fully loaded in 2 seconds. Insane.

 

[bigears]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Genetic Latest news regarding your request: ACCESS DENIED....

Nah, they did not read it yet.
15 days and counting...

As i said must be a [size=medium]software problem[/size]

All i can do is wait...

 

[Genetic]

Quote:

Originally Posted by bigears Nah, they did not read it yet.

LOL..dont believe all you see/read on those pages. I'm pretty sure they can access your messages without being detected....

Amicalement

 

[lan]

I can't tell if browser.turbo.enabled' has increased the speed. My internet was increased to 5mbps in the past week from 3mbps. That itself was a boost. Browsing is pretty nitro now. Pages usually render in under 1 second for me depending on the server. Headfi pages usually take less.

 

[Aman]

It's not a software problem. My firefox works fine.

It's just that you are all using Windows. Get Linux and it'll work, trust me

Make sure that your fonts are at the same that Internet explorer would be at. Often, especially at vB forums, this is a problem because it's built for IE and for nothing else... why? I don't know

 

[bg4533]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aman It's not a software problem. My firefox works fine. It's just that you are all using Windows. Get Linux and it'll work, trust me Make sure that your fonts are at the same that Internet explorer would be at. Often, especially at vB forums, this is a problem because it's built for IE and for nothing else... why? I don't know

I run dual boot with Mandrake and XP. I have ran Linux for many years now and go through periods of mainly Windows and mainly Linux. Last I heard my 1212M won't work with Linux yet. Considering it is my main source that is enough to keep me on Windows for now. At work I don't have a choice to what I run.

 

[Aman]

Yeah, that's unfortunate. My hifi soundcard (M-Audio 24/96) is supported perfectly. The company which manufatures the EMU line is awful, and wont give out driver information or build references. A shame, because the card is actually good!

 

[wallijonn]

Quote:

Originally Posted by bg4533 The only recurring problems I have had in quite a long time are with this site. Occasionally the graphics on this site just go nuts... The blue bar that tells time and post number will show the "Report This post" icon or something similar. The quote button becomes someones avatar. Etc... Clearing the cache fixes the problem. I have had this problem on my 3 home computers and many different computers at work. All run Windows XP and I have had this problem with Firefox 1.0 and .9something.

Did you check for spyware and hijackers? I wonder if someone isn't trying to highjack your home page.

Other than that, you should try turing off Java Scripts, especially the open / resize windows.

I'm Ubuntu, went to 1.0 and am now back on 0.93 because of one extension: Open last closed tab ("undoclosetab"). If you close a tab and you want to reopen it, it's a right click away. I find it too handy to uprade; you can't image the time it saves searching for a thread you've just responded to and closed and now you want to go back to.

Perhaps you guys can hack it to work with 1.0.

My usual res. is 1280x1024 on Linux and 1024x768 on Windows. Sometimes when you change resoltuions it'll fix itself up.

As to the cache problem - I always clear the cache before exiting FF or IE. I'm just old-school. If you have cookie culler you can protect certain cookies and clear the rest on exit.

Just finished installing FoxyTunes - my problems have nothing to do with FT but rather with Rhythmbox / XMMS and www.shoutcast.com. Somewhere I've mucked up mozplugger so streaming the playlist is problematic.

Dunc,

Bravo. You should add it to the FF tips section for easier future reference.

 

[wallijonn]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aman Yeah, that's unfortunate. My hifi soundcard (M-Audio 24/96) is supported perfectly. The company which manufatures the EMU line is awful, and wont give out driver information or build references. A shame, because the card is actually good!

If you have an AMD64, http://www.opensound.com/download.cgi otherwise http://www.m-audio.com/index.php?do=support.drivers

http://www.opensound.com
http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_u...on51-main.html (Guess the 5.1 card is the only M-Audio card to get

)

 

[Aman]

I don't understand. OSS is deprciated...

And E-MU cards aren't supported on OSS either. Just a lack of info.

My M-Audio card works EXCELLENTLY in ALSA. The crap 5.1 card isn't the "only way to go"

By the way, you should use a REAL distro like Gentoo

 

[wallijonn]

Aman,

I've used Gentoo, and VidaLinux, too (VidaLinux is Gentoo for GNOME). No thanks.

I kept one thing from ViaLinux: their modified GloosyP theme. I used ViaLinux on a DSL 128k line and OpenOffice would have taken 24 hours to install. Again, no thanks. If all I wanted were speed, heck I could go with Yoper if I wanted KDE. I'm a GNOME fan. And after going through about a dozen distros (Debian 2 (Prodigy), Debian 3 (Woody), Open BSD, FreeBSD, Fedora, Mandrake, SUSE, Slackware, Immunix, BitDefender, IPCop, Gentoo, VidaLinux, Red Hat, Lycoris...) I am happy with Ubuntu. No more KDE for me, no, sir. Ubuntu may not be for everyone, but it is for me; it appeals to the tweaker in me. I don't want to install a KDE based distro like SUSE and Mandrake and then strip it of KDEOffice, ABIword, Mozilla, KDEMail, and then install Firefox, OpenOffice and Evolution. Konqueror? I might as well just use MicroSoft products - I don't want an integrated browser tied to the desktop.