Mozilla FireFox!!!

eNTi · Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2004 7:30 pm Post subject:

firefox eats up a lot of cpu, when active. i used to get a spark in cpu utilization of about 75% when refocus the firebird window. cpu utilization is up to 33% when scrolling down a webpage. this is quite a lot.
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JetAce44 · Apprentice Joined: 02 Feb 2004 Posts: 152

punter · Guru Joined: 25 Nov 2002 Posts: 506

I installed firefox, but can only open it when I have a mozilla-firebird window open !!!!!!

I get an XBL type error messages otherwise, anyone with similar experience ??

Insanity5902 · Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2004 12:49 pm Post subject:

yeah, it is a problem with the profiles, you could go into ~/.pheonix and try to find out what the problem is, I htink one uses defaultuser and the other uses default, and firefox get confused by that.

I just unistalled firebired and delted .phoenix, fixed the problem for me. Firefox is a lot better then firebird in so many different ways I woule of never used firebird,

kevmille · Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2004 10:09 pm Post subject:

Does anyone else have this problem?

In the Options menu, I tried changing my default font sizes but when I click on the icons to change them, nothing happens.

Any suggestions?
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RikBlankestijn · Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2004 6:36 pm Post subject:

kevmille · Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2004 7:07 pm Post subject:

Wow, duplicate threads

You have to use the default Firefox skin theme. Select it and Apply. Then close your browser and re-open it. It should work.

You were probably using a Firebird skin like most of us were using.
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ericseynaeve · n00b Joined: 14 Jan 2004 Posts: 15

Does anyone know where the language preferences are in Firefox? In Mozilla 1.x, it was easy to configure, e.g., that the languages should be found in following order: nl_BE, nl, en, en_US, fr (leading to some hilarious results). How can you do this in Firefox? I tried Language Menu extension, but it's cumbersome and doesn't really do what I want.

blaksaga · Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2004 10:40 pm Post subject:

Damn firefox kicks ass. I was a mozilla addict until I emerged it and added a nice nautilus (nautalica) theme so it matches everything. And it's hella fast compared to bulky mozilla.

3.1415 · Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2004 10:51 pm Post subject:

sure it's the best !
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RikBlankestijn · Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2004 4:40 pm Post subject:

Unne · l33t Joined: 21 Jul 2003 Posts: 616

kevmille · Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2004 8:48 pm Post subject:

cbr · Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2004 9:28 pm Post subject:

I'm having a problem with XCFE4 and Firefox. If i click on a link in XChat, it doesn't bring the Firefox window to the front. I have told XFWM to "Raise window when given focus" or smth and also in Tabbrowser Extensions I have specified, not to not-raise the window when some other app gives thr URL. What's the problem!? It's quite annoying :roll:

ap viper · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 14 Feb 2004 Posts: 95

Quick question, is there any way to transfer settings from one account to another? Also, how do I make it possible to install themes/extensions/etc. without running firefox as the root user.
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Unne · l33t Joined: 21 Jul 2003 Posts: 616

Start Firefox as the new user, so it makes a /home/user/.phoenix/default/[random garbage]/ directory, then copy /home/otheruser/.phoenix/default/[different random garbage]/* into the first user's [random garbage] directory. The directory Firefox stores settings in for each user is named something random by Firefox, for security reasons or some such thing. That might work. I usually just export my bookmarks and import them later, since that's 100% safe and bookmarks are really the only thing that would take more than a few minutes to reconfigure.

So far as extensions, some will prompt you to install them locally instead of globally. I think it's up to the extension writer to configure that. You could also chmod your global Firefox chrome folder ( /usr/lib/MozillaFirefox/chrome/ ... I think) to be world-writable (or writable by some specific user, or whatever), if you have no concern whatsoever for security. I've never tried it, so I don't know if that'd really work.

ap viper · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 14 Feb 2004 Posts: 95

Yet another question. Firefox freezes whenever I try to access the options menu as a regular user
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oldefortran · l33t Joined: 28 Feb 2004 Posts: 652

What is the difference between
mozilla-firefox
and
mozilla-firefox-bin?

yngwin · Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2004 5:45 pm Post subject:

the -bin is a pre-compiled binary, easier to install, less that can go wrong with the rather lengthy compile, but not optimized with your flags...