Which IRC channel covers the JavaScript self-hosted script and its Gecko engine?

I like how "specific" this addon is. lol

rather than just any other type of video downloader, which you could use in private browsing mode.

Hi, how can I get the profile directory inside firefox?

can I use web-ext to run firefox with given url?

amosbird_: maybe if you shared your aim, your end goal that would be easier to understand what you're wanting

I signed up for a Firefox Account in a simplified Chinese Firefox and now would like to sync an English Firefox with the same account. It tells me the account doesn't exist though.

TitanNano: you may also try asking in #sync or #l10n (localization) for some ideas on this. Ask during the US day *may* get you more results. I'm wondering if there is some character issue such that you're entering characters that don't match the original.

bug 1322485 has been fixed

I believe all the tab suspender/unloader addons would be dependent on this

Caspy7: AFAIK Tab Suspender (memory saver) a.k.a. Tab Suspender (… something else …) addons.mozilla.org/tab-suspender-tab-unloader takes a different approach. I expect things to be better with things that will use `tabs.discard`

grahamperrin-M: that link was broken for me

Sorry, over-abbreviated. Here: addons.mozilla.org/addon/tab-suspender-tab-unloader and the other name for the same extension is Tab Suspender (Tab Unloader) add0n.com/tab-suspender.html and in some other places. I can't recall whether the installed name was the same as either of those; I removed it due to issues such as <rNeomy/tab-suspender #31#issuecomment-333864431>

yeah, I'd much rather have the originals, the one that did proper unloading, than the chrome-style one that leaves a placeholder and a URL

I just wonder is Session Manager still needs more APIs to work properly (I'm just going to guess yes)

I am submitting a patch to M-C but getting error on running `hg push review` which says `abort: no review repository found`. Can somebody help here?

And error is this - pastebin.mozilla.org/9071694

I am not getting any clue why this happens . I followed all steps that were listed. And I have pushed before to M-C around 20 days back. And i haven't changed configs since hthen

arai_: input? ^

pradeepgangwar: have you enabled hg extension for it?

pradeepgangwar: if not, try "./mach mercurial-setup"

that will help you configuring your hg environment

and there it will ask you about enabling the extension

arai: I have it listed under extensions and have tried running `./mach mercurial-setup` many times

but nothing happens error remains same

pradeepgangwar: reviewboard=... in [extension], right?

yes its like this reviewboard = /home/rs/.mozbuild/version-control-tools/hgext/reviewboard/client.py

hm, strange

Hi, how to get rid of "open in app" in google search results in firefox mobile?

:arai_ : even error reports first try to push to correct url and then to another url and then abort.

pradeepgangwar: can you pastebin the exact output?

hopefully input and output

pradeepgangwar: ah, I think I got it

arai_: This is it pastebin.mozilla.org/9071696

the last section

try adding review path into .hg/hgrc

err

sorry it might be different

I haven't seen that case

pradeepgangwar: try asking in #mozreview

arai_: Ok, Thanks ! :)

Hi, how can I use javascript to stop page loading and reset page to its original state?

Hi, I've found an oddity on the nightly version of firefox and I was wondering how to go about reporting it (or seeing if it's already known) as I couldn't find anything in the about/help menu...

etelmo: you can report here bugzilla.mozilla.org

while reporting, you can search similar reports

Hrm, there doesn't seem to be anything about it... I guess I'll make an account and post

It's not a huge bug, it's just it shares the volume control with teamspeak if you're connected to a TS server (well, sort of shares it... it's buggy as hell)

other applications don't?

No, other applications all get their own control

However the current nighty version shares it's volume with teamspeak

okay, then it will worth file a bug

was it working as expected before?

I think so, I didn't notice it until today because I was listening to music and had trouble with teamspeak volume

this tool helps you finding when the issue started happening mozilla.github.io/mozregression

adding that information when you file a bug will help

I mean it might not even be a bug with FF, it could be teamspeak causing the problem... however I've never had it happen previously

you can test with older Nightly with mozregression

if the issue happens there as well, it might be either pre-existing issue or issue outside of Nightly

which would be the ideal channel for discussing a regex parsing issue

specially that it hangs the whole system, in the RegExpBuiltinExec method.

Ugh

wel, hop into #jsapi for further discussion

Hmm, I know there are a bunch of issues relating to favicons (bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=favicon) but I am having one where when I bookmark a site, while it does display it, this appears instead of the actual icon for the site: i.imgur.com/pONqAjZ.png

Very... odd.

Brian, is it an outdated favicon, one that was proper for the site in the past?

Nope, grahamperrin-M. The favicon for the site is already there in the code. I can see it fine when browsing. It's bugged/incorrect in the Bookmark Menu

Cc

Hello

Http://www.i-serv.fr vient si sa te dit tes la/le bienvenue il a ete cree hier

Http://www.i-serv.fr vient si sa te dit tes la/le bienvenue il a ete cree hier

Brian: that's currently intended behavior, it will be fixed in some future version, maybe in 58 or 59, i forget.

technically that *is* the website's icon, but it's a different once, websites usually have different icons that they display depending on resolution/etc

so like on a tablet device with a different browser interface, maybe a different icon would be chosen. ideally the website would just have different sizes of the same icon,

but most websites don't seem to do this, most websites often have different icons for some reason.. like reddit has one with the whole body of the reddit mascot, and one with just the head.

the 'bug' in firefox is that it currently chooses a different icon for the tabs, and another one for the bookmarks.

this will be fixed, but the fix was too complicated to land in 57's beta cycle, so yeah.

azaki: was my favicon-related workaround at mozilla.logbot.info/firefox/20171027#c13754686 necessary? Terribly blunt – deletion of the entire database – but it _did_ please me by ending the inconsistency.

developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons…ensions/user_interface/Page_actions has a black head on a red background, with the red visible in the navigation toolbar after loading the page.

grahamperrin-M: I'm gonna just wait for the bugfix.

hopefully it's fixed in 58 but i dunno yet.

Riot, with my preference to preview URLs for this room, shows the large white head on a black background (not a favicon, this is proper):

hey guys. Caspy7 helped me in another channel, where i asked about how to spot whether or not firefox is running in private mode or not (a question actualized by having enabled the "Always start in private mode" setting, and then restarting).

after restarting, with this setting enabled, i am not seeing the purple icon that tells me firefox is in private browsing mode.

is there really no way to get a clear indication of the mode, like with the purple icon you normally see when you start a new browser window in private mode explicitly?

the reason im looking for one is that i cannot be sure that the setting doesnt change - it could change due to silly things like the os screwing up and what not, so the only safe way to know im in private mode is to see a difference in the window somehow, again like the purple icon.

If I close the Mozilla page then seek a distinctive part of its URL, the result is a black head is on a blue background:

rawtaz: experimental Conex will, I believe, show whether a tab is private.

To anyone who is familiar with the historic appearances of MDN: has there ever been a blue background to the head?

I'm fairly certain that today was my first SeaMonkey visit to that MDN URL.

grahamperrin-M: ok i see. would prefer not to rely on an addon that might bug out though :§

rawtaz: whilst there are bugs, there is – I strongly suspect – a single, simple workaround for the class of bugs that is potentially troublesome from a privacy perspective.

grahamperrin-M: yeah but its not great finding out that you need to do such a workaround after the fact..

rawtaz: in all fairness, this class _does_ require the end user to explicitly press a radio button that acknowledges a carelessness approach to privacy. Part of the workaround involves choosing the other, caring button.

grahamperrin-M: im sorry, not following what radio button(s) you are talking about?

Give me five, I'm starting Firefox (writing from SeaMonkey at the moment).

rawtaz: after installation of Conex, an exclamation mark in its button invites the user to set preferences relating to movement. Two pairs of radio buttons. One pair relates to privacy, here's a screenshot of my preference:

Where a window is private, the toolbar button of Conex is greyed out. Very considerately designed.

grahamperrin-M: so, the button is greyed out if you have the setting like in your screenshot, and you're in a private window? so you mean you can look at that button to determine if the window is private?

Yes, that, and more. I'll make a brief screen recording to demonstrate another feature.

grahamperrin-M: you're the author? :)

Gosh, no! I test various things, mostly open source, necessarily focused on Firefox in recent months.

aha :D

I can report bug here?

Firefox private browsing and Conex: youtube.com/watch?v=IMD5vwuCJzQ

Alguem: please let us have an outline description of the symptoms, then someone should be able to tell whether a bug has been reported.

ok, right: in Responsive Design Mode, properties screen.orientation, when I change orientation, in DOM is not changed, never stay in portrait-primary, Im using Firefox Develop Edition

rawtaz: here's a key frame from the screen recording. In the frontmost window – not a private window – a hand-pointer indicates the Conex listing for a tab within a Firefox private browsing window:

thanks grahamperrin-M

hi there

Also worth noting: a Conex preference to disallow Firefox container-related 'movement' does not prevent other Firefox container-related extensions from sending a page to or from a container.

I'm ussing Fx Quantum and I wonder if I can replace my current instalation with it; I mean, does it will be stable or is it better to wait till nov 14 to update my current instalation?

NaN: for production quality – stability and more – I recommend awaiting the release.

Your mileage may vary with regards to stability of pre-release builds

Nightly works great for me 99% of the time

+1

but the 1% is very existent

NaN: so you already have two installations of Firefox, one of which is a pre-release version of 57, yes?

grahamperrin-M: only 1 instalation, I'm runing Quantum from the mounted disk (mac)

Quantum being...what?

Which branch?

I like how it works and feels, and I could replace my current instalation; the thing is I don't know if a beta instalation converts to stable once it's released (self udapte to stable)

NaN: OK, I get it. Disk image.

ah

grahamperrin-M: yes, I'm running it from a disk image

no, a beta installation stays on the beta branch

oh so I better wait till release

which is, I believe, one major version number ahead of stable, and preeeeettttty good to use if you know enough about this stuff to *go for* a beta branch

At this time.

I mean whatever suits you

NaN: no auto-update, in the meantime you can have the two versions alongside each other, without restricting yourself to a disk image.

grahamperrin-M: ok so I can install Quantum and don't uninstall stable, so when stable becomes 57 I can switch to it; I got it

Hi, how to get rid of "open in app" links in google search results on firefox mobile?

what will happen to quantum? it will be on beta updates all the time? so that instalation will become my firefox beta, isn't?

NaN: whilst I boot a different Mac (ridiculously slow with Apple File System (APFS)), remind me please: what's the name of the application on the mounted disk image?

grahamperrin-M: Firefox

Hmm, I'm almost certain that my installation of a pre-release has an application name that differs from `Firefox.app`

grahamperrin-M: s1.postimg.org/4aqrkfkggv/image.png

Oh, and when I wrote "no auto-update", I meant no auto-update from pre-release to release. Like The0x539 wrote :-)

it'll update from version to version

but it'll (almost) always be further forward than stable

Exactly.

so that instalation always be updated with beta release?

yes, the installation will always be a beta installation

OK, here I have a `FirefoxAurora.app` with a blue icon with neither purple nor green in the icon, which might mean that Aurora is an alternative name for Developer Edition.

mozilla.org/firefox/channel/desktop/#desktop-nightly-download there's the icon of the third of the three pre-release flavours of Firefox, with green and purple mixed with the blue.

Also I wonder whether the Firefox Quantum beta in the screenshot from NaN differs from the Firefox Quantum beta that's pictured at mozilla.org/firefox/channel/desktop/#desktop-beta-download

The beta in the screenshot from NaN does not have the bright green BETA badge on its fox-coloured and blue icon.

… those inconsistencies and still, some people wonder why some other people are surprised to find themselves using a version of Firefox that's not the expected version.

None of which should be confused with Firefox Quantum Flow ;-)

Seriously, are there any other AKAs of which we should be aware? Does Nightly have an alternative name?

Used to be called Minefield

Distant memories, was Minefield also used to describe some versions of Sunbird, Thunderbird and/or SeaMonkey?

I don't think so

grahamperrin-M: Aurora turned into Developer Edition, and then we killed the Aurora branch, but Dev edition lives on as a tweaked version of Beta

Tyler: thanks. Now, glancing at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox#Branding_and_visual_identity the confusion makes sense. Years ago I certainly used Aurora when Aurora = alpha quality.

Now it seems VERY wrong for Mozilla to use Aurora as an alternative name for Developer Edition when (if I understand correctly) Nightly has alpha qualities.

Yeah, I know, I should make a bug report for the naming, if no-one else has already done so. But I'm not in bug mood :-)

grahamperrin-M: Aurora is dead. It is no more.

if you have an aurora app installed it is likely an artifact from the olden days.

Tyler, no, it's very recent. Please see mozilla.logbot.info/firefox/20171031#c13787529

grahamperrin-M: when did you install that app, and where did you download it from?

From Mozilla.

grahamperrin-M: mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/channel/desktop

from there?

because none of them should be calling anything aurora

Apple File System is excruciatingly slow here, I can't tell the date yet. I can at least tell that it's on a volume named 10.9.5, which probably does mean that the current (updated) `.app` originated years ago.

Firefox Sync is messed up. Installed and enabled an extension that I previously explicitly disabled at my main machine.

I'm not complaining about the mess caused by Firefox Sync :-) just sharing the observation, 'cause it might encourage readers to have an open mind when inexplicable things happen with extensions. Like, an extension usable whilst it's disabled :-)

Yep, the wrongly enabled extension installed on the Mac today (2017-10-31) and it certainly was not installed by me, so that's a bug with Firefox Sync.

Tyler: thanks for waiting. `FirefoxAuroroa.app` version FirefoxDeveloperEdition 57.0 created 2013-10-10.

grahamperrin-M: that would be why.

Aurora died last year I believe, or early this year

I'll download the more recent creation. Thanks again.

If anyone would like to take the baton for a bug report, it'll be smart for FirefoxAurora to prompt its users that its name is no longer valid.

grahamperrin-M: I think that was already handled. If you did an update in the built in updater I think it was supposed to bring you up to dev edition

Ah, this is weird, for maybe the second time in the past two or three days I find myself inexplicably signed out from my Firefox Account at my main machine.

Tyler: I almost certainly did use the integral updater. Is the integration intended to have the ability to rename the `.app`?

No, we don't rename the .app file

grahamperrin-M: not 100% certain. but I'm fairly certain it could. I stopped using mac two years ago

Mossop: ah, thanks for clarifying

Among other things that would break the dock icon

Tyler: I vaguely recall a succession of integral updates (no surprise) after probably not launching the application for years.

Tyler: We don't rename on Windows either for similar reasons

Mossop: it still feels good to act pretentious about Mac's oddities ;)

LOL App Store today shows macOS High Sierra 10.131 Developer Beta version 5 installed two days ago (2017-10-29) whilst inviting me to install the update to macOS High Sierra Developer Beta 1

Macs: Not Even Once.

=p

This, incidentally, is not the spare modern Mac that's to be used by a colleague (explicitly no support for High Sierra). It's a MacBookPro8,2 with no battery, limited to USB 2.0, with a FreeBSD-based OS on the internal HDD but I most often boot Apple operating systems from an external HDD on USB.

I have a friend who works in a design company in new york, and her company are full of mac fanatic crazy people, and they refuse to use PCs, so they bought her a new 4000 dollar macbook, and it came with high sierra...

and it's full of bugs, can't use it with external monitors correctly

and there's all these other bugs and problems. their technicians couldn't figure it out

they googled the various issues and it's all stuff that is "known problems" that're unfixed.

azaki: private AppleSeed projects for five years, including Feedback Assistant long before it went public beta. Loved Macs, but I ran screaming from pre-release Yosemite. I'm a stickler for good, non-rushed, logical design decisions.

grahamperrin-M: I'll be the first to admit that some of their design ideas weren't that bad, but honestly anything good has already been incorporated into other environments.

Like the Windows taskbar looks like the "dock" nowadays. (although the dock actually started out as bad UI design historically, it's one of those weird things that just caught on despite how designers hated it back when it was new)

"good design" isn't worth the price premium they charge though, and never has been. that's why 90% of people globally use windows and android.

especially since any good ideas are copied eventually.

this was steve jobs at his best and most honest, in my view ^

after that he just kind of became a very dishonest, jealous, and bitter little man with an entitlement complex that just wanted to sue anyone who basically had the exact same philosophy that built his company.

A little more mess from Firefox Sync, after actively synchronising two installations of Firefox with no yellow alert at either machine: recently disabled Firefox 57-compatible Tab Center Redux addons.mozilla.org/addon/tab-center-redux is wrongly enabled on release 56.0.2 of Firefox on the (Tier-1) Mac.

Also wrongly enabled: 57-compatible Vertigo Tabs addons.mozilla.org/addon/vertigo-tabs

Missing: 57-compatible Tab Notifier addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/tab-notifier

Missing, installed months ago: Sea Containers addons.mozilla.org/addon/sea-containers – I drew special attention to that one in Bugzilla@Mozilla

Wrongly installed, I removed this weeks ago: Smart Zoom 2.0

I clicked 'Remove', it's still in the of add-ons. Again a click on 'Remove' and again, it's still in the list of add-ons.

Context menu, Remove, it's still there. I'll restart Firefox in safe mode and make a fourth attempt to remove the extension.

Following a Firefox Sync in safe mode at the Mac: Smart Zoom is properly gone. (I didn't look to tell which it had gone before the sync in safe mode, my bad.)

Now at my main machine, there's improper reinstallation or re-enabling of a legacy extension that I certainly disabled or removed a few hours ago: Copy As Plain Text addons.mozilla.org/addon/copy-as-plain-text

(Note to self: the proper action was probably in a screen recording.)

OK, no need to refer to the screen recording. It's without the option to remove so this is certainly an improper reinstallation. Undone by me a few seconds ago and (confirmed) it's no longer listed at `about:addons`.

Wrongly enabled at my main machine – and things such as this are potentially much more troublesome:

- legacy Fission addons.mozilla.org/addon/fission

– luckily I found the wrongness before restarting Firefox, so it's undone before the re-enabling took effect.

hey, i'm using firefox 56.0.2 64bit on arch linux. after a recent update firefox doesn't want to play media anymore. some youtube videos work, others don't. youtube html5 page tells me H.264 and MSE & H.264 aren't supported. i have openh264 installed and it's enabled in plugins. i have created a fresh profile using profilemanager and it's still the same issue

direct links to mp3 or mp4 files immediately give me a download prompt

Nothing4You: Hi. Are you using a Mozilla build or one from the Arch repos?

the one from arch repos

Ok. Have you any add-ons installed?

shouldn't be relevant in a fresh profile as they're profile-dependent

i do have addons, none in the fresh profile though

I recommend trying a Mozilla build first, then it may be the case that this is an Arch thing.

just tested 57.0b13 binary and it's the same problem

Seburo

Nothing4You: Ok, thank you for trying. Let me check something here.

Nothing4You: Ok. I am using a Moz build of Nightly on Ubuntu 17.10 and both H.264 and MSE & H.264 are supported. Let me check with an Arch user.

it's probably something with my local setup

it was working until i restarted firefox, i just don't know which of the changes i made broke it

i'm hoping to figure out what firefox needs that appearently isn't compatible anymore

ah

figured it out

Seburo: it's the ffmpeg version

\o/

3.4 works, git master doesn't

for anyone curious about the win64 transition twitter.com/cpeterso/status/925467034007224320