Firefox is Square, but only sometimes
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What the shit, FF?
http://i.imgur.com/HgTbYcs.png
Do you support unicode or not?!?
Filed under: inb4 FF22 lolz
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@Lorne-Kates The title bar font is set by Windows, not Firefox.
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@Lorne-Kates looks like a Firefox 22 issue to me bud. switch to ff50 and the title bar won't be there anymore
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@bb36e still got the title in the taskbar button.
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@anotherusername upgrade to windows 10 and it won't show the taskbar titles by default
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@Lorne-Kates said in Firefox is Square, but only sometimes:
What the shit, FF?
http://i.imgur.com/HgTbYcs.png
Do you support unicode or not?!?
Filed under: inb4 FF22 lolz
FF22 lolz.
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@bb36e said in Firefox is Square, but only sometimes:
upgrade to windows 10
I understand all of the words, but they make no sense when put together like that.
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@bb36e You can still hover to see the preview, and if you hover even longer it shows a tooltip with the window title
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@LB_ use a Surfaceâ˘!
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@bb36e would tap and hold not work? Never used a touch screen with Windows.
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@LB_ said in Firefox is Square, but only sometimes:
Never used a touch screen with Windows.
Most of the market would agree with you
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Try switching your win7 design to win2000-style and set the title bar font to Comic Sans.
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@anotherusername said in Firefox is Square, but only sometimes:
Windows, not Firefox
BLAME_MICROSOFT!
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The problem you are having is that you have not installed chrome.
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@dkf said in Firefox is Square, but only sometimes:
@anotherusername said in Firefox is Square, but only sometimes:
Windows, not Firefox
BLAME_MICROSOFT!
Indeed. Because Edge somehow seems to manage this:
In colour even!
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@Rhywden said in Firefox is Square, but only sometimes:
Because Edge somehow seems to manage this
Of course!!Â!
The reality is that it depends on what's going on in the font renderer. That's absurdly complicated code, all made more complicated by the interaction of Unicode (aaaaaaugh! ) and the font being used. There are multiple font variants about too, and no particular reason that browsers would actually use exactly the same thing there. One or other (or both) might've done something âspecialâ. All the HTML side of things really does is ask for the relevant string to be set as the title of the page, whatever that means. It's only after that that things get horrible.
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@Rhywden said in Firefox is Square, but only sometimes:
@dkf said in Firefox is Square, but only sometimes:
@anotherusername said in Firefox is Square, but only sometimes:
Windows, not Firefox
BLAME_MICROSOFT!
Indeed. Because Edge somehow seems to manage this:
In colour even!
So because Edgy manages this by replacing the windows titlebar with a custom control that supports all unicodez, it's not windows' fault if the windows titlebar doesn't support all unicodez?
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@CreatedToDislikeThis said in Firefox is Square, but only sometimes:
windows titlebar
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@Lorne-Kates yeah, and there's literally no easy way to change the Aero theme's taskbar button style. (Without disabling Aero entirely, obviously.)
I mean, "no easy way", as in, it's not even some registry fiddle hard; it's "hacking system resource files" hard.
You change the title bar font face, style, or size? Yeah, the taskbar be all like "fuck you, imma do what I want".
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@anotherusername well, I'm going to have to take that back, slightly. While it is true that you can not tell Explorer to use a different font (or style, or size) for the taskbar buttons, what you can do is hack the registry to tell Windows that the Segoe UI font does not exist, and that it should use a different font in its place -- globally -- e.g. Segoe UI Symbol. It's drastic, but the result will be that Segoe UI will be replaced anywhere with Segoe UI Symbol, which obviously includes the taskbar buttons.
Registry file to replace Segoe UI with Segoe UI Symbol
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts] "Segoe UI (TrueType)"="" "Segoe UI Bold (TrueType)"="" "Segoe UI Italic (TrueType)"="" "Segoe UI Bold Italic (TrueType)"="" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\FontSubstitutes] "Segoe UI"="Segoe UI Symbol"
Registry file to restore the defaults for Segoe UI
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts] "Segoe UI (TrueType)"="segoeui.ttf" "Segoe UI Bold (TrueType)"="segoeuib.ttf" "Segoe UI Italic (TrueType)"="segoeuii.ttf" "Segoe UI Bold Italic (TrueType)"="segoeuiz.ttf" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\FontSubstitutes] "Segoe UI"=-
Reboot after running either .reg file.
Result:
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@anotherusername Neat workaround.
Is there any downside at all to using Segoe UI Symbol in place of Segoe UI? If not, what the hell is the point of Segoe UI?
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@flabdablet said in Firefox is Square, but only sometimes:
l
It's smaller and thus have a lower memory footprint when everything loads it up?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Firefox is Square, but only sometimes:
when everything loads it up
But there'd only ever be one copy actually occupying RAM, surely?
Surely?
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@flabdablet said in Firefox is Square, but only sometimes:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Firefox is Square, but only sometimes:
when everything loads it up
But there'd only ever be one copy actually occupying RAM, surely?
Surely?
Hahahahah!!!!
...
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The Bad Jokes thread is .
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@flabdablet Don't ask questions to which you don't want to know the answer.
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@flabdablet said in Firefox is Square, but only sometimes:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Firefox is Square, but only sometimes:
Hahahahah!!!!
Now I has a sad
Have a instead. :D
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@Tsaukpaetra Thanks, I'll take twelve
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@flabdablet probably the biggest difference I've noticed is the
â 'BLACK CIRCLE' (U+25CF)
symbol that's used in password entries. Both fonts contain a symbol for it, but there's just a slight difference in size...Those are the same text at 24 pt.
Your imagination will have to supply the diamond shapes.
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@anotherusername said in Firefox is Square, but only sometimes:
There's just a slight difference in size
switching to UI Symbol caused some UI tests to break so they didn't bother making it default
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@Lorne-Kates Out of curiosity, what's that symbol for?
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@Zecc https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-mp3-podcaster/
(I don't know that Add-On, I just used Google powers)
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@aliceif said in Firefox is Square, but only sometimes:
@Zecc https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-mp3-podcaster/
(I don't know that Add-On, I just used Google powers)Yup, that's it. It's a really cool Youtube downloader that works on a few other video sites. It also has a built-in mp3 converter. It started as a way of just downloading long videos that were mostly audio, and converting them to mp3 so you could listen to them offline.
Now it's the only way I can watch youtube videos. Find the video. Download. Watch in VLC:
- No buffering, stuttering (seriously, it's 2016 and we still can't get smooth video playback)
- Pause, resume, rewind without buffering, stuttering or crashes
- No goddamn inline-ads
- No goddamn inline-annotations
- Can watch full screen
- Can throw on media server and watch on a tv
- More than once, it means I can watch a video even after it's taken down due to ContentID bullshit
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@aliceif said in Firefox is Square, but only sometimes:
@Zecc https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-mp3-podcaster/
(I don't know that Add-On, I just used Google powers)My Google powers only returned a plethora of free clip-art websites hosting the image.
Curse you, inferior Google powers.
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@Zecc You can give google hints when reverse image searching.
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@Lorne-Kates said in Firefox is Square, but only sometimes:
seriously, it's 2016 and we still can't get smooth video playback
WOMM
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@aliceif Hey, you're right!
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@Zecc said in Firefox is Square, but only sometimes:
@Lorne-Kates Out of curiosity, what's that symbol for?
Out of curiosity, how did you get from
to
That's some CSI: Miami style enhance shit right there...
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@Lorne-Kates said in Firefox is Square, but only sometimes:
Yup, that's it. It's a really cool Youtube downloader that works on a few other video sites. It also has a built-in mp3 converter. It started as a way of just downloading long videos that were mostly audio, and converting them to mp3 so you could listen to them offline.
Now it's the only way I can watch youtube videos. Find the video. Download. Watch in VLC:
VLC WOMM without any extra add-on... all I have to do is copy the YT link and paste it into VLC:
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@anotherusername said in Firefox is Square, but only sometimes:
That's some CSI: Miami style enhance shit right there...
I said in Firefox is Square, but only sometimes:
My Google powers only returned a plethora of free clip-art websites hosting the image.
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@Zecc MP3 Podcaster was the first result when I uploaded that blurry blob picture as a seed image for GIS.
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@groo said in Firefox is Square, but only sometimes:
@Lorne-Kates said in Firefox is Square, but only sometimes:
seriously, it's 2016 and we still can't get smooth video playback
WOMM
I've never heard of that file format.
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@Lorne-Kates if I can get an ISP good enough to play youtube here in *****, I don't believe you can't find one in Canada. Or you're talking about mobile networks? that's different
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@anotherusername said in Firefox is Square, but only sometimes:
VLC WOMM without any extra add-on..
Allow me to expand:
- I also have the usual noscript/flashblock/ghostery/click-to-play layers of defense. It actually takes a fuck load of effort (intentionally) just to get a flash video to play in browser
- That also means my browser isn't constantly churning to load Youtube embeds on every page (including the information leak overhead)
- But it kills all forms of autoplay
- I dare you to try to watch an embedded video in-browser and, say, navigate away from that page. I bet it stops playing
- Also, try watching a video in-browser, then hit up a couple bandwidth intensive sites like Gmail or NodeBB (sigh)
- Also, do that over wifi
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@groo said in Firefox is Square, but only sometimes:
@Lorne-Kates if I can get an ISP good enough to play youtube here in *****, I don't believe you can't find one in Canada. Or you're talking about mobile networks? that's different
ISP. The best I can get in my area is (up to) 6MB down, 1MB up.
I might get better if I want to spend all my monies and get assraped by Bell or Rogers. I don't want to do that.
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@Lorne-Kates said in Firefox is Square, but only sometimes:
@groo said in Firefox is Square, but only sometimes:
@Lorne-Kates said in Firefox is Square, but only sometimes:
seriously, it's 2016 and we still can't get smooth video playback
WOMM
I've never heard of that file format.
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@Lorne-Kates how much for 6MB? I pay around 60USD for 10Mb / 1Mb uncapped
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@groo said in Firefox is Square, but only sometimes:
@Lorne-Kates how much for 6MB? I pay around 60USD for 10Mb / 1Mb uncapped
From my ISP: $23USD/month.
10/1 is $24, but the DSL lines in my area don't support it. And since Bell is switching to Fiber, there's zero chance they'll ever upgrade the lines in my area.
I'm not even going to try navigating through Bell or Roger's shitmire websites to look for prices, but they're usually 2x the price with horrific contracts.
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@Lorne-Kates said in Firefox is Square, but only sometimes:
I dare you to try to watch an embedded video in-browser and, say, navigate away from that page. I bet it stops playing
ÂŻ\_(ă)_/ÂŻ