I'm supposed to use "http://theoldreader.com/feeds/subscribe?url=%s" in the firefox feed handler, but I'm unclear exactly HOW. I know that replacing the "%s" with the url I'm wanting to add works, but I don't know how to get firefox to replace the '%s' with the current url. Adding it as a bookmark doesn't appear to work. Thoughts?
posted by leotrotsky
on Mar 15, 2013 -
7 answers
I can't connect to Google and if I try to search askmefi it says Loading after I type in the search terms and press return.
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posted by marienbad
on Mar 9, 2013 -
13 answers
I love YousableTubeFix for Firefox, which sets global preferences for things like preferred resolution (the most important feature to me), default player size, and whether to autoplay videos on channel pages. The problem: it's still blocking ads even though I told it not to. Could you recommend any other Youtube-preference-modifying Firefox userscripts or add-ons that have a similar purpose but without accidentally blocking the ads?
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posted by flibbertigibbet
on Feb 4, 2013 -
3 answers
Occasionally I will run across a webpage that has some or all of the text
look like this. It's all bunched up and completely illegible. What gives?
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posted by zardoz
on Jan 17, 2013 -
6 answers
Why do certain features of a website work with current versions of firefox and earlier versions of Internet Explorer (7.0 and earlier) but not IE 9.0? Details and screenshots and much...
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posted by de void
on Jan 9, 2013 -
5 answers
Weird problem in Firefox. View Page Source works just fine. View Selection Source returns a blank window.
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posted by Chrysostom
on Jan 4, 2013 -
5 answers
Is there a replacement for the "how'd I get here" Firefox add-on?
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posted by Lorc
on Nov 15, 2012 -
5 answers
Please help me understand the difference (or non-difference) in safety for Firefox vs. Chrome browser extensions (plugins/add-ons).
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posted by pavane
on Nov 5, 2012 -
3 answers
Where did these
facebook buttons come from on my firefox? they just appeared this afternoon and I haven't added any add-ons in a long time. I'm running firefox 17.0 according to the about page.
posted by Might quack
on Oct 25, 2012 -
3 answers
How can I set up a Windows 7 PC to be clean and stay clean? I don't want file bits and temporary files to clog it up, I don't want a million image files the size of a dot. I don't want this computer to run like molasses after a few years of web browsing and use. What is the best way to do that?
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posted by cashman
on Oct 12, 2012 -
20 answers
Is there a way to set my browser preferences to not automatically place the cursor in a Bing search field upon opening a new tab?
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posted by donpedro
on Sep 17, 2012 -
8 answers
How do I take a screenshot of an entire webpage (difficulty: using functionality built-in to Firefox 9+ or Windows 7, and I
accidentally did it yesterday)?
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posted by pla
on Sep 15, 2012 -
8 answers
I started OS X this morning and Firefox isn't visible. That is to say, I can't see a window or any tabs, though I can see the top toolbar -- the Apple - Firefox - File - Edit... row. Normally it opens at startup. What to do?
posted by partner
on Sep 10, 2012 -
8 answers
Why is the spell checker in Firefox defaulting to Dutch, and how can I make it stop?
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posted by dhens
on Aug 6, 2012 -
4 answers
What is OpenDNS and how do I turn it off? Please explain it to me like I'm seven years old.
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posted by Brittanie
on Jul 24, 2012 -
5 answers
Is there a Firefox extension that does this: I hover over a link with my mouse, but instead of right (or left) clicking, I push a key on my keyboard, which then opens the link.
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posted by zardoz
on Jul 21, 2012 -
10 answers
I have a Macbook with OS X 10.5.8 and Firefox 13.0.1. The printing scale under File -> Page Setup in Firefox has randomly started defaulting to 60%. So every time I restart Firefox, I have to go in there and change it back to 100% before I print anything. I can't figure out how to change it back. Is this a Firefox thing, or a printer thing?
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posted by désoeuvrée
on Jul 16, 2012 -
3 answers
I keep 15 to 30 tabs open in firefox and have a hard time distinguishing which "tab close X" is the active one and which ones are greyed out.
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posted by aliksd
on Jul 11, 2012 -
14 answers
Recently when I print with Firefox, it tries to squeeze everything into 1 page. The text is TINY. I have tried "Print 100%", Scale to Fit, Print regular in preferences (HP Laserjet 4200). I have tried to print with different drivers. Nothing I do save "Print 200+%" works, and that's absolutely absurd to have to do each time. Chrome prints things fine, but I really don't want to have to use a different browser each time... Anybody have an idea? Any info I seem to find on the web comes up with old FF2 and FF3 printing issues. Nothing with a more current version on the mozilla forums.
posted by symbioid
on Jun 20, 2012 -
4 answers
Weirdest Firefox problem ever. Some text, across different sites, appears scrambled -- or, more accurately is rot-2. Uninstalling, deleting profile and re-installing did not help. WTF?
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posted by rottytooth
on Jun 19, 2012 -
6 answers
Something is hijacking my Firefox and stealthily inserting ads into my Google SERPs (and god knows what else). How do I figure out where its coming from?
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posted by Elminster24
on Jun 3, 2012 -
4 answers
Firefox - how to be only a little bit up to date ?
Selenium (and a whole swag of other plugins/addons/extensions) don't work under FF 12 - what to do ?
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posted by southof40
on May 21, 2012 -
7 answers
While on Firefox (12.0) for my Mac (OS 10.5.8) I hit a mail link which caused my Firefox window to open rapidly window on window ad infinitum. It locked up my mac and I couldn't even get to Firefox Preferences/Tools etc without multiple windows opening on top. I force- quit. I restarted and this did not help. I uninstalled an reinstalled and this did not help. It hit about midnight and stupid and tired, I deleted my entire profile....The whole blasted thing in a rash moment.
So unlike available articles on Mozilla for retrieving missing/lost/messed with profiles mine is simply bye-bye by my own hand. I emailed Mozilla and got these instructions:
"Try to delete the profiles.ini file
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/profiles.ini_file
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox"
I don't have the ini file in the locations specified nor elsewhere.
This link did not seem to help, either. I tried entering a terminal command for Firefox (cannot find page for that now) and no luck. If I click on Firefox, it says "Firefox is already open, only one copy can be in use." (Nothing else is open and I even restarted the computer a few times.)
Any ideas? I like Firefox the best and would like to use it. And yes, I was an idiot to delete things so will take appropriate lashings.
posted by snap_dragon
on May 13, 2012 -
17 answers
Is there a Firefox extension or something that will change Outbrain links into the regular links they appear to be when you first mouse over them?
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posted by straight
on May 10, 2012 -
5 answers
Yesterday, my firefox install on ubuntu started misbehaving. The bookmarks toolbar only shows up if I remove it and and add it again. There are no URLs in Address bar and no URL display down where the status bar used to be. Several plugins have stopped working without being disabled. Sometimes tabs can't be closed. No session management and on and on. The problem seems to be some interaction of a ubuntu update and firefox not cooperating. After googling I have nothing and am at a complete loss for how to fix it. Where do people turn for support for ubuntu firefox problems that don't require them to be on either development team?
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posted by srboisvert
on Apr 17, 2012 -
8 answers
I would like a thing (greasemonkey script, add-on, bookmarklet, etc) which will let me easily add events to my Google calendar from within Firefox.
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posted by bluefly
on Feb 28, 2012 -
3 answers
Why doesn't my browser remember me on one partciular site when accessed from my desktop when it does on my laptop?
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posted by xchmp
on Feb 13, 2012 -
7 answers
Firefox update change doesn't take me straight to where i want to go anymore.
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posted by revikim
on Feb 10, 2012 -
5 answers
What is a good Firefox plugin that will let me pause and change the playing point of online mp3s?
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posted by Deflagro
on Feb 9, 2012 -
3 answers
PDFs on Firefox for Mac: No matter what hacks I try, it seems that I cannot get the
PDF Plugin for Firefox on Mac OS X to work with either Firefox 9 or Firefox 10 beta. I feel like I must be doing something wrong because evidently other folks have gotten it to work. Would be grateful if anyone could walk me through the best way to get this extension working again.
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posted by Conrad Cornelius o'Donald o'Dell
on Jan 16, 2012 -
4 answers
Something is rotten with my Internet settings. Chrome/Firefox/Safari won't load random sites like Facebook or Amazon and it's really frustrating. I'm on a Macbook, OS X 10.5.8.
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posted by PostIronyIsNotaMyth
on Jan 3, 2012 -
7 answers
My work computer just upgraded to Firefox 8 (which I've had at home for a while and that's been fine) and I can't figure out how to do this one thing it did in old Firefox. So in whatever version I was using previously, I could click on a tiny downward-pointing arrow on a tab (or right near a tab, I don't remember, or maybe right near the back button) and get to that tab's recent history, so I could go back to recent searches or whatever else (the regular Recent History doesn't work for this, as I have multiple tabs open at a time, and the titles appear the same on my internal database).
How do I bring this magic arrow back to new Firefox? I really need to be able to view a specific tab's recent history.
posted by leesh
on Dec 27, 2011 -
6 answers
I need a Firefox or Chrome extension that tracks my bandwidth usage.
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posted by Zozo
on Dec 16, 2011 -
5 answers
Why would one browser version circumvent my company's internet blocking software, while an updated version does not?
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posted by trogdole
on Dec 11, 2011 -
9 answers
Wanted: same FF bookmark in diferent folders. When bookmarking a URL, Firefox appears to check if the URL already has been bookmarked in any FF folder in the past. If so, FF identifies the previous folder in the Page Bookmarked popup, removes the bookmark from that previous folder and puts it into the newly selected folder choice. Is there any way to force the same URL to be bookmarked in multiple folders (short of manually tracking down the original bookmark, duplicating it, and copying it to the second folder)? This "feature" seems to be URL based, so it doesn't work to change the name of the bookmark intended for the new folder in order to keep the URL from disappearing from the original folder. Win7, Firefox 8.0.1
posted by paphun123
on Dec 2, 2011 -
7 answers
