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Does someone know how to install them without clicking on the online button "+Add to Firefox", e.g. with a download ? Or can their target directories be modified ?
My IT police wipes out extensions every night, so I have to re-install them every morning. (IE Tab for testing, Omnibar, Adblock, etc...).
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The Firefox extensions window contains a tool button (a gear) that opens a menu where you can choose to install an extension by file selection.
A downloaded extension can be also installed by dragging the file over the Firefox window.
To download an extension click right on "+ Add to Firefox" button.
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Just copy your Firefox profile xxx.default folder's contents to external media. The next morning, just copy that media's contents to the xxx.default profile and you are back in business. Works with Windows and Linux (and presumably Apple) computers.
xxx is the folder-name given by Firefox with a .default added to the folder name.
modified 1-Aug-19 21:02pm.
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This is exactly the kind of things I was after, thanks Richard.
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The only one I find useful is the one which tells me how much memory it is using.
Chrome and Firefox devs seems to have forgotten how to free memory
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I don't seem to have a problem with memory on Chrome [Version 42.0.2282.2 canary (64-bit)], that seems to be pretty stable and consistent. But every day one of it's processes monopolises a core, and I have no idea what it is doing with it...The only way to stop it and restore "normal" system performance is to shut chrome and and use Task Manager to terminate the process.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I think it depends on the site - last night I opened the Telegraph.co.uk site - read one article then went to bed. This morning the site was still open and Chrome was chewing up over 2GB of Ram. I don't usually use Chrome so it was the only site I had opened with it that day (you can get round the Telegraph article limit by using different browsers)
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RugbyLeague wrote: you can get round the Telegraph article limit by using different browsers
But that could be naughty, so you shouldn't do it.
And definitely not by just clicking the on the "settings" button in chrome (The three horizontal bars in the top right corner), selecting "Settings" from the dropdown that appears. Then it will do you no good at all to click on "Show advanced settings...", "Content settings...", "All cookies and site data...". Because all that will do is bring up a dialog.
In the dialog, you very definitely should not type "Teleg" into the "Search Cookies" box, and there is no point at all in pressing the "Remove all shown" button - because it will not have any effect whatsoever. Honest.
I never do this.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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It is important that what we certainly shouldn't be doing is well documented just in case any of us find ourselves doing it by mistake.
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Rage wrote: My IT police wipes out extensions every night,
If you have a valid reason for these extensions (work related), then would telling them this help?
We are not allowed to view streaming video or most video for the matter, here at work...for good reasons I'm sure. 
However, if it is tech related, or work related, they will adjust the blacklist/whitelist for us.
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We are a 250,000+ employees company. I need 50% of the people backing me up to have a change request accepted.
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Did you see the first HoloLens Videos of MS?
oh my is this exciting! If the system just works half as good as shown it would be a mileston in AR technology.
But see for your self[^]
I'm so excited 
Edit: For all that got pwnd by MS Webiste here youtube[^]
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"no video supported format". So MS, what video format are you using that is not natively supported by your own OS ...?
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mp4
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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That doesn't really tell you what the video is encoded with, mp4 is just a container.
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If I'm reading this page correctly, you'll need Windows 10 to get it to work, so my guess is some proprietary format.
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Did you see any video, i have also german sources where the videos should work
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I am so sick of web-sites that refuse to show me content, telling me that I have to "upgrade" to firefox or chrome (both of which are lagging behind Maxthon) to view their arrogant, outdated opinion of what "cutting edge" content is.
The most recent occurrence of this was actually this morning, by bittorrentsync, which would not allow me to view its dashboard on this machine unless I installed chrome or firefox.
Naturally, I have now uninstalled bittorrentsync from all my machines. I'm paid to deal with that kind of cretinous behaviour at work, but I'm damned if I'll allow it into my home.
Needless to say, the page (and every other page that isn't manually blocked by stupidly elitist idiots) opens just fine in Maxthon, and the video plays just fine, too.
If anyone's desperate to see it, I downloaded a copy that I can upload elsewhere ('cause you can do that with Maxthon).
Alternatively, everyone could just upgrade to Maxthon.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Sorry, but I can't help myself:
Does this mean everyone who doesn't keep their technology at the level of Maxthon (which lags behind the two most popular browsers) is a stupid elite idiot?
If you were developing a site that used HTML5 and that worked fine on Maxthon, would it be fair of a user stuck with IE7 due to corporate, hardware or mere preference to you feel you were a stupid elite idiot?
Or (and I'm guessing this is the case) it's the use of new technology without a sensible fallback solution that gets your goat. (It certainly gets mine. My horse wants it back, please).
cheers
Chris Maunder
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It's the attitude people have about browsers that I don't like, and it's been going on for almost as long as browsers have existed.
However, the old song:
-- This site works best in Netscape!
-- This site works best in IE!
And later:
-- This site works best in Firefox!
-- This site works best in Chrome!
Have lately become:
-- We won't let you use this site unless you install Firefox!
-- We won't let you use this site unless you install Chrome!
And, indeed, in the case of bittorrentsync: "You can't use this program unless you install either Firefox or Chrome!"
I've got just about every browser under the Sun installed on at least one machine, and it is extremely clear that the best performers are Opera and Maxthon (that's in reverse order). The only pages that don't open in those browsers are those where the owner of the page is childishly trying to push his preferred browser, and has blocked it from opening in others.
I'd had enough of that pathetic behaviour when it was just Netscape idolaters versus IE evangelists.
But now the Netscape idolaters are firefox idolaters, who "scraped the 'scape" (all the way to the bottom of the barrel), and still childishly believe that their behaviour will make friends and allies for them.
Your argument is the wrong way around. I don't insist that pages be made that work only in Maxthon or Opera (the two most HTML5-compliant browsers). I am complaining about people who insist that only their preferred browser be used, which is the exact opposite of what you claim that I am doing.
If you make a page that requires HTML5, it will work better in Opera and Maxthon than it will in whichever (of the 35,000) firefox or chrome version you have installed, so you don't block users of the better browsers from viewing it, and idiotically claim that your preferred browser has to be used.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: the owner of the page is childishly trying to push his preferred browser, and has blocked it from opening in others.
Not to defend idiots, but are they actively blocking or just throwing up their hands and saying "for the 1% who use Opera it's just not worth our time to work around their foibles"?
Mark_Wallace wrote: Your argument is the wrong way around. I don't insist that pages be made that work only in Maxthon or Opera (the two most HTML5-compliant browsers). I am complaining about people who insist that only their preferred browser be used, which is the exact opposite of what you claim that I am doing.
Steady on: I merely asked "If you were developing a site that used HTML5 and that worked fine on Maxthon, would it be fair oif a user stuck with IE7 due to corporate, hardware (or mere preference) to you feel you felt you were a stupid elite idiot?
(Give or take a total mangling of my original post).
By this I mean: If you're insisting on a certain functional level of browser, does that make it elitist? And to be clear I was being tongue in cheek. I insist on a certain level of functionality in browsers - it's the only way to stay sane.
Or (and this is where I need clarification) is it more that you're seeing web developers insisting on a certain browser merely for the sake of a certain browser, even though plenty of other browsers (eg Opera and Maxthon) are perfectly capable of rendering the site's content?
(If this is the case then yeah: they deserve a slapping)
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: Or (and this is where I need clarification) is it more that you're seeing web developers insisting on a certain browser merely for the sake of a certain browser, even though plenty of other browsers (eg Opera and Maxthon) are perfectly capable of rendering the site's content?
Precisely that.
Chris Maunder wrote: (If this is the case then yeah: they deserve a slapping)
Well, I settled for bitching about it, because they're not within reach of a slap.
The bittorrentsync this morning is what set me off.
It's a program that literally refused to allow me to use it (after I had installed it) unless either firefox or chrome were installed as my primary browser.
Bluddy open-source evangelists. Bring back the shareware days.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Oh, and I assume you don't also mean you've just grabbed yourself a Venge[^]. If you did then let me know how it is. I've been eyeing one for a while now.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Damn. Had bikes like that been available 20 years ago...
These days, I rarely get above 30km/h (partly because the bike I use most, lately, isn't built for high speed)(but that never stopped me before), and I've even had to fit a rear-view mirror because it's a struggle to twist to look behind.
I could probably improve on that if I could find a decent hill in this God-forsaken underworld.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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