The Energon Pub

News Credits: 4 · Wed Oct 29, 2008 6:17 pm

Ok, so I've already posted this in the actual GD forum because Firefox keeps encountering errors and having to close when I visit Seibs and got a couple of suggestions for solutions which I tried out. It started happening on Sunday but I thought it was a one off, so dismissed it - however it has become a regular occurrence and is irritating me to no end

Upon further investigation I've discovered that it only crashes when I try to play HMW. Is anyone else having this problem?

I'm using the latest version of firefox, have cleared everything out of the cache/cookies/etc but am still having this problem.

News Credits: 6 · Wed Oct 29, 2008 6:20 pm

My only problem with Firefox is the health bars for my bots don't display.

For me, HMW on Firefox runs as fast as a Decepticon led by Starscream.

Wed Oct 29, 2008 6:25 pm

Caelus wrote:My only problem with Firefox is the health bars for my bots don't display.

For me, HMW on Firefox runs as fast as a Decepticon led by Starscream.

Ditto on the health bars.

News Credits: 38 · Wed Oct 29, 2008 7:09 pm

InsecticonSlave wrote:
Caelus wrote:My only problem with Firefox is the health bars for my bots don't display.

For me, HMW on Firefox runs as fast as a Decepticon led by Starscream.

Ditto on the health bars.

Quoted again for emphasis... The only issue I've noticed are the lack of health bars in my registry.

News Credits: 1 · Wed Oct 29, 2008 7:34 pm

I blame the current version of FF, which simply isnt as well done as previous versions (at least it dosnt work as well on Vista compaired to the previous one).

Wed Oct 29, 2008 10:16 pm

I'm using Opera and having no issues.

Give it a try, you might just like it.

Thu Oct 30, 2008 2:03 am

My Firefox problem is limited to the countdown timers when in a mission. They don't tick by second by second, they jerk, and stop and speed up, and tick off seconds in groups.

Thu Oct 30, 2008 3:45 am

Other than the health bars, Firefox actually runs seibs and HMW faster than my copy of IE. I'm running windows XP.

Thu Oct 30, 2008 4:38 am

The health bars, alt-mode colors on the color picker, performance summary bars, and upgrade bar all no not show on firefox.
[I'm running the latest version, and on both Ubuntu and Windows XP I have the same problem] But firefox still runs the site WAY faster than IE explorer.

News Credits: 2 · Thu Oct 30, 2008 4:44 am

No problems with HMW on Firefox in particular, but there is a problem with the site in general. It's not limited to Seibertron though, but a few other sites as well.

Firefox just doesn't scroll the pages smoothly, it's sluggish and takes an age to reach the bottom of a page. But trying it in IE or Konqueror the page scrolls as smoothly as can be, so what's going on with Firefox? I don't particularly want to switch to a new browser.

Thu Oct 30, 2008 9:00 am

ditto on the health bars.

they work in IE/opera/chrome

neither of those browsers has adblocks (only artificial substitutions) so that's a no-go.

if your firefox is scrolling slow, try to update your video driver or set the scroll rate of your logitech mouse lower (down to 3 lines or per page instead of 7/9 lines)

and still.. i think it's retarded that the forum is only 600 pixels wide and doesn't auto adjust size to the actual screen width.. are the admins too lazy to enable this option in the admin panel?

FIX THE COLORS ALREADY!

News Credits: 2 · Thu Oct 30, 2008 9:04 am

If it were as simple as changing my video card driver or changing a scroll rate it would be done already. There is something in the way that Firefox is rendering pages that is causing this. Since it works perfectly in both Konqueror and IE, Firefox has no excuse.

News Credits: 1 · Thu Oct 30, 2008 9:25 am

I've had issues where firefox lags when I scroll, but I was able to fix that under the options (mess around with Advanced > General > Browsing > auto scrolling/smooth scrolling). I actually think smooth scrolling isn't very smooth at times.

AS for the health bar issues, I have no idea. I noticed it works in every browser except for fire fox. Colors and other things just don't work in general right now, in any browser.

As for HMW crashing fire fox, that's just weird.

News Credits: 2 · Thu Oct 30, 2008 9:28 am

Smooth scrolling only makes it slower. Very smooth though.

Thu Oct 30, 2008 9:50 am

Ditto on the health bars and jerky timers, but other than that, I'm okay.

Well, every so often the site will ask me to log in again even though I clicked the Keep Me Logged In checkbox, but that's not an HMW problem. Still... don't know why.

News Credits: 1 · Thu Oct 30, 2008 10:13 am

Tekka wrote:Smooth scrolling only makes it slower. Very smooth though.

Sorry I should have clarified, I stopped lagging once I turned off smooth scrolling.

Thu Oct 30, 2008 1:09 pm

I've found that having java turned off makes the game seem slightly faster...

News Credits: 1 · Thu Oct 30, 2008 2:05 pm

General problems I have with firefox:

No health bars.

To many tabs/windows=browser lag and the counter will start skipping

Occasionally the site gets locked into a loading phase, where everything just continues to load even after everything has loaded.

There seem to be a random limit on page views before the browser locks up and wont load anything, requiring a reboot of my computer. Though that may be caused by all the image rotators, since I know from past experience that to many will cause a system lockup.

News Credits: 2 · Thu Oct 30, 2008 2:10 pm

The newer Firefox is notoriously bad on system resources as well; opening many tabs to review missions over a few hours will have it eating 350 - 400 MB of memory easily.

I feel dirty using IE 7 to do anything... but it's a faster / better option for my HMW use at the moment.

News Credits: 1 · Thu Oct 30, 2008 4:04 pm

Absolute Zero wrote:General problems I have with firefox:

No health bars.

To many tabs/windows=browser lag and the counter will start skipping

Occasionally the site gets locked into a loading phase, where everything just continues to load even after everything has loaded.

There seem to be a random limit on page views before the browser locks up and wont load anything, requiring a reboot of my computer. Though that may be caused by all the image rotators, since I know from past experience that to many will cause a system lockup.

Having too many tabs/windows causing lag is not really the site, its your computer and internet connection. I can load 30+ websites faster on my mac pro firefox on fios than I can on my hp laptop firefox on comcast. When the site bottlenecks, like it did a while ago and I couldn't get onto the forums, thats the website/server.

I do have those problems with firefox. Maybe we should all go back to an older version of it.

News Credits: 3 · Thu Oct 30, 2008 4:14 pm

Wingspan wrote:The newer Firefox is notoriously bad on system resources as well; opening many tabs to review missions over a few hours will have it eating 350 - 400 MB of memory easily.

I feel dirty using IE 7 to do anything... but it's a faster / better option for my HMW use at the moment.

Yea, I feel ya. My IE7 crashes so many times every day I lost track. I tried to upgrade to IE8 Beta 2 today...that lasted about 30 min before I downgraded again, lol....

News Credits: 1 · Thu Oct 30, 2008 6:24 pm

Does anybody have a source for the older version of Firefox, as I dont beleive I have it on my PC anymore.

News Credits: 1 · Thu Oct 30, 2008 6:47 pm

pRedimus wrote:Does anybody have a source for the older version of Firefox, as I dont beleive I have it on my PC anymore.

http://www.oldversion.com/program.php?n=firefox

News Credits: 1 · Thu Oct 30, 2008 7:01 pm

Cheers.

Thu Oct 30, 2008 7:46 pm

If you are having problems with FireFox, try uninstalling it and reinstalling it. Otherwise, you might want to try upgrading or uninstalling/reinstalling your Java on your computer.

Hope this helps...