64Bit browser

How do you find plugins work with WaterFox? I read that FireFox discontinued their own x64 browser (http://thenextweb.com/apps/2012/11/...ws-despite-an-alleged-50-of-testers-using-it/), but Waterfox seems to be filling that gap. Have you come across any limitations to it?

I'm still using a 32-bit browser as I've found that some plugins have been problematic - although it's getting better.

 

The one that caused a particular problem for me was a proprietary plugin from my NAS to expand the web-admin panel, so it's probably not an easy one to test, but thank you for the offer .

 

Well, it's a new year so I guess I'll try out the 64bit version of Opera. I already use a 64bit Java install for Minecraft, and have the 64bit Flash plugin installed. Ian, was your NAS from QNAP? I didn't have a problem remoting into mine from the browser or getting into the settings/admin panels

The only problem so far is re-doing all the settings I had set up, and trying to remember about a million passwords...

 

Yep, it's the TS-459 - great little unit .

I can use it without plugins and it works fine, but a QKPG for my camera asks for a plugin to allow remote commands/audio streaming.

 

Oh, some fancy plugins yer using then! A 64bit browser will only use 64bit plugins for security reasons, so I'm guessing that'd pretty much nix that ever working for ya, Ian. Great to see another QNAP user though, I have an old TS-409 model.

So far I'm enjoying the 64bit version of Opera. Seems to start faster with tabs left open form the previous session.

Sounds like what you need is Opera Turbo. The webpages you request are sent to a dedicated server which then compresses them and then sends the data to your browser. It speeds up page loading time on very slow connections. Firefox doesn't have a version of this yet that I know of, but supposedly you can buy web accelerator software that does the same thing.

 

Clifford, great to hear from another Opera user! All 2% of us on the web

The refresh thing you mention is by design. Starting Opera and having it automatically query all those pages (if you have lots open) could get you temporarily blocked from sites that view it as an attack or spam or something. So I was happy to see it work as it did, but that's just me.

Refreshing the page works fine for me though. If it doesn't for you, I would suggest force reloading the page. (Ctrl+F5, or Shift+F5 are shortcuts listed to do it).

Also, Opera has settings that tell it how often to check if the cached page is outdated. If you go to Tools -> Preferences -> Advanced Tab -> History You will see the option to tell it how frequently to poll for an updated page. This setting affects the F5 key, so that may be your problem? I keep it at the 5 minutes mark for documents, 5 hours for images. Forced-refresh will override this setting just like in Firefox.