Tip: How to play trials in Firefox without text speed bug

Find detailed help from the AAO community, or write your own tutorials.

Moderator: EN - Forum Moderators

Post Reply
Tap
Posts: 4799
Joined: Tue Dec 15, 2009 9:01 am
Gender: Male
Spoken languages: English

Tip: How to play trials in Firefox without text speed bug

Post by Tap »

As we all know by now, there is a bug in Firefox at the moment that causes GIF animations to lag the browser. Essentially, Firefox keeps telling your graphics card to draw the images over and over again even though it doesn't need to.

Meph posted a hotfix a while ago for those who didn't want to swap to Chrome - Shrink the browser to the size of a DS screen. However, I've accidentally stumbled upon my own fix that somehow works quite well.

Tap's Fix: Play all trials within Firefox's safe mode.

Seriously. I'm using Firefox 5.0.1 at the moment, and whenever I play it outside safe mode, the text speed lags. By restarting the browser in safe mode, the text speed is executed exactly as you set it to. There's no need to resize the screen.

{How do you open Firefox in safe mode?}
  • 1. Click the "Firefox" icon at the top of the screen.
  • 2. Scroll down to "Help" and select "Restart with Add-ons Disabled". Firefox will then restart in safe mode, although it'll hit you with the safe mode dialog box first.
ImageImage
User avatar
SwagmaWampyr
Posts: 7338
Joined: Thu Apr 16, 2009 2:15 pm
Gender: Male
Spoken languages: English, Basic 1337
Location: The mucky muck castle made of clouds

Re: Tip: How to play trials in Firefox without text speed bu

Post by SwagmaWampyr »

That's going to get annoying but I just might be bothered to use it someday.

Will this override variables, or block external content? I'm somewhat worried about that.
The one and only Rated B member.
Engaged to Gumpei <3
ImageImageImage
Image
Image
User avatar
Bad Player
Posts: 7228
Joined: Wed May 20, 2009 10:53 pm
Gender: Male
Spoken languages: American
Location: Under a bridge

Re: Tip: How to play trials in Firefox without text speed bu

Post by Bad Player »

Can I have one firefox window in safe mode and another one in normal mode at the same time?
User avatar
SwagmaWampyr
Posts: 7338
Joined: Thu Apr 16, 2009 2:15 pm
Gender: Male
Spoken languages: English, Basic 1337
Location: The mucky muck castle made of clouds

Re: Tip: How to play trials in Firefox without text speed bu

Post by SwagmaWampyr »

Bad Player wrote:Can I have one firefox window in safe mode and another one in normal mode at the same time?

...Ooh that would make things much less of a hassle <3
The one and only Rated B member.
Engaged to Gumpei <3
ImageImageImage
Image
Image
Tap
Posts: 4799
Joined: Tue Dec 15, 2009 9:01 am
Gender: Male
Spoken languages: English

Re: Tip: How to play trials in Firefox without text speed bu

Post by Tap »

It hasn't blocked any external content or overridden any variables for me yet, BB.
And uh, I don't know, BP. :P
ImageImage
User avatar
SwagmaWampyr
Posts: 7338
Joined: Thu Apr 16, 2009 2:15 pm
Gender: Male
Spoken languages: English, Basic 1337
Location: The mucky muck castle made of clouds

Re: Tip: How to play trials in Firefox without text speed bu

Post by SwagmaWampyr »

To confirm, if you have two windows open in Firefox, starting up Safe Mode will restart both of them into safe mode.

So no :(
The one and only Rated B member.
Engaged to Gumpei <3
ImageImageImage
Image
Image
User avatar
mAc Chaos
Posts: 882
Joined: Sat Jun 26, 2010 3:33 am
Gender: Male
Spoken languages: English
Location: Phyrexylvania

Re: Tip: How to play trials in Firefox without text speed bu

Post by mAc Chaos »

Hmmm, Safe Mode didn't fix the bug for me. But I wasn't having a huge problem with text speed in the first place. At least, I don't care about it being slow. :P I don't have that gif bug though I think, or at least noticeably.
The wolf knows what the ill heart thinks.
@mAcChaos

BEHOLD, the ULTIMATE CASE: MACFIA, an epic journey through time and space.
User avatar
SwagmaWampyr
Posts: 7338
Joined: Thu Apr 16, 2009 2:15 pm
Gender: Male
Spoken languages: English, Basic 1337
Location: The mucky muck castle made of clouds

Re: Tip: How to play trials in Firefox without text speed bu

Post by SwagmaWampyr »

Odd, I'm certain the text is working a lot faster now... Do you have the latest version of Firefox mAc? This might be a version specific type of thing for who knows what reason.
The one and only Rated B member.
Engaged to Gumpei <3
ImageImageImage
Image
Image
User avatar
Meph
Posts: 13439
Joined: Mon Nov 10, 2008 10:07 pm
Gender: Male
Spoken languages: English
Location: Probably Disneyland Paris... or the UK

Re: Tip: How to play trials in Firefox without text speed bu

Post by Meph »

The bug only started in Firefox 4 when they updated Firefox's graphics engine called "Cairo" to the latest version. This bug doesn't occur in Firefox 3.6, but please don't use Firefox 3.6. :P

I think the bug will be fixed in either Firefox 8 or 9, but I can't be certain. They'll be released some time in late Autumn or Winter this year. :)

Also, you're less likely to experience this if you have an expensive, jealousy-inducing graphics card and CPU.
User avatar
CardiaX
Posts: 380
Joined: Thu Jul 21, 2011 2:19 am
Gender: Female
Spoken languages: English
Location: The Internet

Re: Tip: How to play trials in Firefox without text speed bu

Post by CardiaX »

I already use Chrome. I actually like it better than Firefox.
User avatar
AABattery
Posts: 567
Joined: Mon Sep 05, 2011 8:07 pm
Gender: Female
Spoken languages: English, Spanish, Learning Korean
Location: Inside your remote
Contact:

Re: Tip: How to play trials in Firefox without text speed bu

Post by AABattery »

I also use Chrome, but for some reason, the evidence display box and special sprites (the OBJECTION, HOLD IT, CROSS EXAM animations) show at a very low opacity most of the time and sometimes character animations won't play.

It may have that bug, but for AAO, Firefox is definitely better.
User avatar
Black.k.9
Posts: 3
Joined: Thu Mar 31, 2011 3:35 am
Gender: Male
Spoken languages: English

Re: Tip: How to play trials in Firefox without text speed bu

Post by Black.k.9 »

It doesn't matter what I do, I tried running firefox in safemode. I tried manually disabling all the addons (except flashplayer because that gives me sound) and I tried shrinking the browser. NOTHING!! HELP!!
Image
User avatar
Meph
Posts: 13439
Joined: Mon Nov 10, 2008 10:07 pm
Gender: Male
Spoken languages: English
Location: Probably Disneyland Paris... or the UK

Re: Tip: How to play trials in Firefox without text speed bu

Post by Meph »

What's your computer's Windows Experience Index rating? To find out, search for "wei" in the start menu. Also, is hardware acceleration in Firefox enabled?
Post Reply