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Discussion => Silk Road discussion => Topic started by: Generation Y on May 01, 2013, 10:24 am

Title: Technical help
Post by: Generation Y on May 01, 2013, 10:24 am
About 75% of the time when I open a new SR tab it tries to load it as "www.", which is annoying because it means it doesn't actually load and I have to manually edit the URL to remove the "www".

So, do any of the technologically smart people know what could be causing this or how to stop it?
Title: Re: Technical help
Post by: Jack N Hoff on May 01, 2013, 10:27 am
It's happening to everyone on firefox.
Title: Re: Technical help
Post by: Secret_Squirrel on May 01, 2013, 10:56 am
How do you access onion sites? Tor bundle? Distro of linux for accessing tor ie tails?  Normal old firefox using onion.to address?
Title: Re: Technical help
Post by: fiveotwo on May 01, 2013, 11:36 am
This is helpful to know.  I assumed it was just something Tor Browser would fix in the next release.   I haven't been paying much attention where it's been happening, but I think it's happening on both the road and the forum, not sure about other onions.  Every 30 pages maybe 8 almost in a row will be prefixed.
Title: Re: Technical help
Post by: Secret_Squirrel on May 01, 2013, 11:39 am
I haven't seen this yet, must be annoying
Title: Re: Technical help
Post by: jase00 on May 01, 2013, 12:20 pm
you can disable the "feature" ..  I take no responsibility for what happens... write down your settings before you do this..

1 - in firefox url bar type "about:config"
2 - accept the warning thingo about warranty
3 - in the search bar type in "fixup"
4- you will see a few entries.. one of them is  "browser.fixup.alternate.enabled'. Double click it so it sets to false
5 - Look for browser.fixup.alternate.prefix          wwww
6 - Click on the www value and delete it so its blank.
7 - Close the about:config page and you shouldnt have the issue again (and it keeps the settings when you load up TOR next time)
Title: Re: Technical help
Post by: tree on May 01, 2013, 12:29 pm
You only have to set "browser.fixup.alternate.enabled" to false in my experience, you don't have to change "browser.fixup.alternate.prefix".

Another annoying thing about this version of firefox is the text getting blurry all the time for some reason. To fix that set "gfx.content.azure.enabled" to false. I don't know if you guys had that problem but I've had it and it's really annoying.
Title: Re: Technical help
Post by: Generation Y on May 01, 2013, 08:48 pm
You only have to set "browser.fixup.alternate.enabled" to false in my experience, you don't have to change "browser.fixup.alternate.prefix".

Another annoying thing about this version of firefox is the text getting blurry all the time for some reason. To fix that set "gfx.content.azure.enabled" to false. I don't know if you guys had that problem but I've had it and it's really annoying.
Thanks, that's fixed it :)
Title: Re: Technical help
Post by: happertand on May 02, 2013, 02:59 pm
Thanks Tree, fixed my browsing experience as well!