Permanent Fix For Some FF4 Oddities?

I just upgraded to FireFox 4, but the minor annoyances are about even with the helpful new features. I've found some about:config fixes for most of the things that irk me, but the problem is that they only seem to last for the current session...when I close FireFox and open it again, it seems as though I need to apply those fixes yet again. And since one such fix is restoring my open tabs whenever I close and reopen my browser, you can imagine how irritating this can be. Is there some way to make these about:config tweaks permanent? What is it that causes them to return to the default each time?
It really baffles me that FF4 defaults to such bizarre habits that FF3 had no issue with, but that's the beauty of customization. However, if I can't get my personal taste tweaks to stick, well...that's when I really come to take issue with the design team's bizarre new decisions. :/

I tried everything on that list and it's not working. Though it seems there's only one preference that's being reset now; I think I changed about three settings in about:config and the others seem to be retaining their new values whenever I close and reopen my browser. The one that isn't is keyboard.url - this now defaults to chrome://browser-region/locale/region.properties while I want it to change and stay changed to http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q= and it just doesn't seem to want to stick. Is there any reasonable explanation for this happening? I'm tired of using the awesomebar to search for things the easy way I did in FF3 such as "the beatles wikipedia' and having it give me this error when it used to direct me to the wikipedia entry of whatever I plugged in. This is an incredibly annoying change for something that used to just work, and I want my changed setting for it to stick permanently.

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[svn:fx-trunk] 10229: Fixes for some transform effects problems.

Revision: 10229
Author:   [email protected]
Date:     2009-09-14 08:43:43 -0700 (Mon, 14 Sep 2009)
Log Message:
Fixes for some transform effects problems.
- We were not animating the postLayout properties in some cases where we should have, effectively pinning the object in place. We now animate those properties whenever applyChangesPostLayout is true.
- A copy/paste error meant that we did not animate the scaleZ property in cases where we should have.
- A problem in the transform code means that using a null transform center is not the same as a transform center which uses the transformX/Y/Z properties of the target object. We now force the creation/use of a transform center in all cases to avoid that problem.
QE notes: This breaks about a dozen tests in the transform effects area, but I believe the new results are correct and the tests/bitmaps should be changed.
Doc notes: None
Bugs: sdk-23177
Reviewer: Hans
Tests run: checkintests, Mustella transform effects
Is noteworthy for integration: No
Ticket Links:
    http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/sdk-23177
Modified Paths:
    flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/spark/src/spark/effects/AnimateTransform.as

What is the fix for some applications repeatedly asking permission to accept incoming connections?

What is the fix for some applications repeatedly asking permission to accept incoming connections?
On every restart, AutoPairs and Epson Event Manager asks me to reject or agree to allow incoming connections. It is very aggravating and time-wasting. I know other Mac users who have the identical problem with other applications on their Macs.
Isn't there some way to make my Mac understand that "Yes" means "Yes" once and for all?
I am presently running Yosemite, but this was a problem with prior OS X versions too.
Respectfully,
Nate

This is a comment on why you might, or might not, want to use the built-in Application Firewall.
The firewall blocks incoming network traffic, regardless of origin, on a per-application basis. By default it's off, and when turned on, it allows applications digitally signed by Apple, and only those applications, to listen on the network. It does not block outgoing traffic, nor can it distinguish between different sources of incoming traffic, nor does it filter traffic by content.
No matter how it's configured, the firewall is not, as some imagine, a malware filter. If that's what you expect it to do, forget it. All it will do is bombard you with pointless alerts.
Consider some scenarios in which you may expect the firewall to be useful.
1. You enable file sharing, and you allow guest access to certain folders. That means you want people on your local network, but not outsiders, to be able to access those shared folders without having to enter a password. In the default configuration, the firewall will allow that to happen. The router prevents outsiders from accessing the shares, whether the application firewall is on or off. But if your computer is portable and you connect it to an untrusted network such as a public hotspot, the firewall will still allow access to anyone, which is not what you want. It does not protect you in this scenario.
2. You unknowingly install a trojan that steals your data and uploads it to a remote server. The firewall, no matter how it's configured, will not block that outgoing traffic. It does nothing to protect you from that threat.
3. A more likely scenario: The web browser or the router is compromised by an attacker. The attack redirects all web traffic to a bogus server. The firewall does not protect you from this threat.
4. You're running a public web server. Your router forwards TCP connection requests on port 80 to your Mac, and the connections are accepted by the built-in web server, which is codesigned by Apple. The application firewall, still configured as above, allows this to happen. An attacker hacks into the system and tries to hijack port 80 and replace the built-in web server with one that he controls. The good news here is that the firewall does protect you; it blocks incoming connections to the malicious server and alerts you. But the bad news is that you've been rooted. The attacker who can do all this can just as easily turn off the firewall, in which case it doesn't protect you after all.
5. You're running a Minecraft server on the local network. It listens on a high-numbered port. You, as administrator, have reconfigured the firewall to pass this traffic. An attacker is able to log in to a standard account on the server. He figures out how to crash Minecraft, or he just waits for you to quit it, and then he binds his own, malicious, Minecraft server to the same port. The firewall blocks his server, and because he's not an administrator, he can't do anything about it. In this scenario, the security is genuine.
6. Here is a more realistic scenario in which you might have reason to enable the firewall. Your MacBook has sharing services enabled. You want those services to be available to others on a home or office network. When you're on those networks, the firewall should be off. When you move to an untrusted network, you can either turn off all the services, or enable the firewall with a non-default configuration to block them. Blocking is easier: one click instead of several.

Possible fix for some dlink routers with wifi issues

I found something online that stated that if you turn off a feature called WMM that it can help or fix some wifi issues, and on my dlink dir-268 it seems to be working. Now without this feature turned off I could connect to my wifi but not much else, with it off I have checked websites online and also for the first time been able to download a 300MB+ file. I dont know if it is still used on the newer dlink routers but it could be at least a temp fix for some. For my router it is located under the advanced/ advanced wireless settings
Please post your results if you find this feature on your router, and list what model you have and if it worked so if it fixes problems for enough people mabe we can let dlink know of this find. could help in getting a fix out for the router firm ware or mabe even the android os.

Wouldn't really be a fix... more a workaround. However...
Both my Plus account, and a free test account I set up, don't have reliable push... so I think the problem is a little more complex than this.
While there has been a theory that free accounts work (which I have not experienced), I don't think Apple or Yahoo have ever stated that push was only intended to work for free accounts...

[svn:fx-trunk] 11223: * Quick fix for some mxmlcunit failures.

Revision: 11223
Author:   [email protected]
Date:     2009-10-28 07:12:00 -0700 (Wed, 28 Oct 2009)
Log Message:
Quick fix for some mxmlcunit failures.
QE notes:
Doc notes:
Bugs: SDK-23865
Reviewer: Gaurav
Tests run: checkintests
Is noteworthy for integration: No
Code-level description of changes:
Added null destination check to completeTwoWayBindings().
Ticket Links:
    http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-23865
Modified Paths:
    flex/sdk/trunk/modules/compiler/src/java/flex2/compiler/mxml/rep/MxmlDocument.java

No IP address, everytime I'm close to my mums mac running off the same wifi, it's giving me this error. I can trouble shoot for about 3 mins and fix it, but it just keeps happening and I need a permanent fix for it. Any help?

No IP address, everytime I'm close to my mums mac running off the same wifi, it's giving me this error. I can trouble shoot for about 3 mins and fix it, but it just keeps happening and I need a permanent fix for it. Any help?

this is what you need to do to exclude everything apart from desktop.
on time machine preferences, click on Options
click plus sign, on the new window, click macintosh HD
do a Control + A then deselect users then click okay
go to options again, plus sign, go to users, control +A then deselect your user account
go to options again, plus sign, go to your user account, control + A, deselect desktop
start the back up.

Permanent fix for disabling safe sleep?

I am frustrated with my MacBook Pro's safe sleep 'feature'. I found the standard way of de-activating it (with the pmset commands), and this works in the short term, but within a few days, either through changing the energy settings or other ways, it always reverts to the original setting of having safe sleep activated.
I found SmartSleep, which allows one to turn off safe sleep without typing the pmset commands, but no luck - after a few days, it will revert to safe sleep.
This is very frustrating, and I'm not sure how to permanently disable this. I have read people suggesting writing a startup script, but I hardly ever reboot my laptop (the only times I have are after typing the pmset commands!) so this wouldn't really solve the problem.
Does anyone know of a permanent fix for this?
Thanks!

The terminal commands are the most permanent way you'll find.
Here's the issue: If you launch Energy Saver and choose ANY of Apple's pre-defined settings like "longer battery life," safe sleep is automatically turned on. To avoid this, you must avoid selecting any of the default power configurations. You can still manually set the sleep and display timers, you just can't use Apple's predefined profiles.
Make sure you delete the virtual memory space reserved for safe sleep after you disable it, too. Here's the link:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20070302210328928

Plz provide the permanent fix for this issue

Hi Gurus,
We are getting Issue in smq2 of target system ecc.
"Object was locked by user jobschedular" so when we Resetting the Queue from smq2 entries are moving from that Queue but this is happening very frequently can any body tell me the permanenent fix for this ,how to fix this .As a pi consultant how can we fix this from our side or we need to contact Basis people for this.
As we are in Prduction support .
Reply plz.
Regards
Madhu

Hi Vila-Thanks for your reply im getting the issue is here is Object is Locked by the user in
smq2 of ecc system when we are resetting the queue the entries are getting clearing from the
queue so instead of doing manually is there q way to do automated process for this thats what i want
the issue is not in PI side.
I just want to bring some points to ur notice is
Message is successfully reached to target system in Target system the entries got stuck in smq2 with the queue name XBTR(Target people side people sayijng that queue name starts with X It belongs ot pi ) so the target people simply assigning that there is a problem on pi side but there is no problem on PI SIDE .
we are unable to find the issue on target side.
Quick reply plz
Regards
Madhu

An easy fix for some iTunes Match glitches

I found that some cover art would not display on my iPhone, even though the same album would show cover art on my iMac and on the MacMini, from which it was uploaded to iCloud. Other problems occurred, too weird to describe here.
Investigating the problem, I found that this was caused by some "stuck" sync attempts, trying to download songs from iCloud to the iPhone.
Fix:
1. disable iTunes Match on the iPhone.
2. Delete all music from the iPhone (right swipe, click delete)
3. some music will remain and can neither be downloaded nor deleted. These are the "stuck" items that cause the problems.
4. Attach iPhone to iTunes
5. Select your iPhone in iTunes, then click on "Music".
6. You will see the "stuck" songs, greyed out. Most of my problematic songs showed up twice or three times, with a non-moving sync indicator in the first column.
7. delete these songs (select all, right click, delete). I had to do this twice for some unknown reason. Force a sync and check again, to verify that they are indeed gone.
Once the songs are gone, disconnect the iPhone from your computer. Check the music application. It should display no songs. Now, go to settings and re-enable iTunes Match on the iPhone. Wait until the busy indicator disappears. This may take several minutes, depending on the size of your music library. I assume that this is the time it takes to download cover art and metadata, needed to display the list of albums.
What is displayed on your iPhone should now match what is in the cloud.
At this point, I am just guessing, but it seems that the iTunes Match code on the iPhone is not yet 100% bullet proof, and that it can sometimes become confused by a combination of intermittent network connectivity on the iPhone and updates to the iCloud library. Once a sync attempt gets stuck, the affected file seems to be locked and will never display the proper cover art, sometimes affecting the display of the whole album.
I will keep an eye on this. Probably the code will become more robust over time.

i got this problem since yesterday.
at first (a couple of days) --> i could delete all the songs by a simple sync due itunes....
--> clean music app
but now... everything stuck in itunes match sync
--> no fix, worked for me
i thought i had played around with the iphone to much, so i took the ipad...
and did a VERY CLEAN delete.... close music app --> disable itunes match --> wait for the spinner --> open the musik app --> wait for the spinner --> close music app --> usage --> delete all music --> itunes sync..
but same problem like on the iphone about 10 songs stuck in itunes match sync... not able to get rid of them.
on ipad and iphone! --> strange!
i tried also to delete all grey songs by (managing music and video manuelly)... after new sync i see the grey songs again.
i have also noticed that there is a sync problem when you are changing any "Metadata" - cover, ablum, genre... so you have to clean your music app - (fresh itunes match sync)
so i stuck
and im not able to sync any new data from itunes match.
where is the magic? Apple?
this is like windows ME

Wireless Problems: Observations/Possible Fix for Some (No Guarantees)

Hi All:
I have been following our wireless problem threads. To a large extent, they revolve around lost connections, weak signals, etc. On my machine, I previously noticed what appeared to be wide fluctuations in signal strength, although I could almost always pick up one distant network that has to be at least 125' away regardless of my apparent signal strength. Also, I never lost my connection. I also have noticed that my Windows notebooks pick up more networks than my MBP, even though some must be farther away than 125'.
Recently, I had to reinstall all my software. Once resolved I'll explain why and what to look out for. Anyway, before the reinstall, I had done all updates. When I reinstalled, I also did all updates. The bottom line is that I have not seen the wide fluctuations in signal strength since reinstalling. Sometimes I see more networks than I am used to seeing.
Am I suggesting that you reinstall to eliminate the types of problems mentioned above? Definitely not especially if your problem is pretty minor. However, if your problem is significant, then think about it. Perhaps a greater than expected number of partially bad factory installs accounts for some of our problems.
I finished my reinstall only about 24 hours ago. I'll continue to monitor and will post back if I begin to see the wide signal strength fluctuations again.

Nope, thanks. I certainly advocate all trying any possible fixes prior to taking the drastic step of reinstalling. Hope the update works for all. I must of installed it yesterday with a number of other updates. Thus, it wasn't what "fixed" my system. But, it looks like it didn't hurt it either. Both are good to know:) Gosh, and looking at some of the recent posts in this category, I am glad that none of the recent updates hosed anything on my machine. Then, I'd me reinstalling again and being more selective about the updates.
I have to admit I have been throwing caution to the wind on doing all the updates. I think I'd better go back to my old style of seeing if there are update rumblings before I install them.
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Is there a permanent fix for the Acrobat Organizer database damaged issue?

I am constantly applying the fix for this. Is there a known reason this is happening so we are able to prevent it in the future? Adobe obviously knows about the issue, is a fix being worked on?
Mike

Hi amr1119,
Sorry to hear that you are having issues with installing the latest version of iTunes. I understand that you have done a lot of research into this, but was curious if when you tried to launch the iTunes installer file did you right click and Run as Administrator? Try that and some of the other steps, if needed, in the article below.
If you can't install or update iTunes for Windows
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201668
Take it easy,
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I need a permanent fix for the 'mail server not found' bug (iPad 2 3G)

This problem started happening on my iPad 2 (3G AT&T) about 2 months ago. I found the fix posted numerous times on this forum> delete your mail applications & reinstall them which I did (deleted & reinstalled both my gmail & yahoo accts). Same problem reappeared about 2 wks later so I repeated the fix. It happened a 3rd time this wk so I repeated this fix a THIRD time before I left town a few days ago. Here I am 3 days later & it's back AGAIN. FYI...ALL the apps are up to date on my iMac & iPad 2. Can anyone tell me when the fix for this bug is going to be released & what the work-around is?

You have to purchase a data plan to use 3G data but you don't have to purchase a data plan for the iPad to work. You will have full function of the device without a data plan, as long as you have wifi available.
I also have an iPad2 3G. I only sign up for 3G service when I need it, i.e. travelling for an extended period. The rest of the time, I just use wifi at home or whereever I can.

Bridge CC slow? Here's a fix for some situations

Like so many of you, I have been having issues with my Adobe Bridge CS6 & Adobe Bridge CC 2014 installations both being very slow (5-10 seconds to open any context menus, folder update taking minutes, etc). Even though my machine was more than capable, something was limiting my Bridge performance.
After experimenting, I finally came up a solution that fixed it for me and others in my company.
It seemed like any action I took in Bridge was making it ping my distant network drives, which added a huge delay to any operations. I realized that this might be stemming from the fact that my company operated a Windows desktop syncing server / domain (no clue what i's actually called..) that would back up our user profiles automatically. By creating a local user and running Bridge through that (even while logged in on my main account), my performance is 1000% better.
Here's what I did:
1) While logged in on my main account, I created a new basic user on my local machine following these guidelines, writing down the username/password that I used for this new user
2) I went into "All Programs", right clicked the Bridge CC 2014 icon, and chose "Send To > Desktop (Create new shortcut)"
3) On my desktop, I right clicked the newly created Bridge icon and selected "Properties"
4) Under the "Shortcut > Target" option, I entered: C:\Windows\System32\runas.exe /user:COMPNAME\NEWUSER /savecred "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Bridge CC (64 Bit)\Bridge.exe" (Where COMPNAME is is my computer name and NEWUSER is the username of the user I created in step 1)
5) Clicked "Change Icon..." and then "Browse", navigated to "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Bridge CC (64 Bit)", and chose the Bridge.exe file to use as my new icon
6) Clicked OK to save the shortcut
7) Then I ran the shortcut and was prompted for the password I setup in step 1, which I entered, then hit "Enter" (it should save this from now on, due to the /savecred option we used in step 4)
Like that, my Bridge was back to performing like it did in CS5! As long as I used the new shortcut I created, my Bridge continued to work well. Using the "old" shortcuts wouldn't break anything, but Bridge would run very slowly.
Some things to note:
1) You will have to resetup ALL of your preferences/keywords panel/favorites/windows/etc for this "local" Bridge - none of your actual image files should be affected, though
2) In order to access network drives through this "local" Bridge, you will need to use "Switch User" to login as the user you created in step 1, map the network drives while logged in as that user, and then logout (and this may add the same slowness back to Bridge!)
3) Performing actions on network drives with the "local" Bridge may actually be slower using this method, which is why we now use the "local" Bridge only for local work and the original Bridge for working on a network drive
4) May make your systems administrator mad if they don't want you setting up new users..
5) Plugins/Scripts may need to be edited to work with the "local" Bridge
Here's some background on my computer:
Windows 7 Professional 64 Bit
16 GB RAM
NVIDIA Quadro K2100M 4GB
i7 4900MQ @ 2.80GHz
128GB SSD
I hope this helps other people as much as it has helped us!!

Never should have been a question - sorry.

HT6147 I was expecting fix for some other issues in this update.

In this Update I was expecting a Celular data and iTunes WiFi Sync fix.
Issue on the Celular Data option is that after deactivatinh Cel-Data on some apps as soon as we leave that screen it turns back on.
Many threads are started upon this issue. Click Here
Issue on iTunes WiFi sync is pretty much simple, it doesn't work at all.
Tried all tips that can be found Here and still doesn't work.
I hope that soon there's gonna be an update for these issues too.

1. You take screenshot by long pressing power and volume down button (booth at same time) in ICS, thats how google has made it.
2. What beautiful lockscreen are you talking about? Sony has kept the lockscreen same because thats the lock screen many users are used to.
3. Yes music player is same. I have an Arc S, the music player is same. The music player with equalizer is in Xperia S not in Arc S.
4. Google never said any such things. You can see the recently opened apps by LONG PRESSING THE HOME BUTTON and can close them by Swiping it off the screen.
5. Once again Google didnt say any such thing. If you want to change transision effects and stuff use Apex Launcher instead of Sony's launcher. You can get Apex launcher for free from Play Store.
Hope i helped. If you have any question ask i'll try to help.

A Permanent Fix For 3rd party apps that don't launch?

Since Apple has removed my post suggesting this is a bug (and if you've owned iPhones from the get go, you will know that this is). I'm putting a question out to the forum in hopes that besides the already mentioned deleting/updating an app via the store, uninstalling all apps (losing all the app data) and reinstalling et al, has anyone found a way to keep this from happening ever OR a way to back up the particular file that must store authorization data that gets corrupted?

My experience is the same as w7ox for as long or longer. I've had a couple of apps that would occasionally crash on launch, but these were fixed in updates from the developer. One thing to be aware of is that all apps share the same memory, so if one is ill-behaved it can cause others that are perfectly innocent to crash on launch. So the likely situation is that you have one errant app. When an app crashes because a problem in a different app a reboot will fix it, sometimes only until the other app is run again.
BTW, there are huge numbers of posts pointing to problems that are called bugs by the posters (and some actually are), so it's likely your post was deleted for a different reason than the fact that reported a bug.
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