Firefox 46.0 UI issues

[citizen]

I have found that 12.04 runs well, has enough eye candy to be pleasing, etc. Not sure if I am thrilled with any need to try and update an OS for a browser.

I have 16.04 on a laptop I'm testing and it has the same issues with FF 46, squished and all. But that 16.04 is going away since my window decoration that I love, which is called White Glass, shows as a solid black. Huge mess. But the desktop theme, Glassified, works quite well on it. 16.04 has too many issues with themes. And I hate GUI issues. I really dislike this trend toward flat and colorless, did we actually travel back to 1983?
This is 2016, we need grown up graphics. I have always hated the Microsoft icons that look like a child's application. I cannot wait until this trends away from this look.

[urdrwho5]

Wish I could get FF 45 back into the repository. I have FF running but it is through an uncompressed FF in a folder. It runs but is it running like it should be if properly installed from a repository. Using this manner of running FF I can't start it in profile mode or safe mode.

[Qqmike]

I think I'll stay put and hope to see upcoming FF updates that fix all this.

That's a very good summary-update Goeroeboeroe. Thanks for your good work on this. I have it bookmarked, just in case.

[Goeroeboeroe]

As far as I understand from different places on internet:
Firefox 46 simply does not run on 12.04. If that has to do with the new GTK3-intergration or something else: I don't know.

On 14.04 it runs, but you have to use a GTK3-them that works. Firefox gets it checkboxes, buttons, the look of the title, etc. from this theme (I mean the checkboxes, buttons, etc. you see on websites. If the site itself doesn't change them with css, you get the default buttons etc.from the GTK3-theme.)
The themes you can download on Mozilla only change the appearance of Firefox, like menus, titlebar, etc. But if there are no checkboxes etc. in the first place, a theme on Mozilla can't repair that.
The 'Default' GTK3-theme on 14.04 works, but is unbelievable ugly. If you search for new themes for GTK3 with searchterm adwaita: that themes work too. (I myself have now- and please keep that secret - the Windows10 theme.) Adwaita has quite a lot of themes, so there's a chance you'lll find something you like. I did.

It seems that on 16.04 Firefox most of the time is running, there are only some complaints about 16.04.

So all together: it looks like Firefox really messed up with GTK3 on 14.04. I've read a test rapport about testing the GTK3-integration on Ubuntu, but I really think that was a very limited test. There was no version of Ubuntu and no GTK3-theme named. Somebody had pointed out they should especially check buttons, checkboxes, etc. on sites, and in the test report that worked fine. But I guess they just tested one theme on one version of Ubuntu.

Edit: I found the test back: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...gid=1742183538
They do name Ubuntu versions: 12.04 and 14.04, my mistake.

[Qqmike]

I'm very late to this thread. At first, thought it was just another thread on more whining over a FF update. Until I started noticing the items in the OP happening on my FF 46. IMO, this is a mess. Another thing I noticed: Rt-click on a vid, 'Save link as' the Dolphin window pops up, and I had to fight the navigation settings in the Dolphin window to get to My Documents and a subfolder--it didn't want to navigate for me! I maximized that Save window, and next time I did a save, it was no longer maximized (as in previous FF versions). Not much on details here, I realize that, but just to say I am also finding the OP issues.

Running a stock K14.04, all default settings on the OS, AFAIK.

[urdrwho5]

I am in the same situation on my one old laptop. "So far 12.04 has been quite good to me on this desktop. 14.04 refuses to install properly because Nvidia."

I have found that 12.04 runs well, has enough eye candy to be pleasing, etc. Not sure if I am thrilled with any need to try and update an OS for a browser.

So far 12.04 has been quite good to me on this desktop. 14.04 refuses to install properly because Nvidia. And 16.04 will never make it to this box because it is crash central. I stuck it on a Lenovo Ideapad and it just crashes when you change settings. Not to mention virtual desktops are dead now. That Lenovo will probably get 14.04 since Nvidia does not exist on that,

My 12.04 has backports as well as LibreOffice stable so I'm still using some current things. It's nice that we get current Firefox, but current should not include broken. 46 feels like a beta, actually a pre-alpha.

I just noticed my scroll bar is completely black now.

I did manage to change the highlight color so I can read the text I select. Settings/application appearance/colors/colors (tab), then change selection text (to black). However the highlight (selection background) is now the same color (black) that I chose the text to be, but the text is showing white inside the black bar. The actual Selection Background color is set to blue, which does not appear anywhere in FF. So changing the text color actually changes the highlight color instead. FF is so broken.

[gnomek]

Although I have adwaita set as gtk3 theme Firefox doesn’t respect it. I still get dialogues from oxygen.
Edit:
No. It was my fault.

I used to use GnomishGray for gtk3 but if you can recommend any other nice gtk3 theme for Firefox, with good looking scrollbars and dialogue box, please do.

[Snowhog]

Finished installing 12.04.5 in an Oracle VirtualBox VM. Afterwards I ran the Firefox Installer and it brought in version 46, which does fail to load. Googled and found the bug report on the issue: Firefox 46 crashes on Ubuntu 12.04 (precise) with Oxygen-GTK3 and followed the course of action in Comment 15 for bug 1575781. This removed version 46 and installed version 45 which doesn't suffer from the problem with version 46.

Added:

Firefox is at version 46 in my 16.04 VM installation, and it runs just fine.

[Goeroeboeroe]

No, it does not work. You still have to use an GTK3-adwaita-theme or the Default GTK3-theme. (Maybe some other thems work too, I don't know, most don't).
Metal Lion Australis changes the appearance of Firefox. But Firefox 46 still uses the default buttons, checkboxes, titles, etc. on sites. So if you install Metal Lion Australis (looks beautiful, by the way) you still miss checkboxes etc. on sites, unless you also install a GTK3-theme that works.
That are system wide things Firefox 46 uses by using GTK3. If that doesn't work in the GTK3-theme, you can't get it working by changing the appearance of Firefox.
(And don't ask me why Mozilla thought it that important to change the look of checkboxes etc. that they made lots of browsers unusable, without changing themes etc.)
Edit: I should have repeated I'm running 14.04.

[gnomek]

This theme works on 46
https://addons.mozilla.org/pl/firefo...c=cb-dl-rating

Otherwise install gtk3 theme.

[life0riley]

After the update to version 46.0 Firefox crashes when launching on my Kubuntu 12.04 host and Kubuntu 12.04 VirtualBox guest.

"It's dead Jim!"

Here is the crash report contents from my Kubuntu 12.04 host (There is no sense sending to the Mozilla team).

Add-ons: ubufox%40ubuntu.com:3.2,%7B972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd%7D:46.0,loop%40mozilla.org:1.2.6,e10srollout%40mozilla.org:1.0,firefox%40getpocket.com:1.0
BuildID: 20160425120036
CrashTime: 1461934868
EMCheckCompatibility: true
FramePoisonBase: 00000000f0dea000
FramePoisonSize: 4096
InstallTime: 1461933488
Notes: OpenGL: NVIDIA Corporation -- GeForce GT 610/PCIe/SSE2 -- 4.2.0 NVIDIA 304.131 -- texture_from_pixmap

ProductID: {ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}
ProductName: Firefox
ReleaseChannel: release
SafeMode: 0
SecondsSinceLastCrash: 1151
StartupTime: 1461934865
TelemetryEnvironment: {"build":{"applicationId":"{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}","applicationName":"Firefox","architecture":"x86","buildId":"20160425120036","version":"46.0","vendor":"Mozilla","platformVersion":"46.0","xpcomAbi":"x86-gcc3","hotfixVersion":"20160106.01"},"partner":{"distributionId":"canonical","distributionVersion":"1.0","partnerId":null,"distributor":null,"distributorChannel":null,"partnerNames":[]},"system":{"memoryMB":6055,"virtualMaxMB":null,"cpu":{"count":2,"cores":2,"vendor":"GenuineIntel","family":6,"model":23,"stepping":10,"l2cacheKB":2048,"l3cacheKB":2048,"speedMHz":2603,"extensions":["hasMMX","hasSSE","hasSSE2","hasSSE3","hasSSSE3"]},"os":{"name":"Linux","version":"3.2.0-101-generic-pae","locale":"en-US"},"hdd":{"profile":{"model":null,"revision":null},"binary":{"model":null,"revision":null},"system":{"model":null,"revision":null}},"gfx":{"D2DEnabled":null,"DWriteEnabled":null,"adapters":[{"description":"NVIDIA Corporation -- GeForce GT 610/PCIe/SSE2","vendorID":"NVIDIA Corporation","deviceID":"GeForce GT 610/PCIe/SSE2","subsysID":null,"RAM":null,"driver":null,"driverVersion":"4.2.0 NVIDIA 304.131","driverDate":null,"GPUActive":true}],"monitors":[],"features":{"compositor":"none"}}},"settings":{"blocklistEnabled":true,"e10sEnabled":false,"e10sCohort":"unsupportedChannel","telemetryEnabled":false,"isInOptoutSample":false,"locale":"en-US","update":{"channel":"release","enabled":true,"autoDownload":true},"userPrefs":{"browser.cache.disk.capacity":358400,"browser.newtabpage.enhanced":true,"browser.urlbar.userMadeSearchSuggestionsChoice":true},"addonCompatibilityCheckEnabled":true,"isDefaultBrowser":false},"profile":{"creationDate":15715},"addons":{"activeAddons":{"ubufox@ubuntu.com":{"blocklisted":false,"description":"Ubuntu modifications for Firefox","name":"Ubuntu Modifications","userDisabled":false,"appDisabled":false,"version":"3.2","scope":8,"type":"extension","foreignInstall":1,"hasBinaryComponents":false,"installDay":15715,"updateDay":16696,"signedState":2},"loop@mozilla.org":{"blocklisted":false,"description":"Web sharing for Firefox","name":"Firefox Hello","userDisabled":false,"appDisabled":false,"version":"1.2.6","scope":1,"type":"extension","foreignInstall":false,"hasBinaryComponents":false,"installDay":16864,"updateDay":16916},"e10srollout@mozilla.org":{"blocklisted":false,"description":"Staged rollout of Firefox multi-process feature.","name":"Multi-process staged rollout","userDisabled":false,"appDisabled":false,"version":"1.0","scope":1,"type":"extension","foreignInstall":false,"hasBinaryComponents":false,"installDay":16916,"updateDay":16916},"firefox@getpocket.com":{"blocklisted":false,"description":"When you find something you want to view later, put it in Pocket.","name":"Pocket","userDisabled":false,"appDisabled":false,"version":"1.0","scope":1,"type":"extension","foreignInstall":false,"hasBinaryComponents":false,"installDay":16916,"updateDay":16916}},"theme":{"id":"{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}","blocklisted":false,"description":"The default theme.","name":"Default","userDisabled":false,"appDisabled":false,"version":"46.0","scope":4,"foreignInstall":false,"hasBinaryComponents":false,"installDay":15715,"updateDay":16916},"activePlugins":[{"name":"Skype Buttons for Kopete","version":"","description":"Mime Type x-skype for Skype Buttons","blocklisted":false,"disabled":false,"clicktoplay":true,"mimeTypes":["application/x-skype"],"updateDay":15598}],"activeGMPlugins":{"gmp-gmpopenh264":{"version":"1.5.3","userDisabled":false,"applyBackgroundUpdates":1}},"activeExperiment":{},"persona":null}}
Theme: classic/1.0
Throttleable: 1
UptimeTS: 3.2002887
Vendor: Mozilla
Version: 46.0
useragent_locale: en-US

This report also contains technical information about the state of the application when it crashed.

Here is my Kubuntu 12.04 host system info

life0riley@life0riley-desktop:~$ inxi -F -G -l -M -o -r -z
System:    Host: life0riley-desktop Kernel: 3.2.0-101-generic-pae i686 (32 bit) Desktop: KDE 4.8.5 Distro: Ubuntu 12.04 precise
Machine:   Mobo: ASUSTeK model: CM5570 version: Rev X.0x Bios: American Megatrends version: 0207 date: 05/13/2009
CPU:       Dual core Pentium CPU E5300 (-MCP-) cache: 2048 KB flags: (lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 ssse3) 
           Clock Speeds: 1: 2603.00 MHz 2: 1203.00 MHz
Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA GF119 [GeForce GT 610] 
           X.Org: 1.11.3 drivers: nvidia (unloaded: fbdev,vesa,nouveau) Resolution: 2560x1440@60.0hz 
           GLX Renderer: GeForce GT 610/PCIe/SSE2 GLX Version: 4.2.0 NVIDIA 304.131
Audio:     Card-1: NVIDIA GF119 HDMI Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel Sound: ALSA ver: 1.0.24
           Card-2: Intel 82801JI (ICH10 Family) HD Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel 
Network:   Card: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller driver: r8169 
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 2000.4GB (45.1% used) 1: id: /dev/sda model: WDC_WD5000AADS size: 500.1GB 
           2: id: /dev/sdc model: WDC_WD1002FAEX size: 1000.2GB 3: id: /dev/sdb model: WDC_WD5000AAKS size: 500.1GB 
Partition: ID: / size: 453G used: 276G (65%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 label: N/A 
           ID: swap-1 size: 6.44GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda5 label: N/A 
RAID:      No RAID devices detected - /proc/mdstat and md_mod kernel raid module present
Unmounted: No unmounted partitions detected
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 37.0C mobo: 27.0C gpu: 39C 
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: 312 psu: 0 sys-1: 0 
Repos:     Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list
           deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise main restricted
           deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise main restricted
           deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates main restricted
           deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates main restricted
           deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise universe
           deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise universe
           deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates universe
           deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates universe
           deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise multiverse
           deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise multiverse
           deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates multiverse
           deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates multiverse
           deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-backports main restricted universe multiverse
           deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-backports main restricted universe multiverse
           deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise-security main restricted
           deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise-security main restricted
           deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise-security universe
           deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise-security universe
           deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise-security multiverse
           deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise-security multiverse
           deb http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise main
           deb-src http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise main
           Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/stebbins-handbrake-releases-precise.list
           deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/stebbins/handbrake-releases/ubuntu precise main
           deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/stebbins/handbrake-releases/ubuntu precise main
Info:      Processes: 177 Uptime: 5 days Memory: 2988.4/6054.5MB Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 1.9.17 
life0riley@life0riley-desktop:~$

[Goeroeboeroe]

@elijathegold: Thanks! I searched for adwaita and found Uncomplicated. That works on 14.04 with Firefox 46. The default-gtk3-theme is really very ugly.This looks much better. (I gave up searching after about ten themes gave the same problems.)

[citizen]

Don't waste time going to the mozillazine forum because what you'll hear is that 12.04 is old, you should upgrade, etc. That it isn't the fault of Firefox. What? We are only talking about an OS that is a few years old but somehow I still have FF running fine on an XP box.

IF I had known that this issue would happen to 12.04 LTS I would have locked in at 45.

The crash report box that appears has pencil thin radio buttons. FF 46 is a terrible GUI.

So far 12.04 has been quite good to me on this desktop. 14.04 refuses to install properly because Nvidia. And 16.04 will never make it to this box because it is crash central. I stuck it on a Lenovo Ideapad and it just crashes when you change settings. Not to mention virtual desktops are dead now. That Lenovo will probably get 14.04 since Nvidia does not exist on that,

My 12.04 has backports as well as LibreOffice stable so I'm still using some current things. It's nice that we get current Firefox, but current should not include broken. 46 feels like a beta, actually a pre-alpha.

I just noticed my scroll bar is completely black now.

I did manage to change the highlight color so I can read the text I select. Settings/application appearance/colors/colors (tab), then change selection text (to black). However the highlight (selection background) is now the same color (black) that I chose the text to be, but the text is showing white inside the black bar. The actual Selection Background color is set to blue, which does not appear anywhere in FF. So changing the text color actually changes the highlight color instead. FF is so broken.

[elijathegold]

My understanding is that GTK recently c̶h̶a̶n̶g̶e̶d broke the way Gtk themes are handled as often happens when they do an update. They have said that this change is to stop fuure updates breaking themes. Short of waiting for the themes to be updated, the hacky solution seems to be to set your Gtk themes to adwaita.

[urdrwho5]

Don't waste time going to the mozillazine forum because what you'll hear is that 12.04 is old, you should upgrade, etc. That it isn't the fault of Firefox. What? We are only talking about an OS that is a few years old but somehow I still have FF running fine on an XP box.

IF I had known that this issue would happen to 12.04 LTS I would have locked in at 45.

The crash report box that appears has pencil thin radio buttons. FF 46 is a terrible GUI.

Yesterday I searched the interwebs for a solution to this, no luck. Glad to see someone else is complaining.

I'm using 12.04 LTS KDE 4.14.2, FF 46 is a mess. The bookmarks toolbar has no padding between entries, most of which are folders with a drop down arrow to the right. The windows version does not contain an arrow, so this has been squished to look like windows but the arrow was not removed. The mouse over highlighting is slightly off/smaller than the bookmark it is highlighting. It's nice to have more space on that toolbar, but I am a human and I like to read what is there. If the folder icon and arrow were gone, it would be one big word.

I use "The Addon Bar Restored" and all the icons (ghostery, ABP, etc) are squished together like a NYC subway at rush hour. They literally overlap 1-2 pixels. It's like an icon orgy happening on my screen. Ain't nobody got time for that!

My scroll bar on the right turns black on the bottom half after a while. Like there is a dropout in the video composting for the lower half. I use Nvidia by the way.

Whenever I highlight text on a webpage or in the address bar, the highlight makes the text and the highlight white. You cannot read anything.

I also have a weird, very thin black border around my address bar. It's not very noticeable because my persona theme is linen and it blends away. A previous update made the current tab a "frosted" look, which I css'd out since it was annoying.

Whenever I save anything, the Save and Cancel buttons were very thin, not normal. They have magically restored themselves.

I was trying to open the preferences for the "Element hiding helper for Adblock Plus" addon, and it crashed FF every time.

This has to be the most annoying update yet. Why don't they just go work for Google if they are going to make FF into Chrome? Maybe they are Google employees working at FF destroying the competition.
I remember when FF could be used with very few addons, now every few updates I have to add something else.

Sad, just sad!