|
|
Not having much luck with browsers and facebook.
Firefox in high contrast mode doesn't display Icons or smileys and some videos dont play.
Edge crashes because of a memory leak after scrolling a few pages.
Chrome (Cent) doesn't display high contrast pages correctly.
So its back to firefox and put up with some things not working correctly.
|
|
|
|
What OS are you using? If Windows 8.1 or 10, I find the Facebook app in the Windows Store is pretty good. However, if you need a high contrast theme, it may well be useless to you.
I usually use the x64 build of Firefox, but use the standard theme so cannot comment on high contrast related issues.
|
|
|
Yes Win 10 have tried the facebook app but no dark theme. Switched to FF x64 but dark theme still incorrect. Never mind will keep sending feedback and see if they fix it.
|
|
Register (or login) on our website and you will not see this ad.
|
|
|
My wife has this sort of problem - would really like to use a high contrast, but things don't show up.
It is a great loss that we no longer have the ability to adjust the colour of each element under Windows. For a while it was somewhat buried, but possible to copy settings from an earlier Windows, but then it all seemed to change.
Derek
|
|
|
Yes a white background hurts my eyes after a while, much prefer a black background. As you say some things dont work in high contrast, ok on Edge but after a while it becomes slow and unresponsive due to a memory leak.
|
|
|
Try using the FB Purity addon - http://www.fbpurity.com
This allows you to change fonts and background settings on Facebook and can be added to Firefox, Chrome, Edge, Safari, Opera and Maxthon browsers.
It also has a large array of other customization options for Facebook.
|
|
|
I am using FB Purity but didn't realise about page colour customization but if I turn off high contrast it affects other pages like this one which I like with a black background. If only you could turn off high contrast for individual pages.
Thanks for the tip Sarah.
|
|
|
Perhaps you need a browser you only use for Facebook with FB Purity.
This also has the advantage that Facebook cookies stay on that browser and Facebook won't be able to track you across other sites.
|
|
|
Thanks Sarah will try Chrome (Cent) with FB Purity.
|
|
|
Thanks again Sarah FB Purity for Chrome (Cent) works a treat with black background and white text. I was swapping between browsers anyway as MWDS displays well on Chrome.
|
|
|
That's great Tim. I'm glad things are working for you now. Happy Facebooking 
What's for dinner? It's omelette here.
...and how's Dalton?
|
|
|
Mexican kebab with chips and garlic sauce lol.
Dalton is fine he is currently asleep resting his dinner on my bed. 
|
|
|
I have found a bug in Purity but the developer wants me to jump through too many hoops to report it. Some text is overlapping next to the 'like' smileys, it's nothing major and only happens when I have the black background and white text enabled.
Better than firefox in high contrast mode as that does not show smileys or icons at all and have been leaving feedback for that for ages and it is still not fixed.
I will live with Chrome and its slightly quirky overlapping text.
|
|
|
Sorry to hear about the bug but I hope you have something you can use.
Meanwhile, I'l now using a different backup product from the same vendor and it seems to be doing a disaster recover restore. I'm at 24% and will know in another 76%
Time for a coffee and more emergency chocolate digestives.
|
|
|
I am now trying the official Chrome browser, the error is the same but I now know my way around Chrome after using Cent.
Hope your disaster recovery works and is 100% safe you never know when you will need it.
The bug with Purity is minor and I can now get proper support using the official Chrome after jumping through a few hoops, but that is for another day.
|
|
|
Switched back to Cent as FB Purity works the same as on chrome but chrome has a download speed problem, Cent does not.
|
|
|
Jeez Tim .......
Just go buy a Mac. Sorted. Forever. 
|
|
|
Is this the same problem? So now fixed? Or something related but different?
My broadband basic info/help site - www.robertos.me.uk. Domains, site and mail hosting - Tsohost.
Connection - AAISP Home::1 80/20. Sync 63086/13719Kbps @ 600m. BQMs - IPv4 & IPv6 |
|
|
Same problem and fixed, now copying my backup to NAS.
|
|
|
Jeez Tim .......
Just go buy a Mac. Sorted. Forever.
I have never tried a modern mac but bet they aint half as configurable and flexible as windows. Last mac I used was at college for pascal programming, with floppy disks.
|
|
|
Things have moved on a bit since the Apple II. They no longer crash when you run poke 33,0
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Are you sure? How long since you checked?
My broadband basic info/help site - www.robertos.me.uk. Domains, site and mail hosting - Tsohost.
Connection - AAISP Home::1 80/20. Sync 63086/13719Kbps @ 600m. BQMs - IPv4 & IPv6 |
|
|
But I don't need it to be 'configurable', I just need it to work ....
and that it does. Without having to [censored] about with that and the other, resolving issues entirely of ones computers making.
|
|
|
Well I prefer Black backgrounds and white text I don't know if this is possible on a Mac.
There also aren't that many browsers for Mac. I'm using 4 at the moment but cut that down to 1 at last now I have found an extension for facebook.
|
|
|
I'm guessing my expectations for what to expect from my computer are different to yours Tim.
From reading other posts elsewhere I note that our opinions on food vary hugely too.
Different strokes innit. And I apologise for the flippant and irrelevant post about getting a Mac. Sorry.
|
|
|
No problem, as you say different strokes. At least we agree dropwire being used underground is not suitable.
Edited by Banger (Sun 07-May-17 15:18:34)
|
|
|
Ah yes, and the Dark Magic that is DSL agrees too.
|
Pages in this thread: 
Print Thread
Banger
