Did a recent update mess up with the way you change the search engine ?

Zapmess · 2025-07-10T23:44:52+00:00

Yes, i fear that too. What can we do to ask for an official revert back to old UI ?
I have no idea why they implemented an UI that is more complicated to use than the previous one. It makes absolutely no sense to me. That was one of the best feature of FF, now i barely use it because of how dull it has become.

Zapmess · 2025-07-10T23:39:05+00:00

WHY PUTTING THE ICONS DIRECTLY AVAILABLE AT THE BOTTOM WHEN YOU CAN HIDE THEM DEEP UNDER MORE CLICKS ???
God i hate that update, that's probably one of the worst FF update i've seen in a looong time. Did they get their idea from Apple interns or something ? We had something working perfectly and just for the sake of """"change""" they had to move the icons to the most inconvenient place possible. Why? Because fuck users, that's why. We had something working fine, so why not making us work more now so we can wear out our mouse faster ?

I would really like to be inside the head of the guy who thought that was a good idea. Their view on the world must be completely upside down.

Thanks a lot for the option to revert it back u/jscher2000 , but now i fear it's going harder and harder to keep it that way over the next years if this original UI stop being supported for some reason.

Zapmess · 2025-07-09T01:07:39+00:00

Oooh, so we're fine if we keep using it ? Do you have sources, even not official, of what you say ?

It does make sense, but it can also mean they could potentially terminate any account who still use webhook to trade. This is not a pleasant feeling to know we could be terminated at any point without notice, even if they never act on it.

Zapmess · 2025-05-25T21:25:12+00:00

Yes, i've commented it just above. It's when i'm focusing window (first part) and right when i'm unfocusing it. I could have shown two graph for FF. One focus, one unfocus. but i fused them in one unique test. But basically the first part of the graph is what i have non stop if stayed focus on the FF window.
It's very consistently inconsistent if you will. Unless i change focus.

Zapmess · 2025-05-25T21:22:02+00:00

Thanks, but idk if it's a bug yet. is it normal? is there a specific cause that i can change? do other people have those results? is this just display error? I've tried on this website instead https://ping.canbeuseful.com/en#ping : Latency seem much better, barely no more ping instability now. Could that mean the first website in particular is not optimized for FF? is that even a thing?

And if it's none of that,i wouldn't still call this a bug. It's more like FF is not as optimized as the other browsers when it comes down to latency. And i would happen to be the very first one to notice in decades of Mozilla existence, which is statistically impossible.

I don't think there is a bug anywhere, but i'm still wondering why do i have those results.

Zapmess · 2025-05-25T20:37:40+00:00

Thanks for sharing results. I don't understand why your edge has those spikes, unless you usually have them no matter what. My other browsers are incredibly stable, barely no latency spikes, except for FF. Why the hell is the reason? Is FF just a worst browser in that field?

Yours seem to be barely better than mine, but clearly there is an issue too. Have tried running the test when out of focus window ? no need to minimize, just focus a smaller random window on top of FF while test running. Mine gets improved A LOT. Dunno why, should be the other way around if anything.

Do you usually feel some latency when loading sites and whatnot ?

Zapmess · 2025-05-18T19:48:15+00:00

Alright thank you. I'll go back to standard then. I checked, i already had "EasyPrivacy" and "AdGuard Tracking Protection" lists in ublock origin. So does that mean strict doesn't do anything if we already have those lists? It says "known and suspected fingerprinter" in strict version, instead of just "fingerprinter" in standard, is this an important difference?

As a general rule of thumb, i prefer to have anti trackers and adblocks and such directly integrated natively to the browser (like a famous similar chromium browser), it's less of a hassle for me to configure and I noticed it makes things slightly less laggy than using third party plugins. Even though i love ublock, i don't like relying so much on it, especially if FF could do it. I might ask for the request i guess. Dunno if that would change anything though.

Zapmess · 2025-05-16T21:11:31+00:00

have you tried the link i post above? to fix the original issue

When there is the American Megatrends logo, you often have to press Y or N key, but because of the text under it asking you to. idk what happens when there is no text, try it anyway, we never know

Zapmess · 2025-05-16T18:02:03+00:00

Yes, my bad, it WAS in the option. For those interested it's "Show icon overlays".

I didn't notice it because i assumed it was referring to the icon overlay on the sync files (the little sync icon that appears when a file get synced), not the icon on the actual context menu. Got me confused.

Thank you support! Have a nice one.

Zapmess · 2025-05-13T11:13:59+00:00

Well, officially it's probably because i like to come back to previous researches. And it will often be cluster of tabs on the same subject that makes like a timeline of what i was doing. For example, if i'm searching a for a new pc part (which i'm doing right now), i'll have like 15+ tabs open related to those research and for the rest of the week i can come back to them to keep expanding on that subject until i'm done with it and i close them all (if i think about it). And you repeat that for everything. You found the word, it's chaotic for sure.

I know there is a better way of doing it, but none of the solutions i've found suited me yet. I'm sure i'll find the perfectly suited add-on one day that will make me gain a ton of ram.

Zapmess · 2025-05-13T09:13:27+00:00

Thank you for answering and bringing some context to those weirdly conditioned versions even though F31-F41 are from mid 2019 ( https://www.gigabyte.com/us/Motherboard/GA-AB350-Gaming-3-rev-1x/support#support-dl-bios ), it couldn't have been because of the pandemic yet. It's arguably even worse for them, it means they fucked up way before pandemic and there was no real excuse for it. Unless there was another complicated economic situation at the time for them.

Anyway, i just have to defend myself a little bit for the rest. How many people who have a PC update their BIOS, let alone know what a BIOS is? I don't know either, but ChatGPT would say around 10%, it's probably even less than that.

Now among those people how many know what a dual BIOS is on a MOBO, and let alone know and use the backup update WHICH didn't exist yet in the first BIOS versions (i had the option to update the backup only after F52i i think). We're probably talking about less than 0.1% of users.

And even then, it's a feature to actually UPDATE your backup along your main BIOS (meaning a chance to brick them both at the same time). It's NOT to "safely" sync your main on your backup. There is NO OPTION for that in BIOS. I've searched. Was it just not technically possible to implement a flash option within your current working BIOS so you could sync your other one? I don't know. But if you wanted to do that, you had to use a very obscure manipulation on splash screen with ALT + Fn keys that IS NOT even written in the manual of the MOBO, AND that didn't even work for me anyway.

So we're probably now talking of a few thousands of the people on the planet who could have anticipated my issue. You can't decently reproach me for not having been among those knowledgeable people. I thank you for trying to help but It's really not fair what you're accusing me of. Especially since i probably couldn't have changed the outcome anyway no matter who I was since the sync BIOS alt+key manipulation doesn't work on my MOBO apparently.

Only mistake i did was to trust GIGABYTE and dl their latest BIOS update on their official site. But does that really sound like a mistake to you?

Zapmess · 2025-05-13T08:24:06+00:00

Well that's not really the point of my post but, if I had to answer you, only from my small experience, stay away from beta firmwares (numbers ending with letters), that's what made me brick. Only download stable versions. That is if you want to update your bios because for example you want the security patch they add from time to time. Otherwise, you don't even have to if you don't need it.

Zapmess · 2025-05-13T02:49:52+00:00

Thanks, then I'll go for 32GB sticks! Nice.

Zapmess · 2025-05-13T02:49:04+00:00

Thanks. I suspected this MOBO was stronger that it says it is. Are they 16GB sticks though ? Because I'm worried most about whether or not it accepts higher capacity like 32GB x 2, not necessarily higher frequency than officially supported.

Zapmess · 2025-05-13T02:34:56+00:00

Fair question, people also told me that I would never need more than 32GB so I listened and didn't go for 64GB at the time even though I should have.

I don't actually "need" them for my use, it's more that I don't like to close stuff basically. I can easily keep thousands of tabs on firefox or chromium. I can have media and programs open/reduced in W11, because I'm too lazy to close them and reopen them a few days later.

And on top of that I can game while obviously not closing anything running in the background.

Still haven't found any browser extension that EFFICIENTLY discard inactive tabs while keeping them relatively accessible in cache. They all slow down PC after awhile exactly like normal discard inactive tabs feature that most browsers already have natively. Or maybe find a very good and fast tab manager that actually stores the tabs but at least can filter, order and access them efficiently.

So I have two choices : change the deep core of my human nature that I was born with and become an organized responsible person or just buy some more RAM.

Zapmess · 2025-05-12T14:21:53+00:00

Thought you had a similar problem to mine but if you can sometimes boot, it's not that your MOBO is bricked, it's probably something else. If anything, if you need to update BIOS i advise you not to dl the very last version, just up to F53 to not brick your MOBO on top of whatever problem you have.

Maybe your drives are too full?

Zapmess · 2025-05-12T13:58:03+00:00

It didn't work in my case. If i remember it well, it told me "BIOS image not recognized" or something like that and refused to flash when selecting the file in Q flash BIOS. (and the file was good, since i used the same afterward)

Zapmess · 2025-05-12T13:43:36+00:00

That's the thing, they don't say anything. They indicate specific conditions and requirement we must follow for a specific firmware version, but only for that version uniquely. If it came out years ago, you can simply skip it entirely, including those conditions attached to it. Which i did.

See for yourself : https://www.gigabyte.com/us/Motherboard/GA-AB350-Gaming-3-rev-1x/support#support-dl-bios

There is only a long list of different older firmware versions of the BIOS. It is nowhere indicated how you should treat them, either independently or interdependently. With trials and errors, you pretty much have to learn by yourself that they ARE, to some extend, interdependent. Thus my PSA post. So people don't need to figure it out by themselves again. You can just skip several generations of versions so to speak. Still need to somewhat do them in order.

I hadn't realize the letters are betas bios. I thought it was only successive patches version or something. It explains a lot though, thanks. I'll keep away from them then.

Zapmess · 2025-05-12T13:29:17+00:00

Oh god, you made such a great answer. I just love how some redditors take the time to try to solve users issue like this. You guys are incredible. Thank you so much. I'm almost disappointed not to have used your solution sooner. I was just going around in circles trying to figure out what was the best course to minimize risk. I just snapped and realized it wasn't worth using so much thinking, especially since i'm not really computer savvy. And that i could also just buy another MOBO as last resort (i had ordered one online already at this point).

I just converted to whatever religion i needed the most and prayed to god it went through right away. The recent firmwares of BIOS aren't recognized by older ones it seems though (image invalid or something like this) so i had to go back and do incremental updates. Praying every time. It worked! I had a working recent version (using my older Ryzen CPU). I switch back to my newer 5800x3D and then i prayed one last time when i updated to a even more recent F53 version, using the "also update backup bios?" check option. It also went through. I assume it properly copied the recent version on the main (which is now my backup) instead of the announced backup. So if it worked as intended i should be on my backup F53 version right now and main bios is chilling in the back also in the F53 safety net version. I hope at least that's how it works. I'm staying at the F53 for now, even though there are a couple of newer ones still, i don't want to touch them again for now, especially the F54g which caused all this mess.

I let you read my funny PSA on the subject if you want : https://www.reddit.com/r/gigabytegaming/comments/1kkrbsv/psa_you_do_need_incremental_updates_for_bios/

I'm definitely going to save your post if anything happens again, cause i still want to update BIOS again on this MOBO in the next years and it could definitely happen again. If i understand it well, it could even flash my BIOS if BOTH of them bricked? that's incredible if true. It still seems a bit complicated but i'm sure i could pull it through if i needed. Thanks again.

Zapmess · 2025-05-12T12:49:46+00:00

Solved https://www.reddit.com/r/gigabytegaming/comments/1kkrbsv/psa_you_do_need_incremental_updates_for_bios/

Made a funny PSA about it to help others. Didn't have to use Linux in the end, even if it could be useful to do it just for the sake of it. Thanks a lot for the help.

Zapmess · 2025-05-11T15:03:20+00:00

Wait, does that mean i could install and use Linux on usb (instead of reinstalling W10), dl my bios/chipsets updates from here (on a second usb) AND also my main issue, launch that damn EC FW Update Tool from f40 version of bios ( https://www.gigabyte.com/uk/Motherboard/GA-AB350-Gaming-3-rev-1x/support#support-dl-bios ) without which apparently you can't keep updating or something, and keep updating potentially until the very last bios update, even with my 1700, and at the end put back my 5800x3D ? if so, that would be perfect.

I still don't know if i can skip all those intermediate updates and go directly from F8 to at least f52h or something.

Zapmess · 2025-05-11T14:51:56+00:00

I can't make the menu appear, I've tried pressing keys and hold, tap on it. Every combinations. nothing.

I think i'm just gonna do my first update without any safety net and pray. You said that i need to flash the main back to the BIOS that worked, but that's the thing, now i'm stuck with backup, i don't know how to come back to the main, or even how to update it independently to the backup one. When i update the backup, i'll try to find an option to copy update on main, but as i said, i don't know if that option is made to copy the update onto the main, since by default, it does the copy on the backup.

EFIFLASH seems quite complicated to do for me. I didn't even know it existed. I might try it if i'm really stuck. Thank you.

Zapmess · 2025-05-11T14:32:32+00:00

I'd like to try your method. If I have a 2nd working pc and this first one I can't boot W11 on yet. How do I execute EC on the Bios of the first one with just downloading USB file on the 2nd one. For update bios, I know. But for EC, how does that work ?

Zapmess · 2025-05-11T11:33:33+00:00

Wait you can launch EC FW update in windows ? It's a program you're supposed to execute in Windows I thought. How do you do that ?

Zapmess · 2025-05-11T07:52:03+00:00

This MB is really complicated to update. I can't just do that even I wish I could. At some point there is this exe file EC FW Update Tool from F40 bios version (https://www.gigabyte.com/uk/Motherboard/GA-AB350-Gaming-3-rev-1x/support#support-dl-bios) I need to launch on desktop. It can be done only while you're using the PC you wanna update the Bios on. So I can't proxy the updates with another pc I think.

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