Firefox 50.0

#1

Post by conductor » Tue, Nov 15, 2016, 6:28 PM UTC

Firefox 50.0
mozilla.org

Re: Firefox 50.0

#2

Post by digi_owl » Tue, Nov 15, 2016, 6:50 PM UTC

> View a page in Reader Mode by using Ctrl+Alt+R (command+alt+r on Mac)

Took them bloody long enough. Now if only i was not stuck on ESR because GTK3...

Re: Firefox 50.0

#3

Post by silverwind » Tue, Nov 15, 2016, 6:54 PM UTC

Also to note: Firefox can now upload directories.

Granted, it's done by mimicking Webkit APIs, but that has the advantage that existing sites work without changes.

Re: Firefox 50.0

#4

Post by severine » Tue, Nov 15, 2016, 6:57 PM UTC

So can I sync the reading list and use it later offline, both on desktop or mobile? I've looked for the reading list in about:about but I can't seem to find it.

Re: Firefox 50.0

#5

Post by aban » Tue, Nov 15, 2016, 6:58 PM UTC

digi_owl wrote: post #2

> View a page in Reader Mode by using Ctrl+Alt+R (command+alt+r on Mac) Took them bloody long enough. Now if only i was not stuck on ESR because GTK3...

If you want to avoid GTK3 and you're on Arch, there's a firefox-gtk2 [0] AUR package that compiles Firefox against GTK2 only.

[0]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/firefox-gtk2

Re: Firefox 50.0

#6

Post by hprotagonist » Tue, Nov 15, 2016, 6:59 PM UTC

Breaks NoScript on launch day. That was an unpleasant surprise this morning...

Re: Firefox 50.0

#7

Post by kardos » Tue, Nov 15, 2016, 7:01 PM UTC

The bottom of the page says "Congrats! You’re using the latest version of Firefox.", but Firefox's About Firefox box says 49.0.2...

Re: Firefox 50.0

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Post by arkitaip » Tue, Nov 15, 2016, 7:01 PM UTC

Not much for users but devs can expect lots of changes https://developer.mozilla.org/sv-SE/Firefox/Releases/50#Chan...

Re: Firefox 50.0

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Post by JoshTriplett » Tue, Nov 15, 2016, 7:02 PM UTC

digi_owl wrote: post #2

> View a page in Reader Mode by using Ctrl+Alt+R (command+alt+r on Mac) Took them bloody long enough. Now if only i was not stuck on ESR because GTK3...

> Now if only i was not stuck on ESR because GTK3...

What's the issue with GTK3?

Re: Firefox 50.0

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Post by Nadya » Tue, Nov 15, 2016, 7:02 PM UTC

silverwind wrote: post #3

Also to note: Firefox can now upload directories. Granted, it's done by mimicking Webkit APIs, but that has the advantage that existing sites work without changes.

I was confused by what this meant - so perhaps some others are too. This is what a few minutes of research got me:

    Uploading individual files in a directory = was possible
    Uploading an entire directory (eg: a folder to a cloud storage service) = was not possible

Personally my workflow means I've uploaded the contents of a directory to a directory I make myself, so I've never encountered the problem.

Am I missing something or was that right?

Example of error: http://superuser.com/questions/909112/does-firefox-support-f...