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Re: Firefox 50.0

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Post by cpeterso »

dbl9 wrote: post #26
kbenson wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Possibly for the same reason they don't ship Tk compiled versions. Why should they target every GUI toolkit and complicate their build process which they then have to deal with supporting? If it's that easy, you can probably find some third party that compiles and offers it. I'm not sure why you think Firefox needs to do it themselves.

For the same reason they haven't made 64-bit the default on Windows and provide two versions. There are many users for whom only one variant works reliably. If upstream, like in the case of cairo-gtk3, decides GTK2 is not supported anymore, it's a matter of chance whether your cairo-gtk2 build of Firefox works at all. For instance, for me 49.0.2 gtk2 local build on Arch crashes anytime I try to use the file dialog, w…

FWIW, 64-bit Firefox will be the installer default for new installs (and re-installs) on 64-bit Windows 7/8/8.1/10 starting in Firefox 53. Migrating existing 32-bit Firefox users to 64-bit will probably happen in mid-to-late 2017. Similarly, Google plans to migrate their 32-bit Chrome users to 64-bit sometime in 2017, too.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Win64

Re: Firefox 50.0

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Post by ohstopitu »

cpeterso wrote: post #65
ohstopitu wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have this feature in sublime text & Atom and absolutely hate it. I feel like ctrl + tab has to move to next tab & ctrl + shift + tab should move to previous tab (cycle if it reaches the end). I feel like that's more predictable behaviour.

Is there a way to disable this ctrl+tab behavior in Sublime Test? I can't stand it either.

I guess people are down-voting you because it's a simple google search away. However, to answer your question:

On Atom, I've set ctrl + tab to remap to pane:show-next-item, and ctrl + shift + tab to pane:show-previous-item.

(view your keymap, and see what ctrl + page-up/down is bound to, and then bind it to ctrl + tab /+ shift)

Edit: here are my settings:

   'body':
     'ctrl-tab': 'pane:show-next-item'
     'ctrl-tab ^ctrl': 'unset!'
     'ctrl-shift-tab': 'pane:show-previous-item'
     'ctrl-shift-tab ^ctrl': 'unset!'

Re: Firefox 50.0

#73

Post by hughes »

ohstopitu wrote: post #56
Aardwolf wrote: post #24

"Set a preference to have Ctrl+Tab cycle through tabs in recently used order " Finally something that is an actually improved UI feature! Not some "removed status bar and instead hover its info over text you want to read sometimes" or "moved refresh button to different place than before just to annoy you" or similar thing :)

I have this feature in sublime text & Atom and absolutely hate it. I feel like ctrl + tab has to move to next tab & ctrl + shift + tab should move to previous tab (cycle if it reaches the end). I feel like that's more predictable behaviour.

The problem with this feature is that it depends on hidden UI state. With the "last used" behavior there's no way at a glance to know which tab will be activated when pressing ctrl-tab, so you either have to maintain the state in your head, or guess-and-check how many times to hit the key combo.

If you only have a few tabs open, it can be useful in conjunction with Ctrl-[1-9], but I am also still strongly in the next/prev tab camp.

Re: Firefox 50.0

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Post by davidwparker »

ohstopitu wrote: post #56
Aardwolf wrote: post #24

"Set a preference to have Ctrl+Tab cycle through tabs in recently used order " Finally something that is an actually improved UI feature! Not some "removed status bar and instead hover its info over text you want to read sometimes" or "moved refresh button to different place than before just to annoy you" or similar thing :)

I have this feature in sublime text & Atom and absolutely hate it. I feel like ctrl + tab has to move to next tab & ctrl + shift + tab should move to previous tab (cycle if it reaches the end). I feel like that's more predictable behaviour.

I agree. It's the worst!

I don't use ST, but at least in Atom, I know you can easily override it in your keymap:

  'body':
    'ctrl-tab': 'pane:show-next-item'
    'ctrl-tab ^ctrl': 'unset!'
    'ctrl-shift-tab': 'pane:show-previous-item'
    'ctrl-shift-tab ^ctrl': 'unset!'

Re: Firefox 50.0

#75

Post by dbl9 »

foepys wrote: post #68
dbl9 wrote: post #31

Did something change in font rendering with Freetype on Linux? While 49.0.2 with FreeType 2.7 looked the best (subjectively) I've seen any font rendering (including Windows 10 and OS X Snow Leopard (been a while)), something off with 50.0's rendering. I haven't enabled any custom render options, just your typical archlinux freetype 2.7 desktop. Time to get ESR and compare with that but would be great to hear back fro…

Freetype 2.7 introduced a new rendering engine. I cannot link anything at the moment but the Arch Forums have pretty detailed help.

I love 2.7's rendering engine and 49.0.2 looked great, but 50.0 looks washed out. Tried ESR 45.5.0 and it looks great again. I'm confused as to what may have happened from 49 to 50 that caused this.

Re: Firefox 50.0

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Post by bruce_one »

ohstopitu wrote: post #56
Aardwolf wrote: post #24

"Set a preference to have Ctrl+Tab cycle through tabs in recently used order " Finally something that is an actually improved UI feature! Not some "removed status bar and instead hover its info over text you want to read sometimes" or "moved refresh button to different place than before just to annoy you" or similar thing :)

I have this feature in sublime text & Atom and absolutely hate it. I feel like ctrl + tab has to move to next tab & ctrl + shift + tab should move to previous tab (cycle if it reaches the end). I feel like that's more predictable behaviour.

It's all personal preference, but since Opera 12 I've been addicted to ctrl-tab for most recently used switching (Opera 12 had a nice tab switcher that made the interaction very understandable/manageable), and then alt-tab for switching in "physical" order. (I run a large number of tabs, and quickly switching between two (or a small number) that I've used recently seems to be a common interaction for me - but then being able to look at favicons and traverse quickly to a closely located tab too (is less crucial, but important enough that I don't use FF (because I can't remap that alt-tab interaction simply).)

And I love it :-p It is literally the reason (in combination with "open new tab next to current") I use the browser I do (Vivaldi; would consider Opera, but it doesn't/didn't do "open new tab next to current").

To each their own :-)

Re: Firefox 50.0

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Post by rbinv »

ohstopitu wrote: post #56
Aardwolf wrote: post #24

"Set a preference to have Ctrl+Tab cycle through tabs in recently used order " Finally something that is an actually improved UI feature! Not some "removed status bar and instead hover its info over text you want to read sometimes" or "moved refresh button to different place than before just to annoy you" or similar thing :)

I have this feature in sublime text & Atom and absolutely hate it. I feel like ctrl + tab has to move to next tab & ctrl + shift + tab should move to previous tab (cycle if it reaches the end). I feel like that's more predictable behaviour.

Can be fixed in Sublime Text as follows:

{ "keys": ["ctrl+tab"], "command": "next_view" }, { "keys": ["ctrl+shift+tab"], "command": "prev_view" }

Re: Firefox 50.0

#79

Post by Nadya »

pitaj wrote: post #42
Nadya wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 some…

You can't upload subdirectories, so it quickly becomes painful to upload an entire directory of files if it has multiple folders within.

Outside of my personal use cases but I can definitely see how many, if not even most, people would need that at some point. :)

Thanks for the response!

Re: Firefox 50.0

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Post by ohstopitu »

bruce_one wrote: post #77
ohstopitu wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have this feature in sublime text & Atom and absolutely hate it. I feel like ctrl + tab has to move to next tab & ctrl + shift + tab should move to previous tab (cycle if it reaches the end). I feel like that's more predictable behaviour.

It's all personal preference, but since Opera 12 I've been addicted to ctrl-tab for most recently used switching (Opera 12 had a nice tab switcher that made the interaction very understandable/manageable), and then alt-tab for switching in "physical" order. (I run a large number of tabs, and quickly switching between two (or a small number) that I've used recently seems to be a common interaction for me - but then be…

a feature that I've loved about Vivaldi (and vimium on chrome) is the spotlight like search for tabs. When you run a lot (~30-40) of tabs, that's an killer feature right away!
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