I'm in the process of switching to Pale Moon because Firefox is making changes that will break Pentadactyl.
Are the Pale Moon guys able to keep up with the ever evolving web standards? Do complex websites work as expected in Pale Moon?
Firefox 50.0
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Re: Firefox 50.0
#142If they could just add a decent profile management option, I would switch back from Chrome. Keeping my work and personal accounts separated is the only thing keeping me using that battery killer
What's wrong with `firefox -P`?
You mean compared to just right clicking the top right corner in Chrome? A lot.
Re: Firefox 50.0
#143Earlier quoted context omitted.
Pentadactyl for Firefox also allows that (press 'b') and it's absolutely amazing. Way quicker than searching for the tab visually and manoeuvring the mouse to it on a notebook.
Actually, Firefox has it natively since 48. Just enter the title in the URL bar, and it'll suggest going to that tab.
Firefox has had it native since firefox 4. See this article: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Location_Bar_search#Location_Bar_s...
You can enter "% string" into the location bar, and it will suggest switches to open tabs which contain that string either in their title or URL.
I've been using this little-known location bar feature for a long long time.
Re: Firefox 50.0
#144Still relatively slow startup, even on my quite powerful computer (i7, SSD, 8GB RAM, the second start, everything already cached in RAM, no add-ons or extensions but the defaults, no sessions restored, open to empty tab) I have at least a whole second during which I don't see that the program is starting. At least visibly better than the 49.
Firefox's reproducible automated testing begs to differ https://arewefastyet.com/
Re: Firefox 50.0
#145I started using Mozilla Firefox 1.04 many years ago. Everytime a new update was released I was so excited to install it, as the browser became better and better with each update. I remember when Firefox 2.0 was released and I could not wait for it to be available in the Debian package repository, because it was such a big improvement. Now I absolutely HATE when a update is released, because either functionality is re…
What in this release would you class as functionality removal, appearance changes or added bloat?
This is in the the bloat category:
Added a built-in Emoji set for operating systems without native Emoji fonts (Windows 8.0 and lower and Linux)
Re: Firefox 50.0
#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
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!
Aside from the fact that the regular URL bar in Firefox does this, Tab Center (https://github.com/bwinton/TabCenter) puts tabs on the side with a filter-search at the top.
Re: Firefox 50.0
#147I'm in the process of switching to Pale Moon because Firefox is making changes that will break Pentadactyl.
Are you sure that this is the case? There's a lot of misinformation out there about Firefox's extension changes. I don't know about Pentadactyl, but Firefox should continue to support APIs providing equivalent functionality for most plugins. They will have to transition, but they won't be irreparably broken.
Re: Firefox 50.0
#148Earlier quoted context omitted.
What in this release would you class as functionality removal, appearance changes or added bloat?
This is in the the bloat category: Added a built-in Emoji set for operating systems without native Emoji fonts (Windows 8.0 and lower and Linux)
Do you prefer that web pages using Emoji not render as expected for people on Linux and Windows XP/Vista/7/8?
Re: Firefox 50.0
#149Earlier quoted context omitted.
What in this release would you class as functionality removal, appearance changes or added bloat?
This is in the the bloat category: Added a built-in Emoji set for operating systems without native Emoji fonts (Windows 8.0 and lower and Linux)
Do you think that's a useless feature though? Seeing squares all over the internet isn't exactly a good experience, finding the right font sets to fix your emoji problem can be tricky on Linux too
EDIT: just got the update and it a) fixed some emojis I somehow didn't have, namely "thinking face", which is of course critically important and b) made the rest look a lot livelier.
Re: Firefox 50.0
#150Don't see too many programs going to version 50 these days. Kudos to the team that keeps improving it.
With an aggressively "encouraged" monthly version treadmill, it's less impressive than it might look. If Linux used the same type of software force-feeding, it would be well past version 200 by now.