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Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition

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Re: Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition

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Does anyone know what happened to that new tab groups feature? It allowed you to be logged into a site with different users in different tabs. I was just getting to trying it out when it disappeared.

I don't know about the Beta or Dev editions, but in Nightly I can use tab groups by clicking and holding the "Open a new Tab" button and selecting the tab group. (Personal, Work, Banking, Shopping are predefined and you can add new ones)

Re: Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition

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Nightly has been amazing. I’m just waiting on LastPass before I switch full time.

Switch to Bitwarden, already has a WebExtension extension. Lastpass is basically dead ever since LogMeIn proved they don't care about security of the vault.

Hmm. Yeah I’ve been wondering about lastpass for a little while now.

Is there a comparison of these tools that you’d recommend?

Re: Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition

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post #62

As someone that jumped ship from how slow Chrome has gotten and went to Nightly /w Stylo and (CPU threads - 1) e10s processes enabled about 2 monthsish ago... Holy damn Firefox is actually fast. Fair comparison, both having Pocket, uBlock, Evernote, OneNote, Pushbullet, and Bitwarden; neither of them having an extension the other doesn't. Above described Firefox Nightly config vs Chrome Dev. Test machines are a works…

I switched to Chrome years ago and every time I try Firefox it feels sluggish, so I don't switch back. Last time was a week ago :\

Just try firefox nightly 58.0a1 ! Firefox nightly is my default browser nowadays. I love the modern UI.

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Is Tree Style Tab working on it? I've disabled updates until further notice.

Tree Style Tab is the killer feature for me and some of my scientist coworkers. If this disappears or doesn’t work, I’ll probably use Chrome.

I have switched from Tree Style Tabs to the Test Pilot vertical tab extension (I don't remember the exact name) plus the about:config option that makes them always small, plus a few lines of userChrome.css to make the close button larger, like it was in one of the first versions. I recommend it.

Re: Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition

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post #108

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The key is, which version a week ago? Unless it was nightly you wouldn't have seen any of the stuff in the OP.

I see, okay. I just had the feeling that Firefox has news to be on-par with Chrome for years now, but I never really "felt" it, hehe.

The current news relates to merging parts of Servo (web engine written in Rust) to Firefox, which started relatively recently.

Re: Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition

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Yes, thankfully there's a nightly build[1]. Until there's a stable/signed release you have to allow unsigned extensions; set `xpinstall.signatures.required` to false. To hide the default tab bar I needed to put the following in ~/.mozilla/firefox/xyz123-profile-here/chrome/userChrome.css #TabsToolbar > * { visibility: collapse; } Some features, like autohide, aren't available with the new web extensions model, but ot…

> set `xpinstall.signatures.required` to false This seems to only work in the Nightly and Developer channel, not with the Beta channel. Is that correct?

On developer edition here, no idea about Beta. Does the `about:config` option to disable signatures exist in your FF?

If so, make sure you grab the correct artifact to import[1]

[1] http://piro.sakura.ne.jp/xul/xpi/nightly/treestyletab-we.xpi

Re: Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition

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post #49

Lots of comments from people suffering issues and missing their favorite plugins, so I thought I'd jump in as a former Chrome user. Firefox quantum is really very good. This is the first time in a long time that I've been able to entertain switching browsers. It is at least on par with the speed of chrome, and since I'm moving from chrome, I'm not really missing any Firefox plugins too much. I've been able to port my…

Is the Inspector panel improved too? Probably I'm too used to Chrome's, but I find Firefox Inspector quite hard to use (inspect elements, change styles, look in network requests...)

Re: Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition

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Is Tree Style Tab working on it? I've disabled updates until further notice.

Tree Style Tab is the killer feature for me and some of my scientist coworkers. If this disappears or doesn’t work, I’ll probably use Chrome.

Plus, there's that recent Webkit-based browser with vertical tabs as it's main feature. It was covered here on HN a few days ago.

Re: Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition

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post #74

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Vimperator, unfortunately, appears to be one of the few extensions that can never be fully ported, as it made use of API's that implied a security risk.

Very interesting, that does appear to be the case - likewise for VimFx. From what I gather, the go-to Vim plugin after this year will be Vimium (which I currently use on Chrome), although it hasn't yet been ported to FF 57.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vimium-ff/
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