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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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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.

I just switched... Thanks for the recommendation, it's excellent.

Re: Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition

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1) It’s been constantly broken and re-fixed for years versions after versions 2) they do not reply to his requests or bugfiles 3) they could have made it a default in Firefox

And yet here it is, available and working as a WebExtension more than a month before legacy add-ons go away. The process may look opaque, but as far as results, I'm really not sure what more you want? We moved to WebExtensions specifically to fix the problem of constant breakage. Sure, it adds a layer of abstraction, but there's finally an explicit interface that we can commit to supporting. The legacy APIs were a mo…

And it's broken again :/ this time it just plain doesn't work and I can see the vertical tabs again. This hasn't happened in years...

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I've been using Firefox Nightly (57) for a while on a 2013 MBP running Sierra. Firefox definitely feels significantly faster than it used to, and the new UI is great. But this comes at the cost of battery life. I moved back to Chrome because it was constantly chewing CPU.

But Chrome is also guilty of absolutely guzzling battery. I always try other browsers on macOS but in the end keep switching back to Safari because it easily gets me ~2-3h more battery life. This means that on 10h average battery life you'd pay a ~20-33% battery life premium just to run a different browser. At that point, finding replacement Safari extensions is well worth the bother. What I don't understand: why is…

A few releases ago Chrome (57?) finally fixed the battery problem and its been fine for me since.

Personally I can't use Safari, as I want my bookmarks/history synced between devices and don't use an iPhone.

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+1 for mentioning huge CPU usage by Nightly on Mac. I've been sending feedbacks for Nightly for a while now, but they don't seem to read them. The two biggest issues are: 1- High CPU usage (which leads to high temperature and shorter battery life) 2- No "Look Up / Define" in right-click menu. Fix them and I'll switch from Chrome in a blink.

> in a blink Funny even though you probably didn't intent it to be.

I had to switch back to Chrome since Firefox has been almost unusable on mainstream site like Netflix. Can't wait to go back to Firefox as soon as 57 is out!

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I think there's a bugreport where about half of users want it to open in the default container, and half in the same :P Ctrl+. as a shortcut allows you to pick a profile for a new tab, though, that might do for now.

Would you mind expanding on that? I'm on MacOS and neither Cmd-. nor Ctrl-. seem to be bound in Firefox 57.b03. Is there a way to list all keybindings that are in effect? Cmd-click on a link does work for me as a way to open a new tab in the same container, which is a possible workaround. Otherwise this is making containers very hard to use for me. EDIT: Cmd-click on the "New Tab" + icon does open a new tab in the sa…

Do you have the Containers extension installed as well, and the toolbar button enabled? That's what it's bound to. I don't know of a way to list all keybindings.

(Also, I didn't know about Cmd/Ctrl-Click. Nice!)

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I think that's not possible yet (but soon): https://twitter.com/Sesivany/status/908628645299748865 That said, if you use GNOME Shell, the Pixel Saver extension is great for me: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/723/pixel-saver/

Yay! This was my current rabbit hole trying out the new dev edition. That and trying to hide the tab strip after installing tab-center redux. Was using ~cryptic setting in Hide Caption Title Bar Plus to accomplish this, but it not ported yet. I'll give it to them though it does seem fast.

People seem to report a modification of userChrome.css to hide the tab bar: https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab/issues/1224#issuecomm...
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