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I have developer edition. I don't see it. Is it just like Safari's where you can get extensions that provide content blocking lists?
Do you have version 57.0b3? It comes with two blocking lists.
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You can't have your cake and eat it too. I'm fairly sure that if the Firefox developer team could support XUL with the new internals, they would (just look at the insane backlash for a source of motivation). But they didn't, and there must be a reason. Likely it's due to how integrated XUL is with the internals of Firefox and that couldn't gel with the Rust rewrites.
It's because of the killer combo of increased sandboxing, multi-process architecture and performance constraints. I think they couldn't keep everything together with the degree of access old plugins had to Firefox internals. So at some point they had to rip off the band aid.
Tab Mix Plus, DownloadThemAll, RightToClick, Status-4-Evar... all regularly used by me, none migrated yet. Not to mention the loss of Classic Theme Restorer's control over the UI highly disappoints me. I really really dislike being locked into the "Chrome Style" UI. I've disliked it since Chrome was released.
I'm using Nightly (v58a) and you can customize the UI a lot more than in the current release (v56). You can move back/forward and refresh, auto-hide certain buttons like downloads, add items to the "overflow" menu, toggle full/compact mode, toggle title bar, toggle a "grab" space...there are a lot of options. They've also added proper support for light and dark icons for plugins. So now buttons like 1Password don't s…
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> I'm ashamed to admit that one thing that might keep me on Chrome is the trove of passwords in my sync'd up account. I was the same until a few days ago when I finally took the time to switch to a real password manager. A HN'er recommended Bitwarden[0] and I have to say it was pretty painless and I am much happier knowing my passwords are with a third party (not that I have any real issue with Google but I did worry…
I would like to switch to Bitwarden, but I don't know how I can assure I can trust them with all my passwords. Are any of the founders well-known security experts? Has the service been recommended by respected security researchers? I am not a security expert, so I cannot assert their trustworthiness myself. I know that you can run your own server. But even then, without auditing the code, configuring a firewall, and…
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Yeah just confirmed by removing the addon. The url shows up but only after an annoying delay and an animated fade-in. Ugh.
What model of computer are you using (and what operating system)? For me it is practically instantaneous.
Frustrated by the new "screenshots" tool. The "save" button automatically uploads your screenshot up to mozilla servers. The "download" button saves it to your computer. It seems completely backwards. The "save" button should save it to my computer (there's no reason call something a "download" when it's already local). The "download" button should be replaced with an "upload & share" button that sends it to mozilla'…
We've gotten similar feedback about the Save and Download buttons, we added the cloud icon in part to make that clearer. I feel like there's a ticket about it as well, but I not able to find it. We're planning on adding a Copy button, and we'll probably do some user research on the buttons generally to make sure the choice is clear.
We did have a full page screenshot feature, but it didn't make the cut for Firefox 56. It's back in Firefox 57.
If you have any issues or feedback on Screenshots, we track most of our work in GitHub and welcome new issues there: https://github.com/mozilla-services/screenshots
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It's because of the killer combo of increased sandboxing, multi-process architecture and performance constraints. I think they couldn't keep everything together with the degree of access old plugins had to Firefox internals. So at some point they had to rip off the band aid.
They did have the choice to not ship the increased sandboxing, multi-process architecture and performance constraints until three months after the new extension APIs were ready. They didn't because they thought the trade-off wasn't worth it.
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> I'm ashamed to admit that one thing that might keep me on Chrome is the trove of passwords in my sync'd up account. I was the same until a few days ago when I finally took the time to switch to a real password manager. A HN'er recommended Bitwarden[0] and I have to say it was pretty painless and I am much happier knowing my passwords are with a third party (not that I have any real issue with Google but I did worry…
I like bitwarden at a high level, but there are tons of things that feel extremely janky with it. Also for some reason, Firefox keeps complaining that bitwarden is freezing its UI thread.
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It's because of the killer combo of increased sandboxing, multi-process architecture and performance constraints. I think they couldn't keep everything together with the degree of access old plugins had to Firefox internals. So at some point they had to rip off the band aid.
They did have the choice to not ship the increased sandboxing, multi-process architecture and performance constraints until three months after the new extension APIs were ready. They didn't because they thought the trade-off wasn't worth it.
