> I’m sure Firefox 57 will also get a fair share of sour feedback and comments written in uppercase. That’s inevitable.
[citation needed]
Firefox Quantum
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Re: Firefox Quantum
#132Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The Nighty version will always be the best version Is that the version I put on just before I'm about to go to bed?
Depends on what time zone you're in; I'm a recent nightly convert, and am currently in a very different TZ than usual. I had gotten used to around when updates would come through, but now I'm all screwed up :)
You missed the fact that GP was making a joke about a typo ("Nighty" vs Nightly) :-)
Re: Firefox Quantum
#133Earlier quoted context omitted.
> since Chrome doesn't have the ability to scroll through tabs How can you scroll through tabs? What do you mean by this?
In Chrome, the more tabs you open, the smaller they get (infinitely). They all remain on the screen. Once they get tiny enough, you can no longer tell what any given tab is. In FF, after a certain point the tabs stop getting smaller, and instead you scroll through them left to right, either using little arrow buttons on each side of the tab bar, or using your scroll wheel.
ah, thanks.
If you have that many tabs, one should use tab tree style anyway, i guess: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15652124
Re: Firefox Quantum
#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
Looks like in Firefox v56 you need to change the start page to "blank" in the preferences (edit: to get the address bar focused after opening a window). However in current Nightly (which is on v58) the input focus goes straight to the address bar, even in the default settings, so looks like more users complained ;) I'm just using Ctrl-L to focus the address bar, works on all operating systems and browsers.
Alt +D. Left hand friendly :)
Opens the File (german: Datei) menu with German Firefox.
Re: Firefox Quantum
#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
Scrolling the mousewheel while hovering the mouse over the tab bar to switch between tabs I guess?
I have always just used ctrl + pgup/pgdown in Chromium for tab switching (same in Sublime). I am guessing OP is referencing the fixed min-width of the tabs though? I know it is completely insane, but I have a strong compulsion to keep my tab count low. Once it starts approaching 7 or so, it is time to evaluated which 3 or 4 have to go. Meanwhile I go look at someone else's monitor and they have 25 open all the time,…
I use ctrl+tab and ctrl+shift+tab to cycle tabs. Good to know that there are other options.
I also don't see how people have the RAM to have 50 tabs open. If I can't read part of the title of my tab, it's being moved to a new window or closed.
Re: Firefox Quantum
#136Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is a bit misleading. When you maximize Chrome's window the space above the tabs disappears, making Chrome's footprint smaller than that of Firefox. Though I still wonder why Chrome's menu bar enlarges when the window is not maximized. Edit: A screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/yabXSEz.png
I wondered the same thing a while ago and I would think this is to ease dragging the window with the mouse, which you may want to do easily when the window is not maximized. I'd really like Firefox on Linux to hide the window title bar (at least when maximized) and put the close / maximize / reduce buttons in the tab bar (or make it an option). The tab bar does already allow one to move the window, at least on KDE. T…
Last mont Fedora had a release in which you could use CSD to merge the title and the tab bars. You only had to set a variable(maybe widget.allow-client-side-decoration?) in about:config to true. They took that option away because some bugs but it may arrive for the next firefox release.
Here is how it looks like https://twitter.com/Sesivany/status/908628645299748865
Re: Firefox Quantum
#137> I’m sure Firefox 57 will also get a fair share of sour feedback and comments written in uppercase. I might be part of that crowd (though in lowercase) because none of the WebExtensions mouse gesture addons work on macOS/Linux anymore due to this outstanding bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1360278 No official dev seems to look into it, and the community patches from the tracker only fix the Linux c…
Yep. I'm not excited about this release at all. Firefox should support gestures natively. Mouse gestures is the only legacy addon I really can't live without so I have turned off automatic updates. Really, it doesn't matter how much faster the new version is if it had to take away so many of the features I've come to rely on over the years. (I have 3 other legacy addons still activated that I really like but that I can live without: classic theme restorer, status 4 evar, and stylish [to control the url bar display, unsupported in the "stylus replacement"].) I have tried Vivaldi but it's not fantastic and it's not open source (but the gestures are more responsive than even the old firegestures).
It seems like the new firefox is just racing to be just like Chrome.
Re: Firefox Quantum
#138I've recently jumped on the Quantum beta from years of using Chrome, and so far, the experience has been really enjoyable. But please, for the love of everything that is holy, let developers customize scrollbar styles. Thank you.
> But please, for the love of everything that is holy, let developers customize scrollbar styles. Thank you.
Developers, for the love of god, please leave my scrollbars alone. Thank you.
Re: Firefox Quantum
#139Firefox has definitely been getting better over the past year or two. I've always used Firefox, since Chrome doesn't have the ability to scroll through tabs, they just get smaller and smaller on the tab bar. I've never understood why the feature hasn't been added, it seems pretty minor. Firefox also lazy loads existing tabs on startup. Anyway, for a while, around 2011-2012, Firefox had terrible memory and stability i…
I would love it if Chrome could enable hiding the tab bar and real panel support for extensions so I could have tree style tabs. I use both browsers in tandem for different things, although primarily Chrome at work.
Re: Firefox Quantum
#140... and almost all my extensions will cease to work. 16 legacy, 4 ready for 57. a few of them i use very often: automatic save folder, save file to, video downloadhelper, downthemall!, search by image for google, image zoom, copy links
You can switch to Firefox ESR to keep using your extensions and give the extension authors more time. ESR 52 will be supported with fixes until June. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/faq/
If that's the solution, Quantum should have been released just after an ESR. 57 is in between which is just stupid.
This has been pointed out to Mozilla multiple times.