Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Firefox 57.0 Released

mozilla.org

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

91–100 of 836 posts

Re: Firefox 57.0 Released

#91

Post by sp332 »

bryanlarsen wrote: post #76
mtgx wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, I can't wait for FF58 on Android. TBH FF on Android has felt a little choppy, even with ublock origin enabled. The Chromium-based Firefox Focus feels faster, but too bad it doesn't support extensions. Hopefully FF58 will be the best of both worlds on Android soon.

It feels choppy, so it feels slower, even though it renders pages faster because it's not downloading and rendering ads. A great example of how feel matters.

I agree 100%. I ended up disabling my adblocker on twitter.com just because it was causing so much jank while I was scrolling.

Re: Firefox 57.0 Released

#94

Post by barrkel »

eoger wrote: post #22
barrkel wrote: post #7

Hopefully most of the missing extensions will be developed sooner rather than later. I have 15 extensions installed, 14 of which are "Legacy". The most critical one, Tree Style Tabs, has been converted. That was the key blocker that prevented me from seriously using Chrome. But many more remain; Cookie Controller, RefControl, some kind of Classic Theme Restorer equivalent (to get a menu bar back for Bookmarks, at a m…

Have a look here [0] for legacy extensions replacements. [0] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TFcEXMcKrwoIAECIVyBU...

That's a super-useful spreadsheet. Most of my extensions have at least alternate versions with some overlap on what I use.

Re: Firefox 57.0 Released

#95

Post by option_greek »

mtgx wrote: post #38
bryanlarsen wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Android will get Quantum with 58, in approximately 6 weeks time. https://www.ghacks.net/2017/10/31/firefox-58-for-android-ena... But even without Quantum Firefox on Android is way faster than Chrome because it supports ad blocking plugins.

Yeah, I can't wait for FF58 on Android. TBH FF on Android has felt a little choppy, even with ublock origin enabled. The Chromium-based Firefox Focus feels faster, but too bad it doesn't support extensions. Hopefully FF58 will be the best of both worlds on Android soon.

Any idea how to make firefox focus forget google search history. Its kind of pointless to forget regular browsing history but keep search history around. Open for any workarounds because FFF is quite fast when compared with regular FF.

Re: Firefox 57.0 Released

#96

Post by Exuma »

Mizza wrote: post #90
KozmoNau7 wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you have any specific examples?

When you click on a new link, there is an "explosion" animation on the tab where it turns entirely blue for a second. This happens every time you click a link. I'm finding this extremely distracting. I'm sensitive to this kind of stuff so I always try to disable animations on everything I can. The top bar is also black-ish now rather than the system grey. This looks particularly bad with the new "blue" highlight indi…

You mean the blue loading indicator?

Re: Firefox 57.0 Released

#97

Post by mccr8 »

itaris wrote: post #19
barrkel wrote: post #7

Hopefully most of the missing extensions will be developed sooner rather than later. I have 15 extensions installed, 14 of which are "Legacy". The most critical one, Tree Style Tabs, has been converted. That was the key blocker that prevented me from seriously using Chrome. But many more remain; Cookie Controller, RefControl, some kind of Classic Theme Restorer equivalent (to get a menu bar back for Bookmarks, at a m…

It's worth noting that most legacy extensions still actually work. You just need to enable them.

You can't enable them in the release version of Firefox. You'd have to use Nightly, I believe.

Re: Firefox 57.0 Released

#98

Post by iterati »

nicoburns wrote: post #41
plopz wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looks like a lot of wont be ported, limited functionality and lack of necessary APIs on that list. Doesn't quite give me much confidence in WebExtensions.

Note that the webextension APIs are still under active development. So just because the APIs don't exist yet doesn't mean that they won't ever.

The right thing to do would have been to work on those extensions BEFORE breaking users' experience.

Re: Firefox 57.0 Released

#99

Post by sp332 »

aryehof wrote: post #52

Can one run the new version alongside a previous version? I need to access occasionally extensions unsupported in the new version: namely Scrapbook and the extension that provides maff file support.

You can if you run them in different profiles. Use firefox -P to launch the profile manager and create a new profile. You can sign both profiles in to the same Firefox sync account if you want to share history etc between them.
Post reply on HN