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Firefox 57.0 Released

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Re: Firefox 57.0 Released

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Post by Silhouette »

Tomte wrote: post #128
iterati wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Mozilla doesn't create all those extensions. And the extensions' authors had, what, two years advance warning or so? Criticize the real culpits, not Mozilla.

My browser and extensions did useful things yesterday that they do not do today. Who changed something in the meantime?

Obviously I paid nothing for Firefox and Mozilla owes me the same nothing in return, but if it wants to keep users and remain significant, breaking arguably its main advantage might not be the best plan.

Re: Firefox 57.0 Released

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Post by throwanem »

nicoburns wrote: post #113
iterati wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Totally agree with this. I think it was a mistake on Mozilla's part not to put more effort into extension parity before the switch-over. But I'm relatively optimistic for the future.

Have you seen the Firefox backlog? If they'd gone for 100% API parity before the switch, we'd have had to wait another three years for e10s, and I don't know if that would have been survivable.

I'm not happy about the situation as it stands, and I don't expect anyone else to be. I would be a lot more not happy about having to switch to Chrome because Firefox had become unusably slow - which it had already more or less done, before e10s started to land this year. Absent that I'd probably have had to switch already, just to be reliably able to get work done. And then there would be no one on the teams I've worked on who cared at all about maintaining Firefox compatibility, because everyone else already switched years ago. Less than ideal though the status quo be, I have a hard time seeing how any of that would be preferable.

Re: Firefox 57.0 Released

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Post by jventura »

superdaniel wrote: post #140
jventura wrote: post #127

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I have similar remarks. On OSX, the tab and the url bars are too big, they seem out of place.. Also, the black tab bar seems strange to me as I have a black OSX menu bar..

You can make the tab bar and url bar smaller by going to the menu > customize > density > compact.

Thanks! By the way, for those who read this, to change the theme is menu > customize > theme.. These things are not easy to find!

Re: Firefox 57.0 Released

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Post by kingkilr »

deisner wrote: post #137

I'd feel a little better if the words "secure" or "security" appeared at least once in the marketing material: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/57.0/whatsnew/ , https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/ .

This release has our continued progress on sandboxing.

Re: Firefox 57.0 Released

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Post by thinkloop »

I'm loving the new FF, my missing feature is being able to open a site as a desktop app. I use chrome to make different icons/windows/apps for gmail, hn, reddit, photos, cloud9, etc. Anyone know if there is a way to have a website shortcut open in its own window and have an icon in the taskbar?

Re: Firefox 57.0 Released

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Post by jeroenhd »

discreditable wrote: post #35
eoger wrote: post #22

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

The one extension I'm missing (which has been broken since e10s) is cliget: https://github.com/zaidka/cliget

FYI: Firefox (and other browsers as well I think) already have built-in functionality for generating a cURL command with all the headers and cookies included.

In the dev tools, you can right-click on a request in the "network" tab and click Copy > Copy as cURL.

Sadly, this only works for requests you haven't already done with the dev tools open and it doesn't generate wget commands, but you might get some use out of this while the add-on is being updated.

Re: Firefox 57.0 Released

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Post by farnsworthy »

Nice to see an update, and performance improvements are noticeable.

If you're missing blank tabs like I was, restore blank tabs at Preferences|When Firefox starts, and set Home Page to `about:blank`.

If you prefer new tabs to be blank as well, that's managed via the gear button on the new tab page, and by deselecting checked options.

Themes are set at Tools|Add-ons|Themes. (For example, if you want a lighter-style theme restored.)

I posted more thoughts here:

https://jaidee.io/articles/on-the-new-firefox

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