Wow, no one's talking about mobile? Have they fixed the lagginess and inaccurate click detection that routinely crops up on the Android browser?
Firefox 57.0 Released
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Re: Firefox 57.0 Released
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Have a look here [0] for legacy extensions replacements. [0] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TFcEXMcKrwoIAECIVyBU...
There's no replacement for ScrapBook, a plugin where I have a decade of stored annotated documents (no hyperbole, my oldest files date from 2007). Ever since I discovered that FF57 was going to kill ScrapBook I had to disable Firefox updates so I don't lose access to ~6GB of stored data. It's a mix of past, present, and future writing research. I know I have access to clumsy workarounds such as copying FF56 to a VM w…
"Or, dare I dream, one that can import everything from ScrapBook?". Let's hope dreams are answered. You can add me to that probably long list of hopefuls who have huge records of online life in scrapbook for pre-57 Firefox.
Re: Firefox 57.0 Released
#303From the announcement post [1]: > As part of our focus on user experience and performance in Firefox Quantum, Google will also become our new default search provider in the United States and Canada. Does that mean the deal with Yahoo! has lapsed? And is there a new deal with Google, or no deal at all? (And what would be the revenue impact of that?) Edit: Just saw an announcement for this as well [2], with no word abo…
That is not good news for the health and diversity of the Web which Mozilla is supposedly defending (unless this means less cash). How does that reconcile with their "Big Browser" campaigns? They could instead switch to some underdogs to help them improve, but no... Google it is again, with the excuse of "It's better for the user". Sad day, Mozilla!
The underdogs don't have hundreds of millions of dollars to pay Mozilla. They do have to keep the lights on.
But, Mozilla does often do partnerships with smaller, local search engines in small markets.
Re: Firefox 57.0 Released
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This is my workaround for now, but Copy as cURL doesn't preserve the output filename given by the server. Not to mention it's a bit of a pain in the butt.
Adding -O usually takes care of that. I'm using curl with -L -O over wget now. Are you missing having it in the context menu?
The download prompt mostly. Although the context option was sometimes useful it wasn't very reliable. Sites often don't give you direct links to download files that the context menu would help with.
Re: Firefox 57.0 Released
#305Just updated it on Android... and I wish I hadn't.
The very first thing I was greeted with on the "top sites" page was a bunch of "Recommended by Pocket" links, and no way to disable that.
I can't find anything in about:config to disable this either. How about NO, goddammit?
Shame on you, Mozilla.
Re: Firefox 57.0 Released
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- Open a new window: the tabs are not there by default - You need a css hack to hide the standard bar - There’s an ugly title thingy at the top of the tab pane
> Open a new window: the tabs are not there by default It's not ideal but not a showstopper for me. I mostly use one window, where the toolbar is restored by default, and when I open a new window I got used to clicking the toolbar button (which I moved to the left) or pressing F1. > You need a css hack to hide the standard bar > There’s an ugly title thingy at the top of the tab pane I just copied the "css hack" once…
Thanks! Here's how I did it on macOS:
1. Go to about:support in Firefox URL bar.
2. the address is in "Profile Folder" row.
Re: Firefox 57.0 Released
#307Earlier quoted context omitted.
Have a look here [0] for legacy extensions replacements. [0] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TFcEXMcKrwoIAECIVyBU...
There's no replacement for ScrapBook, a plugin where I have a decade of stored annotated documents (no hyperbole, my oldest files date from 2007). Ever since I discovered that FF57 was going to kill ScrapBook I had to disable Firefox updates so I don't lose access to ~6GB of stored data. It's a mix of past, present, and future writing research. I know I have access to clumsy workarounds such as copying FF56 to a VM w…
> I'm thinking about reverse-engineering the way ScrapBook stores data so I can write my own migration to something else, but...oof.
Looking around on the ScrapBook website[0] reveals that "gomita", the author of the plugin, has a GitHub profile[1]. Sadly without a repository of ScrapBook source code. Still, you could try contacting gomita and ask if they want to put it there to help with reverse engineering it? Or maybe even document how it works.
Re: Firefox 57.0 Released
#308I just upgraded. It completely changes the chrome of the browser on OSX and it is _absolutely hideous_. There are a lots of unnecessary animations that I find very jarring. I don't know if there's a way to change it back yet. UPDATE: There is a "Customize Firefox" button which allows modifying the theme, which fixes the colors, but not the shape of the tabs or the animations. UPDATE: In about:config, you can disable…
I'm a bit annoyed by the dark header bar now, they previously only used that for private windows, now it appears they use it for both.
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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
#310since 56.0 google maps went black on me and nothing seems to matter. really confused how something so simple just breaks; I am on OS X fwiw. I end up swapping to safari for some functions and then using firefox for others. throw in 57 changes the look for no reason. I don't need dark tabs as default, updates should not change the user experience without permission
You could try switching off WebGL rendering on maps, if that's still an option.