Still miss a proper / user-friendly profiles management interface :(
Firefox 57.0 Released
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Re: Firefox 57.0 Released
#472Re: Firefox 57.0 Released
#473Just upgraded. Definitely feels snappier at first glance, what I'm most curious about however is how much the speed deteriorates the longer I use it (if at all). The older version was definitely pretty bad after a couple of days of uptime. All in all though. Nice job so far. :) Edit: I do sorta feel like the tabs are now smaller (when there is a lot of tabs open), any way to make them bigger?
Customize > Density (at the bottom) > "Normal" :)
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Re: Firefox 57.0 Released
#474Earlier quoted context omitted.
If it as just as good as chrome, why should I switch? Especially given how good Chrome Dev tools are.
Better privacy? Non-profit? More open source? Cheerful community? Pick one or more :)
Privacy is about the same, Mozilla Corporation (who distribute the browser) aren't non-profit, both are open source. Correct on community maybe.
Re: Firefox 57.0 Released
#475I just updated - WOW! What an improvement! Compared startup time and scrolling around some over-monetized sites; Behaves just as well as Chrome. Time for a switch again, I've missed FireFox since I started having Chrome as my default browser back in ~2011
If it as just as good as chrome, why should I switch? Especially given how good Chrome Dev tools are.
Aside from the privacy / philosophy / openness / counterweight-to-monopolization-of-the-Web angles which Yoric mentioned, you might find we're actually better than Chrome in some areas. Often small things, but I find I prefer the feel of Firefox to Chrome.
- If you do frontend work, our CSS grid inspector is unparalleled https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Page_Inspecto...
- Firefox has built-in tracking protection (https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2017/11/12/firefox-to-offer...)
- Powerful add-ons like Tree Style Tab make managing large numbers of tabs much easier (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/)
- Our WebAssembly performance tends to be better
- We should have better resource utilization when you have many tabs open
- You can mute audio on a page clicking the little speaker icon in the tab
If you want to contribute to the DevTools themselves, they're built using standard web technologies: HTML/JS, React/Redux, etc. https://github.com/devtools-html/
Re: Firefox 57.0 Released
#476Currently no NoScript for Firefox 57. And no gestures if you are on Mac or Linux.
Downvotes for this? WTF?
Re: Firefox 57.0 Released
#477I just updated - WOW! What an improvement! Compared startup time and scrolling around some over-monetized sites; Behaves just as well as Chrome. Time for a switch again, I've missed FireFox since I started having Chrome as my default browser back in ~2011
If it as just as good as chrome, why should I switch? Especially given how good Chrome Dev tools are.
To support a non-profit, so that they actually have the might to fight for us.
Re: Firefox 57.0 Released
#478Earlier quoted context omitted.
Better privacy? Non-profit? More open source? Cheerful community? Pick one or more :)
Privacy is about the same, Mozilla Corporation (who distribute the browser) aren't non-profit, both are open source. Correct on community maybe.
> Privacy is about the same, Mozilla Corporation (who distribute the browser) aren't non-profit, both are open source.
Chrome is not open-source. Chromium is, but Chrome is not.
Re: Firefox 57.0 Released
#479Hopefully 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…
For me it's the Tab Groups add-on which is just irreplaceable! Firefox's "Containers" helps a bit but not that much.
Re: Firefox 57.0 Released
#480Hopefully 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…
Tree Style Tabs has been updated to a WebExtension.[1] Getting a menu bar no longer needs an extension, you can just right-click in the blank areas near the address bar and select "menu bar". uMatrix can control and spoof Referer sending (I'm unfamiliar with RefControl, so this may not be exactly the same.) Self Destroying Cookies[2] is a good way to keep cookies under control, though again I'm not familiar with the…
So, dumb question (maybe), but how do you get tree style tabs to install? I'm running FF 57 but that page says it's incompatible because I'm running FF 51. I checked and the user agent string being sent is:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:51.0) Gecko/20170125 Firefox/51.0;