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Re: Firefox 57.0 Released

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Post by yborg »

neilsimp1 wrote: post #61
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…

I'm using Tile Tabs WE now instead of Tile Tabs, since that no longer works. Tile Tabs WE does it's tiling by opening new windows as a workaround, but I feel like that kind of misses the point. Does anyone know of any alternative? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tile-tabs-we/

According to the dev, a version that would work more or less like the original is waiting on https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1318532 which apparently has implementation but has been cockblocked for 3+ months by somebody in the review chain.

Re: Firefox 57.0 Released

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Post by JetSpiegel »

SAI_Peregrinus wrote: post #428
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…

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…

Self-Destructing Cookies is not a WebExtension, you want Cookie AutoDelete.

https://github.com/Cookie-AutoDelete/Cookie-AutoDelete/

Re: Firefox 57.0 Released

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Post by MadWombat »

IChrisI wrote: post #39
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…

Tree Style Tabs was the only blocker for me, and I was amazed that it was possible to recreate under the new API. I use both Firefox and Chrome, but for very different purposes. In Chrome, I have 20-50 tabs spread across two windows. In Firefox, 400+. Tree Style Tabs is necessary for how I use Firefox. My backup plan was staying on an older version, possibly indefinitely.

Maybe it is just me, but Tree Style Tabs is ridiculously slow on FF57. Takes about 3 seconds between the moment I hit F1 and the moment the TST sidebar is done loading.

Re: Firefox 57.0 Released

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Post by jcoffland »

Without Tab Mix Plus Firefox 57 is not an option for me. Does anyone know of an extension that allows multiple tab rows? Tab Trees and like extensions don't cut it. This is the main reason I never switched to Chrome.

It's too bad FF had to abandon it's massive library of legacy extensions for this upgrade. The myriad of extensions is one of FF's main benefits over other browsers. I've happily accepted lower performance in trade for configuration options. I suppose the most popular extensions will eventually be ported.

Re: Firefox 57.0 Released

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Post by Sylos »

sundarurfriend wrote: post #196
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.

The developer of Waterfox has promised to continue supporting "legacy" add-ons, so that's an option you can explore.

Mind though, that this effort will almost certainly die off after June 26, 2018. That's the EOL date of Firefox 52 ESR, meaning the actual end of Mozilla supporting legacy extensions.

This sort of cynic statement is based on this legacy extension system having been a major maintenance burden for Mozilla, so now one developer or even a small team trying to take that over, I can hardly imagine to work out.

Re: Firefox 57.0 Released

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Post by SAI_Peregrinus »

Merad wrote: post #480
SAI_Peregrinus wrote: post #428

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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;

Stop spoofing your user agent string, install it, then resume spoofing. It should be

    Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:57.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/57.0
by default for Firefox 57 on Windows 7 64-bit

Re: Firefox 57.0 Released

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Post by Finnucane »

dymk wrote: post #497
Finnucane wrote: post #409

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They're not an ad agency, which is a good enough answer for me.

An ad agency has a big incentive to keep your user data to themselves, as that's their most valuable and competitive resource. Google and Facebook have a huge incentive to not leak information about their users; why would someone pay them if that data was available elsewhere? DDG has every incentive to sell user data, given that they don't have their own ad network with which to target. How else would they make money…

https://duck.co/help/company/advertising-and-affiliates

Re: Firefox 57.0 Released

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Post by Sylos »

gbrown_ wrote: post #294

Anyone know how to disable the new loading animation? I find the "pulse" at the end of the animation very distracting.

You can disable "toolkit.cosmeticAnimations.enabled" in about:config.

This affects more than just the pulse, but you'll probably actually be happy about that...

Re: Firefox 57.0 Released

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Post by Namrog84 »

callahad wrote: post #475
manojlds wrote: post #441

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 p…

> - You can mute audio on a page clicking the little speaker icon in the tab

Although I don't know if chrome has this on by default nowadays as I turned it on so long ago.

But mute audio on per tab via speaker icon is available in chrome as well.

in chrome://flags/

* Tab audio muting UI control

If enabled, you can mute/unmute per tab via doing same thing.

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