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Re: Firefox 57.0 Released

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Post by venatiodecorus »

pmoriarty wrote: post #410
chimeracoder wrote: post #394

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> Well, I'm a Firefox user, not an extension developer, and Pentadactyl happened to be one of the extensions that made using Firefox bearable. Now that it's permanently broken, Pentadactyl was all-but-abandoned for years before Vimperator was broken. It's been almost four years since it saw a release - which was for Firefox 24.0-30[0]. Its website still links at least three links to code.google.com on the front page!…

Despite there being no official releases in years and being abandoned by its official developers, Pentadactyl was kept afloat by its users, from whom you could still get fixes and releases through google code and google groups. I also fixed some things for myself, based on help from the community. Despite all this, it did finally completely break recently (before FF 57), and I just had to not update FF for a while un…

you are a tiny minority and a specialized browser fork is a great solution for your use case in this situation.

Re: Firefox 57.0 Released

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Post by anotheryou »

patall wrote: post #542
callahad wrote: post #475

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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…

especially TreeStyleTab is considerably weakend with the new update (like all extensions that now have to fit into less powerful webextension). From my point it is so bad (I lose 4 out of 6 regularly used add-ons) I am actively considering of leaving firefox for the better.

What do you use? Some things are still a bit hacky, but it all comes together for me. I had everything packed, ready to move, but than came the ports :)

Re: Firefox 57.0 Released

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Post by dsschnau »

ramenmeal wrote: post #590

I'm trying it out now. Seems fast and I like the UI. I think there is a feature missing that I require... In chrome I can log into two separate accounts, my work and my personal. They run as practically two separate instances of chrome, so I can log into a separate lastpass account for each. Is this possible with firefox?

yeah, there is an extension for it: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...

Re: Firefox 57.0 Released

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Post by dralley »

msla wrote: post #323
Mizza wrote: post #65

I 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…

And it's impossible to put the tabs beneath the address bar, or to have actual toolbars. Decades of UI/UX knowledge, down the drain. Usability is gone.

Tabs on top makes far more UI sense than tabs on bottom.

I wish I could find a full-size screenshot of this, but here:

http://news.mynavi.jp/articles/2010/06/29/firefox-tabs-on-to...

Green is "page-controlling UI", Magenta is "browser-controlling UI".

Re: Firefox 57.0 Released

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Post by myrryr »

benlower wrote: post #509
manojlds wrote: post #441

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If it as just as good as chrome, why should I switch? Especially given how good Chrome Dev tools are.

because Google has the worst biz model in the tech industry and is doing harm to the world.

I guess you were not around during the Halloween papers then.

Or the Sco Linux lawsuits.

Re: Firefox 57.0 Released

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Post by helenius »

cptskippy wrote: post #535
helenius wrote: post #483

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If you like syncing files you could look into user.js for syncing config settings: http://kb.mozillazine.org/User.js_file

Am I missing something? I don't see how that ties into Firefox Sync to propagate changes to all instances. * Also, that's very cool regardless.

Not really, just that you need to be crazy enough to write and sync a file instead with e.g. Resilio or Dropbox.

Re: Firefox 57.0 Released

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Post by Merad »

milofeynman wrote: post #587
Merad wrote: post #580

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I have never (to my knowledge) done anything to change the user agent. I dug around in about:config and discovered that general.useragent.override somehow got set. Edit: Something is resetting that override every time the browser starts. Dunno what, the only addons I run are uBlock and RES (and now TST). Edit 2: It was being set in user.js. No idea how it got there...

Do you have privacy.resistFingerprinting = true set?

Nope, I discovered that it was being done in user.js. No clue how that happened...

Re: Firefox 57.0 Released

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Post by rcarmo »

daniel_iversen wrote: post #565

It’s great that FF is now faster but how’s battery life in this new engine? The reason I stuck with safari and only a year ago moved to chrome was that google finally was able to drastically improve battery life on chrome for Mac... where is FF here (their release page doesn’t mention “battery” at all), does anyone know?

Well, I'm running it on a 7-year-old Mac mini (yeah, no battery, I know, but hold on...), and _idle_ Firefox, without focus, is ticking along at 0.7-1.5% CPU time.

Safari is zero. Dead still. I type this and it moves to 0.3%.

No idea what Firefox is doing...

edit: Also, even without focus, Firefox climbs to 8.9% CPU just by hovering my mouse over it. Safari goes to 0.2%.

Re: Firefox 57.0 Released

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Post by distances »

lonk wrote: post #491

Scrolling is still laggy and jerky on android.

Are you on beta/nightly on Android? I feel it's much better now, but still not as good as Chrome.

The add-on support (uBlock) is absolutely crucial on mobile though so I could never go back to Chrome.

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