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Re: Firefox 58

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Post by Someone1234 »

tzs wrote: post #135
Someone1234 wrote: post #56

I've been happily using Firefox since 57 shipped. Loving the overall experience. I feel a bit petty for bringing this up, but what is up with Firefox's spellchecker? I came from Chrome so the spellcheck had a web-service which kept the word list current (slang and technical terms), but even ignoring that the Firefox spellcheck doesn't do a good job with the "basics." For example "That" misspelt as "Taht" (a & h trans…

Its out of the box spell checking is just terrible, at least on OS X compared to Chrome and Safari. Your example doesn't bother me too much, because at least it is right that the word is not spelled correctly. It is just not being great at suggesting replacements (although on my Mac it omits "Tait" and does suggest "That" at the end of the list, and if the misspelled word was "taht" rather than "Taht" then "that" is…

Grab Mozilla's "Multi-Account Containers"[0] add-on. Each container has its own self-contained session, session data, and cookies. Plus only a single window, different containers are just regular tabs, whereas in Chrome it is one window per profile.

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...

Re: Firefox 58

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Post by randomString1 »

MBCook wrote: post #147
randomString1 wrote: post #115

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> I especially have issue on Google sites (Docs and Drive) And YouTube. And Search. Hangouts, Gmail, Maps, Calendar, Groups, everything else? I don't buy it for a second that it isn't on purpose, even with the polyfill justification. You only make it easier for people like me to continue ignoring Chrome (if I even needed more reasons).

I don’t think Google is trying to slow it down or does any work to hamper FF or Safari or IE. I just don’t think they care. If it works, more or less, ship it. Not lightning fast in Chrome? Put a couple of engineers on it. Welcome back to 1998 and ‘Best Viewed With’ badges.

Let's hope they don't decide to serve Firefox users JSON output and call it a day

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/7oxiae/i_had_to_us...

Re: Firefox 58

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Post by petre »

I hope the developer tools request tabs in console got fixed. They showed nothing in 57. I'm using FF dev edition now, until it's fixed in the stable FF.

Re: Firefox 58

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Post by zintinio5 »

callahad wrote: post #99
zintinio5 wrote: post #68

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How does one end up in a position to do this work at Mozilla? I'm currently looking for a new SWE role, would absolutely love to work on Firefox.

Current openings are posted at https://careers.mozilla.org/ . There should be a steady trickle of opportunities as 2018 budgeting wraps up and requests for headcount get approved over the coming weeks and months. We do most of our work in the open, so there's a wealth of information you can gather before applying for a role or interviewing. Lurking on mailing lists, reading Bugzilla, following GitHub repos, etc. are…

Thanks! I was browsing a few days ago and applied to work on Telemetry in Firefox and ML Engineering at Pocket. A lot of the work being done with respect to the Quantam initiatives seems interesting, but I didn't really see anything related to the core browser. Anyway, thanks a lot for the info.

Re: Firefox 58

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Post by lucb1e »

callahad wrote: post #109
lucb1e wrote: post #38

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55 here because 56 breaks Mozilla's own Tab Center add-on. I see no mention of new APIs for add-ons in the release notes...

Tab Center was reimplemented using WebExtension APIs and released as Tab Center Redux: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-center-re...

I was happy to find it, only to notice the top tab bar would always still be there. And I've seen with classmates (who saw my tab list and wanted to try it) that it sometimes bugs as well. No such issues with the good ol' Tab Center. (Good ol', yeah, the thing is what, less than two years old now?)

Re: Firefox 58

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Post by flamedoge »

notatoad wrote: post #110
albertgoeswoof wrote: post #34

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Google inbox is terrible on ff, this is vendor lock-in by google, the new MS

Google Inbox is also pretty terrible on chrome for me, i'm not sure i'd blame vendor lock-in.

I went from GMail -> Inbox -> GMail -> Thunderbird

Re: Firefox 58

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Post by szatkus »

Yizahi wrote: post #20
k__ wrote: post #7

Switched back to Firefox a few months ago and I'm blown away by the speed. Last time I had this feeling after switching to Chrome from Firefox years ago, haha. Besides videos everything works like a charm. Somehow some videos won't start and sometimes I get a message that the video format could not be read, never had this issue in Chrome.

It was never that slow as some people declare it to be.

It was for me. On both Win10 and Ubuntu. Fx 57 was a game changer.

Re: Firefox 58

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Post by callahad »

lucb1e wrote: post #155
callahad wrote: post #109

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Tab Center was reimplemented using WebExtension APIs and released as Tab Center Redux: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-center-re...

I was happy to find it, only to notice the top tab bar would always still be there. And I've seen with classmates (who saw my tab list and wanted to try it) that it sometimes bugs as well. No such issues with the good ol' Tab Center. (Good ol', yeah, the thing is what, less than two years old now?)

We're actively working on APIs to hide individual tabs, and the entire tab bar, which will bring that functionality back to Firefox.

Individual tab hiding is already implemented in Firefox 59 (Beta / Developer Edition), but currently behind the "extensions.webextensions.tabhide.enabled" pref as we iron out final UX / security / privacy concerns. Still, tangible progress is happening.

Re: Firefox 58

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Post by mverwijs »

Chirael wrote: post #47

I love Firefox and switched back from Chrome with FF 57, but I really wish they had a Task Manager like Chrome does, so I can spot and kill misbehaving tabs rather than have all my tabs seem to steadily slow down. It's the only feature I miss from Chrome, and hope it appears in FF soon.

Adding the addon 'The Great Suspender' helped me out in this area. Also disabling HTML5 autoplay.

Re: Firefox 58

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Post by jakecopp »

apazzolini wrote: post #104
available wrote: post #60

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Yes, I simply couldn't use it because it drained my macbook battery too quickly. I just updated to 58, but it seems to still be a problem.

Same here - first thing I did when v58 came out was check to see if CPU usage was lowered, which it unfortunately wasn't. I see no reason why CPU activity should spike to 20% every few seconds with one blank tab open and no extensions enabled.

To save battery life I'm trying to switch to Safari (from Chrome -> Firefox) but container tabs in Firefox are amazing - the ability to automatically open a domain in a container is perfect.

Is it possible to whitelist cookies per domain in Safari?

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