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Firefox 64 Released

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Re: Firefox 64 Released

#41

> The CSS Scrollbars Level 1 spec standardizes features for setting scrollbar width and color I would like these features to be standardised to hands-off-my-fricking-scrollbars. I’m fed up with impossible-to-grab 1px-wide scrollbars because “everyone has trackpads”. No, they don’t.

> because “everyone has trackpads”. No, they don’t. Don't most mice have scrolling as well? It's not about trackpads.

They do, but they don't eliminate the need for scrollbars that can actually be used.

Re: Firefox 64 Released

#42
post #39
post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

After installing the update it opens this page: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/live-bookmarks-migratio...

arrrr... what they don't realize when they review their telemetry data is that most people that use this feature have turned off sharing telemetry data. Combine that with the fact that they haven't advertised the feature in the past decade and it leads to devs thinking nobody uses it.

Then perhaps you can see why telemetry is useful to responsible companies like Firefox, and maybe people who disable it have no right to complain about decisions based off telemetry data?

Re: Firefox 64 Released

#43

> The CSS Scrollbars Level 1 spec standardizes features for setting scrollbar width and color I would like these features to be standardised to hands-off-my-fricking-scrollbars. I’m fed up with impossible-to-grab 1px-wide scrollbars because “everyone has trackpads”. No, they don’t.

> because “everyone has trackpads”. No, they don’t. Don't most mice have scrolling as well? It's not about trackpads.

I have a trackpoint with no 3rd button. Many trackballs don't have scroll wheels. Many folks use arrow keys and space, shiftspace, pgup/down to navigate too and those require nice visible scroll bars that move the whole document to navigate effectively.

Long story short, stop fscking with accessibility. If your js code or libraries handles ANY input events, you'd better watch yourself because you're venturing into specialized-interface-by-and-for-assholes-land.

Re: Firefox 64 Released

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Some things I've been looking forward to: > Easier performance management: The new Task Manager page found at about:performance lets you see how much energy each open tab consumes and provides access to close tabs to conserve power > Improved performance for Mac and Linux users, by enabling link time optimization (Clang LTO). (Clang LTO was enabled for Windows users in Firefox 63.) Release Notes: https://www.mozilla.…

> Easier performance management: The new Task Manager page found at about:performance lets you see how much energy each open tab consumes and provides access to close tabs to conserve power

This is pretty neat, now I'm wondering why the webex extension is having "Medium" impact when it should be doing nothing.

Re: Firefox 64 Released

#50
RSS is dead...

I have a local html page devoted to news. An entry for a specific site will see at least two urls: The main site's URL and a link to it's RSS feed.

Linking to the feed directly was a great way to bypass all the modern garbage on the home page to see a simple list of articles (not unlike HN's home page). It's borked now...

None of my RSS links render. Chromium was very bad at this but at least it rendered a few (a couple of examples below), FF64 doesn't render any (in any form):

http://feeds.arstechnica.com/arstechnica/index

https://feeds.feedburner.com/ItsFoss

A huge part of my ability to enjoy the web has just been destroyed.:( I'll have to test this on other browsers...

edit (update): both sample links above are working now (odd). Most others with XML, RSS, Atom extensions do not render (FF offers to open in external app or save).

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