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Firefox 64 Released

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Re: Firefox 64 Released

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Post by zeotroph »

blattimwind wrote: post #115
moosingin3space wrote: post #38

Kind of a niche thing to comment on, but this release lands a commit I made that enables XDG desktop portals support in Firefox. If you're on KDE Plasma, you can run Firefox with the environment variable `GTK_USE_PORTAL=1` set and it will use KDE file selection dialogs.

Thanks!

Indeed, and thanks for pointing that out! I am not a fan of the simplified Gtk file dialog, even though I learned the trick of pressing Ctrl-L to edit the location. Let's see if that works with other Gtk apps. Edit: `GTK_USE_PORTAL=1 inkscape/gimp` does not work, seems it requires sandboxing? The xdg-desktop-portal-kde package says "This allows sandboxed applications to request services from outside the sandbox using KDE GUIs".

Re: Firefox 64 Released

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Post by c0nducktr »

untog wrote: post #51
fao_ wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> but this addon promises to restore it Mozilla did the same with tab groups, then the addon was abandoned. The replacement that is compatible with the new form of extension isn't able to unload the tabs, just hide them, which undoes most of the performance benefits. [abraham simpson voice] It'll happen to you too! [/abraham simpson voice] /jk

> Mozilla did the same with tab groups, then the addon was abandoned. Wouldn't that indicate that the extension was not that widely used, and as such Mozilla were correct in removing it from the central codebase?

It's true that it wasn't widely used, but it seems as if Mozilla did their best to make it that way. It wasn't exposed to the user by default, but instead was hidden as something you could get to by the toolbar customization screen, so you had to modify the toolbar to even get access to the feature.

I don't think most people even knew it was there.

Re: Firefox 64 Released

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Post by dictum »

Doctor_Fegg wrote: post #22

> 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.

Time for FF's balance of configurability and reasonable defaults to shine: the about:config properties to edit are `layout.css.scrollbar-color.enabled` and `layout.css.scrollbar-width.enabled`.

Re: Firefox 64 Released

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Post by danillonunes »

bm98 wrote: post #78
chrisseaton wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Most new mice, yes. I use an original Logitech MouseMan 3-button mouse with no scroll-wheel. I realize I'm an outlier, but no mouse has ever come close in terms of comfort for me - so I continue to use it, and life has been just fine until the advent of the Overlay Scroll Bar. I realize the benefits of the Overlay Scroll Bar to the majority of users who have scroll-wheels. But it sure would be nice if there was an ea…

Maybe with that change you can have it now by using a userscript that override scroll bar CSS for every site.

Re: Firefox 64 Released

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Post by zeotroph »

Doctor_Fegg wrote: post #22

> 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.

> Scrollbar

One thing I like about the Firefox (Gtk?) scrollbar is that it finally removed (a few version ago already) the "Click on it somewhere, but it doesn't move there but just acts like PgDown/Up", i.e. the non-warping to the exact click position but just inching towards it. This is completely unnecessary in the time of wheels and touchpads and I already miss it everywhere else.

Re: Firefox 64 Released

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Post by Flott »

leevlad wrote: post #93
rerx wrote: post #2

Does it come with Mac performance improvements?

Anecdotally, it seems to be flying through pages it used to struggle on when I last tried it (~version 60). Tab switching seems faster too, but I haven't had enough time to put it through its paces yet. Fairly promising so far, though!

I does feel faster. I still can't watch a 1080p60 twitch stream without droping a ton of frames though.

It's been like this for at least 2 years now on my MBP 2015.

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