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Firefox 64 Released

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Re: Firefox 64 Released

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Post by arnvidr »

whalesalad wrote: post #122
jt2190 wrote: post #3

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.…

> Improved performance for Mac and Linux users, by enabling link time optimization (Clang LTO). Does this mean I need to build it myself or is the binary gonna ship this way?

I'm sure those who build it themselves could have enabled this in earlier versions already, and I assume this means the pre-built binaries now enable this.

Re: Firefox 64 Released

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Post by whalesalad »

Anecdotally the scrolling performance feels better on my 2018 Macbook Pro. I've been doing heavy work all morning (lots of scrolling around) and after updating, something feels better. Can't really prove any of this scientifically but good to percieve performance improvements.

I also have a brutally long Trello card that used to choke up Firefox (not as bad on Chrome). Happy to say that is no longer happening either.

Unfortunately Gmail still looks to have optimization that only work in Chrome. For whatever reason the time from first load to seeing the compose window after clicking "compose" is brutally slow in FFX, but not in Chrome.

Re: Firefox 64 Released

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Post by jjuhl »

skykooler wrote: post #4

Woo CSS scrollbars finally!

Ohh no. Stupid web-devs are going to mess with my UI elements. Please don't!

I do NOT want you to try and make my UI look "pretty" (or whatever). I want it to be FUNCTIONAL.

Re: Firefox 64 Released

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Post by zanny »

Personally am looking forward to 65 when we get webp support everywhere but from Apple.

Its all politics, but once 80% of browsers support it, the pressure will be on Apple to finally let us use an image format from this century.

Re: Firefox 64 Released

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Post by XCSme »

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.

I am working on a HTML5 game which has a list of rooms, list which has a scrollbar. It looks as ugly as it can be with the default scrollbar when everything else is neatly designed and has a specific theme, it ruins the immersion and reminds you hey, this is just a browser game, not a real game. I am not saying that all the sites should have custom scrollbars, but there are definitely use cases for it.

Re: Firefox 64 Released

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Post by acqq »

zeotroph wrote: post #137
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.

> This is completely unnecessary

It is completely necessary for me to have “move one page up on click.”

Re: Firefox 64 Released

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Post by jjordan »

kgwxd wrote: post #130
jjordan wrote: post #15

Is this the version that kills Live Bookmarks? Some of us FF old-timers are hopelessly reliant on these things, and it's, as far as I have found, the fastest way to quickly scan lists of headlines from all your favorite sites at once. Seriously, one click and you can quickly mouse over the sites on your bookmarks toolbar to consume hundreds of headlines. I really, REALLY hate that they're killing this feature, but th…

Whats wrong with just using a proper RSS client?

Nothing's "wrong" with it, but I have yet to find one that allows me to read more headlines in a shorter time than Live Bookmarks.
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