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Firefox 64 Released
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#162> We’re excited to introduce multiple tab selection, which makes it easier to manage windows with many open tabs. Simply hold Control (Windows, Linux) or Command (macOS) and click on tabs to select them. Once selected, click and drag to move the tabs as a group — either within a given window, or out into a new window. Yessss. It doesn't happen often, but the times when I open up 6-10 tabs for research but then decide…
This was a GSoC project :)
https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/firefox-dev/2018-July/006...
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#163When it comes to tab magic, you might check Side View extension as well: https://testpilot.firefox.com/experiments/side-view/
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#164Still no bounce scroll on mac makes this dead in the water for me. Folks, the UI look and feel stuff really matters. You can't treat a platform like a second-class citizen and hope to gain widespread adoption.
IMO, bounce scrolling should be a browser option, not a CSS option chosen by the web dev.
I despise it and would get frustrated at web sites that use it.
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#165> 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.
Yeah I prefer that behaviour too. Luckily on MacOS, this is a global setting: https://www.lifewire.com/change-how-macs-scroll-bars-work-22...
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#166'reload all tabs' is missing from the right click menu on tabs now. Has this been removed, or just moved? I used that feature a lot every day.
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#167Are there a command pop up with tab search and mouse gestures built in yet? These as well as multitab selection kinda won me over to Vivaldi a year and bit back
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#168I've just updated to new beta (Firefox 65.0b3) with WebRender enabled and it started showing such error in about:support: [GFX1-]: shader-cache: Shader disk cache is not supported I'm using AMD GPU and as far as I know, Mesa supports shader cache for radeonsi and radv. Does anyone know why that error is showing up?
See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1511726 Assuming you're on non-Windows, the message is expected and not indicative of a problem. I've pushed a patch to disable it going forward. Sorry for the noise.
Thanks for the pointer. May be still display something but like "shader cache is not used" so it will be clear that the feature isn't utilized yet.
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#169RSS 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 render…
I know it is not what you've been doing but it may be something you'd like to consider. I also love RSS and even though there are many add-ons to use in Firefox to restore that kind of functionality, I prefer to use Thunderbird to consume RSS/Atom feeds, I've posted about it at: http://andregarzia.com/2018/11/reading-blogs-with-thunderbir... Since Thunderbird is also my email client, it becomes a very pleasant experi…
Appreciate the suggestion:)
I actually use The Old Reader[0] for most tech sites (including hnFrontPage and showHN). There are other sites that I'm only partially interested in or they have so much content, I don't want them in my Reader.
When I have time, I'll access the Feed Link and give the stories a bird's eye view. Also, some of these home pages are a nightmare in the Times Square sense of the word.
The Old Reader also keeps the the Feed Link accessible. Sometimes I'll hit the [mark all as read] but later on, I might go back and look at the day's listings for a particular site. I'm surprised how often I do this for some sites (mostly to reread an article or follow up on a comment I made). That flexibility is lost now.
Also, I don't subscribe to general news sites. The amount of articles would be overwhelming. News sites with RSS Feed Links make them manageable. I've essentially lost this - so I'll either have to access their obnoxious home pages (with anti-trackers fully loaded) or find other means.
I used to go local on my feeds... and while I avoid the cloud for most things, feed listings feel very natural there (also they don't take up local storage).
It's workable but I'm a bit annoyed that an application built on rendering (simple) tags (rq'd little/zero work to maintain) decides that things associated with RSS are going to be killed off (maybe??... in favor of their own news sources - which require much more work to maintain).
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#170> We’re excited to introduce multiple tab selection, which makes it easier to manage windows with many open tabs. Simply hold Control (Windows, Linux) or Command (macOS) and click on tabs to select them. Once selected, click and drag to move the tabs as a group — either within a given window, or out into a new window. Yessss. It doesn't happen often, but the times when I open up 6-10 tabs for research but then decide…
Also being able to save them as a session would be a nice touch.
My method for this is usually to do "Bookmark All Tabs" to shove all of the open tabs in a window into their own folder.