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Re: Firefox 64 Released

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Post by acdha »

O1111OOO wrote: post #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 render…

Why not use a feed reader which is designed and optimized for that task? I like Newsblur.com (aka https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur) but there are tons of great desktop apps which do a much better job than Firefox ever did.

Re: Firefox 64 Released

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Post by kentosi »

Good work guys.

For those using Firefox, I have one question. Is there any way to replicate Chrome's tab-to-search feature? It's literally the ONLY reason I'm still on Chrome.

Let me explain by showing how I would search for "apples" in youtube across both browsers.

Firefox:

1 - Ctrl+L (go to location bar) 2 - Type "you", press "down" to select youtube from history. 3 - Wait for site to load...... 4 - Click on search box 5 - Type in "apples" 6 - Press enter

Chrome:

1 - Ctrl+L (go to location bar) 2 - Type "you", and if youtube is first item in history, 3 - Press "tab" 4 - Type in "apples" 5 - Press enter.

Youtube opens up with my searched item. Nice and easy with far fewer key presses no waiting nor mouse clicking.

Works for youtube, hacker news, wiktionary, google images, and a heap of other sites I use daily.

Re: Firefox 64 Released

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Post by [deleted] »

nindalf wrote: post #74
sioux77 wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If this release makes it actually usable on MacOS I would be so happy. Everyone says to use FireFox here, but they don't realize that it runs horribly on machines that a lot of people use to develop on. Reading the release notes: Improved performance for Mac and Linux users, by enabling link time optimization (Clang LTO). (Clang LTO was enabled for Windows users in Firefox 63.) Doesn't seem like this fixes the high C…

To be clear, this doesn't affect all macOS users. My battery reliably lasts a whole day with Firefox running throughout. That said, the subset of users who are affected, like you, suffer a lot - low prevalence, high impact.

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Re: Firefox 64 Released

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Post by acdha »

sioux77 wrote: post #55
rerx wrote: post #2

Does it come with Mac performance improvements?

If this release makes it actually usable on MacOS I would be so happy. Everyone says to use FireFox here, but they don't realize that it runs horribly on machines that a lot of people use to develop on. Reading the release notes: Improved performance for Mac and Linux users, by enabling link time optimization (Clang LTO). (Clang LTO was enabled for Windows users in Firefox 63.) Doesn't seem like this fixes the high C…

I use only Macs by default. It runs great and has for years. There's probably a real issue somewhere but it's far from as universal as your post implies.

Re: Firefox 64 Released

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Post by jesse_m »

kentosi wrote: post #172

Good work guys. For those using Firefox, I have one question. Is there any way to replicate Chrome's tab-to-search feature? It's literally the ONLY reason I'm still on Chrome. Let me explain by showing how I would search for "apples" in youtube across both browsers. Firefox: 1 - Ctrl+L (go to location bar) 2 - Type "you", press "down" to select youtube from history. 3 - Wait for site to load...... 4 - Click on search…

If you use duck duck go as your search engine I think you can use their bang search functionality

Re: Firefox 64 Released

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Post by andersha »

kentosi wrote: post #172

Good work guys. For those using Firefox, I have one question. Is there any way to replicate Chrome's tab-to-search feature? It's literally the ONLY reason I'm still on Chrome. Let me explain by showing how I would search for "apples" in youtube across both browsers. Firefox: 1 - Ctrl+L (go to location bar) 2 - Type "you", press "down" to select youtube from history. 3 - Wait for site to load...... 4 - Click on search…

Hi,

I am using firefox with duckduckgo.

Firefox + DDG = Ctrl+L - Type "!yt apples", press enter

https://duckduckgo.com/bang

Re: Firefox 64 Released

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Post by moosingin3space »

kentosi wrote: post #172

Good work guys. For those using Firefox, I have one question. Is there any way to replicate Chrome's tab-to-search feature? It's literally the ONLY reason I'm still on Chrome. Let me explain by showing how I would search for "apples" in youtube across both browsers. Firefox: 1 - Ctrl+L (go to location bar) 2 - Type "you", press "down" to select youtube from history. 3 - Wait for site to load...... 4 - Click on search…

It should be possible to build this with an extension, but I haven't tried.

That being said, there are a few alternatives. Firefox Top Sites supports search engines, as described in https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/save-a-search-step/. Additionally, if you use DuckDuckGo as your default, you can use bang patterns, which I prefer as they are curated.

Re: Firefox 64 Released

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Post by detaro »

kentosi wrote: post #172

Good work guys. For those using Firefox, I have one question. Is there any way to replicate Chrome's tab-to-search feature? It's literally the ONLY reason I'm still on Chrome. Let me explain by showing how I would search for "apples" in youtube across both browsers. Firefox: 1 - Ctrl+L (go to location bar) 2 - Type "you", press "down" to select youtube from history. 3 - Wait for site to load...... 4 - Click on search…

I think in Firefox the closest is to manually add them as search providers with a short code :/ Right-click in e.g. the search field on YouTube, there's an option to add it with a key word, e.g. "yt". You then can do "yt apples" in the address bar.

Maybe there's an extension that does the Chrome thing, but I searched in the past and didn't find one.

Re: Firefox 64 Released

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Post by AbuAssar »

kentosi wrote: post #172

Good work guys. For those using Firefox, I have one question. Is there any way to replicate Chrome's tab-to-search feature? It's literally the ONLY reason I'm still on Chrome. Let me explain by showing how I would search for "apples" in youtube across both browsers. Firefox: 1 - Ctrl+L (go to location bar) 2 - Type "you", press "down" to select youtube from history. 3 - Wait for site to load...... 4 - Click on search…

even simpler in firefox:

[1] open youtube.com

[2] right click on the search bar and select "Add a keyword for this search"

[3] in the dialog enter the character "y" as the keyword.

[4] done!

now to search youtube from the address bar just enter y followed by the search terms!

Re: Firefox 64 Released

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Post by mancerayder »

What's the status of the cat and mouse game being played with autoplay video being forced on and new options needing to be hunted down?

First Chrome forced it on, because EvilCorp's business model is around a forced-open-eyelid philosophy of advertising revenue from unstoppable impressions.

Next I moved to Firefox, which in an update a few months ago changed the autoplay option to be on, removed the config attribute and made it a new one, which has as options 0, 1 and 2. Turned out autoplay default should be 1.

I'm not about to wait to find out what's around the corner. I started using Vivaldi this weekend in hopes someone actually made a browser for those who don't care about some company's ad revenue.

I don't know why Firefox would do that, and introduce Pocket as well. Is copying Google that sexy a thing?

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