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Re: Firefox 64 Released

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Post by AnaniasAnanas »

c0nducktr wrote: post #134
untog wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

Just like RSS in modern versions, and just like tab groups they will be removing it too.

Re: Firefox 64 Released

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Post by kodablah »

kevincrane wrote: post #120

> 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…

One of the greatest multiple-tab features is available in the Multiple Tab Handler [0] in combination with Tree-Style Tabs: click-drag to close (or select). It's a bit more tedious in the current non-XUL versions of FF (have to mouse down longer), but basically if you need to close like 50 tabs in your tree, you can mouse down over one "x" and drag selecting the other "x"s and once you mouse up it closes them all. Want to close every other one or a more specific set? With the mouse down, only go over the "x"s you want to close. The same thing on the tab itself for selecting multiple tabs to do anything like reparent, reload, etc.

0 - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multiple-tab-...

Re: Firefox 64 Released

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Post by mancerayder »

daleharvey wrote: post #219
mancerayder wrote: post #180

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…

I introduced the change to 0,1,2. Not sure what happened when we first introduced autoplay but the change to 0,1,2 was so we could let users switch between enabled, disabled and ask the user. Original plan was to ask the user by default. We did some user testing with this change and it looks like we will be changing it to block by default based on feedback Not sure what this has to do with any companies ad revenue, o…

That's good news, and I'm glad to hear that user feedback is considered. Thanks for your efforts and your response!

Re: Firefox 64 Released

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Post by Drdrdrq »

zipperhead wrote: post #200
MrRadar wrote: post #189

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Get uMatrix and block Media requests globally, then whitelist on a per-domain basis. That should "fix" auto-playing videos for you permanently.

That sounds like a lot of work for something that a browser should provide an easy, up-front way to configure.

But it's really not. Different users have different preferences and it seems like you would love uMatrix. I would suggest you give it a try.

Re: Firefox 64 Released

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Post by nothrabannosir »

daleharvey wrote: post #219
mancerayder wrote: post #180

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…

I introduced the change to 0,1,2. Not sure what happened when we first introduced autoplay but the change to 0,1,2 was so we could let users switch between enabled, disabled and ask the user. Original plan was to ask the user by default. We did some user testing with this change and it looks like we will be changing it to block by default based on feedback Not sure what this has to do with any companies ad revenue, o…

Even for YouTube?

Re: Firefox 64 Released

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Post by daleharvey »

mancerayder wrote: post #206
mintplant wrote: post #193

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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 don't understand what you mean here. Without having changed any of the settings from the default, Firefox (Nightly) pops up to ask me if I want to "allow auto-playing media with sound" the fi…

Right. Well I'm referring to always turning it off, and the option very specifically is: media.autoplay.default if 0, then it's on. if 1, then it's off. 2, I'm not sure.

    pref("media.autoplay.default", 2); // 0=Allowed, 1=Blocked, 2=Prompt
https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/browser/app/p...

Re: Firefox 64 Released

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Post by AnIdiotOnTheNet »

XCSme wrote: post #146
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.

> it ruins the immersion and reminds you hey, this is just a browser game, not a real game.

If you're uncomfortable with the user realizing the game is a browser game, why did you make it in a browser?

Re: Firefox 64 Released

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Post by daleharvey »

nothrabannosir wrote: post #225
daleharvey wrote: post #219

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I introduced the change to 0,1,2. Not sure what happened when we first introduced autoplay but the change to 0,1,2 was so we could let users switch between enabled, disabled and ask the user. Original plan was to ask the user by default. We did some user testing with this change and it looks like we will be changing it to block by default based on feedback Not sure what this has to do with any companies ad revenue, o…

Even for YouTube?

Yes, we dont have any whitelist / blacklist of sites we treat differently

Re: Firefox 64 Released

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Post by 4p3 »

Nobody wants to comment on the Contextual Feature Recommender(CFR)?

about:preferences -> browsing -> uncheck "Recommend extensions as you browse"

Re: Firefox 64 Released

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Post by jdeibele »

mancerayder wrote: post #206
mintplant wrote: post #193

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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 don't understand what you mean here. Without having changed any of the settings from the default, Firefox (Nightly) pops up to ask me if I want to "allow auto-playing media with sound" the fi…

Right. Well I'm referring to always turning it off, and the option very specifically is: media.autoplay.default if 0, then it's on. if 1, then it's off. 2, I'm not sure.

2 is ask. That's what I have mine set on.
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