Firefox 65.0 released

Post by newscracker » Wed, Jan 30, 2019, 4:12 AM UTC

skrowl wrote: post #300

newscracker wrote: post #155

I’m a diehard Firefox user and supporter, but with every release there are still things I wait on the WebExtensions support to improve: 1. There’s still no full featured Tab Mix Plus possible with the current APIs. That’s been a big bummer for some years now. 2. The most downloaded session management extension now is still not as rich and good as the old XUL extension Session Manager (from mozdev). 3. I probably have…

Have you looked at https://www.basilisk-browser.org/ ? It's basically XUL Firefox w/o WebExtension crap (they played with WebExtensions and bailed). Made by the same people who make Pale Moon, it's basically a successor. The main downside, of course, is the XUL extension authors are unlikely to keep updating their extensions now the XUL is dead on OG Firefox.

Post by jakecopp » Wed, Jan 30, 2019, 6:02 AM UTC

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Not the original poster, but I would recommend to anybody that they move to Fastmail.

My only concern with Fastmail is they're Australia-based and the government there seems rather hostile to privacy.

Post by Zardoz84 » Wed, Jan 30, 2019, 7:06 AM UTC

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On all my Linux systems (NixOS), Firefox lags/skips while scrolling all the time. It's a deal breaker for me so I use Chromium, which scrolls without lagging. I read it is because Firefox does not use HW graphics acceleration on Linux, in general. This is both on a computer with the NVidia driver and one with the open-source radeon driver.

This is the exact reason I have not been able to switch back to FF, but on Windows. Enabling HW acceleration did not fix it.

Post by daleharvey » Wed, Jan 30, 2019, 7:29 AM UTC

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We implemented 2 versions ago, however we wanted to do some user testing to make sure it wasnt going to break too many websites and annoy too many users (We ended up changing the behaviour based on those tests). It will ship and be enabled by default in Firefox 66, it will not have a whitelist of allowed websites but autoplay on all websites will be disabled by default (configurable obviously), if autoplay is blocked…

As a quick side note, I just want to throw out how grateful I am both as a developer and as a user that Firefox handled autoplay blocking in a sane way. - An actual notification the user can see and control, which means as a developer I can give people an easy way to re-enable audio if something breaks. - Actual user controls instead of an opaque algorithm I can't override that randomly decides for me on the fly whet…

    > And the UI for adding exceptions is still really 
    > cumbersome -- as a developer I wish there was some 
    > way to whitelist domains from the notification bar 
    > without going into settings.

Post by bovine3dom » Wed, Jan 30, 2019, 8:29 AM UTC

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What do you mean by the manual step for nativeinstall? It is risky if you don't trust us, which is why Mozilla won't let us do it automatically, so it has to be manual. What do you mean by imap and nmap? We already have separate binds for normal and insert mode (which is why you can type into text boxes ;) ). I think Ctrl-Z was bound to ignore mode in Pentadactyl. Now I think about it, I don't know why it isn't bound…

Sorry i immediately set editorcmd but the edit was for some reason posted as a sibling comment that I then deleted.(I couldn't reply immediately afterwards because this website didn't have a reply button for your comment then) Maybe ZZ could be stop then?