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Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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Re: Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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post #9

> Added basic support for macOS Touch Bar This was actually one of my major annoyances, since I use this feature often. I'm glad they added it, chances are others use it too.

Silly question... what do you do with Firefox and the touch bar?

I use it to accidentally mute my computer and accidentally cancel loading web pages.

Re: Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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post #12
post #10

Looking at the news cycle, it seems like the amount of changes is pretty low for this new version. Are they using version numbers for marketing purposes now?

They have time-based releases.

Ok I was not aware of that. Has it always been the case?

Re: Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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post #9

> Added basic support for macOS Touch Bar This was actually one of my major annoyances, since I use this feature often. I'm glad they added it, chances are others use it too.

Silly question... what do you do with Firefox and the touch bar?

Changing and creating new tabs. I really don’t like to use the alt-shortcuts as I never get to the tab I want.

Re: Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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post #13
post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They have time-based releases.

Ok I was not aware of that. Has it always been the case?

Well more or less, except the time was 1 year or more for "major" releases. After Chrome went out and incremented major version with every release, firefox went after them.

Chrome doesn't have super huge list of new features either.

Anyway, here's the wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_version_history#Releas...

Re: Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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post #9

> Added basic support for macOS Touch Bar This was actually one of my major annoyances, since I use this feature often. I'm glad they added it, chances are others use it too.

Silly question... what do you do with Firefox and the touch bar?

Actually, mine was a silly comment. What I use is the force touch, which now also works, not the touch bar.

Apologies for the mistake.

Re: Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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post #7

"System title bar is hidden by default to match Gnome guideline for Linux users" - which part of the UI does this refer to exactly? Does this mean that Firefox will now be hiding the page title?

It's visible in the tab: https://i.imgur.com/UOvz505.png

That seems problematic; even in your screenshot with just one tab, the title gets cut off after just a couple words.
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