Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances • Hacker News Board

Re: Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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Post by mruszczyk » Tue, Mar 19, 2019, 2:14 PM UTC

ekianjo wrote: post #13

Tomte wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They have time-based releases.

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

Since 2011. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Release_Management/Calendar

Re: Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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Post by swiley » Tue, Mar 19, 2019, 2:15 PM UTC

mental1896 wrote: post #14

davnicwil wrote: post #3

So what's the list of browsers now that have autoplaying blocked or have that feature planned?

I've started to make a list: - Firefox -

Elinks and dillo have autoplay blocked :p

Re: Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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Post by reticulated » Tue, Mar 19, 2019, 2:15 PM UTC

ddavis wrote: post #17

On macOS: still waiting for interactions with the address bar to be smooth and fast. It's frustratingly laggy in my opinion. Does anyone else feel this way? For me it's the only reason I still gravitate towards Chrome on a Mac.

Appears performant to me on a 2015 MBP. What's the use case in which you see problems?

Re: Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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Post by jesse_m » Tue, Mar 19, 2019, 2:16 PM UTC

Does this mean that custom emacs/vim keybindings can work again?

Re: Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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Post by LukeShu » Tue, Mar 19, 2019, 2:17 PM UTC

ekianjo wrote: post #13

Tomte wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They have time-based releases.

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

Since version 5 in 2011. For a while it was a monthly release, but since version 22/23 in June/August 2013 it's slowed down to every other month.

Re: Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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Post by xrisk » Tue, Mar 19, 2019, 2:17 PM UTC

ddavis wrote: post #17

On macOS: still waiting for interactions with the address bar to be smooth and fast. It's frustratingly laggy in my opinion. Does anyone else feel this way? For me it's the only reason I still gravitate towards Chrome on a Mac.

Have this same problem. 2015 rMBP. The FF UI feels so much more laggy than Chrome/Safari.

Re: Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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Post by abrowne » Tue, Mar 19, 2019, 2:17 PM UTC

ddavis wrote: post #17

On macOS: still waiting for interactions with the address bar to be smooth and fast. It's frustratingly laggy in my opinion. Does anyone else feel this way? For me it's the only reason I still gravitate towards Chrome on a Mac.

AIUI, Mozilla is rewriting the address bar ("QuantumBar"), and you can now toggle it on in Nightly by setting browser.urlbar.quantumbar to true in about:config. I've only tried it on Linux, but it seems smoother.

Re: Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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Post by Vinnl » Tue, Mar 19, 2019, 2:19 PM UTC

> Scroll anchoring keeps content from jumping as images and ads load at the top of the page

That's a nice little quality-of-life improvement. It's a little annoyance that you don't really consciously notice because you're so used to it, but I recall reading about Chrome adding a similar feature and suddenly realising how annoying it is when you're reading something, and then suddenly it jumps out of your view due to a large image above the viewport loading.

Re: Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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Post by elven_lord » Tue, Mar 19, 2019, 2:22 PM UTC

ddavis wrote: post #17

On macOS: still waiting for interactions with the address bar to be smooth and fast. It's frustratingly laggy in my opinion. Does anyone else feel this way? For me it's the only reason I still gravitate towards Chrome on a Mac.

have this exact same problem on my 2015 rMBP, switching between tabs quickly is hideous.

Re: Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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Post by karolist » Tue, Mar 19, 2019, 2:22 PM UTC

I'm using Mac OS and the scroll using conventional optical mouse with segmented wheel is really jumpy basically in every other browser. Out of the Firefox, Chrome and Safari only FF scrolls a page really smooth, with no micro jumping as I turn the wheel. Anyone know how to fix this in other browsers?