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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 by mixmastamyk »

vetinari wrote: post #115
mixmastamyk wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's never crashed on unix for me after an update. Sounds like a Windows problem however.

It used to crash under Linux, when you updated it while it was running, and then opened new window or a tab. Now it shows a message that you need to restart.

Has never crashed on update for me, at least that I can remember after ten years. I have seen the warning message, that arrived years ago however.

I'll add the caveat that I typically restart my browser at least once a day, perhaps avoids the problem.

Re: Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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Post by fauigerzigerk »

Firefox has so many great features and yet I find myself not using it as my main browser for a simple reason: New windows open twice as fast in Safari and Chrome.

I'm opening a lot of windows because I'm not a fan of tabs. So Firefox feels extremely sluggish to me even though the actual rendering and JavaScript execution is anything but sluggish.

I'm not even sure if Firefox windows open so slowly for a reason or if it's just a really badly designed animation.

Re: Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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Post by fimdomeio »

From the last 3 or so versions Firefox performance on my retina mac is indistinguishable from chrome (from a humam perspective not looking at ram cpu usage), so I'm very happy to be using firefox full time once again. At some point I knew it was time to close firefox when the fans started blowing at max speed. Does not happen any more.

Re: Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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Post by asark »

beirut_bootleg wrote: post #114
asark wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've had to remove a lot of the stuff from mine because, turns out, when I hit certain modifier'd key combos with my left hand I tend to rest my right ring finger at the top of one of the number keys... close enough to the touchbar to trigger it. Didn't know that about myself, but now I do, and I've had to clear out about half my touchbar to keep it from being a problem. Turns out if you press "play/pause" on there,…

Gotta love users working around selling points. Now what could that say, Apple? Could it be?! No! The users are doing it wrong.

Yeah, it's been a net-negative for me. I never use it for touchbary-stuff (I don't even know why I would) and it's worse than real buttons for everything else. The fingerprint reader's OK I guess but is far enough out of the way that it's barely faster than typing my password—it needs to be toward the bottom. I think the whole thing would have made more sense as an iOS/watchOS companion app for MacBooks. Would have addressed the "so... what do I do if I get used to touchbar stuff then am using an external keyboard for a while?" Though I'd probably still not have used it.

Re: Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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Post by dao- »

clb4mf wrote: post #41

https://i.imgur.com/mzmsdzt.png They added this to my home page, despite the fact that my default search provider is DDG. Mozilla, could you STOP bundling advertisements into my browser?

The default is the default and this UI doesn't change that. It allows you to have a default, yet still use the other engines on a one-off basis. It's not limited to google either, e.g. I believe amazon is offered by default as well.

Re: Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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Post by vezycash »

freehunter wrote: post #34
Vinnl wrote: post #28

> 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…

Wouldn't it be nice if browsers or servers could reserve that space even if it's not loaded? Like "this is going to be a 500x200 image so let's load 500x200 pixels worth of empty space until it's fully loaded" and avoid jumping.

>if browsers or servers could reserve that space even if it's not loaded

I believe opera 12 could do this?

Re: Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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Post by dao- »

k_sze wrote: post #39

Not sure if the tab search is entirely new or simply made more accessible in FF 66, but it certainly seems to make the All Tabs Helper add-on mostly obsolete for me now.

The feature has been there for years, i.e. you could always enter a magic character to restrict awesomebar searches to tabs. Problem is, people didn't know the magic character, so hardly anybody used this feature. It's more accessible now.

Re: Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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Post by xattt »

sercand wrote: post #116

I have been using Firefox on macOS for a while but firefox is not well-integrated with the OS. Scrolling, downloading files, playing video/audio and many more have different convention from Safari/Chrome. Also, I am trying to avoid using Firefox on battery because it is a killer.

I’ve commented about this before, specifically about Firefox on OS X, but the sentiment seems to be that “you’re using it wrong”.

Re: Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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Post by jessemillar »

> With this update, Firefox is introducing scroll anchoring, which ensures that you’re not going to bounce around on the page as these slow-loading ads load.

While I love the idea of videos not automatically playing, I'm almost more excited for the scroll anchoring feature.

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