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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 remram »

Zren wrote: post #343
toflon wrote: post #266

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I know it's not the same, but if you bookmark " https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%s" and put in a keyword like "yt". You can type "yt whatever" in the addressbar and it will do a search on youtube.

You can also use https://www.reddit.com/r/%S with a capital `%S` to avoid escaping the slashes, so you can type "r all/top" or with GitHub "g Zren/reponame"

This is exactly what I needed. I set up this exact shortcut years ago, in Chrome, and have been slightly annoyed for months that "r sub/top" didn't work on Firefox. Thank you stranger.

Re: Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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Post by pard68 »

basch wrote: post #412
tzhenghao wrote: post #394

I think the core problem is still tab clutter. Every time I hop onto my iPad to do some light browsing, I have less anxiety. I don't keep many tabs open on mobile/tablet, but I'm already counting 8 opened here as I'm typing on my laptop. Sure, almost everything mentioned in the article is problematic. Then again, maybe it's just us programmed to hit Ctrl-T too much over a decade...

There needs to be a complete overhaul of "how i got here, back/forward, where i want to go, things i want to read, things i want to flip between, things i want cached so when i click they dont load, i want to purge the tab from my current workspace, i want to purge this site from the history." Navigation (forward/back), history, tabs, bookmarks et all are all trying to do various forms of the same thing, and their ov…

Can't think of the browser but there is a hobby browser designed for modal --vim-- usage that displays history as a tree similar to a file structure rather than as a flat back and forward. I wish I could remember the name of it... I do recall it was listed on qutebrowser's github page under similar projects but I can't look right now.

Re: Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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Post by crawrey »

fimdomeio wrote: post #123

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.

Performance has improved considerably. However, there is still a major outstanding bug, due to the rendering of window transparency[1].

Window transparency can be turned off by setting "gfx.compositor.glcontext.opaque" to true in about:config. This will cause a minor degradation in appearance of the window frame and tabs, but it will improve performance and extend battery life.

I have had it set for over 6 months and am anticipating the resolution of this outstanding bug.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1429522

Re: Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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Post by pard68 »

asdff wrote: post #349
ghostly_s wrote: post #215

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I've pretty much entirely gone back to pirating because of those fucking auto-play trailers they have now (and this is on the Roku app, where Firefox wont' help me).

Looking for a specific thing is such a pain. Is it on netflix? Nope. 2 minutes loading the prime video app. Is it on there? Yeah, 3.99 for the privilege of streaming for a couple days. 2 minutes checking hulu. Nope. 2 minutes loading the HBOGO app. Not there either. Turns out, it was on showtime, the one service I don't have access to. If its not there I'll pirate without hesitation. The only inconvenience is the tim…

If you use Roku the main search on the Roku home screen will search for content on all Roku services (installed or not) and sort them by price. It is an amazing little tool. Also Plex works on Roku and will stream pirated content as happily as it streams anything else.

Re: Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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Post by tgtweak »

daniel_iversen wrote: post #527

That’s all nice but is there any update on battery improvements? I can’t see any for a long time. That’s about the last reason left why I’m still using Chrome on Mac.

Edge spent a lot of time and focus on this but it seems Firefox is not actively pursuing it or marketing it.

Been using Firefox nightly on Android and it's on par with chrome (even faster with ublock running since FF can run extensions on mobile), but the battery drain feels higher than with chrome.

Re: Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances

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Post by bzbarsky »

dblohm7 wrote: post #491
bzbarsky wrote: post #192

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The "plugin-container" executable is used for all sandboxed processes on Windows. That started out as plug-ins, but now includes web renderers. So the "something inside it" could be script on a web page, or part of Gecko's rendering pipeline, or pretty much anything. And killig it crashes tabs because it's the thing rendering those tabs. It might make sense to rename the executable to make things clearer, but there a…

Actually we only use plugin-container for NPAPI on Windows. I believe that MacOS was specifically the platform where we ran into problems.

Thank you for the correction!
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