Firefox 70

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Post by feross » Tue, Oct 22, 2019, 2:02 PM UTC

Firefox 70
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Re: Firefox 70

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Post by ar7hur » Tue, Oct 22, 2019, 2:18 PM UTC

The one thing that prevents me from switching to Firefox is the spell checker. Like many non-native English people, I'm constantly switching between languages when typing. Chrome is smart with that, and detects the right language sentence per sentence. Is there a way to have FF do this? Did I miss something?

Re: Firefox 70

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Post by kemenaran » Tue, Oct 22, 2019, 2:27 PM UTC

Not mentioned in this article (although it's in the Release Notes [1]): the amazing work done regarding the macOS compositor.

This should give pretty noticeable speed and battery improvements on Retina Macbooks.

[1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/70.0/releasenotes/#new

Re: Firefox 70

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Post by overcast » Tue, Oct 22, 2019, 2:28 PM UTC

ar7hur wrote: post #2

The one thing that prevents me from switching to Firefox is the spell checker. Like many non-native English people, I'm constantly switching between languages when typing. Chrome is smart with that, and detects the right language sentence per sentence. Is there a way to have FF do this? Did I miss something?

I'm assuming Chrome is reporting back to Google everything you're typing. Privacy is probably what's holding Firefox back.

Re: Firefox 70

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Post by yoz-y » Tue, Oct 22, 2019, 2:30 PM UTC

overcast wrote: post #4

ar7hur wrote: post #2

The one thing that prevents me from switching to Firefox is the spell checker. Like many non-native English people, I'm constantly switching between languages when typing. Chrome is smart with that, and detects the right language sentence per sentence. Is there a way to have FF do this? Did I miss something?

I'm assuming Chrome is reporting back to Google everything you're typing. Privacy is probably what's holding Firefox back.

In Chrome you can choose if you want to use an offline or online spellcheck. Offline is on by default.

Re: Firefox 70

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Post by snazz » Tue, Oct 22, 2019, 2:31 PM UTC

overcast wrote: post #4

ar7hur wrote: post #2

The one thing that prevents me from switching to Firefox is the spell checker. Like many non-native English people, I'm constantly switching between languages when typing. Chrome is smart with that, and detects the right language sentence per sentence. Is there a way to have FF do this? Did I miss something?

I'm assuming Chrome is reporting back to Google everything you're typing. Privacy is probably what's holding Firefox back.

Similarly, the auto-translate (which Firefox is finally getting) is insanely useful if you ever browse a website that isn’t in a language you can read. I’d be interested in how both features can be implemented in a privacy-preserving way.

Re: Firefox 70

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Post by submeta » Tue, Oct 22, 2019, 2:33 PM UTC

Love Firefox. The philosophy, its snappiness, its many add-ons, the UI. - Glad to have an alternative to Chrome! Keep up the good work, Mozilla & Firefox team.

Re: Firefox 70

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Post by m4lvin » Tue, Oct 22, 2019, 2:33 PM UTC

ar7hur wrote: post #2

The one thing that prevents me from switching to Firefox is the spell checker. Like many non-native English people, I'm constantly switching between languages when typing. Chrome is smart with that, and detects the right language sentence per sentence. Is there a way to have FF do this? Did I miss something?

It seems there are add-ons for this :-)

https://github.com/kimsey0/FirefoxAutoDict

Re: Firefox 70

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Post by pedrocx486 » Tue, Oct 22, 2019, 2:33 PM UTC

Compared to current Chromium based browsers (I'm using Edge/ium), how does this Firefox release's DevTools compare?

Re: Firefox 70

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Post by adfkbuvasdas » Tue, Oct 22, 2019, 2:34 PM UTC

kemenaran wrote: post #3

Not mentioned in this article (although it's in the Release Notes [1]): the amazing work done regarding the macOS compositor. This should give pretty noticeable speed and battery improvements on Retina Macbooks. [1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/70.0/releasenotes/#new

Game changer! Now from my POV Firefox is the best desktop browser, period. No caveats.