Firefox 70 • Hacker News Board

Re: Firefox 70

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Post by LoSboccacc » Tue, Oct 22, 2019, 2:34 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?

not a great solution but dictionaries are simple files and you can merge them into the one you consider to be your main language

Re: Firefox 70

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Post by GhettoMaestro » Tue, Oct 22, 2019, 2:35 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

The performance is what has kept me on Chrome on Mac. Going to re-install FF now and give it a whirl. Thanks for this info!

Re: Firefox 70

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Post by geraltofrivia » Tue, Oct 22, 2019, 2:35 PM UTC

snazz wrote: post #6

overcast wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

This is on HN frontpage right now - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21321430

Re: Firefox 70

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Post by oehpr » Tue, Oct 22, 2019, 2:36 PM UTC

pedrocx486 wrote: post #9

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

I feel like the websocket inspector was the last thing I was missing, and now that I have it, I only need chrome for compatibility checks.

Re: Firefox 70

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Post by aashcan » Tue, Oct 22, 2019, 2:36 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?

There used to be the Dictionary Switcher addon, but doesn't work >v57. An alternative I found was https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/automatic-spe...

Re: Firefox 70

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Post by ahbyb » Tue, Oct 22, 2019, 2:36 PM UTC

m4lvin wrote: post #8

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

This is the kind of thing that should be built-in instead of Monitor, Pocket, etc. :(

Re: Firefox 70

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Post by theodorejb » Tue, Oct 22, 2019, 2:37 PM UTC

Wow, blown away by how much better the new password manager is! If they add support for custom fields on each login, this could almost completely replace my need for a 3rd party solution.

Re: Firefox 70

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Post by danlugo92 » Tue, Oct 22, 2019, 2:37 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

Would this bring it up to par with safari's power consumption?

Re: Firefox 70

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Post by ivankolev » Tue, Oct 22, 2019, 2:40 PM UTC

pedrocx486 wrote: post #9

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

Day to day tasks like browsing the DOM, debug, networking, are top notch in both Chrome and FF, haven't found anything infuriating in FF devtools, they are very serious in having snappy and useful experience.

Re: Firefox 70

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Post by The_rationalist » Tue, Oct 22, 2019, 2:43 PM UTC

I would have wished a world where both the chromium project and Mozilla would collaborate to a unified JS compiler instead of having two separate implementations. How faster would have JS been? How more featureful and less buggy?

BTW chrome 78 will be released today too!