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Re: Firefox 70

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Post by idoubtit »

pedrocx486 wrote: post #9

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

My experience is that Chromium DevTools are much more polished than Firefox's. For instance, the network tab is a pain to use with FF on a small screen because the columns have a large default width, so the Method column ("GET") is as large as the URL path column. And you can't resize them. Chromium has a better default, and I can resize them. If I view the detail of a request, pressing Esc will close the details view in Chromium, while it will toggle the console in FF. Even with the mouse, at first I struggled to find how to close the details with FF (the toggling icon is not part of the toggled window, it's next to the filter field!).

Re: Firefox 70

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Post by pier25 »

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?

Yes that's probably the most annoying thing in FF. Chrome does spell checking even when you mix multiple languages in the same sentence.

Re: Firefox 70

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Post by giancarlostoro »

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?

Weird, Chrome (specifically Electron) always gets confused when I speak English and Spanish all at once and Slack just starts to say everything I spell in English is wrong, it kinda annoys me. I don't think I have experienced this on Firefox.

Re: Firefox 70

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Post by giancarlostoro »

pedrocx486 wrote: post #9

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

Some of those updates are to catch up to Chrome's developer tools. If I were in charge of Firefox, I would honestly have them hire a developer or two to focus solely on the Developer Tools. I'm sure there's many things that browser developer tools could do that we have not even scratched the surface of. I prefer Firefox overall, only use Chrome due to manager only looking at my work on Chrome (it will be deployed in a WebKit container). The DOM Breakpoint feature is one I found out this week about in Chrome, glad it's now in Firefox.

Re: Firefox 70

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Post by redblacktree »

adfkbuvasdas wrote: post #10
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.

Is there a good transition path for someone who uses a lot of Google products? In particular, I use Chrome across all my devices, and I depend on the ability to search my history/recent tabs/etc from anywhere. Will Firefox give me the same ability? Is the transition literally just: Install Firefox everywhere and start using it instead?

Re: Firefox 70

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Post by gorgoiler »

So happy that Firefox is making steady progress.

I’m surprised though to see new CSS features so prominently in the announcement. Doesn’t this add unwanted additional fragmentation to browser CSS support?

A cosmetic feature like that naively seems better implemented with a library rather than folding it straight into one particular browser, but maybe I’m witnessing the process of text-underline-thickness being cemented in the standard after years of such library-based support?

Re: Firefox 70

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Post by jdlyga »

theodorejb wrote: post #17

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.

This is wonderful. I wish they would make Pocket a little less terrible (no forced reader mode for links, etc)

Re: Firefox 70

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Post by pwlb »

redblacktree wrote: post #56
adfkbuvasdas wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Is there a good transition path for someone who uses a lot of Google products? In particular, I use Chrome across all my devices, and I depend on the ability to search my history/recent tabs/etc from anywhere. Will Firefox give me the same ability? Is the transition literally just: Install Firefox everywhere and start using it instead?

Firefox Sync let's you syncronize Bookmarks, Open tabs, Logins, History, Add-ons and Preferences across devices by logging in once with username password
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