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Re: Firefox 70

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Post by gamblor956 » Wed, Oct 23, 2019, 2:30 PM UTC

alexis_fr wrote: post #363

gamblor956 wrote: post #250

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A donation to a Christian charity would have been fine. There are thousands of them in the US and around the world. No, Eich specifically made a donation to a political campaign for CA's Prop 8 that used blood-libel-level lies to cast homosexuals as pedophiles and sexual predators and use that as a justification to deny them the right to marry. And this was the state of the Prop 8 campaign at the time he made the don…

So Mozilla thinks that laws proposed to voters are so immoral that we should purge people over them. “He had it coming to him”, they’ll say, justifying the purge, for defending that a child need two parents of different sex because kids are enriched by both viewpoints, which is as perfectly valid as an opinion as saying that speech should be censored aggressively when not agreeing with other viewpoints. Both are opin…

Democracy means you get the freedom to vote how you want politically.

It doesn't mean that you don't have to live with the consequences to your personal life.

If you think it does, please reread the Constitution, the circumstances behind it's drafting, and the first 10 years of US history.

Re: Firefox 70

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Post by devit » Wed, Oct 23, 2019, 2:37 PM UTC

freediver wrote: post #136

jacurtis wrote: post #118

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> this means that my battery is going to last 4-5x longer with Safari Well it might last 4-5x longer if you run safari in the background, since that is what you tested. But wouldn't the real test be running both browsers as the active window and comparing those results? One thing that Safari is incredibly good at (and its' engineers are proud of) is the ability to reduce resource consumption for non-active tabs and w…

I used that use case because I usually have multiple windows with multiple tabs in the background. I measured it with active windows now. Screenshots: - Both in background - Safari Actie - Firefox Active https://imgur.com/a/4L64ShP Conclusion: it gets even worse for Firefox. Edit: At the time of test Safari had 7 more windows open with probably 70+ tabs from my previous session that I didn't close.

You are not running uBlock Origin, so ads might be taking up all the CPU cycles they can get their hands on.

Re: Firefox 70

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Post by abyssin » Wed, Oct 23, 2019, 3:06 PM UTC

eyegor wrote: post #34

pedrocx486 wrote: post #9

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

Does anyone know of what useful/killer features chrome dev tools have that ff doesn't? I switched to ff full time a few years ago and only open chrome for testing sites. The only thing I notice is that they have slightly different habits as to where they jump in the html when you are using the inspect feature. The only killer Firefox "feature" I can think of is an extension which is much more recent -- eval villain (…

One feature that FF has and Chrome doesn't, is the abiliy to edit and reset an http request.

Re: Firefox 70

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Post by reportgunner » Wed, Oct 23, 2019, 3:08 PM UTC

ht_th wrote: post #401

reportgunner wrote: post #391

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Honest question, where does one use a spellchecker in the browser ?

All text-based input fields. Like this text-area element I am typing in now. But also for elements with the contentEditable attribute set to true. This is one of the features I appreciate a lot. I am not a native speaker of the English language, and I sometimes mix British English and USA English, and the spell-checker helps me to write consistently better messages.

Thank you for the explanation!

I myself (not a native speaker) am very pedantic about setting all my software to enUS and turn all spell checking off. (I can't even stand the linter underline in VS for example, it ruins my focus, especially when it underlines as I type and then lags before disappearing at the end of the word)

The only place where I use spellcheck is e-mail at work to avoid typos. Over the years I've learned to proofread my messages before sending them and touch typing helps a ton as well.

Re: Firefox 70

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Post by LoSboccacc » Wed, Oct 23, 2019, 3:23 PM UTC

lisper wrote: post #142

pier25 wrote: post #68

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I installed it, but this should be solved at the native level and not on JS.

What difference does it make?

extensions are one lump sum offer away from becoming malware

e: immaigne people down-voting facts https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/-particle-chr...

Re: Firefox 70

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Post by littlestymaar » Wed, Oct 23, 2019, 3:24 PM UTC

squiggleblaz wrote: post #397

littlestymaar wrote: post #368

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> Page not visible? Just stop it. Stop the layout engine, stop the javascript VM. If there was a transfer in progress, let it finish, a page might get the callback when it's active again Contrats, you just broke the web for anyone doing one of the following: - listening to music in the browser. - having a webRTC chat with someone while browsing. - keep reading another tab while waiting for a page to load. And I'm pro…

"- keep reading another tab while waiting for a page to load." Oh tell me about it. That's just about dead now. I mean, wasn't the point of multi tab browsing that I could do precisely that? Now I load Google Maps on my lethargic internet connection, go do something else for ten minutes, and come back and ... it starts loading when I open. This is on Firefox. Super sad.

Pretty surprising. I don't use Google maps though, but it works fine with all the websites I go daily.

Re: Firefox 70

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Post by lisper » Wed, Oct 23, 2019, 3:33 PM UTC

LoSboccacc wrote: post #415

lisper wrote: post #142

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What difference does it make?

extensions are one lump sum offer away from becoming malware e: immaigne people down-voting facts https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/-particle-chr...

The same is true of Firefox itself, or indeed any piece of software.

Re: Firefox 70

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Post by jhatax » Wed, Oct 23, 2019, 3:34 PM UTC

komali2 wrote: post #115

redblacktree wrote: post #56

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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?

The only feature you may miss is auto-fill of credit card info. It's saved my ass abroad before.

Firefox has credit card auto-fill capabilities: https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/online-shopping-autofill-cr...

Re: Firefox 70

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Post by LoSboccacc » Wed, Oct 23, 2019, 4:03 PM UTC

lisper wrote: post #417

LoSboccacc wrote: post #415

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extensions are one lump sum offer away from becoming malware e: immaigne people down-voting facts https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/-particle-chr...

The same is true of Firefox itself, or indeed any piece of software.

holy false equivalence batman. it's definitely harder to buy/compromise firefox

Re: Firefox 70

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Post by lisper » Wed, Oct 23, 2019, 4:10 PM UTC

LoSboccacc wrote: post #419

lisper wrote: post #417

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The same is true of Firefox itself, or indeed any piece of software.

holy false equivalence batman. it's definitely harder to buy/compromise firefox

Yes, that's true, but it would be correspondingly more difficult to find an alternative. If a plugin is compromised you're much more likely to be able to easily find an alternative. So it's a trade-off either way.