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Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by Tagbert »

m_eiman wrote: post #128

I just upgraded my iMac to Catalina, and noticed this rather serious issue with Firefox: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1606620 Basically if you have an external screen (possibly related to it being low-DPI and main screen being Retina), context menus don't work properly, if at all. It seems it got even worse in 72 than it was in 71 - now I'm not even getting a context menu in the wrong place, it's invi…

Wow, that’s strange. I’m using a similar (but not identical MBP13) setup but I don’t see this happening. Of course :(

I have had trouble with menu bar items where the pull-down menu will not appear on one screen but will appear on the other. That seems to be a Catalina bug.

Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by krtkush »

megous wrote: post #154
giancarlostoro wrote: post #34

> Firefox replaces annoying notification request pop-ups with a more delightful experience, by default for all users. The pop-ups no longer interrupt your browsing, in its place, a speech bubble will appear in the address bar when you interact with the site. This is fantastic! I had finally figured out I could turn this off in settings a while ago, glad it's now a default. I get so annoyed by this, annoying indeed!

Well, it's delightfully stupid. In a webapp where you present user a button to activate notifiactions, when the user clicks the button seemingly nothing happens in FF72 (user is focussed on a big enable notifiactions button in the web app and may not notice that some tiny gray icon wiggled a little in the address bar). On a big screen a button in the middle of the screen is so far away from the address bar, that you…

How about web apps too not show annoying pop-ups which are pretty useless in most cases? Websites which show two pop-ups (custom pop-up followed by browser pop-up) are worse.

Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by ProAm »

maxheadroom wrote: post #76
yori wrote: post #5

After the recent missteps by Chrome (mangling the display of URLs), I decided to switch to Firefox and DuckDuckGo a few months ago and I was pleasantly surprised at how fast Firefox is these days than what I found it to be 10 years ago. While I still consider DuckDuckGo to be in the "not bad" category, Firefox is in the "seriously awesome" category now. If you have been away from Firefox for a while like me, give it…

> While I still consider DuckDuckGo to be in the "not bad" category... If you're into privacy-conscious search engines and want one that's not susceptible to blanket FISA warrants[0], check out either Qwant[1] or SwissCows[2]. [0] - DuckDuckGo's address is in Pennsylvania - 20 Paoli Pike, Paoli, PA 19301. [1] - https://www.qwant.com [2] - https://swisscows.ch/

Startpage was good but I think they were recently bought out by a less than a good party

Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by kmlx »

otanriverdi wrote: post #4

It's great to see Firefox improving constantly. Especially since Chrome is unusable on MacOS Catalina for many users atm.

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i'm using the latest macos and chrome. what exactly isn't supposed to be working?

i also have firefox installed, but on macos firefox is mostly an alpha/unfinished release since years ago.

Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by conradfr »

abcd_f wrote: post #48

Re: picture in picture - anyone else here think that this feature doesn't belong to a browser? It just seems so... erm... random, basically. Looks like something that was cloned from some other product and rather crudely shoehorned in. At the very least it should have been introduced after an update and given an option to opt-in to using it, rather than automatically enabling it without any notice.

I love it on Windows and use it all the time and I'm glad I can finally use it at work.

One downside is that subtitles (at least with Netflix, don't remember for YouTube) are still displayed in the original tab.

Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by mtm7 »

andrewkdinh wrote: post #159
mtm7 wrote: post #141

Firefox keeps getting better. I really want to switch. The only thing that’s holding me back is the design. It just doesn’t look as modern as Chrome or Brave. The back button is a different height than the search bar; the tab container doesn’t line up with the search from the left side of the window. And it has a weird mix of slightly-square and rounded buttons, which makes it feel like a second-class browser. I know…

If you’re interested in having Chrome’s look in Firefox, check out MaterialFox. https://github.com/muckSponge/MaterialFox

Wow, I didn't even realize this was possible. It looks really nice. Thanks!

Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by megous »

krtkush wrote: post #172
megous wrote: post #154

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, it's delightfully stupid. In a webapp where you present user a button to activate notifiactions, when the user clicks the button seemingly nothing happens in FF72 (user is focussed on a big enable notifiactions button in the web app and may not notice that some tiny gray icon wiggled a little in the address bar). On a big screen a button in the middle of the screen is so far away from the address bar, that you…

How about web apps too not show annoying pop-ups which are pretty useless in most cases? Websites which show two pop-ups (custom pop-up followed by browser pop-up) are worse.

My website doesn't show any popups. I have a settings dialog that user can open and setup email and other notifications.

This will just not work anymore. I'll have to add some long winded FF specific explanation on what to do after clicking the button.

Anyway the FF UI is broken if user physically can't see any reaction from the browser after he requests notifications by clicking anywhere on the page.

Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by tpmx »

fauigerzigerk wrote: post #166
tpmx wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Open new windows more quickly. Firefox feels sluggish (on Mac) I assume you mean new tabs? That's very quick on Windows using FF 72. Interestingly that's been a long-time annoyance of mine when using Chrome on Mac - when compared to Safari which shines here.

>I assume you mean new tabs? No, I mean windows. Opening tabs is very fast. Many of my workflows begin by opening an new empty browser window. I also tend to open links in new windows instead of tabs. I'm not a huge fan of tabs generally.

That's probably a pretty unusual scenario, generally speaking. On Mac I can see it making sense. Makes me curious to try out this browsing workflow...

Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by kmlx »

rossdavidh wrote: post #148
mtm7 wrote: post #141

Firefox keeps getting better. I really want to switch. The only thing that’s holding me back is the design. It just doesn’t look as modern as Chrome or Brave. The back button is a different height than the search bar; the tab container doesn’t line up with the search from the left side of the window. And it has a weird mix of slightly-square and rounded buttons, which makes it feel like a second-class browser. I know…

You like what you like, but I just want to point out that as a Firefox-first user, when I switch to Chrome to check that whatever I'm working on is cross-browser functional, I am struck with how bad Chrome looks. So I think some of what you perceive as "modern" is just what you're used to, and a short time after switching it will not bother you. But, of course, you like whatever you like.

i think the problem is that firefox looks out of place when compared to chrome, safari, brave, vivaldi etc
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