New in Firefox 78: DevTools improvements, new regex engine, and abundant web platform updates
Firefox 78
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Re: Firefox 78
#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
ublock origin makes pages load faster I'm curious why it is still not built in instead other nonsense they integrate
Google would not allow Mozilla to do this
How? Do you mean they would cancel their search deal? Does Google have any power over Mozilla?
Re: Firefox 78
#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
> reason that DevTools are better in Chrome still doesn't stop one from using Firefox for all other general browsing It doesn't even stop you from developing with FF. DevTools were completely usable for years and unless you need very specific functionality, FF is just fine.
I personally think that FF dev tools are better that Chrome. Every time that I'm forced to use Chrome Dev tools, I get confused.
I'm happy that I am not alone!
Quick example: event listeners in Firefox are visibly attached to their DOM element; in Chrome, I just can't find them. There's this Event Listeners list in a sidebar somewhere, but getting the function that attached it is a PITA.
Re: Firefox 78
#74I recently tried to move to Firefox (again). I try to to this every couple years. I run into the same three blockers every time. 1. The omnibar completion isn't as good. Chrome figures out where I go pretty regularly, and autocompletes extremely well based upon habits. 2. The dev tools aren't as good. I mostly work in the frontend, and simple things like how you write css overwrites with tab completion is just not as…
> 1. The omnibar completion isn't as good. Chrome figures out where I go pretty regularly, and autocompletes extremely well based upon habits. That's interesting, because I have found rather the opposite, for how I use it. Chrome doesn't seem to remember anything but my most frequented sites; with Firefox I find it much easier to find that thing I was reading a few weeks back that I did not bookmark by searching a wo…
You can even type the exact parts of a URL and Chrome doesn't offer any autocompletion [0], just an option to search. But then once you do search, the result page shows the URL as visited... [1] I refuse to believe this behavior is anything but Google's attempt to show you ads on the result page.
Re: Firefox 78
#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can I ask why it's considered "ugly" now but wasn't before? Isn't it just a few pixels bigger?
No, it is smaller so that is not the issue. The old completions used to use up the full width of the browser window. I can't exactly put my finger on it, but I suspect that the proportions are just slightly off.
You can just remove the flexible spacers.
Just go to the tab bar, right-click on an empty space or the "+" -> "Customize..." and remove them. I did so when Firefox upgraded to Quantum and the spacers never returned by themselves.
Re: Firefox 78
#76I see their still pushing Pocket recommendations, I still find that choice baffling.
You can just remove them from the start page. I did and they never came back by themselves. My new tab page is completely empty aside from the cogs icon to configure it.
Re: Firefox 78
#77I see their still pushing Pocket recommendations, I still find that choice baffling.
You can turn that off. I like having them there and sometimes find something interesting.
Re: Firefox 78
#78Does it still have UglyBar from v77? Seems like that.
It's not only ugly: whenever I click in it to edit a URL (pasting in different UUIDs for testing, things like that), the change of font size means I don't know where the selection is. That's so confusing.
I am always very confused by discussions about this bar. For me, when I press ctrl-L, the bar gets slightly bigger borders and the dropdown expands, and that's all that happens. I don't get a font size change or anything.
Is my experience not typical? Does anyone know why I don't get the new bar if not? I'm on 78.
Re: Firefox 78
#79Hate to be cynical, but I feel like they're just releasing a new one every week just to stay in the news.
They are on a 6 week release cycle. Every 6 weeks they release the changes that are ready. Sometimes the changes are large, sometimes small. Over time, rapid releases tend to get new features out sooner than delayed releases. Don’t get hung up on the version number. It doesn’t mean this is a major release, it is just the 78th release in a series.
Re: Firefox 78
#80Does anyone know if there's a way to stop Firefox giving me " http://weather/" as the first suggestion when typing 'weather' in the address bar? I have never in my life wanted to visit weather.com but I can't seem to make Firefox stop suggesting it. It doesn't do this for other keywords.
If you have that in your history, you can highlight that entry in the search results (e.g. using the up/down arrow keys after typing "weather") then press Shift and Delete to delete it from the history. If you don't want search results, you can go to the options/preferences, select search, and uncheck the "Provide search suggestions" option.
This key combo doesn't work