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Re: Firefox 78

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Post by renjimen »

findjashua wrote: post #153
defnotashton2 wrote: post #149

I want to use Firefox but find the plug in system to be unusable and therefore prefer a chromium based solution. I have 30+extensions, many developer based, many for privacy and blocking, and many new ones to prevent sites from dictating my behavior like blocking copy and pasting of text. But the most important one is a plug in manager that allows me to to toggle on/off individual plug-ins from the sidebar with two c…

you can set keyboard shortcuts to toggle the add-ons. Yes, you do have to go through the single page as you mentioned, but it's a one-time thing. Personally, I can't leave Firefox due to: 1. Sidebery (on Desktop) 2. Night-mode (on Mobile)

Sidebery - wow! I'd looked for a vertical tab add-on to no avail last year, but this is incredible. Thanks.

It still boggles my mind that everything is made to go horizontal on default Windows/Mac UIs when desktops are widescreen and most content we consume now is tall and thin.

Re: Firefox 78

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Post by hafta »

wincent wrote: post #94
Santosh83 wrote: post #12

Great. Unlike many, I walk my talk and have always used Firefox since more than a decade with no exceptions. The very commonly given reason that DevTools are better in Chrome still doesn't stop one from using Firefox for all other general browsing. Unless we support alternatives we really shouldn't complain when they gradually die off in a space that is increasingly coming under the control of giant corporations with…

I really wanted to switch to Firefox, but after several weeks the thing that pushed me back was janky scrolling. It seems like a trivial thing, but it absolutely drove me first up the wall, and then back to Chrome.

I've noticed that the default Firefox scroll speed is slower. As in the amount the page scrolls per rotation of the scroll wheel. This is a long shot, but do the settings here help in your case?

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1388848#c32

Re: Firefox 78

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Post by ProAm »

jfk13 wrote: post #129
ProAm wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This new bar is why I stopped upgrading FF. with 76 you could change it with about:firefox options, then in 77 you had to use userChrome.css I got tired of trying to find a workaround for a piece of utility software. I shouldnt have to relearn functionality every minor release of a browser. I love FF, but Im sticking with 76 for the foreseeable future.

Sorry you don't like the new design. Personally, I found it really jarring at first, but by now I don't notice it unless I consciously look for it. Hope you enjoy your unpatched security issues.

Patched but unusable still equal unusable. FF should really decouple security patches from redesign and functional changes. There is no reason to force both.

Re: Firefox 78

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Post by jniedrauer »

matsemann wrote: post #124
Santosh83 wrote: post #12

Great. Unlike many, I walk my talk and have always used Firefox since more than a decade with no exceptions. The very commonly given reason that DevTools are better in Chrome still doesn't stop one from using Firefox for all other general browsing. Unless we support alternatives we really shouldn't complain when they gradually die off in a space that is increasingly coming under the control of giant corporations with…

> The very commonly given reason that DevTools are better in Chrome I don't find that to be true. At least not anymore. I use both Chrome and Fx bout 50/50 for developing, and they each have something the other misses. For instance, "preserve log" in Chrome's network tab throws away all the actual response data when moving to a new page. In Firefox it's there. So when debugging through our micro-frontend flow I prefe…

I also massively prefer the request replay workflow in firefox. Using the chrome console with curl just feels clunky compared to firefox's "edit and resend."

Re: Firefox 78

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Post by findjashua »

renjimen wrote: post #161
findjashua wrote: post #153

Earlier quoted context omitted.

you can set keyboard shortcuts to toggle the add-ons. Yes, you do have to go through the single page as you mentioned, but it's a one-time thing. Personally, I can't leave Firefox due to: 1. Sidebery (on Desktop) 2. Night-mode (on Mobile)

Sidebery - wow! I'd looked for a vertical tab add-on to no avail last year, but this is incredible. Thanks. It still boggles my mind that everything is made to go horizontal on default Windows/Mac UIs when desktops are widescreen and most content we consume now is tall and thin.

Yep! Firefox supports vertical sidebars (which Chrome doesn't I guess?), so you find a lot of Firefox add-ons for vertical tree-style tab sidebars.

Sidebery is my favorite by far, because it also lets you organize the tabs in "panels", and lets you set keyboard shortcuts for navigating across panels. So you don't end up with a giant list of 50 tabs.

Eg I have 1 panel for email/chat/music, and a separate panel for each task I'm working on. Makes things a lot more manageable, since each panel usually has only 5-10 tabs.

Re: Firefox 78

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Post by guerrilla »

agurk wrote: post #2

Of note for those using Wayland/Mutter Firefox 78 now has the option of Partial Present[0] and better supported VA-API for video playback. Interestingly there was a recently discovered Mutter bug[1] where the Culling code to prevent rendering of windows that were not visible was not working. This fix will need to be deployed to see the biggest benefit of Partial Present. [0] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?…

When did they start supporting VA-API? I didn't notice. Lacking that was one of the reasons I got a new computer.

Re: Firefox 78

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Post by hinkley »

Santosh83 wrote: post #12

Great. Unlike many, I walk my talk and have always used Firefox since more than a decade with no exceptions. The very commonly given reason that DevTools are better in Chrome still doesn't stop one from using Firefox for all other general browsing. Unless we support alternatives we really shouldn't complain when they gradually die off in a space that is increasingly coming under the control of giant corporations with…

For a similar reason, I took some advice years ago (after the last mosaic virus scare) to eat multi-grain bread even though it's not entirely my favorite.

Without demand, supply dries up. Without supply, the knowledge base dries up. When the shit hits the fan you have to start over from first principles. And if the 'shit' is someone flexing their muscles, then the world looks like extortion while people scramble to play catch-up.

There are other forms of "charity" besides giving money to non-profits. You can buy from the store where the owner is pleasant instead of the one that is cheap. You can eat at your 5th most favorite restaurant so that you continue to have more than 4 choices. Use privacy software when your life is pretty boring. You can contrive 'hand-me-downs' for your kid's friend.

All of these keep society working, and none of them have a clear reward for you, so it's down to a matter of ethics.

Re: Firefox 78

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Post by polomi »

akerro wrote: post #11

Pocket is great and totally deserves more promotion. I know this will trigger a lot of people saying it's spyware, I used to think that too, but then I embraced it and it's great for bookmarking, syncthing tabs, reading news as podcasts on mobile etc. It's great.

I tried to use it several times, but every time what makes me abandon it is that you have to use a third party service to subscribe to RSS feeds (such as Zappier). RSS is how I find the bulk of articles that I end up reading, so I'm better off just using Inoreader (an online RSS reader, to which you can also save articles like in Pocket). One may argue that RSS and Pocket serve orthogonal purposes, or that I'm trying to use Pocket wrong, but I don't see it that way, all I want is a reliable way to find articles that I'm susceptible to read. To me, Pocket advertizes itself as doing that, but it fails at exactly that.

Re: Firefox 78

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Post by danudey »

hinkley wrote: post #167
Santosh83 wrote: post #12

Great. Unlike many, I walk my talk and have always used Firefox since more than a decade with no exceptions. The very commonly given reason that DevTools are better in Chrome still doesn't stop one from using Firefox for all other general browsing. Unless we support alternatives we really shouldn't complain when they gradually die off in a space that is increasingly coming under the control of giant corporations with…

For a similar reason, I took some advice years ago (after the last mosaic virus scare) to eat multi-grain bread even though it's not entirely my favorite. Without demand, supply dries up. Without supply, the knowledge base dries up. When the shit hits the fan you have to start over from first principles. And if the 'shit' is someone flexing their muscles, then the world looks like extortion while people scramble to p…

I find multi-grain bread just awful to eat, but I'm at the point where I'm suspecting that, if I ate it exclusively for a while, I would forget that other bread is better and accept multi-grain as the new normal. It would certainly be healthier at least.

Re: Firefox 78

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Post by jniedrauer »

toyg wrote: post #114
impassionedrule wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This key combo doesn't work

try searching for the item in your History sidebar, then right-click -> Forget about this site.

I've done this and the OPs suggestion, and the incorrect autocomplete persists. In my case, I went to a random person's blog that starts with the same two letters as a website I use frequently.

I've given that random person's blog thousands of hits over the last year...

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