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Firefox 86.0

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Re: Firefox 86.0

#91

Post by lucideer »

forgotmypw17 wrote: post #2

What I'd like to see in a browser is a button which resets it to the UI from Firefox 1.0 [1] OS-provided window border and titlebar Standard menubar with keyboard hints, always displayed Five buttons: Back, forward, reload, stop, home Address bar and separate search field Status bar which shows me link URL when I hover a link [1] https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/web-design-history/mozilla-f... Personally, these days I…

Everything you listed except for the status bar can be gotten by customising the UI in Firefox (not single-click but pretty easy).

On the other hand, if this is the kind of approach to UI you like personally, I think the Vivaldi browser would be up your alley (sadly not open-source though).

Re: Firefox 86.0

#92

Post by wongarsu »

amelius wrote: post #29
TeMPOraL wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Browser windows have decorations that take space. I don't use PIP often, but it comes in handy when I have limited screen real estate, like watching Netflix on my sidearm in tablet mode, while simultaneously doing something on the web.

This is something better solved at the window manager level. E.g. what if I want to have a PIP in my Xterm?

Sure, if you have a window manager that solves the problem that's great. The rest of the world can use Firefox's inferior integration while they wait for their window manager to get that feature.

Re: Firefox 86.0

#93

Post by lucideer »

eznzt wrote: post #39

This new release also includes new ads, seems they forgot to put that in the release notes: https://twitter.com/CohanRobinson/status/1364172683118866433

Don't think the ads are in this release. They're being rolled out to a cohort of users, independent of version.

Re: Firefox 86.0

#94

Post by wpdev_63 »

If anyone from the firefox mobile team is here: please fix the bug where you can't scroll through the tabs when they overflow. Also opening whatsapp links for some reason doesn't open whatsapp but chrome does. This bug and several other nuance things made me go back to chrome mobile which is unfortunate. Especially with the fact that chrome mobile doesn't support plugins.

I am a happy firefox user and the print preview is one of the very few things that made me open chrome backup.

Re: Firefox 86.0

#95

Post by agumonkey »

dtx1 wrote: post #43
betamaxthetape wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As someone who always used the Ctrl-P keyboard shortcut, I never even knew that a print-with-preview interface existed in Firefox.

It never even occured to me to use the menu version. What an upgrade

you guys made me read the menu shortcuts .. didn't know reader mode and all-tabs had them (in order CTRL-ALT-R and CTRL-SHIFT-TAB)

Re: Firefox 86.0

#96

Post by onelovetwo »

wpdev_63 wrote: post #94

If anyone from the firefox mobile team is here: please fix the bug where you can't scroll through the tabs when they overflow. Also opening whatsapp links for some reason doesn't open whatsapp but chrome does. This bug and several other nuance things made me go back to chrome mobile which is unfortunate. Especially with the fact that chrome mobile doesn't support plugins. I am a happy firefox user and the print previ…

While we'll reporting things here, please remove the `delete` to go back, it has fucked me over so many times in text fields. No other browser does it.

Re: Firefox 86.0

#97

Post by arkitaip »

blfr wrote: post #17

> Firefox now supports simultaneously watching multiple videos in Picture-in-Picture. Is Adderall the new Aspirin? Or is there some WFH use here that I'm missing.

Following a group of streamers at the same time is ideal for this. Currently you need to use 3rd party services.

Re: Firefox 86.0

#98

Post by pentagrama »

nitrohorse wrote: post #88
pentagrama wrote: post #60

Not totally related, but someone know if exist an RSS feed to follow the stable Firefox releases? Can't find it on this page. This Firefox changelogs are awesome to know big improvements and new features on a surface level. For Chrome I didn't find a proper way to follow the releases even if it has some RSS feeds, I follow the RSS feed of Chrome Releases blog [1] with a tag filter [2] but can't exclude the several po…

Interested myself, currently using https://groups.google.com/forum/feed/mozilla.announce/msgs/r... ( https://groups.google.com/g/mozilla.announce ).

Thank you! That's perfect! And a bit ironic that the RSS feed is on a Google product aka the company that kill Google Reader.

Re: Firefox 86.0

#99

Post by helij »

My browser history is NCSA Mosaic->Netscape->Firefox. Even when Firefox had its downs I stuck with it. Not sure why. It just felt right. It was always perfect for me.

The only thing I miss are subtitles in Picture-in-Picture mode.

Re: Firefox 86.0

#100

Post by nogridbag »

jwatt wrote: post #81
callmeal wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For those of us that prefer the OS print dialog, how can we stop this madness?

We intend to add a keyboard shortcut for this[1]. In the meantime you can revert to the old printing interface by setting the `print.tab_modal.enabled` preference to `false` via the page `about:config`. In a few releases time, after we've finished integrating user feedback and polishing rough edges, we intend to remove that preference though. 1. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1667950

We have an application using a web based PDF viewer (PDFTron) and printing PDFs has always been a pain point. That library supports "embedded printing" which only works on Chrome (https://www.pdftron.com/documentation/web/guides/print/overv...). So for now we're advising our customers to use Chrome for our application. Do you know if this is something being improved upon? Sorry this is a bit OT!
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