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Re: Firefox 86.0

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Post by thebiss »

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.

I have two, as yet unsolved, work from home use cases:

- I often would like to watch one team member update Trello or Mural, at the same time as another updates Github, while I update a contract. I'd move those streams to my 4k monitor, to keep them readable, while I work on my primary.

- If I'm running a demo to a client, I'd like to have one stream sharing the demo platform, while another shares video of my haggard face, and a third shows my presentation. I don't want to share my whole desktop, to avoid sharing slack or SMS notifications.

OBS can probably do #2. Nothing does #1.

Re: Firefox 86.0

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Post by progman32 »

forgotmypw17 wrote: post #127
progman32 wrote: post #126

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Was View -> Page Style -> No Style removed for 86?

The menu is no longer there, AFAIK. I have not spent much time looking for the feature, to be honest, and I no longer keep Firefox installed except when testing, so I won't look for its existence now. (I usually apt install before testing and apt remove after, because otherwise it often becomes the system default.)

Just checked. It's there.

Re: Firefox 86.0

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Post by ritonlajoie »

I'm sorry Firefox, after using you for 3 years, I tried chrome again and for my usage, Chrome seems more reactive to my browsing, faster. I really tried but whenever I play some media, I have issues with my nvidia driver (using windows 10) or stuff like that. I will try again in the future for sure if you are still aroung !

Re: Firefox 86.0

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Post by miroz »

helij wrote: post #99

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.

This. There maybe are some downsides to Firefox but it still feels better than chrome. I'm staying with it

Re: Firefox 86.0

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Post by forgotmypw17 »

progman32 wrote: post #132
forgotmypw17 wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The menu is no longer there, AFAIK. I have not spent much time looking for the feature, to be honest, and I no longer keep Firefox installed except when testing, so I won't look for its existence now. (I usually apt install before testing and apt remove after, because otherwise it often becomes the system default.)

Just checked. It's there.

Thank you

Re: Firefox 86.0

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Post by SubiculumCode »

everdrive wrote: post #21
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.

I never understood this feature either. I can already make multiple browser windows if I want. Definitely not interested in PIP.

PIP also has pin-on-top feature, I believe letting you place the video in a corner over an expanded, in-focus application.

Re: Firefox 86.0

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Post by Raphael_Amiard »

agumonkey wrote: post #128
_Microft wrote: post #103

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May I blow your mind? ;) Ctrl-1 to Ctrl-8 accesses the first eight tabs directly, Ctrl-9 jumps to the last tab. Enjoy!

I think you meant Alt-N and yeah I did know (don't even know how but I use it every day since forever..)

It'll be alt-n on mac's I think!

Re: Firefox 86.0

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Post by JadeNB »

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

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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

Why is Firefox, with its devotion to hearing the user's voice, always in such a hurry to remove toggles that express user preferences?

Re: Firefox 86.0

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Post by JadeNB »

SamuelAdams wrote: post #84
Jamieee wrote: post #48

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From the tweet's Author it's disabled via: about:config browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.showSponsored browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.showSponsoredTopSites there is also: services.sync.prefs.sync.browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.showSponsored services.sync.prefs.sync.browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.showSponsoredTopSites

Yes, this works. For now. The bigger problem is that this will probably go away at some point and the "sponsored" items will have no way (or a very difficult way) of being removed. This has happened before with the browser toolbar having an about:config option to disable enlarging behavior, now you have to do some hacky CSS thing. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1274579

Now you don't just have to anticipate having options removed; that's the explicit development plan. (Quote is about a different preference, but I think it makes the style of development clear.)

> 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.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26275683

Re: Firefox 86.0

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Post by dotancohen »

_Microft wrote: post #103
agumonkey wrote: post #95

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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)

May I blow your mind? ;) Ctrl-1 to Ctrl-8 accesses the first eight tabs directly, Ctrl-9 jumps to the last tab. Enjoy!

Try Tridactyl. You can access any tab directly with `b`.
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