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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.
> 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.
While I usually limit myself to one video playing on the computer, when following live events it can happen that you want to have two streams running. E.g. the multiple channels streaming the Starship test flights or watch one video while waiting for another stream to come online.
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fwiw Firefox always had a print preview; it was just behind a different shortcut rather than integrated into the default flow.
The old Print Preview actually allowed you to inspect the page with the Developer Tools. Which was great for debugging print-specific CSS. I don't think that's possible with the new Print Preview, but the new one is better in every other way.
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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!
Offhand I'm not sure what functionality Firefox is missing that has caused them to only support Chrome. I'd be interested in taking a look though if you have their paid support and can persuade them to either file a bug[1] (or to give you sufficient technical information so that you can file a bug). 1. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Core&comp...
Firefox has hundreds of developers. I don’t understand why performance isn’t on par with Chrome. I try my best to use Firefox to bring support, but sometimes I just have to switch back when things get too laggy. I’m sorry, but I only have 8 hours a day, and I’m not going to let my productivity flow get ruined.
What are you using that makes the performance difference be even noticeable? With the exception of cases where Firefox is absolutely broken, for me it's good enough. Or when I had crappy extensions, have you tried disabling extensions? I only have uBlock Origin and Firefox Containers these days. It does sadden me that some sites are starting to refuse to work with Firefox these days... But I won't give up.
That said, Google has a long history of making their products glitchy on Firefox, so not sure it's all Firefox's fault.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/former-mozilla-exec-google-has...
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So you're angry at the Mozilla CEO for posting about political topics rather than the browser and product vision? And yet here you are, in a thread about the Mozilla browser, posting about political topics. Maybe take your own advice?
I don't know why you're being so hostile. It was in interesting revelation to me. And pretty surprising too since the last CEO was kicked out for far less.
Firefox has hundreds of developers. I don’t understand why performance isn’t on par with Chrome. I try my best to use Firefox to bring support, but sometimes I just have to switch back when things get too laggy. I’m sorry, but I only have 8 hours a day, and I’m not going to let my productivity flow get ruined.
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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 tim…
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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?
In the case of the new print preview/workflow, however, I expect it will provide virtually everyone with a better workflow once we've finished polishing any rough edges. The feedback on places like Reddit indicates that it's already a very clear net win for most users, and I think we can address most of the complaints on support.mozilla.org etc. The eventual removal of the `print.tab_modal.enabled` preference and the old code will simply be because having two print preview implementations adds code complexity and is a maintenance burden.
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.