Have they give up on dev tools?
Why? There's been small but consistent improvements in each release, including this one.
Firefox 88.0
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Re: Firefox 88.0
#62> The ‘Take a Screenshot’ feature was removed from the Page Actions menu in the url bar. To take a screenshot, right-click to open the context menu. You can also add a screenshots shortcut directly to your toolbar via the Customize menu. Open the Firefox menu and select Customize… ...why. Obviously it's easy to add it to the overflow bar, but it was handy having it there. Especially on pages that block right-clicking…
> Especially on pages that block right-clicking
Note that, in Firefox, you can always get to the context menu using shift-right click.
Re: Firefox 88.0
#63I thought FTP support had been removed a long time ago for some reason! I have very fond memories of FTP but I guess its time has come. I probably haven't used it for 10 years at this point.
I used it yesterday. I regularly use FTP at work, well preferably SFTP but it does happen. While we have a automatic deployment pipeline for our own projects, lots of our customers that host externally still use good old FTP. I don't think FTP is ever going to fully die. It is still a typical way to deploy your files when using a shared web hosting that does not offer SSH.
FTP is still pretty much alive in research as well (well, until now). I also used it in the past week. I understand it has flaws, but... I don't know, this seems yet another nail in the Old Web coffin.
Re: Firefox 88.0
#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is this using the browser's own JS engine? Do things like NoScript allow one to turn off PDF JS? On the flip side, are there any examples of PDF JS being actually useful and not a vector for tracking/exploits?
It does get used for interactive forms. The native PDF form handling is more simplistic.
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Re: Firefox 88.0
#65I can see why they are doing it but I'll really miss FTP support. A lot of public data continuous to be distributed through FTPs and for a long time Firefox has been the easiest way to browse them.
Agreed, I was on a public FTP site about a month ago browsing through old support files. Now I'll have to configure a client for it. Edit: this might be a small opportunity for some of the native FTP apps to jump in and handle the links. Click an FTP link in the browser and launch my FTP client with the details passed through.
Your native file manager probably works fine with FTP.
Re: Firefox 88.0
#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
The best I ever did for performance was switching away from macOS. Sure, Safari and Chrome is really fast on Mac hardware/macOS, but nothing beats the performance of Firefox on Linux.
Sure, and FF for Linux was always second to FF for Windows, where the experience was better than both platforms. On Linux hardware accel is still iffy, on macOS they implemented support for CoreAnimation one or two years ago, and still looks out of place with the rest of the OS.
> Sure, and FF for Linux was always second to FF for Windows, where the experience was better than both platforms.
Not for me on desktop with a pretty well specced machine, Firefox still runs better on Linux than Windows and I constantly boot into the other during one day.
Re: Firefox 88.0
#67I just switched from FF to Brave. Despite the unnecessarily built-in adblocking (I prefer blocking on router level + 2nd layer via ublock) and the BAT stuff, it is a good browser. It feels so fast and snappy. I wished FF was as fast. Macbook Air M1
Yeah I moved away from FF as well after they got too political, very happy with Brave.
Re: Firefox 88.0
#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ah I see I may have been thinking of Postscript. Though I'm not entirely convinced they haven't accidentally added Turing completeness back in at some point. I mean you don't really need all that much to write a basic lisp interpreter.
Well, now that you mention it..... It's likely that PDFs in Firefox are Turing Complete, since JS is Turing Complete.
JS embedding isn't unique to Firefox. This is Firefox catching up with an old feature from Adobe Acrobat. PDFs with embedded JS have been Turing complete for years, in readers that run the JS. Just like PDFs with embedded Flash content.
The PDF layout language isn't Turing complete on its own.
Re: Firefox 88.0
#69> The ‘Take a Screenshot’ feature was removed from the Page Actions menu in the url bar. To take a screenshot, right-click to open the context menu. You can also add a screenshots shortcut directly to your toolbar via the Customize menu. Open the Firefox menu and select Customize… ...why. Obviously it's easy to add it to the overflow bar, but it was handy having it there. Especially on pages that block right-clicking…
> Especially on pages that block right-clicking Note that, in Firefox, you can always get to the context menu using shift-right click.
Thanks! This always bugs me. Maybe not disabling right-click has legitimate uses in things like games, but I only ever seen to see it used spitefully.
Re: Firefox 88.0
#70Still no update on super-high CPU usage of Twitch on Firefox, an issue that has been open for at least 4 years [1][2]. I really want to like Firefox and I want there to be viable alternatives to Chrome but when playing video back at 360p (not joking) grinds my 1.5 year old Macbook Pro to a halt on a popular website... I just can't use it. I don't know if this is a video codec issue, a CSS/JS issue that Twitch manages…
Is it multi-user video chat? Firefox can't do this efficiently and it's also a problem with other tools like Jitsi.