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Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by refracture »

cardanome wrote: post #49
globular-toast wrote: post #2

I 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.

SFTP is not only just preferable but so unrelated to FTP that it frustrates me that it's often brought up in the same sentence... why did they call it that.. uhg.

Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by ffpip »

walls wrote: post #141
noisem4ker wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When is the context menu not be available? If the website is overriding the right click action, keep shift pressed while clicking to gain back control.

There are several pages on AWS that do not show it. For example, most CloudWatch pages. I think it has to do with iframes.

You can shift+right click if a page (like the ones on AWS) block right clicks.

You can shift+right click normally too, even when a page doesn't block right click.

Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by ffpip »

childintime wrote: post #92

Disappointed. There is so much low hanging fruit in the GUI department: - have bookmarks/history stay on the page you open it on (and no other) - have bookmarks and history occupy a full page, instead of shoveled into a GUI element, dialog style - option to collapse tabs into a page (tab) - make the "tabs window" (the downward arrow after +) a tab, so the tabs can be sorted, searched in, or copied from, as html, to a…

> have bookmarks and history occupy a full page

Ctrl+Shift+O and Ctrl+Shift+H respectively.

Re: Firefox 88.0

#154

Post by fzil »

bluenose69 wrote: post #150

I have this and Safari both open to github.com on my macos box. This site has an animation showing recent github activity on a globe. It's coded in javascript, AFAIK. Firefox is using 55% of my CPU, whilst Safari is using 3%. As someone who used Firefox exclusively back in the day (and mozilla before that), I will continue to try tests like this every time a new Firefox is released. Maybe, someday, the energy contras…

I did the same test on my M1 Air. Safari is using 40% CPU while Firefox is 55%. Not sure why there's such a large difference between your results and mine.

Re: Firefox 88.0

#155

Post by TonyTrapp »

morsch wrote: post #144
lights0123 wrote: post #24

> 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…

Here[1]'s the why: With the removal of the meatball menu in the proton work, we'd like to move the Take a Screenshot button to the toolbar to allow users to hide it or put it in the overflow menu rather than being visible all the time. ??? Edit: Also great to see how they brush over existing users who have pinned the screenshot action to the toolbar, which is something you can do with all page actions (who knew?!). W…

> I still find it creepy that they gather data this specific

I'd be super happy if gathering such specific data by any application meant to the developers "15k users are using this feature, there is no way we can break their workflow" instead of "there's only 15k users out of [x], that's just 0.x%, we can ignore them".

Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by majewsky »

refracture wrote: post #151
cardanome wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

SFTP is not only just preferable but so unrelated to FTP that it frustrates me that it's often brought up in the same sentence... why did they call it that.. uhg.

Well, it is a Secure File Transfer Protocol after all. That's the trouble with descriptive names.

Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by nonbirithm »

keeganjw wrote: post #46

Side note: I don't know how often this happens but it's kinda cool that Firefox went straight from 87.0 to 88.0 without any sub-versions. They didn't seem to have any security/bug patches, they just got it right on the first try.

Somewhat related is how libraries like three.js don't follow semver and only use a single incrementing version number. Reading the changelogs, it also looks like they never make any mistakes. It seems that there has never been a point in three.js's history where there's been a critical security flaw or bug severe enough to justify incrementing the version number solely for a bugfix. I have no idea how they do it.

Personally I would prefer to keep things as simple as possible, but unlike the maintainers of those projects, when it comes to making releases, I'm not perfect.

Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by ziftface »

fzil wrote: post #154
bluenose69 wrote: post #150

I have this and Safari both open to github.com on my macos box. This site has an animation showing recent github activity on a globe. It's coded in javascript, AFAIK. Firefox is using 55% of my CPU, whilst Safari is using 3%. As someone who used Firefox exclusively back in the day (and mozilla before that), I will continue to try tests like this every time a new Firefox is released. Maybe, someday, the energy contras…

I did the same test on my M1 Air. Safari is using 40% CPU while Firefox is 55%. Not sure why there's such a large difference between your results and mine.

Maybe it's running on a low power core?

Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by throwaway2048 »

tristan957 wrote: post #119
DangerousPie wrote: post #9

I 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.

You can use cURL to access FTP sites fyi.

and you can use chrome to access http sites, perhaps they should remove http support.

Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by ziftface »

mdoms wrote: post #120
curt15 wrote: post #27

>Smooth pinch-zooming using a touchpad is now supported on Linux Glad that they're still looking after Linux users.

On the one hand yes that's great. On the other hand it's not an exaggeration to say that a decade ago would have been too late for this feature.

I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing, but it was only added to Mac fairly recently too, maybe around a year ago. And for a while it was behind an about:config setting as well.
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