> FTP support has been removed sigh
Have they mentioned the reason of its removal somewhere?
Firefox 90
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Re: Firefox 90
#22Honestly I'm still not used to the new tab style that was introduced last time. 90 seems fine, but not much to get excited about from the user perspective.
does anyone know of an about:config to the switch tab style back? Its still hard for me to notice which style is actually selected with Dark Mode
Re: Firefox 90
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s a terrible protocol not built for the modern internet. It’s been a while since I’ve seen a URL containing “ftp” that isn’t prefixed by http://
Lots of university file dumps are served on FTP...
I used to add '+"index of"' when searching for files or dumps using google. It still works, but definitely not as good as a few years ago.
A past time: typing '+"index of" main.dfm' to see what people were developing using delphi.
'+"index of" dire straits sultans of swing mp3' still kind of works.
Re: Firefox 90
#24I think Firefox has ~5% of our user base. It's hard to justify running separate tests for it anymore. I wish they'd just become a privacy-focused Chromium fork because I don't see them crawling back to a meaningful marketshare at this rate. (Yeah I know multiple implementations and all that, but we don't have many people running FreeBSD just to give Linux some competition.)
> wish they'd just become a privacy-focused Chromium fork because These already exist, and Chromium is far from perfect. I'm glad there's a viable competitor.
In my experience, Firefox actually has better performance than Chrome nowadays — particularly on Apple Silicon, where the difference is stark and dramatic. And with the new "Proton" interface, IMO Firefox finally looks at least as nice as Chrome out of the box.
Firefox mobile still has some catching up to do on the overall UI/UX, but it's not too far off, and the fact that it allows extensions is nice.
Re: Firefox 90
#25Honestly I'm still not used to the new tab style that was introduced last time. 90 seems fine, but not much to get excited about from the user perspective.
does anyone know of an about:config to the switch tab style back? Its still hard for me to notice which style is actually selected with Dark Mode
You need to set browser.proton.enabled to false. There's a number of browser.proton.*.enabled settings for various parts of the UI as well.
Re: Firefox 90
#26> FTP support has been removed sigh
Did you use it?
Obviously not as much as HTTP(s) but still there are FTP links which show up after a google search from time to time...I guess now I have to context switch to the file explorer...Thunar is OK but does Windows Explorer even support FTP?
Re: Firefox 90
#27Honestly I'm still not used to the new tab style that was introduced last time. 90 seems fine, but not much to get excited about from the user perspective.
The new style is bullshit.
I've switched to ESR which still uses old tabs and I'll completely get rid of it once it gets updated to the new tab style.
Re: Firefox 90
#28> FTP support has been removed sigh
IMO browser should focus on HTTP/HTML support. There are plenty of protocols and there are plenty of programs with proper support for those protocols. I don't see nothing wrong with using transmission for torrents, WinSCP for FTP, etc.
Re: Firefox 90
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
> wish they'd just become a privacy-focused Chromium fork because These already exist, and Chromium is far from perfect. I'm glad there's a viable competitor.
In my experience, Firefox actually has better performance than Chrome nowadays — particularly on Apple Silicon, where the difference is stark and dramatic. And with the new "Proton" interface, IMO Firefox finally looks at least as nice as Chrome out of the box. Firefox mobile still has some catching up to do on the overall UI/UX, but it's not too far off, and the fact that it allows extensions is nice.
But chrome uses the GPU a lot more, thus making everything faster.
Firefox right now is like Linux a few years back: better CPU performance but little to no GPU acceleration
Re: Firefox 90
#30Any article/guide on how big open source projects like firefox, Linux kernel are released? I believe developers around world contribute to code. What's testing, release process like? How to they manage it?