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Re: Firefox 91

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Post by pineconewarrior » Tue, Aug 10, 2021, 1:57 PM UTC

nanis wrote: post #2

WTF?! The color of my right-click menu changed again! I am sticking with Firefox simply because it is not Chrome, but this is silly. Why does the looks have to change constantly. The browser is where one ends up spending most of one's time these days and it is insane that I have to double-, triple-takes every time Firefox is upgraded. Don't get me started on videos starting to auto-play after certain updates, "studie…

Yeah I was going to say, this sounds like a problem on your end.

Glad you got it figured out. The UX of the forced theme change should be improved, however!

Re: Firefox 91

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Post by Rd6n6 » Tue, Aug 10, 2021, 1:59 PM UTC

> Firefox now does catch-up paints for almost all user interactions, enabling a 10-20% improvement in response time to most user interactions.

What are catch up paints? A quick search didn’t turn anything up

Re: Firefox 91

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Post by tupac_speedrap » Tue, Aug 10, 2021, 2:00 PM UTC

It's a shame Firefox is dying. I see more and more websites that simply refuse to work on Firefox and with the decreasing market share and breaking changes they seem to be introducing every update now it's harder than ever to justify not switching over to a chromium based browser.

Re: Firefox 91

#14

Post by xqcgrek2 » Tue, Aug 10, 2021, 2:00 PM UTC

I'm so glad I switched to Brave.

Re: Firefox 91

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Post by worble » Tue, Aug 10, 2021, 2:00 PM UTC

smnrchrds wrote: post #7

Is it possible to disable Proton UI on this version? If it is, I cannot find out how, and now my browser is fully Proton-ized. EDIT: Is is at least possible to add some sort of tab border? The lack of contrast between tabs was the reason I had disabled Proton.

Probably not, your best bet is to shore up the damage with userChrome.css

https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix is a really good set of styles to make proton usable (borders, icons, less padding, etc).

Re: Firefox 91

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Post by ddek » Tue, Aug 10, 2021, 2:00 PM UTC

smnrchrds wrote: post #7

Is it possible to disable Proton UI on this version? If it is, I cannot find out how, and now my browser is fully Proton-ized. EDIT: Is is at least possible to add some sort of tab border? The lack of contrast between tabs was the reason I had disabled Proton.

No, the ability to disable proton was removed a while ago. Or maybe in this release. I'm on FF-developer, which is ahead a bit.

Re: Firefox 91

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Post by lordnacho » Tue, Aug 10, 2021, 2:01 PM UTC

I have to admit the only real reason I'm on FF is tree style tabs. All the tabs on the left of the screen, with little markers to expand or minimize the tree. No tabs along the top (needs a tiny bit of css), plus I can customize the look. I tried to get Chrome to do this but nothing was satisfying.

Now it's not like FF is inferior in all other ways, it is actually a pretty good experience. But TST is the big one for me, can't live without it.

Re: Firefox 91

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Post by baal80spam » Tue, Aug 10, 2021, 2:02 PM UTC

xqcgrek2 wrote: post #14

I'm so glad I switched to Brave.

Same. I just knew that "disable proton via a quick config hack" was going away really soon and here we go, no more sane UI for you!

Re: Firefox 91

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Post by Rd6n6 » Tue, Aug 10, 2021, 2:02 PM UTC

h_anna_h wrote: post #10

Meanwhile debian unstable is still on version 88, there hasn't even been an update to patch the various security vulns.

What security vulnerabilities?

Re: Firefox 91

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Post by igetspam » Tue, Aug 10, 2021, 2:02 PM UTC

dbg31415 wrote: post #8

Shame, nothing about performance yet. When you run a Zoom or Google Meet call on Firefox it uses 40x the battery of Safari.

Is that a literal 40x? I haven't used the web version of zoom in a long time and my Thinkpad is always plugged in but I'm genuinely curious about your data. What OS? Plugins?