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Re: Firefox 91

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Post by yosamino »

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.

Come join us over here https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1704347

I can't distinguish the current tab anymore as well if lighting conditions are less than perfect or if I sit at an angle from the screen.

Or here, same issue, 19 years ago https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=173667

(I get that things change, I just thought it was funny)

Re: Firefox 91

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Post by djkoolaide »

asddubs wrote: post #99
easton wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think that someone internally may think Chrome is more user friendly and that is why people don't use Firefox, which I don't think is true. Both have always been pretty good, especially since Quantum when Firefox merged the search bar and address bar (which is easier for most people I think).

I'm still rocking that search bar, i love it as a little store for notes or if I need to copy/paste two things over and over

Just make sure to disable search suggestions, or Google gets a peek at your "corner clipboard" all the time.

Re: Firefox 91

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Post by dandellion »

IneffablePigeon wrote: post #90
Karunamon wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Constantly dinking with the UI and constantly making broadly unpopular, if not harmful (re. cliqz and hiding it) changes against any and all criticism. Mozilla at some point decided they know better than their users what their users want. ...their market share stats show they were wrong.

I'm not sure how you can say if they're broadly unpopular - certainly you mostly hear complaints but that could be because the only people bothered enough to write about it are the ones who don't like it. I'm personally a happy user and like almost all the changes they've made over the last few years. I like the new UI. I haven't felt the need to post anywhere about being roughly content with it. The market share sta…

I also was a happy user for like 15 years, I used to actively recommend it to everyone, but they keep removing the features I like. They broke extensions, removed bookmark descriptions, RSS, a "smart" omnibox that made it harder to find what I use the most, the recent changes to tabs. I still keep it as default because I'm used to the dev tools, but they just keep making it worse, I'm not surprised they're still losing market share.

Re: Firefox 91

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Post by forgotpwd16 »

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #35
nanis wrote: post #4

> HTTPS-First Policy: Firefox Private Browsing windows now attempt to make all connections to websites secure, and fall back to insecure connections only when websites do not support it. Hmmmm ... Does this mean "HTTPS Everywhere" is no longer needed?[1] And, of course, it freaks out with the previously saved self-signed cert installed on my WiFi router. ... sigh [1]: https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere

> Does this mean "HTTPS Everywhere" is no longer needed? Probably not quite - I can't easily find an exact reference, so take with a grain of salt, but my recollection is that HTTPS Everywhere includes some slightly more sophisticated transforms (ex. for annoying sites that serve http://www.site.tld but HTTPS on https://secure.site.tld ).

Yes, HTTPS Everywhere is more robust. The straightforward route taken here is closer to Smart HTTPS. But better just use HTTPS only mode and disable it whenever a problematic site appears.

Re: Firefox 91

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Post by _-david-_ »

jseigj43 wrote: post #71
FiveOhThree wrote: post #41

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I'd feel a lot more 'respected' if they didn't keep forcing unwanted UI changes on me.

If UI changes needed everyone's approval, we would still be looking like a 1990's browser.

For me it is not so much they change the ui, it is that they changed the ui like 2 or 3 times in the last like 5 years.

Re: Firefox 91

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Post by forgotpwd16 »

SkyMarshal wrote: post #85
FiveOhThree wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd feel a lot more 'respected' if they didn't keep forcing unwanted UI changes on me.

You mean like most major platforms do from time to time, even FOSS ones like Gnome? With most things, if you want to completely avoid eventual, inevitable UI changes, you need to just never upgrade.

>even FOSS ones like Gnome

Not sure what your argument is supposed to be but not everyone liked GNOME's new UI. That's why you've gotten forks such as MATE.

Re: Firefox 91

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Post by globular-toast »

tupac_speedrap wrote: post #13

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.

Just don't use those websites. There are so many things you won't be able to do before you die. Pick one of those instead.

Re: Firefox 91

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Post by orra »

yodelshady wrote: post #50

"We've added a new locale: SCO" That could be quite cool. So, Scots Gaelic, yes? Preserving a rich cultural history? From https://www.mozilla.org/sco/ "We mak the internet saufer, soonder, and faster fur guid" What the actual arsing F , Mozilla? edit: well, maybe, I must admit I didn't know of a canonical written form of modern Scots. It still looks an awful lot like sco.wikipedia.org, which is a grotesque parody wri…

> well, maybe, I must admit I didn't know of a canonical written form of modern Scots.

Modren Scots, unfortunately, disna hae ae orthography, altho it haes a wheen o credible an similar yins. We'd probably hae a mair official orthography gin Scots hidna been surpressed for hunners o year, an insteid we lairnt it proper in the scuil.

> It still looks an awful lot like sco.wikipedia.org, which is a grotesque parody written from the US. You'll forgive some suspicion.

This is a pish opinion. Firefox wis owerset intil Scots by twa talentit fowk.

Unfortunately, the Scots tongue haes ower monie gowks that leuk doun upo it. Either they cry that Scots is ‘no a real language’ or somehou that Scots spikkars are no spikkin ‘real’ Scots.

Re: Firefox 91

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Post by yNeolh »

Renaud wrote: post #55

I'm always glad when I see Firefox churning along a new version. My overwhelming feeling is one of gratitude to the devs and people working on Firefox. It's the last bastion of Browser independence with super-high customizability. I also tend to use Edge over Chrome now. MS has done a pretty good job of making that a nice experience, BUT they are also pushing some less palatable ones. For instance, t used to be simpl…

What I don't like about Firefox is the fact that it will load all the tabs and windows you had opened before shuting down the computer and there is not a clean way to make it stop. When I finish my day, I like to shutdown the computer and go to sleep or whatever and every day when I open Firefox, all the windows will reopen and I need to close it and re-start... I just want to be able to disable this behaviour from the settings, but it looks Firefox just don't want to address this
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