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Re: Firefox 91

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Post by ruined »

roryokane wrote: post #213
ruined wrote: post #197

anyone else having style rendering problems with this update? all elements render with a white background, but inspector shows the proper style data. disabling all extensions and userchrome did not affect the behavior and even internal browser pages were bugged.

Are you using the “Increase Contrast” setting on macOS? Another commenter reported similar symptoms because they had that setting enabled: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28133327 . They said they fixed it by “[overriding] changing colors in the advanced colors menu.”

that's it! thank you

Re: Firefox 91

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Post by ruined »

jonnycomputer wrote: post #188

It just updated, and I couldn't believe my eyes. The background colors on web pages: gone. Everything was high-contrast. The lack of background colors delineating sections of pages was disorienting. And many of the FF preference menus were actually unreadable. So what happened? >Firefox now automatically enables High Contrast Mode when "Increase Contrast" is checked on MacOS >Firefox automatically detects if you are…

thank you! i had to roll back the update until i found this information

Re: Firefox 91

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Post by Old_Thrashbarg »

moonshinefe wrote: post #92
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.

I just had the same question and looked into it. The answer is no you can't, they removed the ability to disable Proton as of version 91. I also strongly dislike the new tabs as they're totally disconnected from the actual pages they're a tab for with whitespace, less contrast as you mention as well which an issue if you don't have great eyesight. I guess they're willing to lose even more market share over this, whic…

Yeah, the new tabs are a bit of a waste of real estate.

Re: Firefox 91

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Post by dralley »

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.

Debian unstable isn't really meant to be a fully fledged desktop OS on its own. I mean, yes, it can be. But there are problems like the one you mentioned - around freeze time for the next release the entire update policy dramatically slows down.

Personally I'm a big fan of Fedora.

Re: Firefox 91

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Post by antb123 »

acidburnNSA wrote: post #77
brink wrote: post #28

So much negativity. Just here to report that I am a happy Firefox user, no complaints here. Thank you Mozilla for making a browser that respects me.

Seconded. Firefox has given me joy since 1.0.

Phoenix for me.. 2002ish... I figured out if I renamed the executable iexplore.exe the company's antivirus scanner would let me run it instead of ie.

Re: Firefox 91

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Post by silicon2401 »

Firefox is turning into garbage. Not only is the new design horrible when it works, Firefox for some reason is unusable for me at work. This is why I don't update firefox on my personal machine and will stop using it altogether if I'm somehow forced to change it in the future.

Re: Firefox 91

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Post by h_anna_h »

dralley wrote: post #224
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.

Debian unstable isn't really meant to be a fully fledged desktop OS on its own. I mean, yes, it can be. But there are problems like the one you mentioned - around freeze time for the next release the entire update policy dramatically slows down. Personally I'm a big fan of Fedora.

I will be moving to nixos.

Re: Firefox 91

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Post by ikomrad »

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. I downgraded to 89, but you could also downgrade to 90 and still disable proton.

You can use policies.json to stop Firefox from nagging you to update Firefox.x

Re: Firefox 91

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Post by rurp »

jonnycomputer wrote: post #188

It just updated, and I couldn't believe my eyes. The background colors on web pages: gone. Everything was high-contrast. The lack of background colors delineating sections of pages was disorienting. And many of the FF preference menus were actually unreadable. So what happened? >Firefox now automatically enables High Contrast Mode when "Increase Contrast" is checked on MacOS >Firefox automatically detects if you are…

Holy cow this change is annoying, thank you for sharing. It boggles my mind what a dumpster fire Firefox updates often are. I already stopped recommending Firefox to friends because so many people I know have gotten turned off by their awful UI churn and lost functionality; now I might finally be done with it myself.
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