What We're Working on in Firefox • Hacker News Board

Re: What We're Working on in Firefox

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Post by bdjsiqoocwk » Thu, May 30, 2024, 8:21 PM UTC

I'm still upset that theyve removed the "compact" style.

Granted, between ublock origin and tree style tabs Firefox is still my favorite browser, but why are they changing this stuff...

Can someone please ELI5 - what does "more streamlined menus" mean?

Re: What We're Working on in Firefox

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Post by behnamoh » Thu, May 30, 2024, 8:22 PM UTC

Looking at the comments, I'm not surprised about FF's low market share. They chose to target geeks and nerds, and let's face it, we tend to be whiny about almost everything and complain about any new change.

Meanwhile, Google Chrome doesn't even need to pretend like they care about privacy, so they automatically target the other "ordinary" people who are not so picky about every new release note.

This kinda teaches you something about the importance of product positioning.

Re: What We're Working on in Firefox

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Post by eesmith » Thu, May 30, 2024, 8:23 PM UTC

some_furry wrote: post #17

I just hope there's an option to totally disable the AI junk. I'd just like a simple, secure browser that gets the hell out of my way and let's me extend it however I want (i.e., with an adblocker). I don't need or want AI models involved in the process.

I like Firefox's built-in language translation feature. Does that count as "AI" these days?

Re: What We're Working on in Firefox

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Post by ghostpepper » Thu, May 30, 2024, 8:25 PM UTC

I am happy it's nothing to do with Pocket, VPN or Colorways. Those are examples of visual clutter that I would love to see removed entirely.

Re: What We're Working on in Firefox

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Post by seba_dos1 » Thu, May 30, 2024, 8:25 PM UTC

Somewhere in the last two months Firefox Nightly got a massive performance boost on GNU/Linux. Thanks!

Nice that vertical tabs are officially coming back, although I've been using them in a DIY manner for years already; sidebar extension with a bit of userChrome.css can do wonders: https://dosowisko.net/firefox-tabcenter.gif

Re: What We're Working on in Firefox

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Post by gilgamesh3 » Thu, May 30, 2024, 8:26 PM UTC

>Tab Grouping, Vertical Tabs, and our handy Sidebar will help you stay organized no matter how many tabs you have open — whether it’s 7 or 7,500.

Finally. Chrome has this feature for a while and it's really handy when working with lots of tabs, but I use Firefox on my main machine so I couldn't take advantage of this feature (and I don't like vertical tabs).

Re: What We're Working on in Firefox

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, May 30, 2024, 8:26 PM UTC

bdjsiqoocwk wrote: post #21

I'm still upset that theyve removed the "compact" style. Granted, between ublock origin and tree style tabs Firefox is still my favorite browser, but why are they changing this stuff... Can someone please ELI5 - what does "more streamlined menus" mean?

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Re: What We're Working on in Firefox

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Post by switch007 » Thu, May 30, 2024, 8:27 PM UTC

dbg31415 wrote: post #8

For me, the big thing Firefox needs is better power management. Mac user here, and streaming video or doing a video call just kills my battery compared to Chrome or Safari. Would love to see more focus on energy consumption optimization.

Is this a comment from 2018? I thought FF on MacOS was pretty good these days.

And are you suggesting Chrome is similar to Safari in terms of power usage? That would surprise me

Safari will of course always be better. It's no competition

Re: What We're Working on in Firefox

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Post by FounderBurr » Thu, May 30, 2024, 8:27 PM UTC

I stopped donating when they declared ‘rss is too complex to be maintained and is also old and gross and stuff, so we removed it’. Oh by the way totally unrelated here is Pocket(tm)!

Re: What We're Working on in Firefox

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Post by kwanbix » Thu, May 30, 2024, 8:28 PM UTC

I really love Firefox. I even organized events for them on my home country, so don't get me wrong, wouldn't it be best for the web/devs that they switched to chrome's engine? They can still implement whatever changes to privacy and their changes just like MS does, and devs will only have to target one engine. Or am I missing something? Please discuss it if you agree or disagree, do not downvote. Thanks.