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Firefox 27 Released

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Re: Firefox 27 Released

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Post by ahoge »

jbrooksuk wrote: post #83

Chrome has recently started to be more of a burden for us. We use the Application Shortcuts on our sales teams Windows PCs, which has broken over the last couple of updates: * Scrollbars have now changed, there are no up and down arrows. This has really confused our elder staff. * Application shortcuts have started hanging and throwing the "Jim" screen, but the same web pages work fine usually. * Java is awful to get…

I recommend to use a site-specific browser (SSB) for internal stuff. This way you get a fixed platform which can be updated as needed. For the internet, you can continue to use an auto-updating browser.

Take a look at XULRunner and the Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF).

If you want to see CEF in action, try Brackets:

http://brackets.io/

Re: Firefox 27 Released

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Post by rubiquity »

paulirish wrote: post #99
cbaleanu wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So glad I am not the only one noticing the filter change. That additional click to display the filtering options that Chrome introduced really made me start using FF more and more for work. I think this dumbing-down approach Google is doing with all their apps and websites will only alienate more and more professionals out of using their platform.

(Chrome DevTools team here). We cleaned up the filtering as it was totally inconsistent across all panels. So now it introduces one more click, but felt like generally that extra click was OK. I think we can still improve the UX, however. Which panels do you most use filters on (and for what?) Console, Network?

Network is definitely the one I always click to turn the filters on.

Re: Firefox 27 Released

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Post by kbrosnan »

Yuioup wrote: post #42
Aardwolf wrote: post #13

The only feature marked as new is "something with SocialAPI"... bleh

It sounds like an enabler for spam. Can anybody shed any light on this?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Social_API

This link provides some details on how Firefox will deal with bad actors. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Social_API/Criteria

Re: Firefox 27 Released

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Post by fpgeek »

shrikant wrote: post #84
fpgeek wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Firefox is both better and worse than other browsers in dealing with intents. On the worse side, unlike some other browsers Firefox doesn't raise intents for redirected URLs, missing some opportunities to match appropriate apps. I believe the underlying issue is that too many redirect situations are ambiguous (especially if you might not be the default browser). I mostly deal with this with an external wrapper (Brows…

You don't even need to long press to find this out -- if the URL of the site you're on 'supports' being opened in an app, a little grey android icon appears in the address bar. You can tap this icon to open the URL in the related app.

Oh, that's another cool feature! Thanks for mentioning it.

I can quibble that I wish it were a bit more obvious and that the Android icon appeared before the page started loading (next to the X), but it is still going to make many things more convenient for me.

Re: Firefox 27 Released

#107

Post by mixmastamyk »

snarkyturtle wrote: post #98

Anybody know when Firefox 28 will be released? That's the one I'm excited for since it'll finally fix a bug with Firefox and flex-wrap: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=939901 Edit: Looks like it'll release in March: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases/28 Worth noting for designers since it'll implement background-blend-mode too: https://medium.com/web-design-technique/6b51bf53743a

Every 6 weeks, no?

Re: Firefox 27 Released

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Post by zurn »

blinkingled wrote: post #38

I am using FF on Android (both phone and tablet) with sync and great addons like adblock/self destructing cookies/lastpass and am mostly a happy camper. Mozilla has resolved most of the performance issues barring one - compared to Chrome or stock browser the time it takes for FF to go from link tapped to page loading started is a bit annoyingly high. Many times after tapping a link it just sits there doing nothing or…

As long as Android Chrome bans privacy extensions there aren't really any sensible alternatives to Firefox.

Re. Play links and such, those have been showing up for me in the context menu (long press) at least with Firefox Beta.

Re: Firefox 27 Released

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Post by cbaleanu »

paulirish wrote: post #99
cbaleanu wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So glad I am not the only one noticing the filter change. That additional click to display the filtering options that Chrome introduced really made me start using FF more and more for work. I think this dumbing-down approach Google is doing with all their apps and websites will only alienate more and more professionals out of using their platform.

(Chrome DevTools team here). We cleaned up the filtering as it was totally inconsistent across all panels. So now it introduces one more click, but felt like generally that extra click was OK. I think we can still improve the UX, however. Which panels do you most use filters on (and for what?) Console, Network?

Network most definitely, for checking requests. Using filtering there is very useful as it allows me to quickly toggle between All and Scripts / XHR.
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