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What's your host environment and browsing habits like (lots of tabs open, many pinned tabs, lots of video, flash video)?
Having just one gigabyte of physical RAM, I run Firefox with a 512M rlimit (the OpenBSD default), as I have to reserve some space for other software too (and swap is painfully slow on the spinning disk). As far as browsing habits go, I do usually have quite a few tabs open (currently I've got 38, though they're not all loaded; I don't think I often go much over this often). None are pinned. Video is disabled, and I'v…
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Re: Firefox 27 Released
#122Nice that canvas dashed lines are now working, but there are still a lot of html5 features that either aren't implemented or are buggy: audio recording with getUserMedia sometimes turns off after a few seconds, drag+drop images from another website isn't implemented (only file upload from your own computer supported), no screen sharing. I've had to put a "try chrome if you have problems" message at the top of our app…
> chrome is currently the only browser that fully supports all html5 features.
Well, no. No browser fully supports all HTML5 features. It's all a work in progress.
I guess your app happens to use features present in chrome, but other browsers lead in other areas. Off the top of my head, firefox had webrtc binary datachannels (important for multiplayer games) earlier. And a comment above mentions ES6 generators as well.
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#123Is it possible to map cmd+1 for next and previous tab and cmd+2 for next tab? Tried everything, with no luck. :/
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#124Some time ago I was a Firefox user. Then Chrome came out and I first started using it for free-time browsing, while still developing on Firefox. Later, I decided to fully migrate to Chrome. I've decided to change it again, so I'm going to give Firefox a try during this month. For now, it looks really nice, performance seems to be quite good and the feeling of getting at least a small part of my digital life away from…
>I'd be really happy if Firefox convinced me to stay, as I really love what Mozilla is doing for the web community. If you love what they are doing then I urge you to stick with Firefox in the future. Firefox is the only major browser that is free software. Chrome is proprietary and sends a lot of your data to Google. Google entices a lot of programmers with their developer tools, but it's not worth trading freedom f…
Chromium, the open-source-only version of Chrome is also a viable option.
Re: Firefox 27 Released
#125The second bullet is important, having up to date TLS is a big deal in today's security/spy conscience world. Its possible to currently get (if you monkey around in about:config), but default settings are powerful since the average user won't bother. And I mean average-user type average user, not average hackernews reader/poster.
Except how many people trust absolutely every single CA in the huge list that browser comes with. It only takes one of them (or even a single intermediate CA that is listed by them) to sign a malicious key and the whole system is compromised.
And it already happened few times (ex. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DigiNotar#Issuance_of_fraudulen...).
Imagine what US government agency can do.
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#126I'm glad prettify source in the dev tools is finally in the build (It's been in beta for a while). It'll be a huge help working with JavaScript.
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#127Anybody 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
https://wiki.mozilla.org/RapidRelease/Calendar#Future_branch... says March 18, 2014. It's generally pretty accurate.
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I realised yesterday that "yield" in Python (and I guess javascript) is kind of a baby continuation ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuation ). It can be used to create coroutines and turn async code into sync (looking) code. Really powerful. Anyone interested should learn what continuations are (in Scheme).
I never got the point of generators until I saw Koa.js I always thought generators were merely a way of making convoluted iterators, but when I realized that you can put your application logic inside a generator, in my head, it immediately turned it into a "how did I ever code without this before" kind of feature. I just hope other browsers (especially IE) follow suit in implementing this feature
Can you give an small concrete example of the new beneficial code that you realized you could do with it?
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#129Is it possible to map cmd+1 for next and previous tab and cmd+2 for next tab? Tried everything, with no luck. :/
There's keyconfig extension (it's not available on addons.mozilla.org) that could help you.
http://mozilla.dorando.at/keyconfig.xpi http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=72994
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Firefox's new Australus UI will be merged to the Aurora channel in just a couple days, if you'd like to try it out (without installing the bleeding edge Nightly channel).
I love the new Australus UI. I've been playing around on Nightly for a bit and I can't wait until that gets rolled into the main branch.
It looks very bad to me, doing everything against the UI conventions of the OS. The menu gone from the top right, why oh why? Didn't Firefox success started with being more "native" (close to the OS UI) than the predecessor? The history of bad decisions seems to repeat with every new generation?
Mozilla guys, you really want to annoy your users again? Why?