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Re: Firefox 28 Release Notes

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Post by fournm » Tue, Mar 18, 2014, 4:39 PM UTC

nirvdrum wrote: post #25

k-mcgrady wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One major (okay maybe not that major but an important factor in my decision) issue for me with Australis is the separate boxes for URLs and search. Every other browser merged them and I don't know of any reason to keep them separate - is there one?

It's admittedly a corner case, but I've searched phrases that contain URLs and have had them get treated as a URL rather than search phrase in Chrome. In that case, I just drop to google.com and issue the search from there.

I actually run into this one (or its opposite, a URL getting treated as a search) fairly frequently, which is pretty annoying every time.

Re: Firefox 28 Release Notes

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Post by tedmielczarek » Tue, Mar 18, 2014, 4:40 PM UTC

twoodfin wrote: post #13

aroch wrote: post #8

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In case you're curious: http://arewefastyet.com/ https://areweslimyet.com/

Any idea why the "slim" numbers are moving steadily in the wrong direction?

Controlling memory usage is a battle that requires constant vigilance, and it's hard. It's difficult to measure memory usage in a reliable, repeatable way such that we could use it to prevent regressions. Additionally, small regressions can add up over time, making it hard to pinpoint any one thing that could be backed out to improve memory usage.

Re: Firefox 28 Release Notes

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Post by Sir_Cmpwn » Tue, Mar 18, 2014, 4:41 PM UTC

Super excited about better codec spread. What do they mean by volume control, though? We've been able to control the volume of HTML5 video/audio for a while now.

Edit: here's a comparison of the audio UI between versions: https://mediacru.sh/2528762308f7, looks butt-ugly imo

Re: Firefox 28 Release Notes

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Post by pgeorgi » Tue, Mar 18, 2014, 4:42 PM UTC

nirvdrum wrote: post #25

k-mcgrady wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One major (okay maybe not that major but an important factor in my decision) issue for me with Australis is the separate boxes for URLs and search. Every other browser merged them and I don't know of any reason to keep them separate - is there one?

It's admittedly a corner case, but I've searched phrases that contain URLs and have had them get treated as a URL rather than search phrase in Chrome. In that case, I just drop to google.com and issue the search from there.

ctrl-k works as "go to search box" in both browsers. For Chrome, that means focussing on the address bar and presetting it to "? ".

Re: Firefox 28 Release Notes

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Post by mbel » Tue, Mar 18, 2014, 4:47 PM UTC

Siecje wrote: post #27

Firefox should allow you to type "45/3" in the address bar and be taken to Google with the calculation.

It does, when you prepend "google " in front of "45/3", which is in my opinion the best solution (I don't want to route all my URLs through google).

Re: Firefox 28 Release Notes

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Post by sp332 » Tue, Mar 18, 2014, 4:47 PM UTC

nirvdrum wrote: post #25

k-mcgrady wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One major (okay maybe not that major but an important factor in my decision) issue for me with Australis is the separate boxes for URLs and search. Every other browser merged them and I don't know of any reason to keep them separate - is there one?

It's admittedly a corner case, but I've searched phrases that contain URLs and have had them get treated as a URL rather than search phrase in Chrome. In that case, I just drop to google.com and issue the search from there.

If you prefix your query with a ? it will be sent to your default search provider instead.

Re: Firefox 28 Release Notes

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Post by erichurkman » Tue, Mar 18, 2014, 4:48 PM UTC

And: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases/28/Site...

They have more detailed information than the release notes.

Re: Firefox 28 Release Notes

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Post by mithrilskeleton » Tue, Mar 18, 2014, 4:49 PM UTC

Siecje wrote: post #27

Firefox should allow you to type "45/3" in the address bar and be taken to Google with the calculation.

try it with a space, like "45/ 3" and it works

Re: Firefox 28 Release Notes

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Post by wbond » Tue, Mar 18, 2014, 4:52 PM UTC

Interesting to see that now the current stable versions of Chrome and Firefox have dropped spdy/2, which is the only version of spdy supported by the current stable version of nginx. And nginx is the server used by more than 90% of hosts supporting spdy[1]. I presume this means it is mostly a Google/Twitter/Cloudflare thing for now since they seem to all be running spdy/3.1 in production.

[1] http://w3techs.com/technologies/segmentation/ce-spdy/web_ser...

Re: Firefox 28 Release Notes

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Post by sp332 » Tue, Mar 18, 2014, 4:53 PM UTC

aroch wrote: post #40

tedmielczarek wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's no multiprocess content code enabled by default yet, so that's not it.

Not process but I could hsave sworn there are multithreaded processes enabled by default in Aurora, image processing for example.

It's enabled by default in version 30, which is Aurora right now.