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You can turn autosuggest off
And you can install Omnibar or Instantfox if you want a combined address bar and search bar.
This lets you do queries like such:
Type "g hello" into the url bar - googles "hello"
wa integral from 0 to 1 of ln(x^4)dx - can be set to wolframalpha
w France - my wikipedia one
From what I can tell about the exploits found at Pwn2Own, there were a total of 4 critical. Looks like FF28 addresses all 4. That was a very quick turnaround. The fact that FF runs in a single process seems to be a major security issue since the web views are not sandboxed. I know Mozilla is working on their multiprocess project Electrolysis https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis that is experimental in FF 30. Hopeful…
Only to people who don't really understand security. This whole "multi process" "sandboxed" meme started by chrome guys has really got out of hand.
Eagerly waiting to ditch Chrome & its forced notifications. Perhaps with Australis (Firefox 29), the UI would be at par. Edit : Chrome feels subtle, lighter & perceptually faster (specifically : tabs, scrollbars). Although after updating Firefox today, I can notice that there's improvement in Firefox.
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?
Context Search (adds a context menu dropdown when you right click highlighted text; think plaintext words you search in trouble ticket type stuff) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/context-searc...
Add To Search Bar (adds an option to search-engine-ify any submit text box) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/add-to-search... (might as well mention https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/organize-sear...)
Bonus productivity favorite: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...
So yeah, you'll pry Firefox away from my cold dead hands.
I get a scripting error, and it won't load it!
Can we finally add custom search providers like desktop version from http://mycroftproject.com/. It really seems to be an odd exclusion since sync takes care of everything else.
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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?
If your search bar is your URL bar, then all your keystrokes (even when typing URLs) go to your search provider to provide autocomplete of search results. In Firefox you can type URLs without having them sent to a third-party. We think this is important. (You can get autocomplete search results by typing in the search bar.)
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Er, I thought I was agreeing with you. What do you think I'm arguing? To be clear, I view these two statements as grounded in the same logic, although perhaps one is more strongly worded than the other: Yours - "So unless someone has the resources to test and deploy unstable web servers, it effectively means you shouldn't bother with spdy at this point." Mine - "I think it's a fair assessment that supporting experime…
Let me rephrase then: Don't even bother building nginx 1.4 with spdy support or configuring it since no one can use it. From May 2013 until now there was a benefit to end-users. There no longer is. If you want to provide the speed benefits of spdy to users, you now need to run unstable nginx or mod_spdy.
From what I can tell about the exploits found at Pwn2Own, there were a total of 4 critical. Looks like FF28 addresses all 4. That was a very quick turnaround. The fact that FF runs in a single process seems to be a major security issue since the web views are not sandboxed. I know Mozilla is working on their multiprocess project Electrolysis https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis that is experimental in FF 30. Hopeful…
Running content in multiple processes, by itself, doesn't help security at all. It does help stability, since if one process crashes the rest of the browser need not; that's particularly important if running plugins like Flash, which crash in a stiff breeze. But if untrusted content manages to exploit a separate browser process that doesn't have any additional sandboxing applied, there's nothing standing between it and the rest of your system.
Additional security, however, comes from then applying sandboxing features to those separate processes, following the principle of least privilege.
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/techn…
The 'mainline' branch of nginx which supports spdy/3 is not considered unstable and can be used in production. Source: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,221377,221390#msg-221390