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Re: Firefox 29

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Post by ExpiredLink »

grandpoobah wrote: post #427
ExpiredLink wrote: post #360

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They won't "stop breaking everything" because they feel the irresistible urge to constantly "improve" and "reinvent" the UI until it becomes unusable (a.k.a. the Linux desktop syndrome). BTW, the refresh button is in the 'menu config', you can drag it to the old place. The stop button and other 'classic' buttons are gone. Meaningless 'browser.tabs.onTop' prepares you for your transition to Chrome. FF is so frustratin…

Where is the refresh button I can drag in to the old place? I can only see a Sync button which looks like refresh but isn't refresh.

Oops sorry, you are right. We are back to F5.

Re: Firefox 29

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Post by wjoe »

CmdrKrool wrote: post #148
exodust wrote: post #13

What's this about the status bar / add-on bar gone? The main reason why I use Status-4-Evar is because when I hover over a link I don't want that link to pop-over the page content, which is what Chrome did first, then Firefox copied like sheep. It's distracting, like a tiny little pop-over in the corner of your eye. I like having URLs show in a status bar separate to the main web window. It's out of the way, and I ju…

The Customize mode seems fairly flexible, for shuffling things between the three fixed-position bars, ie. the menu, navigation and bookmarks bars (probably the tab bar as well though I don't use tabs myself). I wonder why you can't just add new blank bars, at either the top or bottom, to fill up to your heart's content with that same Customize mode. That would undo most of the need for things like Status-4-Evar. This…

There's already a newer version with Status-4-Evar which works with FF29, and adds a customizable bar back to the bottom of the screen. It's somewhat hidden away and not the 'stable' version yet, but it's working fine for me - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/status-4-evar...

Re: Firefox 29

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Post by shmerl »

DSMan195276 wrote: post #495
shmerl wrote: post #208

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Thanks, that's much better. Now I just need to figure out how to reduce space between toolbar buttons (it's way too wide). Startup time with this add-on is pretty long though.

I didn't notice any start-time issues, but I only have Firefox 29 currently installed on a higher-end laptop so that might be part of it. I'll be interested to see how this fairs when I put 29 on a netbook that I have (Intel Atom, single core). I had the same gripe you did, if you grab 'classic toolbar buttons', it'll give you the smaller layout with the 'enable small buttons' option on.

It looks like startup time problems weren't caused by that add-on, so you can ignore that remark.

Re: Firefox 29

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Post by mnemonik »

sentenza wrote: post #353
nandhp wrote: post #241

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> There isn't a feature in Chromium or Google Chrome that Firefox doesn't deliver. Multi-process browsing. It is incredibly annoying when my entire browser locks up because one of the fifty tabs I have open is doing something stupid. That never happened in several years of using Chrome, and it happens several times a day in Firefox.

So imagine you are a person that stopped browser hygiene during a few months while finishing their PhD and now _still_ carries around about 900 open tabs waiting to be sorted into bookmarks and junk. (Yeah, that's me.) I have to re-start Firefox every 48 hours or else its resource consumption starts affecting the overall system. This is my primary issue with current Firefox versions, although I am aware that I'm an n…

You might like the unload tab addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/unloadtab/

Re: Firefox 29

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Post by cookiecaper »

nnnnni wrote: post #118
cookiecaper wrote: post #114

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I encourage Chrome users to go check the search history attached to their Google account. It exposes a lot of data that you didn't realize you were sending to Google (including letter-by-letter entry of search terms/urls) and may give a newfound respect for Firefox's separation, whether you personally care enough to make the switch or not.

I only use Chromium because it's supposed to not have the phone-home "features" that are in Chrome. ...or at least it's that they claim. EDIT: "they" being Google. http://blog.chromium.org/2008/10/google-chrome-chromium-and-...

The difference between Chromium and Chrome is mainly that Chromium doesn't include the proprietary featuresets included in Chrome, like the Pepper Flash implementation. Chromium is not a more private build, it's just a more open build. They still send all your data to Google by default, just like Chrome.

Re: Firefox 29

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Post by ldng »

ahoge wrote: post #488
ldng wrote: post #479

Where is the reopen last closed tab menu entry ? VERY helpful when you close an old tab inadvertently ! And no, the history does not cut it if a don't remember the tab content and/or if it's one or two day old ...

Press Alt -> History -> Recently Closed Tabs The one at the very top (with "Ctrl+Shift+T" next to it) is the most recently closed one. You can of course also just use that shortcut.

Great ! Many thanks for the tips.

Re: Firefox 29

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Post by edoloughlin »

I use vimperator and had the location/search bar disabled/removed until now. It looks like I can no longer do that and have to have them visible.

EDIT: I just found the Classic Theme Restorer add-on (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/classicthemer...) which lets me have the best of both wolds.

Re: Firefox 29

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Post by mburns »

nandhp wrote: post #241
hbt wrote: post #212

If you want a highly customizable browser, Firefox is it. Chrome is in its infancy when it comes to customization and they often make decisions that prevent power users from taking advantage of their browsing experience. For example, they've disabled custom stylesheets in recent releases despite a clear indication that people were sharing themes, they have very old bugs that don't get resolved (like the stupid white…

> There isn't a feature in Chromium or Google Chrome that Firefox doesn't deliver. Multi-process browsing. It is incredibly annoying when my entire browser locks up because one of the fifty tabs I have open is doing something stupid. That never happened in several years of using Chrome, and it happens several times a day in Firefox.

You can turn it on in Firefox Nightly.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis#Enabling_Electrolysis

Re: Firefox 29

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Post by barrkel »

aluhut wrote: post #480
barrkel wrote: post #433

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This did not work for me. In fact classic theme restorer broke FF's Customize... menu feature, as well as the hamburger menu at the end of the toolbar - it is now completely inoperable, even after removing it.

Ok this is weird. I just repeated the procedure on my office PC and it worked. Do you have an theme active probably?

As far as I'm aware, I did not have a theme active.

I spent several hours debugging this. Chiefly the culprit turned out to be "Default Full Zoom Level" extension.

However, during the debugging process, I did a binary search through prefs.js looking for the problem. If I removed this line:

    user_pref("browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone", "29.0");
... the browser worked properly again. Very peculiar. Of course, this was written into the prefs.js again upon exit, so when restarted the browser was broken again.

Classic Theme Restorer probably wasn't the problem. Probably the problem only showed up because that was the first restart post-upgrade (to enable the extension).

Re: Firefox 29

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Post by barrkel »

barrkel wrote: post #432
gcommer wrote: post #238

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Yeah, they did. But you can get it back with Classic Theme Restorer[1], which has the "Small buttons on navigation toolbar" option. [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/classicthemer...

Beware this extension. I installed it and it broke the Customize feature completely, even after uninstalling it.

Disregard this. Update: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7676747
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