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Yeah, I know you can make fonts look nice in linux, but distros ship with horrible defaults.
>distros ship with horrible defaults. I guess you haven't used Ubuntu lately, which ships with better fonts than my Windows machine.
The share and hello icons reappeared in FF 36 after I removed them, this is annoying.
Semi-OT: is anyone on HN using a "alternative" Browser such as Midori or Vivaldi on a daily basis? I love what Midori is doing but it still crashes on me to often.
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Yeah, I know you can make fonts look nice in linux, but distros ship with horrible defaults.
Fonts configuration is always rather subjective. I often don't like defaults. This applies to any system. Good ones allow greater flexibility. Bad ones assume they know best and force "best defaults" without any way to improve them.
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THIS. Developers on HN with problems have the requisite skills to be able to file good bugs.
I've been filing bugs for years yet the QA of the product is still at unaccepatable levels. FF's constant passing of the buck is bothersome. When they can't blame extensions they blame people for not participating. Yet somehow Chrome/Chromium exists just fine without me writing big reports for it, same for Safari, IE, etc. FF just has poor QA. That's a problem and all the excuse making actually hurts the product as F…
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>distros ship with horrible defaults. I guess you haven't used Ubuntu lately, which ships with better fonts than my Windows machine.
Or, you know, people have different subjective preferences in fonts.
Is not about font taste, is about brokenness, you can clearly see in the screenshot that the fonts are rendered poorly, some letters are lighter than others, half of a letter is lighter than the other half, some don't look smooth, etc...
I'm presently in the middle of an experiment to use Firefox (and its Developer Edition) as my primary browser when performing my duties as a web developer. So far... It's been kind of rocky. Daily usage of the browser isn't that bad, but the developer tools are lacking compared to Chrome. A good example is the Network tab. In Chrome, I need only have the developer tools open to capture information about requests. In…
You should install Firebug. It's better than the integrated dev tools in almost all areas. About writing extensions we had this on HN in September 2014 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8285744
Meanwhile, in firefox 39a (current nightly), a reader view (readability/printfriendly) http://imgur.com/DONqb30
I see font rendering in linux is still pretty horrible.
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One minor grievance I have with the Firefox console is the input line is all the way at the bottom. I quite like Chrome's approach of starting at the top. Firefox has a few of these irritating UX quirks that I just can't get over. Having to restart after installing an extension is another. Every time I see the request, I can't help lose a bit of respect for it.
> Firefox has a few of these irritating UX quirks that I just can't get over. Another one is not being able to use shift-home or shift-end to select to the beginning or end of a css property.