Firefox makes click-to-activate Flash the default

Post by cpeterso » Tue, Jul 14, 2015, 7:33 PM UTC

zvrba wrote: post #114

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The problem is the long tail of sites or site features that don't work without flash and users who rely on those sites or site features. I've heard Facebook video and last.fm streaming don't work without Flash for eg.

Tidal and Deezer are others which require flash. Both have desktop apps, however.. Tidal's desktop app is awful and laggy to the extent I prefer using the web interface; Deezer's Windows app lacks some features compared to the web player.

Post by amyjess » Tue, Jul 14, 2015, 7:37 PM UTC

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The new Google Maps is also dramatically slower, laggier, and buggier than the old version which was a regular web app built to work on browsers from 2005. I think the terribleness of recent Google web front-ends (not only Maps and Street View but also Search, Mail, Groups, Gplus, etc.) is mostly a product of incompetent management process internal to Google, rather than an indictment of web technology generally.

FWIW, Google Maps are generally noticeably slower and laggier in Firefox when compared to Chrome.

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jul 14, 2015, 7:38 PM UTC

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If I make an animation or game using these technologies today, will it work unchanged ten years from now?

Do modern web browsers still render standard compliant web content from 10 years correctly today? (Yes they do)

Post by makomk » Tue, Jul 14, 2015, 7:44 PM UTC

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This is great. Let's continue: remove pocket, remove hello

1) Open the menu 2) Click "Customize" 3) Drag pocket and / or hello from the tool bar into "Additional tools and features" 4) Take a breather, phew that wasn't too hard was it? https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/customize-firefox-contr...

Post by acdha » Tue, Jul 14, 2015, 7:47 PM UTC

cpeterso wrote: post #318

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One slightly annoying thing i found right now is that if i have a plugin set as disabled in about:addons, it will not show up on the update checker found in the top link.

The (unprivileged) Plugin Check website can't detect disabled plugins because they don't show up in navigator.plugins. Ideally, Plugin Check should be an automatic check built into Firefox. The advantage of the Plugin Check website is that it works in any browser.