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Re: Firefox 50.0

#12

Post by tetromino_ »

digi_owl wrote: post #2

> View a page in Reader Mode by using Ctrl+Alt+R (command+alt+r on Mac) Took them bloody long enough. Now if only i was not stuck on ESR because GTK3...

If you have a hard requirement to use a thoroughly obsolete GUI toolkit, you can for now fairly easily compile your own copy of Firefox for GTK2; it takes around 30-40 minutes on a laptop with a Core i5. (On Gentoo, there is a USE flag for it.)

Re: Firefox 50.0

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Post by a1a »

meZee wrote: post #11
hprotagonist wrote: post #6

Breaks NoScript on launch day. That was an unpleasant surprise this morning...

Any reason you prefer NoScript to uBlock Origin's script blocker? Just curious...

I don't think they are comparable. I run both. NoScript is a security suite – besides blocking java, webgl, flash, silverlight, javascript, etc – it has additional defenses against XSS, ABE, clickjacking etc.

uBlock was to my knowledge never developed to securely stop scripts and deter drive-by attacks etc. It should be used for adblocking, not for security.

Re: Firefox 50.0

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Post by Manishearth »

silverwind wrote: post #3

Also to note: Firefox can now upload directories. Granted, it's done by mimicking Webkit APIs, but that has the advantage that existing sites work without changes.

> Granted, it's done by mimicking Webkit APIs,

That's ... not a bad thing. Chrome creating nonstandard APIs (IIRC this was for Drive?) on its own is a bad thing. Coming together and speccing (https://wicg.github.io/directory-upload/proposal.html) the API is a good thing. They seem to have specced more or less what Webkit had already implemented (plus some promise based stuff), but usually when a nonstandard API has been out there long enough it's best to build your standardized version on top of it instead of having two APIs for it. This is a common practice. This isn't "mimicking".

Re: Firefox 50.0

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Post by digi_owl »

tetromino_ wrote: post #12
digi_owl wrote: post #2

> View a page in Reader Mode by using Ctrl+Alt+R (command+alt+r on Mac) Took them bloody long enough. Now if only i was not stuck on ESR because GTK3...

If you have a hard requirement to use a thoroughly obsolete GUI toolkit, you can for now fairly easily compile your own copy of Firefox for GTK2; it takes around 30-40 minutes on a laptop with a Core i5. (On Gentoo, there is a USE flag for it.)

If it is that bloody simple, why can't Mozilla be bothered to provide an official download?!

Re: Firefox 50.0

#19

Post by conductor »

Regarding the new Referrer-Policy header introduction, what happens when my network.http.sendRefererHeader is 0, network.http.sendSecureXSiteReferrer is false and some website sets a Referrer-Policy: "unsafe-url" header? Which setting has the priority?

Re: Firefox 50.0

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Post by bnmillar »

>"Added a built-in Emoji set for operating systems without native Emoji fonts (Windows 8.0 and lower and Linux)" Jesus Christ why, just why. I'm so done with Mozilla. Please tell me there is an alternative to this nightmare that is freedom respecting (so nothing related to Google).
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