Anyone knows if Tree Style Tab is supported?
It is, and so is Tab Tree, which I found more lightweight.
Update on Multi-Process Firefox
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#102This narrative white-washes over the part where he was witch-hunted out of a well deserved leadership position because he exercised his first amendment rights in a way that was unpopular with the greater tech community.
Your narrative white washes that he's a bigot who couldn't even admit he was wrong after the fact. I think a lot of people wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt but he didn't do himself any favors.
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#103Anyone knows if Tree Style Tab is supported?
An alternative vertical tab bar I discovered some time ago is Tab Center ( https://testpilot.firefox.com/experiments/tab-center ). Although still a little buggy, I switched over from Tree Style Tab. It feels better IMO and I really didn't care about the "tree style" of TST, I just felt the need for a vertical tab bar.
Wow, I just tried it, and it's the tab interface I always wanted. More vertical space for reading web pages, and wider tabs to read the tab titles more easily. Why isn't this the default yet?
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You could enable it for quite a while already, but currently the content processes are still using a process pool of 1.
And if you want so, the about:config key to fiddle with is called "dom.ipc.processCount" and currently defaults to 1, with plans to raise this soon, as described by the article. EDIT also, to come back to DanBlake's question about whether Firefox now "run[s] each tab in its own process yet" : no it doesn't; the architecture that was chosen is a process pool, available to all tabs. I won't elaborate much as you can fi…
Would you mind linking to some of those blogposts. I used to read the weekly mozilla meeting notes but they seemed to have stopped including content about 2 years ago. https://wiki.mozilla.org/WeeklyUpdates I just looked and now it seems that notes link out to separate pages. What's the best way for a non-contributor to follow firefox development?
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I have a few reasons to prefer 1P over a browser based option: 1Password doesn't require a cloud sync. I just use the local wifi sync. I'm less worried about data breaches as a result. 1Password lets me save more than browser passwords: especially on mobile where I have lots of apps to log into, which shares a password with a desktop website. Also, I store additional data (like bank info, account numbers, etc) in 1P,…
> 1Password doesn't require a cloud sync. I just use the local wifi sync. I'm less worried about data breaches as a result. Firefox Sync encrypts all of its data; a data breach on the server would only result in a pile of email addresses and encrypted blobs. > 1Password lets me save more than browser passwords: especially on mobile where I have lots of apps to log into, which shares a password with a desktop website.…
The old Firefox sync used a local-only passphrase to encrypt things. The new one, as far as I can tell, just tires everything to your Firefox Account (i.e. nothing local is required). That's not really better than what 1Password does, I think.
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#106Does anyone know what the incentive behind the development of Firefox is at this point? Like, Chrome has such a huge browser market share, so why do they still develop Firefox? I assume it is not that feasible to invest time and money if the share is only 4%. I am just curious, and not trying to hate on Firefox. But I think most (?) non-tech people use Chrome. So maybe I am asking, what is the point of Firefox if the…
There was a time where Chrome was the up and comer with very low market-share. We need competition or we will suffer as end users. Chrome's time will also come eventually. It's not a matter of if, but when. Vivaldi and Brave are growing and coming along very nicely. Brave is actually spearheaded by the ex CEO of Mozilla before he was fired for some nonsense. https://brave.com/
Given that IE is tied to Windows, Safari is tied to IPhone and OSX, and Chrome is tied to Android, tbese browsers are guaranteed to be predominant.
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#107Make Vimperator great again - still no support. :'( Two year old github issue but yet any development to be seen or reported :/
VimFX has been a more than capable substitute.
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Seems the only addon I use that isn't compatible is "Disable Ctrl-Q Shortcut". It's an addon I really don't want to get rid of, there have been many cases in the past where I've accidentally pressed ctrl+q instead of ctrl+w, and had Firefox quit on me.. Edit: The page for the addon has a comment saying it does work with multiprocess, so I just forced it on. I'm on Linux, and I don't know of an about:config key to dis…
I think you can set that in `about:config` without a plugin
If you set browser.showQuitWarning to true (also make sure browser.warnOnQuit is true; that should be default) it will show a dialog to confirm if you want to quit. But if you check the box "do not show next time" it will set browser.showQuitWarning to false.
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I'm stuck as half the addons I find useful aren't compatible. The two most notable are 1password and Self Destructing Cookies
1Password isn't compatible with multi-process? That sucks. :( I use 1Pass for everything but I use Chrome right now. I've been eyeing Firefox again (it used to be my primary browser) but that kinda kills the deal for me. I'll probably start integrating it slowly. I can't imagine 1Pass will hold out for too long.
I've been using 1Password and a multi-process Firefox without any issues.
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#110Make Vimperator great again - still no support. :'( Two year old github issue but yet any development to be seen or reported :/
Try Vimfx, I switched to take advantage of e10s, and it's been worthwhile.