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Re: What's New with Firefox 142

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Post by zveyaeyv3sfye »

bapak wrote: post #63
saagarjha wrote: post #5

> Link Previews show a snapshot of a page before you open it, helping you decide what’s worth your time. Just long press any link to preview and reduce distractions. On macOS there is a native affordance for this by using force click. It's kind of annoying that Firefox chose to not support this and instead made it click-and-hold only.

Pretty typical of browsers and especially of Firefox. Took them 7 years to use native scrollbars post Lion, it looked like cross-platform junk for the longest time. Back when Chrome was still trying to gain traction, they came out supporting native Keychain Access for password management. Firefox, which had a 4 year head start, never implemented it.

Must be tough for those managers running macOS.

Re: What's New with Firefox 142

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Post by zveyaeyv3sfye »

jffry wrote: post #24
diggan wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agree, for us switching between languages all the time, with some of those languages being less known to us, it's a great tool! My only wish was that I can force it to always allow me to try translating things, even if it doesn't identify it as some specific language. Sometimes what I want to translate is like 30% one language and 70% another language, and I still want to translate it to another language, but since t…

If you select a chunk of text in the page and right click there should be a context-menu option to translate the text. It's a popup with a textarea and not in-situ, but it's the same local model as far as I can tell

> in-situ

I believe you mean ex situ:

> By contrast, ex situ methods involve the removal or displacement of materials, specimens, or processes for study, preservation, or modification in a controlled setting, often at the cost of contextual integrity.

Might as well use the correct words if you want to talk above people's heads.

Re: What's New with Firefox 142

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Post by Yokolos »

Shank wrote: post #32

Lately, I’ve experienced memory leaks in Firefox that I’m too amateur to diagnose, that leads to Firefox eating 8gb of memory in some web renderer process. So when I excitedly check the changelog hoping for a summary of possible changes, I’m disappointed that there isn’t a verbose changelog for advanced users. I’m sure I could search bugzilla, but it makes me sad that the only “important” things are the headlining fe…

If you click on "See full release notes", there's the link "Complete list of changes for this release" at the bottom of the page on the right that points to this: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?j_top=OR&f1=target_...

Is that what you're looking for? If you sort it by updated, I assume everything after the 27th is probably in the current release.

Re: What's New with Firefox 142

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Post by wtallis »

ffsm8 wrote: post #90
zerkten wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>> it's not as if rapidly opening and closing a tab actually takes effort. It may be faster than the long click depending how comfortable you are with keyboard controls. For normal people, i.e. those who aren't techies, you have your answer right there on why this may be useful. We are very efficient with our browser usage. Normal people struggle with this task because they get lost in the steps. Even if they can do…

Eh, isn't it even quicker without keyboard? Third button opens in New tab, third button again closes the tab. But you're point is correct that the majority of people do indeed not use any device quickly. No matter wherever it's a phone or desktop browser.

Out of the box, a minority of computers have a third button to click: it's pretty much just desktop mice not from Apple. Laptops and Apple mice require a power user to jump through hoops to have a way to express a middle click that's easier than reaching for the control key.

Re: What's New with Firefox 142

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Post by NoGravitas »

everdrive wrote: post #53

I'm genuinely perplexed why people find link previews useful. The page image is too small to really see, and it's not as if rapidly opening and closing a tab actually takes effort. It may be faster than the long click depending how comfortable you are with keyboard controls. I have other questions as well -- does the link preview ignore your plugins? So if you loaded the web page, would uBlock Origin prevent tracking…

I quite prefer the link "peek" in Zen, which I'm led to understand is based on the one in Arc. Shift click a link, it opens up in a configurable-size floating modal (90% by default) on top of the current page, with controls to pop it out into a full tab or close it. It's only a small improvement over "open in new tab, switch to new tab, close new tab", but it feels nice.

The new link preview in Firefox seems a lot less useful.

Re: What's New with Firefox 142

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Post by NoGravitas »

righthand wrote: post #79

> For users in the United States, article recommendations on your New Tab page are now grouped into topic sections like Sports, Food, and Entertainment to make stories more organized and easier to scan. You can also follow topics you’re interested in and block ones you’d prefer not to see, giving you more control over what shows up when you open a new tab. Ladybird cannot come fast enough…

It's trivial to turn those off. They are in the regular preferences, you don't even have to go into about:config.

Re: What's New with Firefox 142

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Post by somebehemoth »

someone4874726 wrote: post #31
deanc wrote: post #26

I have found the majority of these relay services utterly useless. A large number of sites are using some kind of email verification service/API that detect all these relay/trash domains (mailinator etc.) and you can never sign up unless you have a legit domain. I'd be astonished if mozmail.com wasn't already on this list. I'm not saying I don't value the idea behind this, but at least with Apple they are using their…

Have been using FireFox Relay for a couple of years now and can coun't the amount of sites which have denied my signup on a single hand.

I have had the same experience. The vast majority of the time I use relay masks to sign up for stuff they work as expected. It is incredibly irritating when it does not work, but I blame the vendor and take that into account to decide whether I actually want to give this vendor a "real" email address. I often bail on these kinds of failed signups. Voting with my wallet.

Re: What's New with Firefox 142

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Post by dorgo »

Yizahi wrote: post #96
Shank wrote: post #32

Lately, I’ve experienced memory leaks in Firefox that I’m too amateur to diagnose, that leads to Firefox eating 8gb of memory in some web renderer process. So when I excitedly check the changelog hoping for a summary of possible changes, I’m disappointed that there isn’t a verbose changelog for advanced users. I’m sure I could search bugzilla, but it makes me sad that the only “important” things are the headlining fe…

It is very likely that one single site is responsible for this. For example in my usage, Jenkins portal is leaking memory like hell, will fill up a few GBs in a a day and jack up CPU utilization to 100%. I has hundreds of tabs at that point, so I had to find out the culprit. What I did was open a task manager and expand Fifefox process to see dozens of subprocesses. I then sorted by memory (or by cpu) to find out wor…

cool. There is also about:performance with cpu & memory for each tab / addon. Hmm, it looks like all extensions are combined in a single entry. So, maybe not per addon.
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