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Re: Firefox 50.0

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Post by uabstraction »

superkuh wrote: post #121
sctb wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Jesus Christ why, just why. I'm so done with Mozilla. I'm afraid "just why" is not enough. Please comment civilly and substantively on Hacker News. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I imagine he actually meant that Firefox/Chrome/etc are prioritizing a different demographic of users now than they used to. Both are becoming more of an OS in which you run web "apps" rather than just a browser to display and read webpages. Web apps need a consistent base set of features that may not exist on all OS platforms. By providing it internally they signal who and what the browsers are designed for. Other p…

Qutebrowser is also worth checking out. I haven't really given it a full blown test drive yet, but it's certainly less bloated than Firefox and Chrome, and has Vim-like keybindings.

Re: Firefox 50.0

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Post by glandium »

kylek wrote: post #55
spacehacker wrote: post #14

Obligatory "does it break Tree Style Tabs?" comment.

You might want to check out Test Pilot and the Tab Center addon : https://testpilot.firefox.com/experiments/tab-center Unfortunately it is very slow compared to Tree Style Tabs if you have a considerable amount of tabs open (even using extensions like auto-unload, it is very very slow). Hope it gets fixed because I would _love_ a built-in vertical tab feature.

I have hundreds of tabs open, and use Tab Center, and I haven't experienced it being slow.

However, past a number of tabs (enough to fill the "tab bar" vertically), it doesn't show thumbnails, maybe that's the difference?

Re: Firefox 50.0

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Post by Max_Mustermann »

ovibos wrote: post #94
bearcobra wrote: post #93

If they could just add a decent profile management option, I would switch back from Chrome. Keeping my work and personal accounts separated is the only thing keeping me using that battery killer

What's wrong with `firefox -P`?

You can also run several profiles in parallel with the no-remote flag.

Re: Firefox 50.0

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Post by rxlim »

I started using Mozilla Firefox 1.04 many years ago. Everytime a new update was released I was so excited to install it, as the browser became better and better with each update. I remember when Firefox 2.0 was released and I could not wait for it to be available in the Debian package repository, because it was such a big improvement.

Now I absolutely HATE when a update is released, because either functionality is removed, appearance is changed or even more bloat has been added.

Firefox itself has become the problem it tried to solve.

Re: Firefox 50.0

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Post by bzbarsky »

vdnkh wrote: post #114
bzbarsky wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm making some inquiries. It looks like the old code just ended up setting "position" to 0 when an object was assigned, while the new code (correctly per spec) throws. The real bug is assigning an object to a non-object-valued property...

Here it is: https://github.com/mozilla/vtt.js/pull/355

Thank you!

Re: Firefox 50.0

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Post by broodbucket »

rxlim wrote: post #134

I started using Mozilla Firefox 1.04 many years ago. Everytime a new update was released I was so excited to install it, as the browser became better and better with each update. I remember when Firefox 2.0 was released and I could not wait for it to be available in the Debian package repository, because it was such a big improvement. Now I absolutely HATE when a update is released, because either functionality is re…

What in this release would you class as functionality removal, appearance changes or added bloat?

Re: Firefox 50.0

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Post by drdaeman »

ovibos wrote: post #94
bearcobra wrote: post #93

If they could just add a decent profile management option, I would switch back from Chrome. Keeping my work and personal accounts separated is the only thing keeping me using that battery killer

What's wrong with `firefox -P`?

Compared to Chrome profiles, it's much less usable in regard to launcher icons and window management. There are workarounds (system-specific), but none I saw worked as nice as Chrome's implementation.

Container tabs are (IMHO) better than Chrome profiles, because they don't require one to have a separate window just to open a single site.

Re: Firefox 50.0

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Post by bzbarsky »

abhinavk wrote: post #106
tdkl wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which is a pretty dumb shortcut to use one handed and compared to alt+tab.

I have never seen a keyboard which doesn't have a Ctrl on the right side.

Tons of laptop keyboards. Of course lots of those have no PgUp either.

Re: Firefox 50.0

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Post by eriknstr »

ohstopitu wrote: post #56
Aardwolf wrote: post #24

"Set a preference to have Ctrl+Tab cycle through tabs in recently used order " Finally something that is an actually improved UI feature! Not some "removed status bar and instead hover its info over text you want to read sometimes" or "moved refresh button to different place than before just to annoy you" or similar thing :)

I have this feature in sublime text & Atom and absolutely hate it. I feel like ctrl + tab has to move to next tab & ctrl + shift + tab should move to previous tab (cycle if it reaches the end). I feel like that's more predictable behaviour.

I hope I can disable this feature in Firefox about:config.
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