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Re: Firefox 57.0 Released

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Post by IChrisI »

KozmoNau7 wrote: post #66
IChrisI wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tree Style Tabs was the only blocker for me, and I was amazed that it was possible to recreate under the new API. I use both Firefox and Chrome, but for very different purposes. In Chrome, I have 20-50 tabs spread across two windows. In Firefox, 400+. Tree Style Tabs is necessary for how I use Firefox. My backup plan was staying on an older version, possibly indefinitely.

400 tabs? 400 ? I'm sorry if I sound a little condescending, but have you considered using bookmarks instead? I cannot even imagine a workflow where four flippin' hundred active tabs are needed.

It's not one workflow, and there is no scenario in which all 400 tabs are active at once.

Bookmarks take an extra step to save to, an extra step to load from, and do not stay in sync as I browse. Synchronizing a bookmarks folder with 10-20 tab changes would take significant human overhead.

Bookmarks are also slower to review than tabs, if you need to see anything besides the name/url/icon. You would need to load the bookmark into a tab before viewing it. Tabs are already in a tab, though not necessarily loaded.

Re: Firefox 57.0 Released

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Post by pfooti »

Is there some super-compelling reason why FF doesn't let you inspect websocket frames? I was taking FF for a drive yesterday, based on the earlier thread, and it was nice until I started debugging my web app.

I'm not interested in trusting a third party extension with all my network data either, so the plug-in to do this isn't an option. It's weird, but this really is a blocker for me for general use.

Re: Firefox 57.0 Released

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Post by myfonj »

barrkel wrote: post #7

Hopefully most of the missing extensions will be developed sooner rather than later. I have 15 extensions installed, 14 of which are "Legacy". The most critical one, Tree Style Tabs, has been converted. That was the key blocker that prevented me from seriously using Chrome. But many more remain; Cookie Controller, RefControl, some kind of Classic Theme Restorer equivalent (to get a menu bar back for Bookmarks, at a m…

Take a look at Waterfox [0] fork (at the moment based on Firefox 55). Just successfully ported my ancient Firefox profile to it and all circa 20 legacy extensions are alive and kicking. Author seems to be willing to port features from Firefox trunk while preserving legacy features [1].

[0] https://www.waterfoxproject.org/ [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/waterfox/comments/79mwsc/waterfox_w...

Re: Firefox 57.0 Released

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Post by DiThi »

shabbyrobe wrote: post #118

Just installed it, looks like the update overrode my previously set default of a blank "new tab" page in favour of their overly fancy, ad infested "new tab experience" page. Looks like it's time for another scan of about:config for any other nasties they decided to sneak in there this time.

No need to dive into about:config. Just click the gear icon at the top left to disable all stuff.

Re: Firefox 57.0 Released

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Post by acdha »

amelius wrote: post #74

It's supposed to be faster, but when I open developer-tools and click on "Inspector", it takes almost 5 seconds to paint. EDIT: Okay, tested again; it depends heavily on the website you do this on.

Which site did you test it on? All of the developer tools (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge) will take awhile to load a massive DOM tree with many thousands of nodes.

Re: Firefox 57.0 Released

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Post by jventura »

WD-42 wrote: post #123
Mizza wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When you click on a new link, there is an "explosion" animation on the tab where it turns entirely blue for a second. This happens every time you click a link. I'm finding this extremely distracting. I'm sensitive to this kind of stuff so I always try to disable animations on everything I can. The top bar is also black-ish now rather than the system grey. This looks particularly bad with the new "blue" highlight indi…

You can change the theme to "light" in preferences. If should get rid of the black bar. This has been a common complaint from osx users.

Can't seem to find where it is in firefox preferences. Could you please extend your solution?

Re: Firefox 57.0 Released

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Post by DiThi »

wklm wrote: post #89

Did anyone find an easy way to export bookmarks, history etc from chrome to firefox?

Bookmarks and history both have import/export functions. I've used them, as well as Firefox Sync which preserves your privacy more than Chrome's.

Re: Firefox 57.0 Released

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Post by acdha »

__BrianDGLS__ wrote: post #40

I'm on windows 7, the new version seems to keep spawning a process which grinds my machine to a halt. I've had to open task manager twice now to kill it. Only downloaded it 10 minutes ago.

Try starting Firefox in safe mode in case that's some broken extension:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-firefox-is...

Re: Firefox 57.0 Released

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Post by superdaniel »

jventura wrote: post #127
awinder wrote: post #120

This is so close to great but can a mac snob ask how to get a more consistent UI experience out of firefox? I'm totally happy with how everything behaves inside the web panel but: 1. At a minimum I'd be happy with a toolbar icon set that was a little more in step with OS X design (but willing to hear if I just have misunderstanding of design :D) 2. As a reach, os-native menus or at least more native-style menus for t…

I have similar remarks. On OSX, the tab and the url bars are too big, they seem out of place.. Also, the black tab bar seems strange to me as I have a black OSX menu bar..

You can make the tab bar and url bar smaller by going to the menu > customize > density > compact.
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