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Re: Firefox 59 released

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Post by bzbarsky »

lloeki wrote: post #119
Flimm wrote: post #39

Firefox 59 is the first Firefox release to support SameSite cookie attribute, joining Chrome. > Same-site cookies ("First-Party-Only" or "First-Party") allow servers to mitigate the risk of CSRF and information leakage attacks by asserting that a particular cookie should only be sent with requests initiated from the same registrable domain. I like this one!

How does this play out WRT "Block 3rd party cookies" (which wasn't on by default on Fx and Cr but was on Safari since an eternity?)

Note that the definition of "Block 3rd party cookies" in Safari is different from the one in Firefox (not sure about Chrome). Firefox blocks a lot more stuff when that option is enabled in Firefox than Safari does when its option is enabled, which causes more web compat problems.

Re: Firefox 59 released

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Post by Silhouette »

jerheinze wrote: post #115
Silhouette wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's unfortunate. I finally gave up on Firefox as my main browser when 57 came out, and one of the big reasons was that so many of the useful extensions that had set Firefox above other browsers for me were broken and didn't have good replacements. In some of those cases, my understanding is that you can't currently write a direct replacement because the new API doesn't support the required functionality. I was rea…

> That's unfortunate. I finally gave up on Firefox as my main browser when 57 came out, and one of the big reasons was that so many of the useful extensions that had set Firefox above other browsers for me were broken and didn't have good replacements I never really understood this argument, you gave up Firefox since you could no longer have your XUL/XPCOM extensions in favor of serious browsers who have less WebExt…

Not really. I gave up Firefox (as my main browser; I'm a web dev so use all of the major ones regularly anyway) because the main thing keeping me there was its extensibility, and that advantage went away. Firefox was and remains slower, less reliable, and less capable than Chrome, and IME has actually become worse in those respects as well since Quantum.

Re: Firefox 59 released

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Post by dxxvi »

chmln wrote: post #126

Firefox gets raving feedback here, but for me it is unusably slow on a Linux machine. While websites do render fast, the UI is not very responsive, whether its laggy typing into the address bar [1] or the crawling devtools. [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1408699

I also use Arch and Firefox Beta daily at home. Don't see any issue.

Re: Firefox 59 released

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Post by driverdan »

bzbarsky wrote: post #142
lloeki wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How does this play out WRT "Block 3rd party cookies" (which wasn't on by default on Fx and Cr but was on Safari since an eternity?)

Note that the definition of "Block 3rd party cookies" in Safari is different from the one in Firefox (not sure about Chrome). Firefox blocks a lot more stuff when that option is enabled in Firefox than Safari does when its option is enabled, which causes more web compat problems.

Blocking 3rd party cookies causes very few problems. I've blocked them for many years and have seen fewer than 10 sites it caused problems with. For those you can whitelist the domain.

Re: Firefox 59 released

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Post by mcintyre1994 »

magnetic wrote: post #136
teamhappy wrote: post #22

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Right click -> Take a Screenshot

Is there a way to trigger a full screen screenshot via Selenium/WebDriver? (not a partial/window screenshot - that I can do)

If I'm understanding correctly, could you just select the body tag and screenshot that? In Selenium Python that'd be:

    # driver is a Firefox driver
    body = driver.find_element_by_tag_name('body')
    screenshot = body.screenshot_as_base64 # png bytes

Re: Firefox 59 released

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Post by ac29 »

szemet wrote: post #130

Can't find in the release notes: Is the Android version now based on quantum as the desktop version? As it was promised a few months back: https://www.androidpolice.com/2017/09/26/project-quantum-enh...

One of the major Quantum improvements, Stylo, isn't coming to Android until Firefox 60: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1366049

Unfortunately, it'll still be pretty slow until then.

Re: Firefox 59 released

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Post by aembleton »

ChrisSD wrote: post #68
ChrisSD wrote: post #24

It's great that they're continuing to add back customisation to the new tab page but why am I still restricted to two rows of "top sites"? I'm on a desktop here, I'm not going to run out of pixels. Even on Android I liked having more space for quick links to websites I visit semi-regularly. In fact it was more useful there because there isn't a good way to bring order to the history panel. Is it just to make room for…

To reply to myself I've found that about:config has `browser.newtabpage.rows` which I can increase. When I do that and restart the browser it resets to 3 but `browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.topSitesCount` is increased and more sites are shown. Changing `browser.newtabpage.columns` doesn't appear to have an effect. My question still stands but at least there's a partial workaround, even if it's potentially unstabl…

I've changed the `browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.topSitesCount` to 36 which fills my screen with 6x6 boxes filled with my top sites. Except, for the last box which is always empty!

It seems that there is a hard limit in Firefox of 35 top sites.

Re: Firefox 59 released

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Post by konart »

crispyporkbites wrote: post #106
grok2 wrote: post #79

After I switched to Firefox 59 beta on Windows (7 upgraded to 10), I see the following issue all the time. When accessing finance.google.com in one tab and etrade.com (internal page) in another, if I am on finance.google.com and if it refreshes and is slow for some reason I start seeing a blank page with a spinner on that tab and while this is happening, if I switch to the etrade.com tab, I see that page is blank too…

Google web apps and sites don't work well in Firefox, generally speaking. Examples where Chrome performance and functionality is superior include: - Inbox (try downloading attachments) - Maps - Analytics - ...

Maps work fine for me (Dev Edition here though).
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