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Yeah. to clarify for people who are not clear, see this https://wiki.mozilla.org/RapidRelease/Calendar
will the linux version still show the window frame on top of the tabs? Update: seems so http://people.mozilla.org/~shorlander/blog-images/australis-... why didnt they take this chance to fix this, chromium does it>
According to the #ux channel on irc.mozilla.org, Australis will be relegated to Nightly builds (Firefox 29) for a while yet, and might be as late as Firefox 30 depending on the speed at which bugfixes roll in. Sorry, Aurora users. :(
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I just download youtube videos[1]. It has many advantages over youtube.com. Hardware acceleration is one but also no stalling when skipping ahead, no disappearing videos that you planned to watch later, no need to sign in. Actually, youtube as a repository of material for download works much better than youtube as a streaming site. [1] http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/
On OSX I highly recommend YouView[1]. It streams H.264, and CPU usage during playback is 1/3 of what the browser player uses. I guess it really inconsequential unless you are on a laptop. On a laptop it's a difference in 1-1.5 hours of battery life. [1] https://mrgeckosmedia.com/applications/info/YouView
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And it was even cooler when Opera did it several years ago.
If you were to construct a graph of all the features implemented by one browser and then copied by the others, after a while it would look like a chain link fence.
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Technically maybe, but when has a native speaker ever written that?
I would guess that most of the 12,000,000+ hits [0] on G has been written by natives. [0] https://www.google.com/search?q=%22is+released%22
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=is+released%2C...
Hey, "is released" is more common than "has been released"!
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That can be useful but it doesn't solve my problem of more automatic updating really. What I need is something close to native pacakge updating - i.e. replace old files with new ones when update is available with minimal hassle.
http://mozilla.debian.net/ is probably what you're after. Debian uses the 'ESR' versions (long-term support, for enterprises etc) of firefox as it's stock browser, as it's impractical to review the latest and greatest every few weeks for security. The above link gives you the appropriate lines to add to your apt sources.list to get whichever version you like for whichever flavour you're running. This gives you Icewea…
Is there any way to update Firefox on Linux without resorting to ugly methods like running it as root and using update UI, or downloading the mar file manually and running the updater CLI tool with that file (as sudo / root)? The issue is that I use stock Mozilla build (I prefer it to Iceweasel on Debian), so I just placed it in /opt, but I don't want to give write permissions to the firefox directory to my primary u…
On Ubuntu, you can use the Official Mozilla Daily PPA[1] to get the latest versions of Firefox. They have PPAs for each channel and you can then use the normal package manager to update your Firefox. 1: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-mozilla-daily/+archive/ppa
> Improved page load times due to no longer decoding images that aren't visible (847223) ( https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=847223 ) This is pretty cool
And it was even cooler when Opera did it several years ago.
How can this tiny minor changes be worthy of a whole version number? Firefox is the software equivalent of the Zimbabwe dollar.
Because of Chrome. Until it came along version numbers meant something. Now a major version just means 6 weeks has passed since the last major version.
Version numbers don't have to mean something. They're just numbers, after all.
I am curious about this change in the changelog. "Password manager now supports script-generated password fields" I couldn't easily find any details about. Would someone be kind enough to elaborate on what it does and where it is useful?
see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=355063
It's oddly gratifying to see bugs that old getting fixed...