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Re: Firefox 59 released

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Post by loopbit »

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…

What's difficult to understand? I've been using Firefox as my main browser because of the extensions while choosing to miss out on features that other browsers had and Firefox didn't. Simply because the pros outweighed the cons.

I still use it as my main browser at home, but with the extensions that used to set Firefox apart gone and forced to reset my workflow and expectations to the minimum common functionality, I find myself using Safari more and more at work simply because the battery usage is better and has out of the box support for SPNEGO. As an added bonus, I can watch HD videos smoothly without killing my processor and draining my battery.

Re: Firefox 59 released

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Post by hmaarrfk »

teamhappy wrote: post #2

"Added settings in about:preferences to stop websites from asking to send notifications" Been waiting for this one.

When apps send me notifications on my phone, it is a reminder for me to uninstall them.

When sites send me annoying ~~adds~~ notifications, it is a reminder for me to turn on adblock for them.

edit: adds to notifications (also I can't spell obviously)

Re: Firefox 59 released

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Post by ChrisSD »

aembleton wrote: post #148
ChrisSD wrote: post #68

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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.

Did you try restarting your browser? I've just tried setting rows to 12, which sets topSitesCount to 72. This worked for me after restarting the browser.

Re: Firefox 59 released

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Post by Kliment »

jimktrains2 wrote: post #103
the_grue wrote: post #67

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I don't know why you are being downvoted. I have the same problem. I'm still stuck with Firefox 56 and no upgrade path in sight. I wish Mozilla declared FF 56 a LTS release for those of us who value their addons more than performance benefits of Quantum. Right now I'm still using an out-of-date release that doesn't receive critical security updates, and I have to choose between either downgrading 4 releases down to F…

The thing that kept me from upgrading was TreeStyleTabs, but there is a non-XUL version of it which works fairly well. While it is a pain, it's not as if Mozilla removed XUL support with no warning. What addons are you missing? Perhaps we can find updates or replacements?

Session manager is the main one that's missing for me. Nothing else can reliably selectively restore a session with full history and unloaded tabs on startup after a crash for me.

Re: Firefox 59 released

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Post by jerheinze »

Silhouette wrote: post #143
jerheinze wrote: post #115

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> 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.

> Firefox was and remains slower

Did you try out the Firefox Nightly with WebRender enabled?

Re: Firefox 59 released

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Post by the_grue »

purerandomness wrote: post #85
the_grue wrote: post #67

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I don't know why you are being downvoted. I have the same problem. I'm still stuck with Firefox 56 and no upgrade path in sight. I wish Mozilla declared FF 56 a LTS release for those of us who value their addons more than performance benefits of Quantum. Right now I'm still using an out-of-date release that doesn't receive critical security updates, and I have to choose between either downgrading 4 releases down to F…

Which are the addons you're missing? Do they have a GitHub site?

After I gave up on Classic Theme Restorer, 4 most useful addons remain: EdgeWise, Session Manager, DownThemAll, Status-4-Evar.

Re: Firefox 59 released

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Post by cpeterso »

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…

> where is the best way to ask about issues like this regarding Firefox?

The #firefox channel on irc.mozilla.org is a good place to start:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/IRC#Project_Channels

And the Firefox subreddit is pretty active:

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/

Re: Firefox 59 released

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Post by WalterGR »

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #112
purerandomness wrote: post #85

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Which are the addons you're missing? Do they have a GitHub site?

I miss Tab Groups, FWIW. Why does it matter if they're on GitHub? Firefox no longer has the APIs for many of these extensions to be possible.

Why does it matter if they're on GitHub?

I'm not OP, but usually the conversation goes like this:

Person 1:

Person 2: It's open source. Have you submitted a patch yet?

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