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Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by r930 »

strifey wrote: post #133

> Firefox will not prompt for access to your microphone or camera if you’ve already granted access to the same device on the same site in the same tab within the past 50 seconds. This new grace period reduces the number of times you’re prompted to grant device access. This is a super nice little QoL improvement, but I'd love to be able to configure this to be even longer (optimally by domain, but I'd love a global se…

According to the commit [0], you may be able to configure the period using the 'privacy.webrtc.deviceGracePeriodTimeoutMs' option in about:config

[0] https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/rMOZILLACENTRAL1513...

Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by jrnichols »

Icons on macOS Big Sur are still the old ones. So far, only the Mozilla products (firefox/thunderbird) haven't updated macOS icons.

not sure why at this point.

Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by 51Cards »

rzzzt wrote: post #139
51Cards wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I likely would as well if I remembered it. I have always had a problem recalling key combinations across all the applications I use which is why I rely on context menus and tool bars heavily. I've called out VSCode on this a few times as well as it is a memorization fest to work efficiently in there without proper toolbars. It's not just this but I have memory issues in general which have only gotten worse as I've ag…

In VSCode, use Ctrl+Shift+P to bring out the command palette and type in your wish. The corresponding shortcut is also displayed.

Yep, but I find it to be a really poor paradigm for efficient work if you don't remember them. Having to search the command palette is much slower than being able to set up a toolbar of often used functions. Don't get me wrong, the command palette is great to have but if you can't memorize all those functions then it's a really poor replacement.

For efficiency Key combo > toolbar > command palette. I just hate to be forced into #3 because #2 doesn't exist. (not to mention that the developers make crazy arguments in the forums about why they refuse to impliment it... but that's all off topic)

Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by lights0123 »

morsch wrote: post #144
lights0123 wrote: post #24

> The ‘Take a Screenshot’ feature was removed from the Page Actions menu in the url bar. To take a screenshot, right-click to open the context menu. You can also add a screenshots shortcut directly to your toolbar via the Customize menu. Open the Firefox menu and select Customize… ...why. Obviously it's easy to add it to the overflow bar, but it was handy having it there. Especially on pages that block right-clicking…

Here[1]'s the why: With the removal of the meatball menu in the proton work, we'd like to move the Take a Screenshot button to the toolbar to allow users to hide it or put it in the overflow menu rather than being visible all the time. ??? Edit: Also great to see how they brush over existing users who have pinned the screenshot action to the toolbar, which is something you can do with all page actions (who knew?!). W…

> I still find it creepy that they gather data this specific

I personally have never cared—there is nothing that can be learned about me (aside from being a power user, which I don't care about being public knowledge) from technical features I use. I absolutely block everything personal using uBlock Origin + Privacy Badger + FF's built in stuff, but I definitely see the value in tracking feature use.

Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by pfranz »

bluenose69 wrote: post #150

I have this and Safari both open to github.com on my macos box. This site has an animation showing recent github activity on a globe. It's coded in javascript, AFAIK. Firefox is using 55% of my CPU, whilst Safari is using 3%. As someone who used Firefox exclusively back in the day (and mozilla before that), I will continue to try tests like this every time a new Firefox is released. Maybe, someday, the energy contras…

I remember creating a moderately large spreadsheet in Google Docs last year. Safari unloaded the page and forced a refresh every time I switched away. Firefox would hang recomputing formulas and only Chrome scaled well.

I'm looking to move to Safari by default. I just need to get over some UI differences. It drives me nuts that Firefox doesn't use the native context menus (I use "Look Up" constantly) and Text Shortcuts don't work. There's a bug for this filed literally 20 years ago.

Each browser has different trade offs and those may not change over time. I'm glad Safari fits your needs.

Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by butz »

conradfr wrote: post #60

I'm not looking forward to Firefox 89 with Proton and its redesigned tabs. edit: I'm surprised people like them: https://mk0ghacksnety2pjrgh8.kinstacdn.com/wp-content/upload...

You might be able to revert them using userchrome.css (https://www.userchrome.org/megabar-styling-firefox-address-b...). And as "megabar" update has shown, this new "tab" style will probably be reverted in future redesign.

Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by mfollert »

jrnichols wrote: post #172

Icons on macOS Big Sur are still the old ones. So far, only the Mozilla products (firefox/thunderbird) haven't updated macOS icons. not sure why at this point.

The native support for macOS overall is terrible. It took them 21 years to finally support native context menus: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34572

And you still have to manually configure Firefox to use the native full-screen-api so you can use the macOS menubar to chance your volume. Horrible, just horrible ...

But I'm currently on Firefox Nightly and pretty happy about the recent UX/UI changes.

Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by tjoff »

lmkg wrote: post #33
drewda wrote: post #3

> PDF forms now support JavaScript embedded in PDF files. Some PDF forms use JavaScript for validation and other interactive features. The amount of complexity that one can put into a PDF is both surprising and a tad frightening.

Note that this is a new feature for Firefox's PDF reader, but not a new feature of PDFs in general. Adobe had to update reader back in like... 2008?... to prompt before loading external resources. Because companies were embedding Google Analytics into PDFs.

I bet the real reason for that was because it could then compete with adobes own analytics built into the reader.

Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by bassdropvroom »

bassdropvroom wrote: post #93
lmkg wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Note that this is a new feature for Firefox's PDF reader, but not a new feature of PDFs in general. Adobe had to update reader back in like... 2008?... to prompt before loading external resources. Because companies were embedding Google Analytics into PDFs.

> Because companies were embedding Google Analytics into PDFs. Wow! This is daft. Thank the FLOSS gods for things like Pi-Hole because I never realised this. And if I hadn't blocked Google Analytics there, this would have been a sad state of affairs.

> Thank the FLOSS gods for things like Pi-Hole

Can't edit my comment any more, but I realise this is quite dismissive of the work the real maintainers have put in. So I'll thank them instead!

Re: Firefox 88.0

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Post by 1_player »

capableweb wrote: post #66
1_player wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure, and FF for Linux was always second to FF for Windows, where the experience was better than both platforms. On Linux hardware accel is still iffy, on macOS they implemented support for CoreAnimation one or two years ago, and still looks out of place with the rest of the OS.

> Sure, and FF for Linux was always second to FF for Windows, where the experience was better than both platforms. Not for me on desktop with a pretty well specced machine, Firefox still runs better on Linux than Windows and I constantly boot into the other during one day.

Good or bad specced machine, it's fun seeing the Firefox process use 150% CPU when playing a 4K video with no hardware acceleration. Meanwhile it uses 15% CPU on Windows.

Might be my underpowered 10900K or $1500 GPU.

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