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Firefox 59 released
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Re: Firefox 59 released
#192"Added settings in about:preferences to stop websites from asking to send notifications" Been waiting for this one.
about:preferences is not the place for this as the vast majority of users know nothing about what they cannot see in a menu structure.
about:preferences is the page you end up at when you select the "Preferences" option from the menu.
Re: Firefox 59 released
#193Firefox is dead to me ever since they killed their addons and marketed it as a step forward. If I wanted to use Chrome I'd use fucking Chrome.
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 Right now I'm still using an out-of-date release that doesn't receive critical security updates, and I have to choose between either downgrading 4 releases down to F…
Maintaining a LTS release while focusing on an entirely new technology with a limited number of devs available is an engineering nightmare. They have to choose their battles. The performance of the old Firefox was really bad compared to competitors and this technical debt wasn't sustainable on the long term. I'm happy that they've made this bold move (on the big risk of frustrating some users (rightfully so)), and happy that they rebuild a better browser for all of us (and I'm sure they will come back in the future with the same flexibility for addons).
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#194Sadly, still unusable for me since the Quantum update. A clean install and profile, no add-ons, and google.com/maps (for example) will max out my cpu. There must be some bug related to old hardware and OS (Macbook Pro 2009 + 10.11.x) or more people would be experiencing this.
I have been having problems with Google Maps too, and Google Hangouts has been even worse. I'm pretty much at the point now where I have asked people to contact me on different services because Hangouts has become completely unusable. I was assuming that this was just Google not caring about Firefox support. But now that you mention it, this seems to have started around the time of the Quantum update and doesn't affe…
Google had a NPAPI plugin for non Chrome browsers and proprietary webRTC extensions for Chrome, so when legacy plugin support was removed, it stopped working for voice/video calls in Firefox. Hangouts Meet is even worse, being Chrome only, though officially Google was looking into it.
Re: Firefox 59 released
#195Firefox is dead to me ever since they killed their addons and marketed it as a step forward. If I wanted to use Chrome I'd use fucking Chrome.
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…
He's being downvoted because of his choice of wording. It's perfectly legitimate to prefer Firefox prior to Firefox 57. It's not legitimate to:
- act like Mozilla just killed their extensions lightly. They gave lots of warning in advance and took many extra steps to ease the transition. They also had lots of really good reasons for doing it.
- blame Mozilla for marketing things based on what their market looks like. Most users were not affected at all by the extension ecosystem change, but were positively affected by the newfound performance, security and stability. They also would not have done it in the first place, if they did not think it was a necessary and good step. I really don't know what you'd expect them to market it as.
- in general, speak like you're the only user whose interests are worth considering.
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#196Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
Classic Theme Restorer, Tab Mix Plus, Session Manager, Status-4-Evar.
I've looked for replacements but haven't found anything that comes close. From what I can gather, much of the functionality that allowed these extensions is now removed from Firefox. I thought equivalent APIs were going to be made available so they could be ported but that didn't happen.
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#197Earlier 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 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…
Mozilla took away perfectly good functionality and gave existing fans a big middle finger while doing so. Although I am a fan of Mozilla, it is entirely understandable to me why someone wouldn't want to keep using their products. And lets not ignore the fact that most sites are designed with Chrome as their intended target. FF simply doesn't work as well on many sites.
This is - in my opinion - one of the best reasons to use Firefox.
I don't want to go back to one browser dominating the web.
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#198Earlier quoted context omitted.
(I think this comment was meant to be posted somewhere else…)
No, I posted it in the right place. Tepix subsequently edited his/her comment, as far as I can tell. The comment I was replying to, about "mousewheel" events, is certainly no longer in evidence.
Sorry about that, i changed my comment because it was obsolete and i could no longer delete it.
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#199Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
Maintaining a LTS release while focusing on an entirely new technology with a limited number of devs available is an engineering nightmare. They have to choose their battles. The performance of the old Firefox was really bad compared to competitors and this technical debt wasn't sustainable on the long term. I'm happy that they've made this bold move (on the big risk of frustrating some users (rightfully so)), and ha…
>and I'm sure they will come back in the future with the same flexibility for addons
No they won't, they have been very clear on this matter. Web Extensions are crippled compared to NPAPI. You can't even disable javascript with them.
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#200Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm cursing for about a year about this. I spent days searching for workarounds and stopped short of hacking into firefox. Maybe I should just install firefox 50 and disable updates.
Only thing I've found is that hitting ALT-Home keys in the new tab will load the home page. But it's one of those tiny repeated annoyances that I'd love to avoid.
I can't really comment fairly here as I've gotten used to Chrome for the last 2+ years, but is there really not an extension in Firefox for this, even if it's not natively supported? Seems surprising to me.