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Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition

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Re: Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition

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Post by addicted »

sorenjan wrote: post #8
Dylan16807 wrote: post #4

I just wish they would have filled in more missing APIs before mandating web extensions. For example there is no way to do a gestures extension that doesn't rely on buggy DOM injection.

Yes, it's a real shame that it seems like they don't even care about extensions anymore, and therefore forces me to stay on the older versions and miss out on the new and welcome improvements. I'd be more ok with their switch to web extensions if they had included more powerful API:s, even if they're not available in other browsers. My developer edition recently got upgraded to 57, and Greasemonkey stopped working. R…

Theyve built a whole development model reliant on extensions (Test Pilot). They’ve made tremendous progress on enhancing the extensions API.

To say that they don’t care about extensions doesn’t seem to match the efforts you can see in the browser.

Re: Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition

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Post by spiderfarmer »

Firefox, I love you, but you and my 15" rMBP (with 4k Dell external monitor) simply don't get along: https://i.imgur.com/rByz7zS.png

I don't what causes this, but in the last 2 years it's gotten worse and with Quantum the CPU usage is even higher. Chrome and Safari don't have this issue.

Re: Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition

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Post by throwanem »

Vinnl wrote: post #15
Dylan16807 wrote: post #4

I just wish they would have filled in more missing APIs before mandating web extensions. For example there is no way to do a gestures extension that doesn't rely on buggy DOM injection.

I guess the reasoning is that there's still an Extended Support Release that is supported for quite a while still, which still supports the extension mechanism. If you really still need a specific extension, you can keep using that - and then once there's a new ESR, hopefully the extension will be available.

59 ESR lands later this year - November, if I recall correctly.

Re: Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition

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Post by robin_reala »

Vinnl wrote: post #2

More info about Firefox Quantum (aka Firefox 57) here: https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/quantum/ (Also appears to feature an updated logo.)

Yep, here’s the relevant commit (well, the Github mirror of it): https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/commit/4746493e724546d2...

Re: Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition

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Post by TremendousJudge »

baby wrote: post #16
EasyTiger_ wrote: post #3

I've been trying out the nightly versions of 57 and it's really fast. Would recommend people try out the Beta.

Is Tree Style Tab working on it? I've disabled updates until further notice.

It's apparently coming along [1], but I don't think they're done quite yet

[1] https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab/issues/1224

Re: Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition

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Post by dbrgn »

throwanem wrote: post #23
Vinnl wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I guess the reasoning is that there's still an Extended Support Release that is supported for quite a while still, which still supports the extension mechanism. If you really still need a specific extension, you can keep using that - and then once there's a new ESR, hopefully the extension will be available.

59 ESR lands later this year - November, if I recall correctly.

Nope, March 2018. November is release date for 57.

Re: Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition

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Post by AndrewCHM »

eklavya wrote: post #11

I so wanted to use the new Firefox and switch from safari. I searched and was excited to learn there was an extension for integration with keychain on mac only to learn that it was no longer supported :( I understand the push behind web extensions but I don't think there will ever be a keychain integration addon now.

fwiw there is nothing that web extensions lack that would prevent that from working

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/Na... exists to allow web extensions to talk with programs on the computer, its up to someone to write the extension and executable for that usecase

Re: Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition

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Post by Ambroos »

Vinnl wrote: post #2

More info about Firefox Quantum (aka Firefox 57) here: https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/quantum/ (Also appears to feature an updated logo.)

Is this a known issue?

https://cl.ly/1b2O1g231m47/Screen%20Shot%202017-09-26%20at%2...

I'm on High Sierra and the UI at the top seems to do something really really weird...

Re: Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition

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Post by reikonomusha »

baby wrote: post #16
EasyTiger_ wrote: post #3

I've been trying out the nightly versions of 57 and it's really fast. Would recommend people try out the Beta.

Is Tree Style Tab working on it? I've disabled updates until further notice.

Tree Style Tab is the killer feature for me and some of my scientist coworkers. If this disappears or doesn’t work, I’ll probably use Chrome.
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