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Firefox 59 released

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Re: Firefox 59 released

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Post by severine »

crawdingle wrote: post #8

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1353319 - RESOLVED FIXED in Firefox 59, super happy about that.

I'll save you a click:

> Render the HTML preview within the Response side-panel

> Component: Developer Tools: Netmonitor

> Reported: 11 months ago

Re: Firefox 59 released

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Post by marak830 »

Damn I'm excited about this (specifically those damn notification popups!).

Slightly off topic: has anyone else been getting frequent crashes lately? It's as if it's running out of memory then freezing a moment. I thought it was because I'm on an older phone at first (note 3 here) but my wife said the same thing to me and she is in an edge 7.

(Kinda hoping someone knows a config fix to it haha)

Re: Firefox 59 released

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Post by ChrisSD »

It's great that they're continuing to add back customisation to the new tab page but why am I still restricted to two rows of "top sites"? I'm on a desktop here, I'm not going to run out of pixels. Even on Android I liked having more space for quick links to websites I visit semi-regularly. In fact it was more useful there because there isn't a good way to bring order to the history panel.

Is it just to make room for "highlights"? I switched that off because it's utterly useless for me. I don't find it helpful to be shown a random selection of things I've clicked on. Besides, I am capable of scrolling.

Yes I know, there's an addon for that (probably). But it just feels like such an arbitrary restriction.

Why are only twelve "top sites" allowed?

Re: Firefox 59 released

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Post by udfalkso »

Piskvorrr wrote: post #7
teamhappy wrote: post #2

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

Sites have been replacing the actual API request with a HTML5 overlay, precisely because of this - only when clicking "notify me" does the actual permission get requested, with the requisite dialog. (The rationale is "once the permission is denied, there's no way to bring it up again; a dismissed HTML5 box can be brought up again an infinite number of times") As for me, I went for WebAPI Manager, which blocks most of…

Right. This is also the current standard approach for asking for iOS push permissions. Without intermediary dialog, the app can't try again.

Re: Firefox 59 released

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Post by koolba »

darkstar999 wrote: post #4
teamhappy wrote: post #2

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

Yes! That is really being abused. I don't need notifications from recipe sites!

I’ve yet to find a site from which I do want to receive notifications.
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