Firefox 64 Released • Hacker News Board

Re: Firefox 64 Released

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Post by joemi » Tue, Dec 11, 2018, 6:57 PM UTC

In case anyone else is confused as I was, the "64" in "Firefox 64" appears to be the version number and not referring to a 64-bit edition or something other special edition.

Re: Firefox 64 Released

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Post by Doctor_Fegg » Tue, Dec 11, 2018, 6:57 PM UTC

> The CSS Scrollbars Level 1 spec standardizes features for setting scrollbar width and color

I would like these features to be standardised to hands-off-my-fricking-scrollbars.

I’m fed up with impossible-to-grab 1px-wide scrollbars because “everyone has trackpads”. No, they don’t.

Re: Firefox 64 Released

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Post by mindcrime » Tue, Dec 11, 2018, 6:57 PM UTC

mindcrime wrote: post #11

Did they fix the horrendously ugly tab-bar yet?

Answering my own question... it is, indeed, markedly better than the last new release I tried. It was really janky looking for a while. It still doesn't look as clean as Chrome's tab bar, but it's reasonable now. So props to the Mozilla team on that.

Re: Firefox 64 Released

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Post by neurobashing » Tue, Dec 11, 2018, 6:58 PM UTC

vntok wrote: post #7

rerx wrote: post #2

Does it come with Mac performance improvements?

It does not.

So are you accusing the release notes of lying, or do you have actual facts to back up this assertion?

Re: Firefox 64 Released

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Post by mindcrime » Tue, Dec 11, 2018, 6:59 PM UTC

Doctor_Fegg wrote: post #22

> The CSS Scrollbars Level 1 spec standardizes features for setting scrollbar width and color I would like these features to be standardised to hands-off-my-fricking-scrollbars. I’m fed up with impossible-to-grab 1px-wide scrollbars because “everyone has trackpads”. No, they don’t.

Agreed. There's really little or no good reason for a website to be able to change the scrollbars at all.

Re: Firefox 64 Released

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Post by xvilka » Tue, Dec 11, 2018, 6:59 PM UTC

Is there any tracking progress, what parts of Firefox are now rewritten in Rust and what will be next?

Re: Firefox 64 Released

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Post by Zekio » Tue, Dec 11, 2018, 7:00 PM UTC

Doctor_Fegg wrote: post #22

> The CSS Scrollbars Level 1 spec standardizes features for setting scrollbar width and color I would like these features to be standardised to hands-off-my-fricking-scrollbars. I’m fed up with impossible-to-grab 1px-wide scrollbars because “everyone has trackpads”. No, they don’t.

you can disable it in about:config by searching scrollbar if that has your fancy :)

Re: Firefox 64 Released

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Post by nchie » Tue, Dec 11, 2018, 7:00 PM UTC

_fzslm wrote: post #18

foldr wrote: post #14

I wish they'd finally fix pinch-to-zoom on OS X. This is the main thing that keeps me using Chrome.

This extension emulates the effect pretty well: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/multi-touch-z...

Wasn't very smooth when I tried it, and it's only Windows/OSX, isn't it?

Re: Firefox 64 Released

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Post by Zekio » Tue, Dec 11, 2018, 7:01 PM UTC

mindcrime wrote: post #25

Doctor_Fegg wrote: post #22

> The CSS Scrollbars Level 1 spec standardizes features for setting scrollbar width and color I would like these features to be standardised to hands-off-my-fricking-scrollbars. I’m fed up with impossible-to-grab 1px-wide scrollbars because “everyone has trackpads”. No, they don’t.

Agreed. There's really little or no good reason for a website to be able to change the scrollbars at all.

on Windows you will always have a white scrollbar even with dark theme enabled in Windows and firefox, and if you are then on a dark website the scrollbar is basically a beacon of light

Re: Firefox 64 Released

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Post by swozey » Tue, Dec 11, 2018, 7:03 PM UTC

mindcrime wrote: post #11

Did they fix the horrendously ugly tab-bar yet?

Yeah I think it looks pretty good nowadays. I switched maybe a month ago. Way closer to Chrome, less unused space.