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Re: Firefox Quantum

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Post by Sylos »

Siecje wrote: post #110
marksellers wrote: post #6

Maybe these are silly things to complain about with fellow techies, but the things that prevent me from switching to Firefox: The menu bars are enormous even on a compact theme. Bigger than on Chrome. I only have so much vertical space to spare. When opening a new window, the address bar isn't the first thing to receive focus, unlike on Chrome. With Chrome, I just bang out WINKEY + C + H + R + ENTER + part of query +…

What is Win + C + H + R? Is that just Win + R?

Pressing and releasing the Windows-Key will open up the menu and then he types in "Chr" to search for Chrome.

Took me a moment, too...

Re: Firefox Quantum

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Post by Sylos »

tzs wrote: post #173

I started using it about a month ago, because I was getting annoyed with some bugs on Safari [1]. That was on El Capitan, as my Mac was old enough to not support Sierra. I have since gotten a new Mac and am on High Sierra. Firefox has been working well enough that I have not checked to see if those Safari bugs are gone. There are only two things I've found that annoy me on an ongoing basis with Quantum, and two thing…

Are you aware of about:profiles? Type that into Firefox's URL-bar and it'll give you a somewhat less awkward profile manager. You can also bookmark that to make it easily accessible...

Re: Firefox Quantum

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Post by jhasse »

gcb0 wrote: post #203
jhasse wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Probably because they were broken at some point.

like everyone are saying chrome is now? doesn't seem very logical.

Haven't noticed that everyone is saying that about Chrome and it definitely isn't broken for me.

Re: Firefox Quantum

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Post by coffeeaddicted »

cpeterso wrote: post #177
coffeeaddicted wrote: post #111

sigh I just spend an hour trying to figure out why my emscripten code no longer works. Browsing hacker-news and seeing this post about Firefox. Remembering my Firefox developer edition earlier today mentioned some update on start (FF 58.01b now). And yeah, for some reason it broke some emscripten code (edit: seems now it rather broke WebGL canvas).

Do you have a link to a test page that demonstrates the bug? If so, I can file a bug in Bugzilla and identify the code change that caused the regression.

Sorry, didn't see I got an answer here a few days ago already. Someone else located the bug faster than me and made a bug-report (WebGL being broken - lot of people notice that one ^^). It seems to be fixed already again in nightly, so now it's just waiting for a new developer version to come out.

Re: Firefox Quantum

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Post by swozey »

simion314 wrote: post #9

I still use the Firefox ESR for the dev tools, the new dev tools are missing things like the network response preview, the debugger is not working right for me, and the Chrome look does not appeal to me, I prefer the old dev tools. Other then this as a user I like the fact the Firefox is moving again and in a right direction most of the time. I hope they respect the user privacy more and the new privacy invading feat…

Is there a way to opt out of the data collection? I haven't used Firefox in a long time but always liked it for its privacy progress. I'm enjoying Aurora so far, but that's not cool.

edit: Found it, very bottom of Privacy

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