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Unfortunately, looks like the CPU spikes are still a problem on OS X for me. I check this every time a new version is released as I'd love to make the switch from Chrome, but Firefox with one blank tab and no extensions uses more CPU than Chrome with 15 actual tabs. When I actually throw activity at Firefox it hogs the CPU even more. Here's hoping v61 addresses it.
Did anyone else lose the ability to scroll by clicking the middle mouse button in the 57 (Quantum) upgrade? Still missing for me in this version.
Go to Preferences > scroll down to Browsing at the bottom > check "Use autoscrolling".
But did they fix the weird scrolling friction on Android? Seriously, it's the main reason I don't use Firefox.
What do you use? I cant imagine ever going back to a browser that doesnt have uBlock Origin support.
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I wonder if it can be implemented on a per-site basis, like a security policy. Exception: gitea uses Github oauth Exception: unbury.me uses Google login etc Default: Full FPI
This is extremely easy to do in uMatrix. If you don't want to use the other features, just set a default policy of allow all, then block third party cookies. You can then selectively allow access to cookies on a site by site basis.
It would be neat to see Mozilla create an intuitive UI for this to enable first party isolation by default, like a permissions model for other things. A modal popup "Unbury.me wants to grant access to google.com", for example.
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Yeah, well they know what the problem is but it fails to get a high enough priority to get solved: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1407536
Hi, I'm one of the commenters on that bug. The discussion is all specific to that page. The biggest issue is that the animations are being driven from Javascript instead of CSS, so there's little we can do to optimize it. The rest of the discussion is possible heuristics we can implement to optimize how we layerize the page. It would potentially help on this page, but might make things slower elsewhere.
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What's the Mr. Robot fiasco?
An extension popped up in the extension list, which did nothing at all, but had a weird name that made people panic they had somehow gotten malware. And it was pushed as part of an unpaid marketing campaign for Mr. Robot. Which people thought was Mozilla cashing in big time by installing an extension they didn't want. It was done on a friendship basis. Mr. Robot has been pushing Firefox and so Mozilla wanted to give…
You snark, but at the end of the day, they really shouldn't be installing stuff silently and without affirmative consent. The character of the stuff is irrelevant to this principle.
Comes under the heading of "not their job".
For such a privacy minded browser, it still preserves closed tabs in Private Mode. If you do (in OSX) cmd+shift+T, you can reopen the closed tabs from earlier. This does not happen in Chrome nor Safari.
I use ctrl+shift+t in private browsing all the time.
Switched from Chrome for privacy reasons a couple of months ago. As a webdev (and hence heavy DevTools user), it feels excellent, the inspector's a little bit faster, and having containers for Facebook and Google tracking services is excellent. Spell check in text boxes doesn't work though - apparently it should, I have no idea why it doesn't.
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> I find myself tabbing through half of a dozen tabs to get where I'm going Why are you tabbing at all? If you type "* foo" in the url bar (without hitting enter), you will get a list of tabs whose url or title includes "foo". You can select one to jump to it. Much faster than linearly going through tabs.
that's not working in latest Chrome. I'll do a little searching around as that would help my own workflow quite a bit. Thanks.
Oh, I was talking about Firefox. Chrome's tab management is ... much worse.
I also typo'd. "* foo" searches bookmarks with "foo" in them. "% foo" searches open tabs.