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Re: Firefox 76

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Post by afiori »

chimen wrote: post #211
mintplant wrote: post #120

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Search By Image: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/search_by_ima... Translate Now: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/translate-now...

All the translate addons take you to the Google translate variant. It does not help at all especially when buying stuff from websites for example. I prefer the on-spot translation of chrome. The user experience is very bad with these translate addons.

> I prefer the on-spot translation of chrome.

Which is the reason I believe Google Translate cannot be used to implement this functionality by third parties. (like how DDG cannot use google's search results)

Re: Firefox 76

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Post by kalleboo »

boomboomsubban wrote: post #155
roca wrote: post #134

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The commenter at the top of this thread wanted to know whether this version of Firefox is a "major release". Using the date doesn't change that.

"Firefox 10-04/20” "Firefox 10-05/20” then " Firefox 11-06/20”. Though deciding what's a "major release" seems like a thankless hassle.

"Major release" also doesn't matter like it used to. One of the big new features in recent versions of Firefox is WebRender, but that is being slowly rolled out among users based on CPU/display/platform, it's not a Big Bang feature release.

Re: Firefox 76

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Post by jobigoud »

poglet wrote: post #144
narag wrote: post #3

Anybody using Firefox password manager that can comment on it? Is it considered safe enough? Are the passwords stored remotely if you have multi-device profiles? Edit: I asked because I see that some of the updats are related.

There can be some weird situations that you need to be careful of. For example, if you jump on your partners PC, log them out of their Firefox account and log into yours, all of their passwords / history etc gets merged into your account. You need to learn about Firefox profiles to get around this. Also, the old Firefox had a way of clearing all saved passwords from the Options menu. This is now gone, you can only de…

What? That sound like a pretty serious bug.

Re: Firefox 76

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Post by jobigoud »

baal80spam wrote: post #90
narag wrote: post #3

Anybody using Firefox password manager that can comment on it? Is it considered safe enough? Are the passwords stored remotely if you have multi-device profiles? Edit: I asked because I see that some of the updats are related.

Maybe it sounds silly but make sure you have access to the email associated with your Mozilla account. I learnt the hard way after reinstalling Windows that Mozilla sends a confirmation email to this address when you set up Sync on a new system. It turned out that I had no access to this email anymore since the provider went out of business. I was told it's impossible to access my sync data. Thankfully I did not use…

I use keepass as well and there is a similar conundrum. If you store a backup of the keepass file on a remote server, make sure the passwords to access this remote server aren't only in the local machine keepass.

Re: Firefox 76

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Post by Groxx »

afiori wrote: post #236
Groxx wrote: post #143

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yea. you support features / ages / percentages, not version numbers. whether there are 2 or 20 doesn't really matter.

A moment where version numbers are relevant is when you collect telemetry from your users and when you reccomend supported browsers. I think it is in part a difference between websites oriented to the public and websites oriented to companies, where browser versions can be more complex than a self-updating browser.

Sorta. Though in that case, more versions is more better - it gives you more precision on the up-to-date-ness of the browsers people are using. Rather than saying "80% of people use a browser from between 2016 and 2018", you can say "75% use one from late 2018".

Re: Firefox 76

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Post by asdff »

recursive wrote: post #221
asdff wrote: post #133

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If only other microsoft products had the same thinking. Microsoft Autoupdate needs to die.

meh, I mostly like it.

It would be great if they just checked for updates on startup like almost every other program. I use powerpoint twice a year. I don't need auto update taking center focus on my screen, interrupting whatever I'm doing, every week that powerpoint gets a patch.

Re: Firefox 76

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Post by ttctciyf »

43920 wrote: post #226
ttctciyf wrote: post #83

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In the last update (75) I had this bizarre problem that any amazon.co.uk links in my history weren't showing up in the "most used links" that the url bar is usually populated with if you click the down arrow (or in this update where the down arrow used to be) I have a browser profile that is used almost exclusively for amazon content as well. The most visited links in that profile are amazon.co.uk and prime video but…

The new searchbar uses the top sites from the new tab page, which is a different algorithm from the one used for the old list (which I don't understand either). However, the one upside to this is that you can edit the top sites from the new tab page, and the edits will show up in the searchbar dropdown.

Thanks for adding this information.

My "new tab page" is always set to just blank page and has been for years. I dislike all the fancy new page stuff and just set it to blank page on initial install.

The sites that show up in the urlbar dropdown are frequently visited ones, same as the ones that show up when I turn the "update1" stuff off, or the ones prior to ff 75, just not sites containing amazon.co.uk.

So while I don't doubt your information, it doesn't make sense to me as an explanation. Maybe not having any sites in a new tab page is some kind of corner case that exposes a bug. It's weird that amazon is specifically affected though!

Re: Firefox 76

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Post by ChrisRR »

And yet they still haven't added the feature to globally zoom, instead of per website. This is the only thing that keeps me using chrome

Re: Firefox 76

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Post by kasabali »

ChrisRR wrote: post #248

And yet they still haven't added the feature to globally zoom, instead of per website. This is the only thing that keeps me using chrome

It exists since the very first Firefox version (and probably even before)

After Firefox 3 (which introduced site specific zoom feature) you can set the below config option for old behavior

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.zoom.siteSpecific

Re: Firefox 76

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Post by RandomBacon »

iknowstuff wrote: post #227
RandomBacon wrote: post #72

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They should just put a toggle for it under the Customization page. I think that would be the simplest way to placate peope that dislike it. (Yes I know you can about:config to fix it, but a toggle makes more sense.)

Ah yes the 90s/early 2000s way of designing desktop apps. https://windows-cdn.softpedia.com/screenshots/miranda-im_12....

That seems insulting to the Firefox devs. Firefox's devs are clearly better than that. The Customization page is pretty bare, they can still add it there without looking like your image.
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