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Firefox 67.0 Released

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Re: Firefox 67.0 Released

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post #127

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I'm curious, why 190deg and not 180deg ?

Stylistic choice? Didn't find any information why exactly 190deg, so assuming the author just liked it that way. Made a quick demo showing the difference: https://output.jsbin.com/hujebimavu/1 I don't really see any difference between 180 and 190 though.

Thanks for the demo. I barely see a difference too.

Re: Firefox 67.0 Released

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post #148

> Save passwords in private browsing mode While this might be handy when visiting your favorite paid porn site, isn't this counter-intuitive? When I am in private mode, I expect nothing to be saved.

In addition to using private mode for visiting sites that I don't want saved in my history, I also use it as a poor mans sandbox for visiting sensitive sites (like my bank), to avoid potential cross-site-scripting attacks while visiting those sites. For this use-case, saving passwords is very useful. In fact, my biggest complaint with private mode in Firefox is that my preferred password manager plugin (bitwarden) do…

Give the Privacy Badger extension a try.

Re: Firefox 67.0 Released

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post #91

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I regularly get migraines, where "bright" lights are searingly painful to look at. When the symptoms aren't too bad, dark themes on a text editor are okay, but light themes are not. Migraines aren't an uncommon problem. I think that is a fairly objective reason driving the preference.

I dislike sites with dark background. Maybe it is a problem with my poor quality LCD screen, but I switch to reading mode on such sites (so that the background becomes white) because they are hard to read.

I'm pretty much the exact opposite. I typically use my computer/phone in a low light environment (monitor and phone are almost always on lowest brightness settings), and a white background hurts my eyes. I use a dark background wherever possible, especially when reading ebooks/longer articles on my phone.

Any good software designed for reading should have good support for both.

Re: Firefox 67.0 Released

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post #187

Still no improvement on macOS. Don't know why don't they make it a priority as I have to use Chrome (Safari is missing some stuff that I need).

What do you mean “no improvement on macOS”? Most of the new features listed in these release notes could be considered improvements, and I assume that the macOS version of Firefox 67 has all those features, the same as on other platforms. I think you had in mind a specific aspect of Firefox that you wished would be improved, but you forgot to explain what that feature was. What is the missing feature that leads you t…

I think its obvious he's talking about the fact that Firefox is unusable on MacOS (on scaled resolutions). And it seems Mozilla has no ability to fix this for a large portion of their potential clientele.
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