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Had to revert back to 28 to mitigate UI issues caused by Pentadactyl in the new update. I'm not sure I'm going to be missing much in 29.
How did you revert back? Is there some interface option or I have to dig out old download?
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Nitpicking on you - it's Firefox (née Phoenix) for the public, not Firefox (née Firebird). :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Firefox Edit: Fixed typo as pointed below. :D Thanks for nitpicking the nitpicking. :)
Skitt's Law strikes again - it's "née" (or "né" in the masculine, though that's uncommon outside of the Francophone world).
Where the hell is my forward button? Why does browser.tabs.onTop not mean anything anymore? Where's my refresh button? On the... right side, inside the Awesome Bar? Why isn't a separate button? Why can't I put the Home button back beside the Back button? Why is the back button permanently part of the Awesome Bar? Why does the Awesome Bar change shape and size to allow the forward button to exist? Why isn't the forwar…
Forward button appears after you click the back button. It is only shown when it could be used.
This and many other improvements reduce visual noise based on analysis of how frequently people used different pieces of browser chrome.
Release Notes: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/29.0/releasenotes/
Developer Release Notes: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases/29
About bloody time. Does anyone know why that wasn't the case from the get-go?
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>Separate address and search bars is old-fashioned. As a user, I don't want to have to make this distinction, and it's hard to imagine most users-on-street wouldn't find this confusing Use the customizer. People complain when they change and complain when they don't > The address bar is square edged while the search bar is round edged, which is displeasingly visually. (I realize this is because there's a convention o…
>> Separate address and search bars is old-fashioned. As a user, I don't want to have to make this distinction, and it's hard to imagine most users-on-street wouldn't find this confusing > Use the customizer. Most users-on-street don't want to customise either. Edit: The moderation on this is baffling. Does anyone genuinely believe users want to customise to achieve reasonable defaults? HN should ban new users from m…
Since we're talking about one person's preference rather than the results of a user study, that hardly seems relevant.
I love Firefox -- for what it's done, what it represents, and what it helps guard against. I have fond memories of those early versions of Firefox (nee Firebird) that busted open the IE monopoly, and where hands-down the best browser going at the time. But it's never felt very good on the Mac to me, and it still doesn't. Here's a few early thoughts on this release, from the perspective of a happy Safari user, w/ a pr…
Separate address and search bars is old-fashioned If you type in the search bar then it automcompletes by sending all of your keystrokes to your search provider. If you type in the address bar then it autocompletes by using your history. These are two very different use cases, and I appreciate the ability to search my history without notifying google of the name of internal servers.
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It can spy on what you type in the address bar... Hilarious when the new header is "Committed to your privacy".
The word processor can spay what you are typing. Also this web page can spy the comment I am typing. Including the stuff I deleted. Please before it say "it spies", show us what it captured and sent to third-parties (ie not YOU).
I for one am displeased when my missives are neutered by my text editors. :)
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Your comment makes it sound like everything I type in Google Chrome is sent to Google. Is this what you meant? If so, do you have a source for this or are you just spreading FUD?
If you have search suggestions enabled, when you type things into the address bar it has to send what you are typing to Google in order to get suggestions. I don't recall if that's on by default. https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95656?hl=en