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Re: Firefox 29

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Post by CyberShadow »

nandhp wrote: post #241
hbt wrote: post #212

If you want a highly customizable browser, Firefox is it. Chrome is in its infancy when it comes to customization and they often make decisions that prevent power users from taking advantage of their browsing experience. For example, they've disabled custom stylesheets in recent releases despite a clear indication that people were sharing themes, they have very old bugs that don't get resolved (like the stupid white…

> There isn't a feature in Chromium or Google Chrome that Firefox doesn't deliver. Multi-process browsing. It is incredibly annoying when my entire browser locks up because one of the fifty tabs I have open is doing something stupid. That never happened in several years of using Chrome, and it happens several times a day in Firefox.

For the record, Mozilla is working on it:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis

You can track the E10s team's progress through their weekly meeting notes:

https://etherpad.mozilla.org/E10s-meeting-notes

Re: Firefox 29

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Post by inglondon »

Just made the switch from Chrome to Firefox. I noticed that even on a high-end Macbook Pro, when I opened a large amount of tabs in quick succession Chrome would lag intolerably. It did so on earlier releases of Firefox but I just tried on 29 and it opened 40+ tabs with without a hick-up. Very pleased indeed

Edit: I just noticed that the text selection now works as it does in text editors with blinking cursor and all. Great feature!

Re: Firefox 29

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Post by sergiotapia »

mnemonik wrote: post #314
sergiotapia wrote: post #215

Firefox team, thank you for another great release! * I just tried and your developer tools don't cause the tab to freeze for 1 second every time I switched into the tab. * Wanted to see the addons I had, clicked the menu > nice icon that said Add-ons - massive UX win. I feel at home with this browser. You stand up for privacy and for that you deserve so much more praise than you get. I'm switching to Firefox and see…

> I just tried and your developer tools don't cause the tab to freeze for 1 second every time I switched into the tab. Can you give steps to reproduce and a test case? Which panel do you have active? What URL are you on?

I'm not sure if you're part of the Firefox team, but either way sorry I don't remember exactly the circumstances. But it was on Firefox 27 - Mac OSX 10.8 - any page.

Any page that had the dev tools open froze for about 1 to 2 seconds when switching back to it.

Re: Firefox 29

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Post by dom96 »

I must say I am impressed. When I saw the screenshots of the new UI I thought that I would not like it but now that it's finally landed in stable I find it really nice. I was afraid that the new tabs would behave too much like Chrome's (when a lot of tabs are present they all become smaller), I'm glad this is not the case. I also think that making only the selected tab curved and keeping the rest a straight shape was a good call.

Apart from the UI changes I noticed that memory usage went down considerably. But we'll see how it behaves after some prolonged usage.

The one weird thing I noticed was that my bookmarks are gone. I'm not sure if this happened in this release, or some previous one, or whether I accidentally deleted them somehow.

Re: Firefox 29

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Post by kennywinker »

On an iOS device this page informs me firefox isn't available for iOS. There is no link to view the contents of the page, so I'm locked out of finding out what's new in Firefox 29 until I'm off mobile. Consider adding a "full site" link, or a "view desktop version" link.

Re: Firefox 29

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Post by nebstrebor »

wahsd wrote: post #315
conductor wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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 As a user, I want separate edit bars for separate functions. I don't want Google know everything I type (or mistype) in the address bar. When I type foobar in the address bar please give me anything that returned the web server at foo…

I don't understand the issue. alt+d for address bar ctrl+k for search bar. What's so complicated?

And I assume you also don't understand why anyone might prefer to use an IDE instead of vim/emacs...

Re: Firefox 29

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Post by mnemonik »

pjmlp wrote: post #62
sawrubh wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any particular feature you would like, that is missing?

- The whole resources view - JavaScript profiling (heap, cpu, events) - DOM events monitoring and breakpoints. - JavaScript code completion

> The whole resources view

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=926449

Here's a screencap of the WIP (ignore the text): https://bug970517.bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=841...

> JavaScript profiling (heap, cpu, events)

We have CPU profiling now, but we are in the process of reworking the UI to make it more useful and include a better presentation for events and how they fit into that picture.

I'm working on memory tooling. Here is some more info: http://fitzgeraldnick.com/weblog/54/

And here is a design mockup (won't be exactly like this): https://people.mozilla.org/~dhenein/devtools/memtools/#/memo...

> DOM events monitoring and breakpoints.

We have break on dom events already: http://i.imgur.com/RDy7BXy.jpg

What do mean by monitoring? Would be interested in hearing more about what you're talking about and the use cases.

> JavaScript code completion

We have had this in the console for a long time, and it is coming in the scratchpad very soon: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=968896

Re: Firefox 29

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Post by barrkel »

Livven wrote: post #316
barrkel wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I run Firefox with a lot of plugins. I rely on the status bar (add-on bar) to keep many of the plugin notification / configuration buttons out of my toolbar. From my perspective, Firefox is working hard to drive me away, by removing its distinguishing features that make it different from Chrome.

That's why the new hamburger menu is so awesome. You can put all the addon buttons that you don't want taking up space on the main toolbar in there.

That would be great if they didn't also display status.
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