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Firefox 69.0 Released

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Re: Firefox 69.0 Released

#42

Post by m-p-3 »

epalm wrote: post #38
kuu wrote: post #2

For our users in the US or using the en-US browser, we are shipping a new “New Tab” page experience that connects you to the best of Pocket’s content. Uhmmm...

What the hell is "the best of Pocket's content" ? I switched to FireFox to avoid stuff like this.

Mozilla / Firefox owns Pocket.

Re: Firefox 69.0 Released

#43

Post by afturner »

kuu wrote: post #2

For our users in the US or using the en-US browser, we are shipping a new “New Tab” page experience that connects you to the best of Pocket’s content. Uhmmm...

about:config; search pocket; delete api keys, disable stuff, be happy

Re: Firefox 69.0 Released

#44

Post by m-p-3 »

mbesto wrote: post #25
denzil_correa wrote: post #20

> macOS users on dual-graphics-card machines (like MacBook Pro) will switch back to the low-power GPU more aggressively, saving battery life. macOS user base can now consider FF as a viable browser alternative.

Please be the case - this is reason #1 why I haven't switched.

You could try Firefox Nightly to see it for yourself ;)

Re: Firefox 69.0 Released

#46

Post by stefan_ »

kuu wrote: post #2

For our users in the US or using the en-US browser, we are shipping a new “New Tab” page experience that connects you to the best of Pocket’s content. Uhmmm...

Oh my god they are still going with this Pocket thing. Firefox is a perfect example of the paradox of plenty.

Re: Firefox 69.0 Released

#47

Post by megous »

solarkraft wrote: post #29
plopz wrote: post #7

> Firefox no longer loads userChrome.css or userContent.css by default improving start-up performance. Users who wish to customize Firefox by using these files can set the toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets preference to true to restore this ability. How much of a performance improvement does this make?

Holy shit, just why? It makes virtually no difference. Neither applying CSS (they already use a lot) nor loading a file take any time.

Yeah, sounds like a non-reason, my user CSS was like 5 lines.

I'll have to run an extension that will be injecting JS/CSS into every page, to get the same effect. That will likely be slower. Not a speed improvement exactly.

At least it's more powerful. I can replace any rule inside already loaded CSS. Useful to escape this braindead age of "font-size < 16px && font-weight < 400".

Re: Firefox 69.0 Released

#48

Post by veidr »

m-p-3 wrote: post #42
epalm wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What the hell is "the best of Pocket's content" ? I switched to FireFox to avoid stuff like this.

Mozilla / Firefox owns Pocket.

You are literally correct, but that doesn't answer the question at all.

Re: Firefox 69.0 Released

#49

Post by anewguy9000 »

kuu wrote: post #2

For our users in the US or using the en-US browser, we are shipping a new “New Tab” page experience that connects you to the best of Pocket’s content. Uhmmm...

the new tab page is the first thing i replace after installing ublock origin:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/yet-another-s...

Re: Firefox 69.0 Released

#50

Post by Astrobastard »

bobcostas55 wrote: post #34

The font rendering on the mozilla website is absolutely horrific (Firefox 68/Windows 7): https://i.imgur.com/JMpq9Xe.png

These settings (in about:config) makes font rendering look near identical to Chrome for me:

  gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.enhanced_contrast = 0
  gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.rendering_mode = 5
  gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.force_gdi_classic_for_families = ""
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