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Re: Firefox 23 is available

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Post by CmdrKrool »

Nasty surprise for me: 'Remove the ability to not "Always show the tab bar"' https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=855370

'browser.tabs.autoHide' config also removed, tab bar now always visible no matter what.

Add-on to restore old behaviour: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/hide-tab-bar-... (There is an unnecessary gradient to the background of my navigation toolbar now though.)

Discussion threads of indignant catharsis: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.support.fire... http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=2687123

Re: Firefox 23 is available

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Post by [deleted] »

nhebb wrote: post #21
acomjean wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I love firefox too. But for me it always starts slowing down half way through the day (about the same time as I do). Maybe its firebug? This has happened on windows and mac. Restarting it makes it work better, like myself after lunch. Its still my favorite browser though.

Go to about:memory then click the "Minimize memory usage" button. P.S. If anyone knows how to add that button to the FF toolbar, I would consider you a minor deity for at least a whole day.

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Re: Firefox 23 is available

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Post by oinksoft »

dchest wrote: post #10

Haha, the note about removing tag is enclosed in .

Is there any good reason for removing the distinctive behavior of an element that so many older websites use, even if it is considered a design faux pas? History should not be destroyed.

Re: Firefox 23 is available

#44

Post by sbi »

I see that Mozilla is now signing hashes of Firefox downloads with a 4096-bit RSA key. But the key used to sign firefox-23.0.tar.bz2 (id 0x057CC3EB15A0A4BC) is only self-signed and was created three weeks ago. It's not on pgp.mit.edu. Is there any actual way to "validate the authenticity of these keys in an out-of-band manner" as the KEYS file recommends?

Re: Firefox 23 is available

#45

Post by millerm »

CapitalistCartr wrote: post #23

So what about "Disable Javascript" option to be removed in Firefox 23? Was it? That is a dealbreaker for me.

Well, for savvy users:

In the location bar type about:config

Search for javascript.enabled

You can turn it off there by simply double-clicking the entry.

Re: Firefox 23 is available

#46

Post by nfoz »

polyvisual wrote: post #32
6cxs2hd6 wrote: post #6

I'm really looking forward to the overhaul on the road map that moves more things off the main UI thread. I keep switching from Chrome to Firefox for reasons of principle ... and keep switching back to Chrome for reasons of performance. I hate myself, but can't help it. Firefox will briefly freeze scrolling a long page. Firefox will beach ball for 15 seconds after resuming laptop from sleep. And so on. None of it is…

Yup, I have very similar problems. Google+ is a great example - it slows to a crawl after a few minutes of browsing - it particularly becomes unusable when I scroll down and it loads more content via AJAX. I'm on Xubuntu 13.04.

Reminds me of early web when Microsoft's websites always worked a lot better in IE than other browsers. And maybe they still do.

Re: Firefox 23 is available

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Post by glogla »

6cxs2hd6 wrote: post #6

I'm really looking forward to the overhaul on the road map that moves more things off the main UI thread. I keep switching from Chrome to Firefox for reasons of principle ... and keep switching back to Chrome for reasons of performance. I hate myself, but can't help it. Firefox will briefly freeze scrolling a long page. Firefox will beach ball for 15 seconds after resuming laptop from sleep. And so on. None of it is…

Really? I switched from Chrome to Firefox because the Firefox is way faster on my MacBook. Do you have any heavy mods installed?

Re: Firefox 23 is available

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Post by Zelphyr »

oinksoft wrote: post #43
dchest wrote: post #10

Haha, the note about removing tag is enclosed in .

Is there any good reason for removing the distinctive behavior of an element that so many older websites use, even if it is considered a design faux pas? History should not be destroyed.

I agree that history should not be destroyed and in sites that have old pages with the blink tag it won't be. But I think its fine for the browser makers to remove old cruft. Especially in this case where the behavior can easily be replicated in Javascript.

Re: Firefox 23 is available

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Post by mhurron »

oinksoft wrote: post #43
dchest wrote: post #10

Haha, the note about removing tag is enclosed in .

Is there any good reason for removing the distinctive behavior of an element that so many older websites use, even if it is considered a design faux pas? History should not be destroyed.

Non-standard element.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_element

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