Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Firefox 72.0

mozilla.org

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

411–420 of 543 posts

Re: Firefox 72.0

#411

Post by smcleod »

makecheck wrote: post #170
fauigerzigerk wrote: post #84

Here's my Firefox wishlist: - Open new windows more quickly. Firefox feels sluggish (on Mac) even though it isn't, simply because it opens new windows far more slowly than Safari or Chrome. - Use the platform native key store. I don't want my passwords stored unencrypted on disk. But I don't want to enter a separate master password either. I do want to use fingerprint/face unlock on mobile to reveal passwords. - Give…

The window-opening animation might be a factor (applies across all of macOS). You can disable it for all windows in all applications using a terminal command: defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSAutomaticWindowAnimationsEnabled -bool NO You might need to restart apps to see this change.

That is very handy preference, thank you for that!

Re: Firefox 72.0

#412

Post by thrwaway69 »

coldfire wrote: post #376

As a long time Chrome user, and someone who (admittedly) said to a FF fan about an year ago, that it's too late for FF to catch up to Chrome now. I gave FF another shot about 6 months ago, and I'm liking it more every month since then. It has been my primary browser outside of work, the major reason I use Chrome now is for Chrome Dev Tools. Also, some websites don't behave well in FF and I find that most of the time…

Both Chrome and Firefox doesn't work for me. I am sad how tab management isn't given priority on both. Chrome is especially annoying with it hiding the tabs after certain number of them and Firefox takes too much space and crashes often. There is no tab stacking, auto closing, sorting, filtering and multi previews built in.

I switched to vilvadi last year and it has been a breeze.

On mobile, I don't have any preference but I avoid firefox preview now that it has been crashing on top ranking Alexa sites. I would appreciate better tab management here too because I have to switch between 5 browsers to just manage them all without them crashing.

Re: Firefox 72.0

#413

Post by Caspy7 »

bambax wrote: post #145
Twirrim wrote: post #40

"Firefox replaces annoying notification request pop-ups with a more delightful experience, by default for all users. The pop-ups no longer interrupt your browsing, in its place, a speech bubble will appear in the address bar when you interact with the site." That should pretty much kill off a lot of the notification request crap, especially if Chrome follows suit. I can envision the conversion rate massively falling…

I never accept any notification from anywhere on desktop or mobile (except some calls) and am all the happier. Don't let others control your agenda.

In Firefox Notification prompts can be disabled entirely in settings.

In preferences type 'notifications', click the Settings button and check the box to "Block new requests asking to allow notifications"

Re: Firefox 72.0

#414

Post by Caspy7 »

nojvek wrote: post #408
aganame wrote: post #392

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Note also that enabling webrender might make your experience (including performance) worse.

Why would that be ?

Because it's already enabled on hardware where it's known to work well but disabled where it has issues.

Re: Firefox 72.0

#415

Post by martin_a »

School-Cotton wrote: post #396
martin_a wrote: post #183

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> France has a more permissive surveillance regime than the US[0], and as a foreign (US) user I have no recourse if they spy on me. Hahahahaha, enough with the jokes. Comparing France to the US... Thinking you actually had some kind or chance of recourse against any of the three letter agencies. You are funny! > Note the "for commercial purposes" in the first sentence, and the "to sell it to third parties" in the sec…

> With Google you can be sure that they sell your data to _anybody_ This is not true. There is no documented case of Google selling any user's personal data to anyone.

Okay, fair point. Googles' business is literally selling access to all the data they have collected from you. So they are not selling your data, only the access to that data, that's right.

Re: Firefox 72.0

#416

Post by glandium »

amelius wrote: post #346

Password fields are broken in Ubuntu 18.04 (Gnome Flashback Metacity), when using Firefox's Sync feature, (and without add-ons). This was a problem in recent versions, and is still a problem in version 72.

Are you saying this is what happens with the Ubuntu package or with the Mozilla binary? If the former, it could be https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1601707

Re: Firefox 72.0

#417

Post by cerberusss »

whoopdedo wrote: post #51
fishbacon wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Picture in picture was a feature I didn't know I wanted all along. I often had a window open only playing a youtube video, having it be native to the browser and always on top is such a great feature.

Open in new window. Resize window. Right-click title bar, select "Always on Top". App developers spend a lot of their time making up for the poor decisions of OS developers. A good window manager would give you tabs for free, PiP (aka an always-on-top window) for free, dark mode for free. Instead OS devs go overboard in simplifying things to the point that app devs have to pay the cost of delivering what users want.

> app developers spend a lot of their time making up for the poor decisions of OS developers

On the other hand, Firefox keeps the close button for tabs on the right, even in macOS where every close button is on the left.

Thankfully, I've found a bit of userChrome that corrects this, as a workaround.

Re: Firefox 72.0

#418

Post by skrebbel »

andrewkdinh wrote: post #364
humblebee wrote: post #319

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't remember the website, but I ran across one on hacker news a while ago that had the best cookie popover I've ever seen. It floated over from the left hand side of the page. Had simple and clean UX allowing for user configuration of cookies. Felt a little more like a cookie control panel than a popup disclaimer. Allowed the user to select which cookies to allow with a small description of what they did. Wish I…

I believe you’re talking about metomic. Best cookie notice I’ve seen yet. https://metomic.io/

If this is the gold standard, the our standards are very low. It should be just as easy for me to say "no" as it is to say "yes", and Metomic has the same dark pattern as everybody else that saying "no" requires a lot of clicking and careful reading, while click "yes" is easy. Seriously, in Metomic it's even multiple panels! And every single one has multiple paragraphs I have to read! Whereas "yes" is a single click and the panel is out of my face. It's crap and it's intellectually insulting.

There's no law anywhere that says you need to ask permission for storing cookies. You can perfectly well make a cookie-based login without a cookie banner. This bullshit about un-uncheckable "essential cookies" toggles has to go, you don't need permission for those, they don't need to be in the dialog. The GDPR even specifies this, albeit too vaguely: it should be as easy to accept tracking as it is to reject it, and in practice even a startup 100% focused on solving this problem gives that rule the middle finger.

Seriously, fuck this shit. The banner should say "We'd like to track your behavior so we can improve our service / sell better ads / whatever¹. [Ok] [Rather not]". It's not that hard. Only give Metomic your money if you think your visitors are idiots.

¹ (strike through what does not apply)

Re: Firefox 72.0

#419

Post by timlyo »

Nightshaxx wrote: post #217
hedora wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Slack has started disabling unrelated features if you disallow notifications. For instance, you can’t add channels to the “ignore @here” list if notifications are off. I’m sure this’ll get worse over time. FF needs a “disable notifications, but lie to the website and say they’re enabled” button.

I feel like a good extension to make would be a lying extension. Make it able to lie to a site about any API and have set configurations to deal with specific types of behavior.

Maybe even one that can randomise some settings to throw off fingerprinting.

Re: Firefox 72.0

#420

Post by iso947 »

zamadatix wrote: post #289

I know the hacks blog tends to stick to "what web technologies changed" but 72 also introduces "Experimental support for using client certificates from the OS certificate store can be enabled by setting the preference security.osclientcerts.autoload to true (Windows only)." which has always been a huge PITA for me while testing and many interested in these technology changes are probably interested in this flag (thou…

Safari is terrible with client certs - it seems to store the default on a per page basis rather than per domain. Changing that involves diving deep into keychain.

Chrome usually works but yesterday a colleague had problems where the dialog asking which cert to use wouldn’t respond.

Firefox just works.

It’s a shame that certificates aren’t used more widely. They don’t work at all in captive portal pages on OS X or iphones :(

Post reply on HN