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Firefox 64 Released

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Post by nnain »

bane wrote: post #386

There's always been a look & feel problem for me with Firefox...something that seemed to be solved right out of the box with Chrome. I've not been able to put my finger on it, but I think this kind of small user-convenience stuff is part of it. It's not "features" per se, but more the feel of how the application works. It reminds me of old platform video games before Super Mario Bros. (and for a while after) Superfic…

Same here. I gave Firefox a fresh chance at v57 (Quantam), but I'm back to Chrome. It was fine honestly, no problems with performance or with what I could do. But Right after install, I spent several minutes in just fixing some very basic UI irritations. It had some extra-spacing on sides of the address bar, a 'heavy' looking menu bar, etc. (most users don't want to do that, and rightly so).

I don't mind the different styled settings or menu items at all. The balance (or lack thereof) between font-sizes/font-weights, line weights, the darker gray lines etc. is what perturbs me. Maybe they should look at making the UI look a little 'lighter', like Safari and Chrome.

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Post by owaislone »

moosingin3space wrote: post #38

Kind of a niche thing to comment on, but this release lands a commit I made that enables XDG desktop portals support in Firefox. If you're on KDE Plasma, you can run Firefox with the environment variable `GTK_USE_PORTAL=1` set and it will use KDE file selection dialogs.

Thank you! This is very cool. Would the logical next step be the auto enable this sort of thing based on the platform?

Re: Firefox 64 Released

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Post by owaislone »

kentosi wrote: post #172

Good work guys. For those using Firefox, I have one question. Is there any way to replicate Chrome's tab-to-search feature? It's literally the ONLY reason I'm still on Chrome. Let me explain by showing how I would search for "apples" in youtube across both browsers. Firefox: 1 - Ctrl+L (go to location bar) 2 - Type "you", press "down" to select youtube from history. 3 - Wait for site to load...... 4 - Click on search…

I use DuckDuckGo as my default search engine. Doing this is as simple as:

1 - Ctrl+L (go to location bar)

2 - Type "yt! apples"

3 - There is not step 3.

Re: Firefox 64 Released

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Post by madmax108 »

Every new release of Firefox makes the experience better and better. I'm glad Mozilla has started focusing on the browser again, not just as an "open alternative to chrome" but as the "best possible browser", which I truly believe Firefox today is :)

Every new release reminds me of this comic: http://www.stickycomics.com/computer-update/

As a tweet I read today[1] :

"Mozilla seems to be under the assumption that there are people out there who don't want them to win.

EVERYONE WANTS MOZILLA TO WIN!

Half the developers on the Chrome team want Mozilla to win.

We're all sort of terrified that Mozilla isn't going to win"

I'm glad there are more people embracing this attitude within Mozilla and the developer community.

[1] https://twitter.com/mikeal/status/1071134519976022017

Re: Firefox 64 Released

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Post by piyush_soni »

reubenmorais wrote: post #373
zeveb wrote: post #331

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Extensions used to have carte blanche to change the browser, which was a security risk … I don't buy that. It's my browser running on my computer, it's my choice whose code I choose to run on it. If, say, emacs or vi had this kind of handholding, neither one would be much more than a text editor.

Emacs and vi are used by programmers. Browsers are used by nearly every single person on the Internet. The threat model is completely different.

Time for a developers only Browser! Anyone wants to grab that? :)

Re: Firefox 64 Released

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Post by johnklos »

It'd be nice if one of these days Firefox were made portable again. Right now it really isn't an option, either to built or run, on anything without a shitton of memory.

Re: Firefox 64 Released

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Post by cerved »

Doctor_Fegg wrote: post #22

> The CSS Scrollbars Level 1 spec standardizes features for setting scrollbar width and color I would like these features to be standardised to hands-off-my-fricking-scrollbars. I’m fed up with impossible-to-grab 1px-wide scrollbars because “everyone has trackpads”. No, they don’t.

Every other browser allows styling scrollbars using CSS. Firefox was the only one that didn't and there's a 15 year old open bug on bugzilla about it.

The work around was to use JavaScript, just to make it work on Firefox.

It can now be implemented in CSS, which makes it really easy for you to disable or change your preference as well putting the responsibility of style on CSS and not some annoying JavaScript.

Re: Firefox 64 Released

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Post by molteanu »

madmax108 wrote: post #424

Every new release of Firefox makes the experience better and better. I'm glad Mozilla has started focusing on the browser again, not just as an "open alternative to chrome" but as the "best possible browser", which I truly believe Firefox today is :) Every new release reminds me of this comic: http://www.stickycomics.com/computer-update/ As a tweet I read today[1] : "Mozilla seems to be under the assumption that ther…

I don't want Mozilla to win. They broke backwards compatibility with the new Servo or whatever. That's a bug.

You wouldn't say that the new train carriage, which only works on the Bosnian gauge and not on the Standard gauge (EU, US) "makes the experience better and better" even if they have free wi-fi, air-conditioning, plenty of feet space, leather seats, panoramic sunroof etc. You can't even use it, so all the extras are useless.

I took Chromium, found the perfect plugins, and never looked back at Mozilla, after 10+ years of using it. If it's broken, you can't use it, even if it's fast.

Re: Firefox 64 Released

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Post by craftyguy »

madmax108 wrote: post #424

Every new release of Firefox makes the experience better and better. I'm glad Mozilla has started focusing on the browser again, not just as an "open alternative to chrome" but as the "best possible browser", which I truly believe Firefox today is :) Every new release reminds me of this comic: http://www.stickycomics.com/computer-update/ As a tweet I read today[1] : "Mozilla seems to be under the assumption that ther…

Is Mikeal Rogers with the chrome folks? Or are they with Mozilla? Because it's really not clear[0][1], and clarifying it seems necessary to legitimizing your post.

0. https://github.com/mikeal

1. https://mobile.twitter.com/mikeal?p=s

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