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Firefox Release 89.0

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Re: Firefox Release 89.0

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Post by ProAm »

blibble wrote: post #413
ProAm wrote: post #230

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It makes me dread taking their monthly releases. I wish they would decouple security fixes with everything else. My address bar is permanently broken, I cannot delete previously viewed sites as suggestions at all anymore.

I switched from gmail to another provider and I just couldn't get rid of "gmail" when searching for "mail" deleting and re-importing history/bookmarks did nothing, but what did eventually work was opening the sqlite table and deleting the rows manually...

Silly question and I know I can google it but how hard was it to change the sqllite table? (identifying the records, etc..)

Re: Firefox Release 89.0

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Post by buu700 »

buu700 wrote: post #309
robbyking wrote: post #250

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One of my biggest complaints about Firefox is how much work I have to do in my userChrome.css to make it look nice. My current one is almost 400 lines and it's mostly adding separators/element padding, changing border radiuses and disabling hover and focus styles.

I just use MaterialFox ( https://github.com/muckSponge/MaterialFox ), which makes Firefox look more or less like Chrome: https://i.imgur.com/gYwrGjK.png Edit: Welp, the new Firefox update kinda broke MaterialFox: https://i.imgur.com/biLz0e2.png

All that being said, just using the new UI out of the box actually looks great to me too: https://i.imgur.com/WUaiRUV.png

I never wanted a carbon copy of Chrome, just something that looked good, so I'm glad to see Firefox provide a nicer default experience and add its own unique style. It's actually pretty similar to MaterialFox anyway, aside from the "floating" tab style and slightly higher vertical space usage.

Re: Firefox Release 89.0

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Post by blibble »

ProAm wrote: post #461
blibble wrote: post #413

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I switched from gmail to another provider and I just couldn't get rid of "gmail" when searching for "mail" deleting and re-importing history/bookmarks did nothing, but what did eventually work was opening the sqlite table and deleting the rows manually...

Silly question and I know I can google it but how hard was it to change the sqllite table? (identifying the records, etc..)

very easy

I found the file with strings | grep (was "places.sqlite")

sqlite3 places.sqlite then found the row with .dump, then deleted with DELETE FROM moz_places WHERE id = XXX:

Re: Firefox Release 89.0

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Post by Narishma »

darkwater wrote: post #325
vvilliamperez wrote: post #323

I liked the UI changes, except that they removed Compact Mode due to "Low Engagement" Why is that even a metric for a browser UI? Are they putting ads in the settings? It's now hidden by this bool in about:config, `preference browser.compactmode.show `

Because an option visible in the UI that nobody is using is visual clutter. You still have it hidden in about:config as you say.

It was not visible in the UI before. It was very hard to find, which is probably why not many people are using it.

Re: Firefox Release 89.0

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Post by pteraspidomorph »

gary_0 wrote: post #367
myfonj wrote: post #293

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I find Page Info (Ctrl+I, [1]) dialogue pretty useful: especially list of all loaded media and information presented in Security tab is something that you could dig in devtools quite cumbersomely or not at all. [1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-page-info-windo...

I wish you could enable/disable JavaScript from that dialog.

uBlock origin has a per-website disable javascript button. It's only 2 clicks if you have the uBlock origin button in your toolbar.

Re: Firefox Release 89.0

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Post by megous »

arkitaip wrote: post #453
megous wrote: post #196

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Is there any way to make page inspector work on browser chrome to see xul tree/css? Searching on the internet for "firefox chrome inspector" is just ridiculously frustrating because of naming conflict with the other browser. Hmm, looking at css, it's still possible to toggle browser.proton.enabled to false, to get at least some of the old UI back (tabs will be less crappy), but the new "color" theme will persist.

I've used this tutorial [0] to get the built-in inspector to work with Fx chrome elements. [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/FirefoxCSS/comments/73dvty/tutorial...

Thank you.

Re: Firefox Release 89.0

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Post by teddyfrozevelt »

cecilpl2 wrote: post #422
1_player wrote: post #346

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My issue with the context menu is "Search [selection] with Google" is in the middle of the context menu, after "Print selection" and "Take screenshot". Why? I cannot be the only one that uses that functionality 100 times a day at least, and it's so not conveniently placed I used to misclick "View selection source" instead a dozen times a day, and now I'll be taking screenshots or opening the print dialog by mistake.…

It's awful. "Search with Google" is actually the only reason I ever use the context menu. Copy? Keyboard/mouse buttons for that. Select All? Why would I want to do that when I just made a selection? Print Selection? How common can that actually be, to justify being positions above "search the internet for this thing"?? Take screenshot???? Really?? Why does "Inspect Accessibility Properties" get real estate there? Tha…

You can hide "Inspect Accessibility Properties" by unchecking the Accessibility menu in the developer tools settings.

Re: Firefox Release 89.0

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Post by throwaway41597 »

JohnTHaller wrote: post #414
throwaway41597 wrote: post #372

This version is painfully slow for me. Yet, starting with a clean profile seems to do the trick. Does anyone know how to troubleshoot it so I don't need to lose all my configuration. I have only 3 addons, but 5000 tabs/21 windows. Also a decade of random about:config tweaks which I suspect are the cause. Issues started with version 87 but got a lot worse today. (I'm on Ubuntu with mozilla.org binaries, Intel Haswell)…

You could try backing up your profile and then doing a refresh: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/refresh-firefox-reset-a...

That's what I was trying to avoid to be honest. I'd like to keep the 5000 tabs and the tab containers. Maybe I should try migrating to a new profile. Thanks anyway!

Re: Firefox Release 89.0

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Post by sfink »

gtf21 wrote: post #447
lulalalalala wrote: post #437

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Just want to say "Take screenshot" is the only reason I use context menu.

Yes! Me too and so when a site hijacks right click it's a little infuriating (but I have now learnt the keyboard shortcut).

Also I think holding shift while right-clicking will show the context menu even if the site hijacks right click. (And for some sites, I'm pretty happy with a custom context menu, so it's good to have both available.)

Re: Firefox Release 89.0

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Post by sfink »

acqq wrote: post #166
throwaddzuzxd wrote: post #147

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Don't be over dramatic. It's still tabs and an URL bar, there's nothing to adjust to.

Even the back button is wrong in the new version. Previously it spanned up to the left edge of the window. Now it's moved to the right, lacks immediate feedback and then it is drawn to the right with some new empty space for no reason but to make it harder to hit the back button, the most used button of the interface. The visual cue with the circle around it is also gone. Even the lines used to draw the arrow are thi…

Sounds like there's something going wrong with your installation or profile. You might try resetting it.

But I also realized I would never notice any of what you're talking about, because I pretty much exclusively use alt-left arrow for back and alt-right arrow for forward. You might try that for a while to see if it sticks in your muscle memory.

(Though it's likely that other things are mangled in your setup if something like the back button is misbehaving.)

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