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Is this related to Firefox DRM implementation?
no. see this post which has meanwhile hit the frontpage for better discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21990505
The bug also mentions openh264 but it's BSD licensed so I'm confused as to why anyone considers it non-free.
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You can completely disable animations in accessibility settings.
Do you mean "Reduce Motion" under Display?
I've been using Firefox for the last 10 or so years. (Used the "new Chrome-Opera" for a while but went back soon) These recent developments are awesome. As a frontend developer, I also find the devtools absolutely competitive with Chrome's. The default ad- and tracker blocking is nice, I only need to use uBblock Origin for Youtube (whitelisting only that), since Youtube became nearly unusable due to the massive amoun…
> I only need to use uBblock Origin for Youtube (whitelisting only that), since Youtube became nearly unusable due to the massive amount of ads. Depends how much you're using it, but as it's pretty much become the primary source of entertainment in our household I decided the most practical and ethical option was to just pay for it.
I enjoy ads-free YouTube experience as I’m located in Sudan. It always surprise me the amount of ads I get when I access the internet from a different location!
I'm honestly surprised that we aren't talking about tab behavior here. Literally the only reason I keep using Chrome is that no matter how many tabs I have open, they're all visible at the top. There's visual persistence of state. On Firefox, even with the trick of reducing minimum tab width, my tabs overflow and I have to click through to get different groups of tabs. It is utterly maddening and I don't know why eve…
I'm completely opposite. I can't use Chrome once my tabs shrink down to this: ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| With Firefox no matter how many tabs I have open, they all remain usable. There's also "% name" keyword search in address bar that finds open tabs, and check out Tree Style Tabs extension.
There's no tab scrolling, but the many tabs that are visible don't break any more.
I'm honestly surprised that we aren't talking about tab behavior here. Literally the only reason I keep using Chrome is that no matter how many tabs I have open, they're all visible at the top. There's visual persistence of state. On Firefox, even with the trick of reducing minimum tab width, my tabs overflow and I have to click through to get different groups of tabs. It is utterly maddening and I don't know why eve…
My other bugbear with Chrome tabs is the inability to make all new tabs get added to the end of the list rather than after the active tab, in FF it's just a simple `about:config` option: `browser.tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent=false`
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Just set "apz.allow_zooming" to true in about:config. Pinch zoom works for me on macOS at least, didn't try on Windows yet. Works smoothly, just like in Safari and Chrome. Perhaps there are still some minor bugs and they don't enable it by default?
Nice try. It works by pinching but double tap and smart zoom to cursor. And if you zoom in somehow, you cannot pan over the page because Firefox act like you are seeing full screen and trying to go back or forward in browser history.
Need to first pan at least a bit vertically, then it allows horizontal panning. But yeah, clearly not a finished feature yet. Still nice to see there's progress, and it's already mostly usable with the mentioned caveats.
I still dont get why firefox is 1 to 2 seconds slow doing everything. We already have uorgin block and https everywhere and privacy beaver. They just want to make their browser even more bloated. And lets not even talk about linux distro. On my xubuntu its even slower than chromium or chrome. Here is my advice: Invest everything on speed. Your user already know about privacy and stuff. That why less than 9% of us are…
Firefox keeps getting better. I really want to switch. The only thing that’s holding me back is the design. It just doesn’t look as modern as Chrome or Brave. The back button is a different height than the search bar; the tab container doesn’t line up with the search from the left side of the window. And it has a weird mix of slightly-square and rounded buttons, which makes it feel like a second-class browser. I know…
If you’re interested in having Chrome’s look in Firefox, check out MaterialFox. https://github.com/muckSponge/MaterialFox
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…
Netscape (1994) -> IE -> Firefox (for a long time) -> Opera (briefly, but never liked it) -> Safari (a return to the Mac platform) -> Chrome (for a long time) -> Firefox (2 months ago)
I never thought I'd return to Firefox but here I am. Browser preferences can certainly shift over time.