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Firefox 62.0 Released

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Re: Firefox 62.0 Released

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Post by bhrgunatha »

chrisseaton wrote: post #36
callinyouin wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been using FF on my 2015 MBP as my daily driver for at least 2 years and haven't had any problems. I mean, it's a battery hog for sure, but no more so than Chrome or any other modern browser with dozens of tabs open. Every once in a rare while flash will cause CPU usage to spike like crazy, but that isn't much of a problem anymore for obvious reasons. YMMV though I guess, it seems like a lot of people are still…

What do you mean by daily driver?

It usually means the main, default or preferred application.

Re: Firefox 62.0 Released

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Post by robrtsql »

TremendousJudge wrote: post #17
Aardwolf wrote: post #5

"Firefox Home (the default New Tab) now allows users to display up to 4 rows of top sites, Pocket stories, and highlights" Yay, I always wanted to see more spam in it! (had the "fun" experience of needing to figure out again how to disable new spammy things from new tab page on mobile despite having already done so before)

...there's a little cog wheel at the top right?

Yes, but Firefox doesn't save the changes you make here to your account sync. Every time you install Firefox somewhere new, you have to change it again if you don't want to see sponsored content.

Re: Firefox 62.0 Released

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Post by androidgirl »

phakding wrote: post #23

With all these posters complaining, am I the only one who is totally satisfied with Firefox? I never had many issues using firefox. I did use Chrome briefly, but came back to firefox. If it matters, I mostly use firefox on Debian Linux and am also not a web developer.

I love Firefox! The performance is great, it feels zippy, and I love their reader mode and straightforward ui.

Re: Firefox 62.0 Released

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Post by zeveb »

stjohnswarts wrote: post #47
SmellyGeekBoy wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well that can't be very personalised - those 4 links are exactly what I'm getting too!

I don't think it gets personalized unless you "login" to the your firefox account.

Which account, as I've documented before, is insecure; you should not have a Firefox account and should not store passwords, browsing history, bookmarks or any other privacy- or security-related data with Mozilla's system.

(short version: Mozilla can target you with a small piece of JavaScript to steal your password, then use it offline to decrypt your data)

Re: Firefox 62.0 Released

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Post by toyg »

portaljacker wrote: post #41

Why remove descriptions from bookmarks? I know they're not the most useful thing, but I don't get the benefit of removing them.

I suspect it's simply "one less thing to worry about when we sync with the cloud".

Re: Firefox 62.0 Released

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Post by bovine3dom »

Coinciding with this release, Firefox 52 ESR is no longer supported, so no supported versions of Firefox support the legacy extensions.

I'm mentioning this here just so I can tell Vimperator / Pentadactyl / VimFx users that there are loads of options you can replace your old extensions with, some of which are... okay.

Links follow in increasing order of user-friendliness:

https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl [^]

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/surfingkeys_f...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vim-vixen/

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vimium-ff/

[^] Disclaimer: I develop this one. If you've tried it before in the past, now might be a good time to try it again. We've just pushed out a release that moved quite a lot of code around, hopefully eliminating a whole class of bugs, especially relating to ignore mode and multiple windows.

Re: Firefox 62.0 Released

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Post by skykooler »

smnrchrds wrote: post #28
Flimm wrote: post #3

This is the feature I'm most excited about this time: > “Reopen in Container” tab menu option appears for users with Containers that lets them choose to reopen a tab in a different container This is going to make containers even more useful.

If you are using containers, New container tab [0] and Switch Container [1] were essential add-ons. Now with this feature built-in, the latter is unnecessary. [0] Add Alt+C shortcut to open a new tab in current container: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/new-container... [1] Reopen current tab in container: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/switch-contai...

Now all we need is something to let us map shortcuts to open specific containers, e.g. alt+s to open a new tab in the shopping container. (I tried using Application Shortcuts on OSX, but a. they stop working after restarting Firefox and b. they don't work if a tab has full screen video because that hides Firefox's menu bar on all monitors.)

Re: Firefox 62.0 Released

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Post by toyg »

fbender wrote: post #8
vmsp wrote: post #2

I really want to change to Firefox but a while ago it was a huge battery drain on my mac. It had something to do with it not using CoreAnimation, I think. Does anyone know if this is still the case?

Do you use a Retina display by chance? In certain setups, Fx is known to use more energy in HiDPI mode. Try disabling it and see if it fixes your issue. To what I know, this issue is known to Moz and will be fixed in a few versions (it appears to be a complex issue that takes time to solve).

> In certain setups, Fx is known to use more energy in HiDPI mode. Try disabling it

"Hey, your laptop is too good, please cripple it!" is not a good answer, especially considering retina displays have been out for 6 years now (and I bet loads of Moz employees use them too).

I use Firefox almost exclusively, and still I wonder, sometimes, what the %$#%@ the "leadership" is thinking. They keep messing with crap like Pocket instead of concentrating on fundamentals like these.

Re: Firefox 62.0 Released

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Post by jancsika »

jdnier wrote: post #35
Aardwolf wrote: post #5

"Firefox Home (the default New Tab) now allows users to display up to 4 rows of top sites, Pocket stories, and highlights" Yay, I always wanted to see more spam in it! (had the "fun" experience of needing to figure out again how to disable new spammy things from new tab page on mobile despite having already done so before)

That this was the the first thing listed did not make me very interested in reading on. Favorite browser modification: set default page to about:blank

about:blank is my favorite web page.

I can add any content I want there.

Then if it phones home I have only myself to blame.

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