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Re: Firefox 64 Released

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Post by untog »

fao_ wrote: post #33
jjordan wrote: post #15

Is this the version that kills Live Bookmarks? Some of us FF old-timers are hopelessly reliant on these things, and it's, as far as I have found, the fastest way to quickly scan lists of headlines from all your favorite sites at once. Seriously, one click and you can quickly mouse over the sites on your bookmarks toolbar to consume hundreds of headlines. I really, REALLY hate that they're killing this feature, but th…

> but this addon promises to restore it Mozilla did the same with tab groups, then the addon was abandoned. The replacement that is compatible with the new form of extension isn't able to unload the tabs, just hide them, which undoes most of the performance benefits. [abraham simpson voice] It'll happen to you too! [/abraham simpson voice] /jk

> Mozilla did the same with tab groups, then the addon was abandoned.

Wouldn't that indicate that the extension was not that widely used, and as such Mozilla were correct in removing it from the central codebase?

Re: Firefox 64 Released

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Post by jniedrauer »

iod wrote: post #47

Soon Wayland support is coming in Firefox 65 (works in beta/nightly already¹)! But have to wait until next month² for that. ¹ https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=635134 ² https://wiki.mozilla.org/Release_Management/Calendar

You have no idea how excited I am for this. I use sway as my daily driver since it supports HiDPI so much better than i3, but the one caveat to that has been firefox and xwayland. Once this ships, sway will have nearly flawless HiDPI support.

Re: Firefox 64 Released

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Post by 51lver »

lonk wrote: post #31

Firefox is in a major version number race status with minor fixes.

It's all been downhill since 3.x... If they could put the current engine behind the 3.x series interface, I'd be one happy camper.

I mean, other than the fact all "modern" websites suck now too.

Re: Firefox 64 Released

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Post by alvar0 »

jjordan wrote: post #15

Is this the version that kills Live Bookmarks? Some of us FF old-timers are hopelessly reliant on these things, and it's, as far as I have found, the fastest way to quickly scan lists of headlines from all your favorite sites at once. Seriously, one click and you can quickly mouse over the sites on your bookmarks toolbar to consume hundreds of headlines. I really, REALLY hate that they're killing this feature, but th…

You can use firefox ESR until it too gets phased out: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/

Re: Firefox 64 Released

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Post by sioux77 »

rerx wrote: post #2

Does it come with Mac performance improvements?

If this release makes it actually usable on MacOS I would be so happy. Everyone says to use FireFox here, but they don't realize that it runs horribly on machines that a lot of people use to develop on.

Reading the release notes:

  Improved performance for Mac and Linux users, by enabling link time optimization (Clang LTO). (Clang LTO was enabled for Windows users in Firefox 63.)
Doesn't seem like this fixes the high CPU issue on MacOS.

Maybe in another few dozen releases they'll fix it. Doesn't Mozilla realize how many people develop on MacOS? Everyone I know develops on a Mac.

Re: Firefox 64 Released

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Post by Jaruzel »

mindcrime wrote: post #23
mindcrime wrote: post #11

Did they fix the horrendously ugly tab-bar yet?

Answering my own question... it is, indeed, markedly better than the last new release I tried. It was really janky looking for a while. It still doesn't look as clean as Chrome's tab bar, but it's reasonable now. So props to the Mozilla team on that.

I actually prefer the old 'triangle' Chrome tab bar.... the new curvy Chrome one is horrible.

Re: Firefox 64 Released

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Post by pmoriarty »

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.

Is there a canonical list of all the environment variables Firefox respects and what they do?

Re: Firefox 64 Released

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Post by bowersbros »

chrisseaton wrote: post #37
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.

> because “everyone has trackpads”. No, they don’t. Don't most mice have scrolling as well? It's not about trackpads.

Things like large documents don't make that any easier though. Scrolling through a large document can take a while, but a scrollbar allows you to get to somewhere else often quite a lot faster.

Imagine you cmd + F a phrase and there are 200 responses separated into like 4 chunks of a document. It can be useful to scroll to the start of each chunk to get the context of them.

Re: Firefox 64 Released

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Post by pard68 »

O1111OOO wrote: post #50

RSS is dead... I have a local html page devoted to news. An entry for a specific site will see at least two urls: The main site's URL and a link to it's RSS feed. Linking to the feed directly was a great way to bypass all the modern garbage on the home page to see a simple list of articles (not unlike HN's home page). It's borked now... None of my RSS links render. Chromium was very bad at this but at least it render…

I believe that the FF RSS reader is still available via extension. I am not 100% certain but I seem to recall hearing that in a podcast which covered the pending demise of standard RSS support in FF.

Re: Firefox 64 Released

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Post by dilap »

Still no bounce scroll on mac makes this dead in the water for me.

Folks, the UI look and feel stuff really matters. You can't treat a platform like a second-class citizen and hope to gain widespread adoption.

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