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Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by whoopdedo »

fishbacon wrote: post #23
typon wrote: post #7

The picture in picture is such a great feature. Thanks Firefox devs :)

Picture in picture was a feature I didn't know I wanted all along. I often had a window open only playing a youtube video, having it be native to the browser and always on top is such a great feature.

Open in new window. Resize window. Right-click title bar, select "Always on Top".

App developers spend a lot of their time making up for the poor decisions of OS developers. A good window manager would give you tabs for free, PiP (aka an always-on-top window) for free, dark mode for free. Instead OS devs go overboard in simplifying things to the point that app devs have to pay the cost of delivering what users want.

Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by [deleted] »

krbzsq wrote: post #47

Okay, so I don't really post to HN and this may seem like a silly complaint but Firefox's management of theming just seems off to me. I use macOS, I don't fiddle about with my wallpaper very much and so this stains Firefox's top bar with an ugly brown tint. I could switch to the light theme, however when I do so Firefox no longer respects my system change to dark mode. Does anyone else get bothered by this? Is there…

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Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by NaNtales »

harikb wrote: post #35

What do people use for “Profiles”. I need ability to switch easily between profiles (different identities) without going to command line. I also don’t want to install a third party extension for that if possible

There's the first-party extension, Multi-Account Containers[1].

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...

Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by Waterluvian »

splatcollision wrote: post #33
oneeyedpigeon wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you a devtools user? How do the Firefox ones compare? I speak as someone who originally switched to Chrome (having been a Firefox user since the Phoenix days!) specifically for the devtools — it's pretty much the biggest factor in my browser choice.

You get used to it - UI is slightly different in some areas, but it lacks for no major features and performance is good, like firefox in general. I've found it's extremely valuable to be developing sites in Firefox using the dev tools simply to help catch issues that the rest of the team ignores as they're all stuck on Chrome. Fights monocultures by default!

I remember Firefox being seriously lacking in some WebSocket dev tools that I needed. But I checked again and they're there. So it seems like they are actively improving the dev tools.

Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by thatcherc »

harikb wrote: post #35

What do people use for “Profiles”. I need ability to switch easily between profiles (different identities) without going to command line. I also don’t want to install a third party extension for that if possible

Firefox has a Container Tabs extension which does just this - the defaults are profiles for Work, Personal, Banking, and Social, and you can add more. You do have to install it but I think the extension is from Mozilla itself, so it's not exactly third-party. It's just features that are already in the nightly builds as I understand it [0]. Personally I've really enjoyed it so far!

[0] - https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers

Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by zamadatix »

krbzsq wrote: post #47

Okay, so I don't really post to HN and this may seem like a silly complaint but Firefox's management of theming just seems off to me. I use macOS, I don't fiddle about with my wallpaper very much and so this stains Firefox's top bar with an ugly brown tint. I could switch to the light theme, however when I do so Firefox no longer respects my system change to dark mode. Does anyone else get bothered by this? Is there…

If I'm reading your correctly you'd like to set FF to the light theme (or any theme) but continue to have dark mode pages? about:config browser.in-content.dark-mode true should do that.

Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by Moru »

makepanic wrote: post #31
oneeyedpigeon wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you a devtools user? How do the Firefox ones compare? I speak as someone who originally switched to Chrome (having been a Firefox user since the Phoenix days!) specifically for the devtools — it's pretty much the biggest factor in my browser choice.

Sadly, the performance inspector is still pretty useless compared to what Chromium is offering.

Sadly noone cares what the performance inspector says. Newspapers just get slower and slower. Our local newspaper takes 15 seconds to first visible paint and another 5-10 seconds to usefulness on my phone...

Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by [deleted] »

nabergh wrote: post #42

My biggest gripe with Firefox is how it opens tabs. If I open a new tab in Chrome, it opens just to the right of the current one which is nice because it keeps related tabs together. In Firefox it opens to the far right which is annoying. I tried installing an extension to fix this but it was buggy. Only recently did I discover that I could dig into about:config to enable the behavior I consider expected (and I'm sur…

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