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Re: Firefox 29

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Post by lupin_sansei »

sentenza wrote: post #353
nandhp wrote: post #241

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> There isn't a feature in Chromium or Google Chrome that Firefox doesn't deliver. Multi-process browsing. It is incredibly annoying when my entire browser locks up because one of the fifty tabs I have open is doing something stupid. That never happened in several years of using Chrome, and it happens several times a day in Firefox.

So imagine you are a person that stopped browser hygiene during a few months while finishing their PhD and now _still_ carries around about 900 open tabs waiting to be sorted into bookmarks and junk. (Yeah, that's me.) I have to re-start Firefox every 48 hours or else its resource consumption starts affecting the overall system. This is my primary issue with current Firefox versions, although I am aware that I'm an n…

Firefox deals well with 900 tabs if you enable the "Don't load tabs until selected" option in Options -> Tabs.

Then once the browser is restarted it only loads the tabs you actually click on. A kind of tab lazy loading. I wish Chrome had that feature.

The Page Alarm/Tab Snooze extensions are also good for snoozing tabs for say a month until you need them again http://superuser.com/a/533498/7018

Re: Firefox 29

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Post by ZoFreX »

elsamuko wrote: post #253
dilap wrote: post #63

I love Firefox -- for what it's done, what it represents, and what it helps guard against. I have fond memories of those early versions of Firefox (nee Firebird) that busted open the IE monopoly, and where hands-down the best browser going at the time. But it's never felt very good on the Mac to me, and it still doesn't. Here's a few early thoughts on this release, from the perspective of a happy Safari user, w/ a pr…

I just found out, that you can rotate images with the rotation gesture on OS X with Firefox.

That's a really nice touch!

Re: Firefox 29

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Post by k2enemy »

3rd3 wrote: post #408
k2enemy wrote: post #345

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Nothing too crazy. I have a keyboard shortcut that grabs the URL from chrome, then passes it off to a script that interfaces with pass [0] to have a rudimentary, but secure and cross platform password manager. [0]: http://www.zx2c4.com/projects/password-store/

Try this: tell application "Firefox" activate set pb to the clipboard tell application "System Events" keystroke "l" using command down keystroke "c" using command down end tell set page_url to the clipboard set the clipboard to pb end tell It’s kind of hacked together and I haven’t tested it with rigor but until now it did its job. If you use it, please let me know if you could enhance it or whether it breaks for ce…

Thanks, that worked well. I needed to add a pause between cmd-l and cmd-c though.

Re: Firefox 29

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Post by pcoem »

dilap wrote: post #63

I love Firefox -- for what it's done, what it represents, and what it helps guard against. I have fond memories of those early versions of Firefox (nee Firebird) that busted open the IE monopoly, and where hands-down the best browser going at the time. But it's never felt very good on the Mac to me, and it still doesn't. Here's a few early thoughts on this release, from the perspective of a happy Safari user, w/ a pr…

The forced menu fade is a poor design choice in Windows too. They completely ignore the Windows appearance/performance settings, where you can disable pointless menu effects that are just a waste of time.

Re: Firefox 29

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Post by bzbarsky »

angersock wrote: post #469
bzbarsky wrote: post #467

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The console.log exposed to workers just sends the messages to the UI thread for logging...

I forget whether the workaround was done for Firefox or Chrome...I remember hitting it in one or the other, and putting in the workaround for both. On a related note, transferable objects are handled a bit differently between IE, FF, and Chrome. Some are a bit stricter than others.

That's not surprising, but annoying. Please do file bugs as needed; the spec is generally pretty clear about how things should work here, so if browsers don't agree one of them is just buggy.

Re: Firefox 29

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Post by StuffMaster »

dilap wrote: post #406
newscracker wrote: post #191

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Nitpicking on you - it's Firefox (née Phoenix) for the public, not Firefox (née Firebird). :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Firefox Edit: Fixed typo as pointed below. :D Thanks for nitpicking the nitpicking. :)

Ah, right you are, Phoenix (because it was a browser rising from the ashes of Netscape), then Firebird for .5 seconds, and finally Firefox. (Surprised I forgot that, since I actually lived the history. :) I think it worked out for the best -- Firefox is an excellent name and brand. It's hard now to imagine it being something else!

Really it was Mozilla that rose from Netscape's ashes. Firefox rewrote the UI, but Mozilla never died, it just changed to Seamonkey. It was the best browser for years before Phoenix came along -- for UI and resource problems that I never perceived myself.

Re: Firefox 29

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Post by Piskvorrr »

jamesbritt wrote: post #257
dilap wrote: post #63

I love Firefox -- for what it's done, what it represents, and what it helps guard against. I have fond memories of those early versions of Firefox (nee Firebird) that busted open the IE monopoly, and where hands-down the best browser going at the time. But it's never felt very good on the Mac to me, and it still doesn't. Here's a few early thoughts on this release, from the perspective of a happy Safari user, w/ a pr…

I have fond memories of those early versions of Firefox (nee Firebird) that busted open the IE monopoly, Monopoly? Before Firefox/Firebird there was Netscape Navigator, which was to be the "Mosaic killer" (hence "Mozilla"). IE was never the only browser around, even on Windows.

Apparently, you don't remember the Dark Ages. See, there were other browsers, that much is true.

What you're missing is that many, many sites were only developed for IE, and only worked at all in IE. No, not "graceful degradation," not "progressive enhancement," that all came a decade later: if you were not using IE, the sites were very broken, even unusable - and nobody cared: after all, Just Use IE Like All The Normal People Do, right?

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