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Re: Firefox 64 Released

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Post by omnimus »

dilap wrote: post #520
omnimus wrote: post #518

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Well Firefox is actually offering "unavailable-anywhere-else behavior" - it's free software that does not require you to log in and send private browsing data to google. This is the case for anyone having google account - which is almost everyone.

"Hey, we respect privacy better, no need to make the UX top-notch!" ^^^ This attitude sucks! UX is everything if you want your software to be used by the masses.

Omg i just now realized you are just trolling me. Nice one.

Re: Firefox 64 Released

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Post by projectdelphai »

sorenjan wrote: post #316
kevincrane wrote: post #120

> We’re excited to introduce multiple tab selection, which makes it easier to manage windows with many open tabs. Simply hold Control (Windows, Linux) or Command (macOS) and click on tabs to select them. Once selected, click and drag to move the tabs as a group — either within a given window, or out into a new window. Yessss. It doesn't happen often, but the times when I open up 6-10 tabs for research but then decide…

I use Panorama View, it's a clone of the old tab groups functionality. Multiple windows is hard to save as a session. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/panorama-view...

I would recommend Panorama Tab Groups over Panorama View fyi just because panorama view doesn't see a lot of maintenance in recent months. They're still there, but in hibernation so they don't get new features right now.

https://github.com/projectdelphai/panorama-tab-groups

full disclosure: I'm the maintainer for Panorama Tab Groups right now so I am slightly biased. I do think photodiode and the guys in charge of Panorama View are way better than I am at this, but since they're not active right now, I've created a fork so I can have a more up to date add-on

Re: Firefox 64 Released

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Post by lightedman »

dc_gregory wrote: post #519
lightedman wrote: post #374

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"Have you ever seen a game built entirely out of default OS windows and buttons?" Castle of the Winds, Windows 3.11.

FYI, you are probably hell-banned.

Oh, I know I'm hell-banned. That's okay, Mr. Paul Graham will be getting his comeuppance in PUBLIC very soon. :) I know some secrets and I can't wait for him to be anywhere near my area so I can publicly expose him.

Re: Firefox 64 Released

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Post by ckeck »

dec0dedab0de wrote: post #44
jt2190 wrote: post #3

Some things I've been looking forward to: > Easier performance management: The new Task Manager page found at about:performance lets you see how much energy each open tab consumes and provides access to close tabs to conserve power > Improved performance for Mac and Linux users, by enabling link time optimization (Clang LTO). (Clang LTO was enabled for Windows users in Firefox 63.) Release Notes: https://www.mozilla.…

> Easier performance management: The new Task Manager page found at about:performance lets you see how much energy each open tab consumes and provides access to close tabs to conserve power This is pretty neat, now I'm wondering why the webex extension is having "Medium" impact when it should be doing nothing.

Because it's webex ... sigh ...

At least it's not Google Hangouts. That crap platform will kill any laptop battery in ~30-45 min flat and make it seem like you're rendering some 8K video.

Re: Firefox 64 Released

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Post by FPGAhacker »

chipotle_coyote wrote: post #251
FPGAhacker wrote: post #213

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Not in my experience, although I thought it was supposed to.

It's an option under "Websites" in "Preferences"; the options are "Never Auto-Play," "Always Auto-Play," and "Stop Media with Sound." The latter is the default. You can set a default for all web sites, and add override settings for specific sites. (There's actually a wealth of stuff in this preference tab: you can set defaults and per-site overrides for content blockers, page zoom levels, camera and microphone, defau…

thanks!

Re: Firefox 64 Released

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Post by itsjustme321 »

liopleurodon wrote: post #489
itsjustme321 wrote: post #288

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Yess, finally, I use this feature in chromium A LOT, and it's one of the things that stopped me from switching back to firefox as my primary browser. There's still a five year old bug where firefox thinks the window has the last size from the previous session when you restart it and save open tabs, when using a tiling window manager, but it fixes itself when you manually resize it, I can learn to live with this.

oh man. yes, I experience this everyday (awesomewm user)

This is the bug report on the mozilla bugtracker by the way, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=927621

Re: Firefox 64 Released

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Post by dilap »

omnimus wrote: post #521
dilap wrote: post #520

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"Hey, we respect privacy better, no need to make the UX top-notch!" ^^^ This attitude sucks! UX is everything if you want your software to be used by the masses.

Omg i just now realized you are just trolling me. Nice one.

not trolling! 100% sincere. would love to see firefox once again care about ux, and reverse its downward trend in popularity.
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