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Firefox 57.0 Released

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Re: Firefox 57.0 Released

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Post by wtetzner »

manojlds wrote: post #441
parmesan wrote: post #116

I just updated - WOW! What an improvement! Compared startup time and scrolling around some over-monetized sites; Behaves just as well as Chrome. Time for a switch again, I've missed FireFox since I started having Chrome as my default browser back in ~2011

If it as just as good as chrome, why should I switch? Especially given how good Chrome Dev tools are.

Honestly, I find it to be (subjectively, I didn't actually measure anything) much faster than Chrome. At least, it feels much snappier on my MacBook Air.

Re: Firefox 57.0 Released

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Post by throwaway2048 »

Tomte wrote: post #192
Silhouette wrote: post #161

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My browser and extensions did useful things yesterday that they do not do today. Who changed something in the meantime? Obviously I paid nothing for Firefox and Mozilla owes me the same nothing in return, but if it wants to keep users and remain significant, breaking arguably its main advantage might not be the best plan.

That's not true. Your browser does exactly the same things that it did yesterday. If you chose to update to the new version where you knew exactly what extensions would be running and which wouldn't... well, your fault.

firefox autoupdates without prompting

Re: Firefox 57.0 Released

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Post by CaptSpify »

Sylos wrote: post #526
CaptSpify wrote: post #361

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That pissed me off too. When did Mozilla become an advertiser?

They own Pocket. This is just their own content recommendation engine. No payments involved. An attempt to make the web rely less on search engines.

I don't see your point. They are still advertising to me

Re: Firefox 57.0 Released

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Post by sandstrom »

mkup wrote: post #534

Firefox Quantum feels very fast, but addon support is disappointing :( + uBlock Origin - Self-Destructing Cookies - YesScript - Video DownloadHelper - Save Session

The move to WebExtensions (a shared standard for extensions in Chrome/Firefox/Edge/Opera/etc) is great.

It makes it much easier for extension developers (most of which work for free, on open-source projects) to maintain support for multiple browsers with a shared codebase.

If you want to track the conversion progress for a particular extension, have a look at this site: https://arewewebextensionsyet.com/

Re: Firefox 57.0 Released

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Post by atonse »

abtinf wrote: post #275
atonse wrote: post #260

Feels GREAT! Happy to be using this in addition to Safari. I also added uBlock Origin as an adblocker but would still love if FF eventually included native, declarative content blocking like Safari (probably less likely given how much money they get from Google).

I don’t want necessarily want an adblocker built into my web browser. It creates too much centralized risk and power for the kinds of shenanigans pulled by ABP or ghostery, and it would hurt adoption of good add-ons like ublock. What I DO want to see is something like ublock matrix become a standard feature. Matrix is an incredible add-on that has made the web more useable and more debuggable for me. If it was built-…

It's not an adblocker. It's a "content blocking" engine. Basically, there are two pieces to any blocker: the blacklist, and the actual execution (matching against blacklist rules, and probably executing JS to remove it).

Safari's got a native engine for the execution part. And you pass in the blacklist with declarative rules. It's the best of both worlds in that you get competing blacklists, but the actual engine is even faster than JS. And for security like you said, there aren't any shenanigans since it's literally a JSON blacklist and can't contain code.

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