Firefox 57.0 Released

Post by fasquoika » Tue, Nov 14, 2017, 8:48 PM UTC

SAI_Peregrinus wrote: post #462

pixelbeat__ wrote: post #293

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I don't see how to disable yhe existing horizontal tab bar though? Now I have both that and tree style :/

You'll need a custom userChrome.css @namespace url("http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul"); /* to hide the native tabs */ #TabsToolbar { visibility: collapse; } /* to hide the sidebar header */ #sidebar-header { visibility: collapse; } You probably want to enable the menu bar if you do this, to stop the minimize/maximize/close buttons from overlapping the menu & other buttons on the right top…

Post by venatiodecorus » Tue, Nov 14, 2017, 8:48 PM UTC

disconnected wrote: post #287

Tomte wrote: post #128

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Mozilla doesn't create all those extensions. And the extensions' authors had, what, two years advance warning or so? Criticize the real culpits, not Mozilla.

Look at this from a user perspective: The user diligently updates Firefox, optimistically hoping that this new version will be as awesome as the previous ones that vastly improved performance. Firefox starts and, suddenly, a bunch of things that used to work stop working. Why? Well, essentially, something that they can't hope to comprehend and that they never asked for and had no input on just ruined their browser. W…

Post by venatiodecorus » Tue, Nov 14, 2017, 8:54 PM UTC

throwaway2048 wrote: post #555

Tomte wrote: post #192

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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

Post by milofeynman » Tue, Nov 14, 2017, 8:54 PM UTC

Merad wrote: post #580

SAI_Peregrinus wrote: post #517

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Stop spoofing your user agent string, install it, then resume spoofing. It should be Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:57.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/57.0 by default for Firefox 57 on Windows 7 64-bit

I have never (to my knowledge) done anything to change the user agent. I dug around in about:config and discovered that general.useragent.override somehow got set. Edit: Something is resetting that override every time the browser starts. Dunno what, the only addons I run are uBlock and RES (and now TST). Edit 2: It was being set in user.js. No idea how it got there...

  privacy.resistFingerprinting = true

Post by callahad » Tue, Nov 14, 2017, 8:57 PM UTC

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Aside from the privacy / philosophy / openness / counterweight-to-monopolization-of-the-Web angles which Yoric mentioned, you might find we're actually better than Chrome in some areas. Often small things, but I find I prefer the feel of Firefox to Chrome. - If you do frontend work, our CSS grid inspector is unparalleled https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Page_Inspecto... - Firefox has built-in tracking p…

Tree-style tabs won't be around much longer.