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Re: Firefox 50.0

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Post by dbl9 »

Washuu wrote: post #58
dbl9 wrote: post #34

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I'm glad you like it. This is one of those personal UX preferences that has you either one or the other camp. Am I right to assume you liked this from your past Opera use?

I was excited to sudden see this surprise in the patch notes, now I am the opposite here thinking, "How did they mess up such a simple feature?" The preview bar that pop ups is slow to work and actively delays changing tabs.(If it even attempts to switches tabs.) Additionally, I do not need the preview portion. FLST: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fww-flst/ It just works. Tab switching is instant, no…

I'm with you and cannot stand the way Opera does it but it also has a quick tab switching mode. I haven't encountered a single switch-with-preview implementation that didn't leave me with forced slowdown and delay of the action I was about to do. I also configure Firefox to not close the window when it's the last tab, which is hard-to-impossible to emulate in Chrome but is the default in Opera and Vivaldi.

Re: Firefox 50.0

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Post by basilm »

a1a wrote: post #15
meZee wrote: post #11

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Any reason you prefer NoScript to uBlock Origin's script blocker? Just curious...

I don't think they are comparable. I run both. NoScript is a security suite – besides blocking java, webgl, flash, silverlight, javascript, etc – it has additional defenses against XSS, ABE, clickjacking etc. uBlock was to my knowledge never developed to securely stop scripts and deter drive-by attacks etc. It should be used for adblocking, not for security.

I switched to google chrome (Version 54.0.2840.98 (64-bit) today and was sad when I couldn't find Noscript on chrome extensions store. But then I found uMatrix (by the author of ublock origin). I think uMatrix is almost close to Noscript security suite (no xss, abe, clickjack protection though). But I still have firefox (this latest update) running side. I wish firefox would hardcode ublock origin + noscript into its core. So users can have all the privacy and safety by default. Most people in my town don't even understand what plugins are. But I try to install these two plugins for anyone who asks me for help. I also educate them by talking about these security techniques.

Re: Firefox 50.0

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Post by conductor »

bzbarsky wrote: post #47
conductor wrote: post #19

Regarding the new Referrer-Policy header introduction, what happens when my network.http.sendRefererHeader is 0, network.http.sendSecureXSiteReferrer is false and some website sets a Referrer-Policy: "unsafe-url" header? Which setting has the priority?

The logic is basically like so: 1) Is the site requesting a "no-referrer" policy? Then send no referer. 2) Is network.http.sendRefererHeader set to a value that would prevent sending of referrer in this situation (e.g. 0 in all situations)? Then send no referrer. 3) All the other logic (but generally aiming to follow the most restrictive directive we have). The "network.http.sendSecureXSiteReferrer" still exists in 5…

Thanks for clarifying, that's logical of course (user preferences should have priority).

Re: Firefox 50.0

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Post by aban »

dbl9 wrote: post #23
aban wrote: post #5

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If you want to avoid GTK3 and you're on Arch, there's a firefox-gtk2 [0] AUR package that compiles Firefox against GTK2 only. [0]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/firefox-gtk2

My local cairo-gtk2 build of Firefox 49 reliably crashes anytime you try to use the GTK file dialog. Does it work for you (arch or gentoo)?

That's interesting. I've been happily using firefox-gtk2 and it's been working quite reliably.

Not only I haven't had any issues with it so far, it even looks better than Arch's official package (that's built with gtk3).

The issues have been present with gtk >= 3.20, and they should be fixed with release 50 and 51:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1266914

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1264079

Re: Firefox 50.0

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Post by cpeterso »

ohstopitu wrote: post #56
Aardwolf wrote: post #24

"Set a preference to have Ctrl+Tab cycle through tabs in recently used order " Finally something that is an actually improved UI feature! Not some "removed status bar and instead hover its info over text you want to read sometimes" or "moved refresh button to different place than before just to annoy you" or similar thing :)

I have this feature in sublime text & Atom and absolutely hate it. I feel like ctrl + tab has to move to next tab & ctrl + shift + tab should move to previous tab (cycle if it reaches the end). I feel like that's more predictable behaviour.

Is there a way to disable this ctrl+tab behavior in Sublime Test? I can't stand it either.

Re: Firefox 50.0

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Post by tdkl »

abusque wrote: post #57
ohstopitu wrote: post #56

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I have this feature in sublime text & Atom and absolutely hate it. I feel like ctrl + tab has to move to next tab & ctrl + shift + tab should move to previous tab (cycle if it reaches the end). I feel like that's more predictable behaviour.

I don't know about Firefox or Atom, but in Chromium you can achieve that via Ctrl-PgUp and Ctrl-PgDn.

Which is a pretty dumb shortcut to use one handed and compared to alt+tab.

Re: Firefox 50.0

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Post by foepys »

dbl9 wrote: post #31

Did something change in font rendering with Freetype on Linux? While 49.0.2 with FreeType 2.7 looked the best (subjectively) I've seen any font rendering (including Windows 10 and OS X Snow Leopard (been a while)), something off with 50.0's rendering. I haven't enabled any custom render options, just your typical archlinux freetype 2.7 desktop. Time to get ESR and compare with that but would be great to hear back fro…

Freetype 2.7 introduced a new rendering engine. I cannot link anything at the moment but the Arch Forums have pretty detailed help.

Re: Firefox 50.0

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Post by cpeterso »

criddell wrote: post #53

I wanted to try reader mode, so I went to a random Atlantic article ( https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/11/better-of... ) and hit ctrl-alt-r. The graph related to the story was dropped. Would that be a bug, or is that how reader mode is supposed to work? I don't have the equivalent Evernote plug-in anymore (I'm trying to get away from Evernote), so I have nothing to compare it to.

You can report a bug in Firefox Reader Mode here. Identifying the "important" content on a page is a hard problem. :) FWIW, Safari's Reader Mode doesn't include the article's graphs or pictures either.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Toolkit&c...

Re: Firefox 50.0

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Post by digi_owl »

michaelmrose wrote: post #39
digi_owl wrote: post #17

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If it is that bloody simple, why can't Mozilla be bothered to provide an official download?!

If there are a bunch of people that need this you could do the community a service by doing it and hosting it somewhere for all interested parties.

I do not have the time nor anywhere near the resources that Mozilla has to handle this. If i had either i would not be sitting here.
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