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Re: Firefox 59 released

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Post by gnarbarian »

Piskvorrr wrote: post #7
teamhappy wrote: post #2

"Added settings in about:preferences to stop websites from asking to send notifications" Been waiting for this one.

Sites have been replacing the actual API request with a HTML5 overlay, precisely because of this - only when clicking "notify me" does the actual permission get requested, with the requisite dialog. (The rationale is "once the permission is denied, there's no way to bring it up again; a dismissed HTML5 box can be brought up again an infinite number of times") As for me, I went for WebAPI Manager, which blocks most of…

I actually came up with a decent use for the vibrate function on this control [0]. It's a clickwheel type interface for picking an altitude. When the number changes it triggers the vibrate function making it easier to use the interface without looking.

[0] https://i.imgur.com/aiFFzLP.png

edit:

I've linked a demo below with the following caveat, this demo was set up exclusively as a mobile interface and still needs plenty of work. One of the issues is the clickwheel size is initialized as a percentage of the screen height when the page loads. So if you resize the window significantly or switch to mobile mode in dev tools, you must refresh the page to get the clickwheel size to adjust accordingly.

https://faa-aviation-data-portal.github.io/pirep/pirepMobile...

Re: Firefox 59 released

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Post by bzbarsky »

dreamygeek wrote: post #3

Mozilla should also be focusing on RAM utilization. If they are doing that on the back end they should explicitly mention it in the update details.

There were thousands of changes from Firefox 58 to Firefox 59 (I count > 8900 changesets, though some are merges).

The release notes only list the most visible and most unexpected changes. Ongoing memory and performance work rarely clears that bar. It's happening all the time.

Re: Firefox 59 released

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Post by i_cant_speel »

odabaxok wrote: post #49
rebelwebmaster wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On the right-hand side of the location bar, there's a Page actions menu (the 3 dots) which includes taking a screenshot.

I cannot see it there. https://postimg.org/image/59fqo4pfx/

Are you sure you've updated your browser? I have the option in that menu.

Re: Firefox 59 released

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Post by swypych »

sutoor wrote: post #34

Sadly, still unusable for me since the Quantum update. A clean install and profile, no add-ons, and google.com/maps (for example) will max out my cpu. There must be some bug related to old hardware and OS (Macbook Pro 2009 + 10.11.x) or more people would be experiencing this.

I have a 2017 macbook pro, battery life is atrocious with Firefox now. If anyone from the power optimization team is reading this what logs can I provide you?

Re: Firefox 59 released

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Post by the_grue »

John_KZ wrote: post #52

Firefox is dead to me ever since they killed their addons and marketed it as a step forward. If I wanted to use Chrome I'd use fucking Chrome.

I don't know why you are being downvoted. I have the same problem. I'm still stuck with Firefox 56 and no upgrade path in sight. I wish Mozilla declared FF 56 a LTS release for those of us who value their addons more than performance benefits of Quantum. Right now I'm still using an out-of-date release that doesn't receive critical security updates, and I have to choose between either downgrading 4 releases down to FF 52 (bad) or upgrading beyond FF 57 and losing addons that I came to rely on (unacceptable).

Re: Firefox 59 released

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Post by ChrisSD »

ChrisSD wrote: post #24

It's great that they're continuing to add back customisation to the new tab page but why am I still restricted to two rows of "top sites"? I'm on a desktop here, I'm not going to run out of pixels. Even on Android I liked having more space for quick links to websites I visit semi-regularly. In fact it was more useful there because there isn't a good way to bring order to the history panel. Is it just to make room for…

To reply to myself I've found that about:config has `browser.newtabpage.rows` which I can increase. When I do that and restart the browser it resets to 3 but `browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.topSitesCount` is increased and more sites are shown. Changing `browser.newtabpage.columns` doesn't appear to have an effect.

My question still stands but at least there's a partial workaround, even if it's potentially unstable.

EDIT This setting doesn't appear to be available on Android.

Re: Firefox 59 released

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Post by vetinari »

acaramanamaraca wrote: post #60
vetinari wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

CSDs were already in 58 (Customize, Title Bar). What didn't make this release is Wayland support.

I think that was only backported into the Fedora version?

Looks like you are right, I cannot find it in Ubuntu version.
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