Firefox 72.0 • Hacker News Board

Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by neuronic » Tue, Jan 07, 2020, 2:59 PM UTC

prgmatic wrote: post #44

yori wrote: post #5

After the recent missteps by Chrome (mangling the display of URLs), I decided to switch to Firefox and DuckDuckGo a few months ago and I was pleasantly surprised at how fast Firefox is these days than what I found it to be 10 years ago. While I still consider DuckDuckGo to be in the "not bad" category, Firefox is in the "seriously awesome" category now. If you have been away from Firefox for a while like me, give it…

How much better is it than Safari? I find the differences in browser performance so subtle nowadays that I lean towards whichever gives me the most seamless experience—-which, as a Mac/iPhone user, is safari.

As a Mac/iPhone user the only thing that sort of breaks seamless is that Apple doesn't allow you to define a custom default browser on iPhone.

I have Firefox in the dock on iPhone and it's really great but random links, e.g. via messaging, get opened by Safari first.

Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by detritus » Tue, Jan 07, 2020, 2:59 PM UTC

abcd_f wrote: post #48

Re: picture in picture - anyone else here think that this feature doesn't belong to a browser? It just seems so... erm... random, basically. Looks like something that was cloned from some other product and rather crudely shoehorned in. At the very least it should have been introduced after an update and given an option to opt-in to using it, rather than automatically enabling it without any notice.

I couldn't get it either then tried it with a Twitter video just yesterday.. which made me realise what use it might be, were it not for Twitter muting videos that are not in focus.

I really dislike Twitter.

Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by kevingadd » Tue, Jan 07, 2020, 2:59 PM UTC

krbzsq wrote: post #47

Okay, so I don't really post to HN and this may seem like a silly complaint but Firefox's management of theming just seems off to me. I use macOS, I don't fiddle about with my wallpaper very much and so this stains Firefox's top bar with an ugly brown tint. I could switch to the light theme, however when I do so Firefox no longer respects my system change to dark mode. Does anyone else get bothered by this? Is there…

You could also try Firefox Color which provides customizable theming for Firefox, I've had good results with it https://color.firefox.com

Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by gboss » Tue, Jan 07, 2020, 3:00 PM UTC

towndrunk wrote: post #39

oneeyedpigeon wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you a devtools user? How do the Firefox ones compare? I speak as someone who originally switched to Chrome (having been a Firefox user since the Phoenix days!) specifically for the devtools — it's pretty much the biggest factor in my browser choice.

In Chrome 79 they broke or removed hovering over variables. They say it will be fixed in Chrome 80. https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/22882968?hl=en

This has been a huge Pita, for my team. Good news is it has gotten some of them to switch to Firefox for debugging. It really is awful that bug slipped through.

Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by kevingadd » Tue, Jan 07, 2020, 3:00 PM UTC

abcd_f wrote: post #48

Re: picture in picture - anyone else here think that this feature doesn't belong to a browser? It just seems so... erm... random, basically. Looks like something that was cloned from some other product and rather crudely shoehorned in. At the very least it should have been introduced after an update and given an option to opt-in to using it, rather than automatically enabling it without any notice.

It's built in because the browser is best equipped to provide this feature universally for HTML elements and (if necessary) lie to the page about whether it's currently active.

I was kind of skeptical about it but given that in practice all it does is display a small popout icon on video mouse-over, it's not really that annoying.

Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by Spivak » Tue, Jan 07, 2020, 3:01 PM UTC

saturn_vk wrote: post #9

It doesn't seem like you can set the pip window to be sticky across all desktops. That's unfortunate and a bit unusable

In GNOME you can right click the pip window and enable "Always on Visible Workspace" and "Always on Top" to get the same effect.

Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by detritus » Tue, Jan 07, 2020, 3:01 PM UTC

typon wrote: post #7

The picture in picture is such a great feature. Thanks Firefox devs :)

All it needs now is some way to force Twitter-based videos to not mute when the parent window's not in focus.

Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by dukeofharen » Tue, Jan 07, 2020, 3:01 PM UTC

harikb wrote: post #35

What do people use for “Profiles”. I need ability to switch easily between profiles (different identities) without going to command line. I also don’t want to install a third party extension for that if possible

Can't you just go to "about:profiles"? Sure, it opens a new instance of Firefox, but this works fine for me.

Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by zamadatix » Tue, Jan 07, 2020, 3:03 PM UTC

meerita wrote: post #27

My favorite browser since 2017. I don't miss Chrome for anything.

I really wish they'd add HDR support so my monitor would stop flickering but other than that I don't really miss much else from Chrome. Maybe the audio being better on sped up videos but that's about it.

Re: Firefox 72.0

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Post by IshKebab » Tue, Jan 07, 2020, 3:03 PM UTC

Does fingerprint blocking just use a blacklist, like ad blockers? Seems like a pretty lame approach. Shouldn't they focus on approaches that work for all future scripts? I.e. making browsers seem less unique.