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Web Apps are a very real part of the future of the web. The fact that this space exists in the first place whereby there was only desktop apps previously should be testament enough to that. I may not personally agree with Mozilla in regards to the role of web apps, but I think that we all agree, it's better to be in a position to allow users to make their own minds up rather than go off of what a few loud naysayers w…
If Wev Apps are a very real part of the future of the web why isn't there a standard for that? Or in another words, if it is the future why haven't they all sat down and agreed upon a standard?? This way we'll be begging jQuery for Web Apps or some other abstraction layer that will do all the dirty work of cross browser compatibility... I don't see a standard for Web Apps on http://www1.webplatform.org/ anywhere ...
Firefox 16 live: Here's What's New
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Re: Firefox 16 live: Here's What's New
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Thanks for putting some context on your content. I too was wondering what you were getting at with it. In regards to Mozilla "not listening", did you file bugs for your ideas/gripes?
No, I didn't and I wouldn't. I already mentioned, as an average user .... I don't think average users care for bugs or gripes via reports. In any case, given that my comment is being treated like any other noise, here's a few words to make it distinguishable...for whatever it is worth and for whoever that cares. 1. Whatever the heck is happening with Tags in bookmarks? Is anyone working on adopting any standards? Peo…
How can they listen if you're not actually talking. It's like buying a product from China and then moaning in your living room there's a defect rather than actually telling them.
Re: Firefox 16 live: Here's What's New
#63One of the primary reasons I switched to Chrome was due to the awesome syncing abilities with Android Chrome.
Does anyone know if Firefox Mobile has matured to a point where it doesn't lag incredibly due to the huge memory footprint on Android?
Re: Firefox 16 live: Here's What's New
#64Still not the feature I'd like in there: A way to open link here instead of in new tab or window
Sounds like a trivial extension.
I have a bookmarklet script that removes any "target" attributes on anchors, but it may be harder to circumvent "new window" URLs if they're initiated via scripting.
Re: Firefox 16 live: Here's What's New
#65Still my favourite browser by far. I usually have 3-4 windows open and up to several hundred tabs and Firefox handles this better than anything else.
I can't fathom a reason for "several hundred tabs" unless your job specifically requires you to open that number of tabs for some (albeit strange) reason.
Just hazarding a guess, but I've noticed that people who have $TEXAS tabs open tend to use tabs the way I use Instapaper -- as a means of tracking interesting content they want to remember to read at some point.
Re: Firefox 16 live: Here's What's New
#66Is 16 worth installing? Firefox used to be my favourite browser, but I stopped using it when the almost daily install and "reload or disable" addons cycle became too painful.
Yes. I switched to Chrome for a while because of performance, and for my use cases, they are back close enough to parity.
I would also recommend Aurora, which gets newer features faster, but is much more stable than the nightly binaries.
Re: Firefox 16 live: Here's What's New
#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks for putting some context on your content. I too was wondering what you were getting at with it. In regards to Mozilla "not listening", did you file bugs for your ideas/gripes?
No, I didn't and I wouldn't. I already mentioned, as an average user .... I don't think average users care for bugs or gripes via reports. In any case, given that my comment is being treated like any other noise, here's a few words to make it distinguishable...for whatever it is worth and for whoever that cares. 1. Whatever the heck is happening with Tags in bookmarks? Is anyone working on adopting any standards? Peo…
> 3. Syncing on Chrome is as straightforward as it should be and they also encrypt data.
Firefox Sync is also straightforward (and syncs with Firefox for Android as well) and is also encrypted.
Re: Firefox 16 live: Here's What's New
#68Still my favourite browser by far. I usually have 3-4 windows open and up to several hundred tabs and Firefox handles this better than anything else.
I can't fathom a reason for "several hundred tabs" unless your job specifically requires you to open that number of tabs for some (albeit strange) reason.
I realize this is OT, but speaking as a tab hoarder, there's no justifiable reason for the behavior. And I'm not exaggerating when I use the term hoarder -- it's the same principle as hoarding physical goods, since the personal justification is always "they're important and I might need them someday". At any given moment I have 2 windows with about 30-40 tabs each. I even downloaded a chrome plugin called session buddy that lets me restore previous windows in the event of an accidental computer restart.
The unfinished reading weighs me down every day, but I keep them open anyway. Some days I get productive and read a half dozen tabs, but never anything substantial. It's an embarrassing "problem."
Awesome / useless plugin idea: an artificial time bomb that removes the tab and all traces of the website from your history after being open longer than some period of time (e.g. one week). Obviously a bookmark circumvents this dilemma, but the problem itself isn't rational to begin with.
Re: Firefox 16 live: Here's What's New
#69One of the primary reasons I switched to Chrome was due to the awesome syncing abilities with Android Chrome. Does anyone know if Firefox Mobile has matured to a point where it doesn't lag incredibly due to the huge memory footprint on Android?
It has. They semi-recently switched from XUL to native Java, which has made it as fast (maybe faster?) compared to Chrome or Browser on Android. Definitely worth checking out again.
Re: Firefox 16 live: Here's What's New
#70So it adds Webapp support, but the Firefox Marketplace is not yet open to the public, is this correct?
That is correct. The Firefox parts have to land before the Marketplace can open, otherwise the Marketplace is useless.