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Well, for savvy users: In the location bar type about:config Search for javascript.enabled You can turn it off there by simply double-clicking the entry.
Yeah, after you click a huge "VOID MY WARRANTY" button. I am surprised they made this change after the recent tor exit node exploit...
...and remember, kids. JavaScript is now compulsory.
Nasty surprise for me: 'Remove the ability to not "Always show the tab bar"' https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=855370 'browser.tabs.autoHide' config also removed, tab bar now always visible no matter what. Add-on to restore old behaviour: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/hide-tab-bar-... (There is an unnecessary gradient to the background of my navigation toolbar now though.) Discussion threa…
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I didn't understand why they would disable this feature which I love so much, but reading the bug explained that it was to prevent malicious apps from being able to change the default search in a way that is not easily reverted by users (keyword.URL can only be changed through about:config). Makes sense to me, and fortunately we have add-ons which can restore this functionality :)
I'm really looking forward to the overhaul on the road map that moves more things off the main UI thread. I keep switching from Chrome to Firefox for reasons of principle ... and keep switching back to Chrome for reasons of performance. I hate myself, but can't help it. Firefox will briefly freeze scrolling a long page. Firefox will beach ball for 15 seconds after resuming laptop from sleep. And so on. None of it is…
After using chrome and even safari, the UI feels so "thick". I think maybe a release or 3 focused entirely on performance and UI cleaning may be in order.
Stuck on FF21 until they fix the scaling on windows xp Which might never happen :-(
I'm really looking forward to the overhaul on the road map that moves more things off the main UI thread. I keep switching from Chrome to Firefox for reasons of principle ... and keep switching back to Chrome for reasons of performance. I hate myself, but can't help it. Firefox will briefly freeze scrolling a long page. Firefox will beach ball for 15 seconds after resuming laptop from sleep. And so on. None of it is…
Apart from that, Chrome has very nice features that make life easier.
The PDF preview of Chrome is great. It can rival the PDF viewers on desktops easily. Heck, it helped once when I had to get a printout at a shop and they didn't have PDF Reader installed. I just dropped PDF onto Chrome and we had a PDF reader that could print. I know about PDF.js but it is not so good!
Next, the UI could be improved. Firefox has its upsides as well. I love the hidden status bar. I have dropped all my extension icons there. Now, with one shortcut, they are accessible and for normal browsing, don't come in between. But Chrome's way of managing extension icons is great, and one thing that particulary drives mad with FF is that there are no visible zoom controls. I have been using it on and off for a year now but I still don't know how to find if I'm zoomed in or not.
Chrome has really good Flash integration and I didn't know that I did not have Flash Player installed till I started using Firefox. What is stopping them from bundling a plugin like Chrome?
...and remember, kids. JavaScript is now compulsory.
It's great to finally see that Firefox is updating almost everyone like Chrome. http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-ww-weekly-201322-... Those first few (dozen?) releases people constantly complained about the version number changes, the rapid release cycle, and there was quite a bit of fragmention. There days there are a billion people getting a new HTML5 browser every 6 weeks.
It is great seeing people update fast. I am waiting for the day when IE 6-8 usage goes down to 0.