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Re: Firefox 31.0

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Post by wjoe »

brador wrote: post #7

Does this fix the 1080p option not showing up on youtube problem?

The 1080p option isn't shown because YouTube requires Media Source Extentions enabled (HTML5 DRM) for this. You -can- enable this under about:config (media.mediasource.enabled) but it's still experimental for now. When I tried it, it did show the 1080p option, but then I had very mixed results from the blank video, no audio, or the higher resolution video not actually loading.

This should also only apply if you have the HTML5 player enabled on YouTube, the Flash player should still show the 1080p option.

Re: Firefox 31.0

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Post by potshot »

zimbatm wrote: post #43

The only thing I want from Firefox is to stop freezing completely when a single tab goes crazy. It just makes the whole experience feel clunky compared to Chrome. Usually it happens with Gmail so maybe there is a conspiracy there to drive adoption for Chrome :p

Have you tried using multi-process tabs? http://www.ghacks.net/2014/02/13/firefoxs-multi-process-arch...

It looks like the prefs to enable it have been shipping beyond the nightly and are in the latest release.

Re: Firefox 31.0

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Post by pinpoll »

makmanalp wrote: post #39

Firefox's developer tools are really becoming great. "Copy as CURL" for the network tab was something in chrome that I really missed. Box model view which was super handy is now editable. Console showing stack traces along errors was long due. New Canvas debugger, eyedropper are very handy. Font viewer, responsive design tools, the 3d view (very handy in debugging silly box model issues) and highlight painted area mo…

Still, I prefer Firebug. Is it fully supported yet?

Re: Firefox 31.0

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Post by tux1968 »

frenchy wrote: post #51
tux1968 wrote: post #9

Seems like a modest but welcome release. The MathML torture test shoes some very nice progress[1] but makes me ask myself once again, why do TeX fonts always look like crap? Isn't that the one thing that TeX should get right? Anyway, at least they look great as rendered by Firefox 31. [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/MathML_Proj...

I'm not sure "crap" is the word I'd use for that, but I think I understand what you're getting at. The problem is that the TeX fonts are designed to work at a much higher resolution (as is typical for being printed). They look much better in that case.

Yeah, i don't earn any points for eloquence, but just looking at the side by side examples on the MathML page the contrast is pretty stark. Have often wondered if it was due to low screen resolution so thanks for confirming that. I'll try to be less grumpy the next time I get a TeX generated PDF and maybe even print it out before trying to read it ;o)

Re: Firefox 31.0

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Post by kipple »

zimbatm wrote: post #43

The only thing I want from Firefox is to stop freezing completely when a single tab goes crazy. It just makes the whole experience feel clunky compared to Chrome. Usually it happens with Gmail so maybe there is a conspiracy there to drive adoption for Chrome :p

Chrome uses a separate render process for each tab[1], so when one crashes it doesn't KO the whole browser. However this also means Chrome has a larger memory footprint, since each tab is taking up the resources of a little browser. Firefox doesn't do this, and so it keeps a smaller memory footprint than Chrome (oh how times change) but the downside is--as you mentioned--the whole browser freezes if one tab fails.

[1] http://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/process-...

Re: Firefox 31.0

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Post by kipple »

potshot wrote: post #62
zimbatm wrote: post #43

The only thing I want from Firefox is to stop freezing completely when a single tab goes crazy. It just makes the whole experience feel clunky compared to Chrome. Usually it happens with Gmail so maybe there is a conspiracy there to drive adoption for Chrome :p

Have you tried using multi-process tabs? http://www.ghacks.net/2014/02/13/firefoxs-multi-process-arch... It looks like the prefs to enable it have been shipping beyond the nightly and are in the latest release.

Oo neat I didn't know this was an option for FF

Re: Firefox 31.0

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Post by Istof »

fooqux wrote: post #17
huhtenberg wrote: post #12

> Block malware from downloaded files Hi, Google. Would you just look at what I downloaded!

I'm also a bit worried about the privacy implications of this. Especially given that the feature is hidden, and the only two ways to turn it off involve going into about:config, which most people don't even know exists. I wouldn't even know it was doing this if I hadn't read the changelog. Reading the changelog, it also mentions having local and remote blacklists, but how FF chooses which one to use wasn't clear to m…

It seems like the last few updates of Firefox are each hiding yet one more important setting... I think that is what will finally drive me away from Firefox (I've used it since the beginning even if chrome was much faster for a while) ... time to browser shop.

Re: Firefox 31.0

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Post by mburns »

zimbatm wrote: post #43

The only thing I want from Firefox is to stop freezing completely when a single tab goes crazy. It just makes the whole experience feel clunky compared to Chrome. Usually it happens with Gmail so maybe there is a conspiracy there to drive adoption for Chrome :p

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis#Enabling_Electrolysis

Re: Firefox 31.0

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Post by _lce0 »

pinpoll wrote: post #63
makmanalp wrote: post #39

Firefox's developer tools are really becoming great. "Copy as CURL" for the network tab was something in chrome that I really missed. Box model view which was super handy is now editable. Console showing stack traces along errors was long due. New Canvas debugger, eyedropper are very handy. Font viewer, responsive design tools, the 3d view (very handy in debugging silly box model issues) and highlight painted area mo…

Still, I prefer Firebug. Is it fully supported yet?

I moved from firebug like a year ago but I really miss some firebug's pluggins; like jquerify or the ace integration ..

is there something similar for the built-in console?

Re: Firefox 31.0

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Post by [deleted] »

makmanalp wrote: post #39

Firefox's developer tools are really becoming great. "Copy as CURL" for the network tab was something in chrome that I really missed. Box model view which was super handy is now editable. Console showing stack traces along errors was long due. New Canvas debugger, eyedropper are very handy. Font viewer, responsive design tools, the 3d view (very handy in debugging silly box model issues) and highlight painted area mo…

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