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Firefox 59 released
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Re: Firefox 59 released
#72Won't be updating beyond FF 55.0.3 because 'Status-4-Evar' add-on doesn't work with Quantum. Apparently it can't be updated to work with Quantum for reasons I don't know, but was mentioned on the support forum.
Until such time as I can prevent the annoying floating URL pop-up in bottom corner when hovering over links, I won't be updating. I don't see why I can't have a harmless fixed status bar extending 100% at bottom of window. It creates a nice gap between Windows taskbar and the browser, with the URL hover text contained neatly within and doesn't appear over the page as an irritating floating layer.
Is it law at Mozilla that FF must imitate Chrome on interface style? Perhaps my choice of wanting choice is the wrong choice. Perhaps it's my fault as user, for wanting something that was taken away.
Another add-on I liked, now kaput, is Mozilla's own Lightbeam. The important list view and domain blocking function of that extension has been broken for some time. The march towards the "best browser" seems to involve breaking things and pissing people off.
Re: Firefox 59 released
#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes! That is really being abused. I don't need notifications from recipe sites!
I’ve yet to find a site from which I do want to receive notifications.
Study websites reminding me that it is time for my next study session are great for establishing the habit of doing my studies.
When I was single I would have had time for 3 of them - total in my life. I think systems should automatically block all requests for notifications if you already have 3 since it is not possible for more than that to be useful. (the exact number is debatable, but 3 is close). Note that I said systems - I want firefox, chrome, ie, safari to work together across all the computers I have to keep the number down - for security reasons I understand they cannot but that would be ideal.
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#74Still no proper Yukikey 2FA support. Github kinda works, Gmail still completely broken. I would love to switch from Chrome for the privacy benefits, but this is an absolute deal-breaker. Edit: There is hope for Firefox 60 or 61 -> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1409573
IIRC it's the problem of Gmail specifically, and how they implemented 2FA. Spec-compliant sites, like Giithub, work.
Yup, Fastmail works too. Actually, with FF58 and the U2F flag switched on, Google is the only site I use where my Yubikey doesn't work.
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#75Earlier 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/
Did screenshots somehow get disabled? In about:config, check the value of the extensions.screenshots.disabled pref.
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#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Sure, I have. This feature is there for a long time as of my understanding (since Quantum, maybe?).
I have tried this feature when it was only in test pilot mode, but then I removed it (that was a long time ago). Can this be related?
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#77Sadly, 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.
Mike Conley has picked up the Quantum performance baton from Ehsan, and has started posting Performance fixes on his blog [1]. Please write to him; he is good with replying, and will provide instructions on how to profile your Mac machines.
1. https://mikeconley.ca/blog/2018/03/01/firefox-performance-up...
Re: Firefox 59 released
#78Does this include the forced collection of the user's usage data?
Better stay away from the evil Mozilla corporation, and instead use one of those other, more privacy-aware, browsers like Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge.
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#79After I switched to Firefox 59 beta on Windows (7 upgraded to 10), I see the following issue all the time. When accessing finance.google.com in one tab and etrade.com (internal page) in another, if I am on finance.google.com and if it refreshes and is slow for some reason I start seeing a blank page with a spinner on that tab and while this is happening, if I switch to the etrade.com tab, I see that page is blank too and has a spinner that doesn't refresh until the finance.google.com tab comes back -- almost like the browser is stuck in a system call somewhere and all tabs using javascript are blocked. Maybe it's likely some interaction with some addons I have (mostly NoScript), but it's been frustrating and for the first time in so many years I am considering switching browsers :-(.
BTW, where is the best way to ask about issues like this regarding Firefox, it seems like Googling for Firefox issues mostly only brings up years old issues and no one is publically posting about more recent issues like this. Also it's hard to describe problems like this in a reasonable way to come up with search terms that Google likes and doesn't hit old reported problems.
Re: Firefox 59 released
#80Sadly, 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 noticed that too. Firefox does not work efficiently on macOS, unfortunately. Additionally, Google doesn't do much to fix their web apps performance on Firefox. I even suspect the contrary.
I suspect Google engineers have more important tickets to work on than "do a bunch of complicated VM analysis to slow down Maps on Firefox."