Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Firefox 31.0

mozilla.org

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

71–80 of 137 posts

Re: Firefox 31.0

#71

Post by magicalist »

Istof wrote: post #67
fooqux wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

They might be "hiding" the setting by not including it in the main settings page, but there is no other (mainstream) browser with anything close to the equivalent of the flexibility of about:config.

Re: Firefox 31.0

#72

Post by phkahler »

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 don't see the problem. At that link, the browser column is higher contrast. Switching to the Stix fonts gives characters that look more like the TeX column, but seems to be missing a few things. I did not try all the font options.

Re: Firefox 31.0

#73

Post by richardwhiuk »

amatera wrote: post #18
mr_november wrote: post #10

I want to use Firefox (OS X), and with almost every release I give it a go but it's simply too slow in comparison to Chrome. I'm talking about actions you do multiple times an hour - opening a new tab, closing a tab, rearranging tabs etc. This is with no extensions in use, on a mid-2011 fully specced out macbook air. It's unfortunate but the lag is clear and I can't use it as my primary when I know a better solution…

This seams to be a problem with your machine. I also use a macbook air (End 2013) and dont have this problem (or feel any Lag on Tab-Actions). Even on my old Ubuntu-rig it doesnt have this problem. Either in Firefox or Chrome.

If it works fine for him in Chrome, how can it be a problem with his machine.

Re: Firefox 31.0

#74

Post by zimbatm »

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.

I didn't know about this. Hopefully it's stable.

EDIT: looks fairly stable. Back to Firefox.

Re: Firefox 31.0

#75

Post by r1ch »

huhtenberg wrote: post #12

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

Google's malware scanning service also generates false positives and provides no contact info for submitting an appeal. A little too automated for my liking.

Re: Firefox 31.0

#76

Post by joeclark77 »

Did they certify to the community that no Christians were involved in developing this version? How can we be sure this is an intolerance-free product?

Re: Firefox 31.0

#77

Post by Istof »

magicalist wrote: post #71
Istof wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

They might be "hiding" the setting by not including it in the main settings page, but there is no other (mainstream) browser with anything close to the equivalent of the flexibility of about:config.

yes, but they also change about:config "Preference Names" possibly to confuse users so that they stop messing with settings? for example the preference name for the number of lines scrolled when using the mousewheel used to be "mousewheel.withnokey.numlines", I believe it is now "mousewheel.acceleration.factor" ... I didn't keep track of all the changes, but I am sure that there is many others.

Re: Firefox 31.0

#78

Post by ElongatedTowel »

They removed browser.tabs.closeButtons. It's now impossible to hide the close buttons without css fiddling. I don't get it. What benefit is there to removing that feature?

Same with clearing the download list. They removed that feature with the last major UI overhaul.

The number of tiny addons I have to install just to get features back that have been removed for no reason at all is starting to get too large...

Re: Firefox 31.0

#80

Post by soapdog »

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?

Firebug can't hook into stuff that the built-in tools can mostly because the built-in tools are inside the browser itself and Firebug is an add-on.

I don't recommend using it any longer...

Post reply on HN