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Re: Firefox 86.0

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Post by jwatt »

callmeal wrote: post #66
matsemann wrote: post #23

Wow, Ctrl+P has now started to open the proper print-interface with a preview! I've helped loads of people over the years complaining about printing in Fx vs Chrome. It used to be so in Fx that selecting Print from the menu opened an interface for printing (ala Chrome), but pressing Ctrl+P just opened standard OS print dialog. So power users never saw the nice print preview.

For those of us that prefer the OS print dialog, how can we stop this madness?

We intend to add a keyboard shortcut for this[1]. In the meantime you can revert to the old printing interface by setting the `print.tab_modal.enabled` preference to `false` via the page `about:config`. In a few releases time, after we've finished integrating user feedback and polishing rough edges, we intend to remove that preference though.

1. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1667950

Re: Firefox 86.0

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Post by frosted-flakes »

lucideer wrote: post #69
bradstewart wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow. I switched to Firefox around the same time I switched a Mac for work, and just assumed the lack of print preview was a weird macOS thing. This makes me happy.

fwiw Firefox always had a print preview; it was just behind a different shortcut rather than integrated into the default flow.

The old Print Preview actually allowed you to inspect the page with the Developer Tools. Which was great for debugging print-specific CSS. I don't think that's possible with the new Print Preview, but the new one is better in every other way.

Re: Firefox 86.0

#83

Post by marcosdumay »

ebegnwgnen wrote: post #24
forgotmypw17 wrote: post #2

What I'd like to see in a browser is a button which resets it to the UI from Firefox 1.0 [1] OS-provided window border and titlebar Standard menubar with keyboard hints, always displayed Five buttons: Back, forward, reload, stop, home Address bar and separate search field Status bar which shows me link URL when I hover a link [1] https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/web-design-history/mozilla-f... Personally, these days I…

Go to Menu -> Customize. Tick "Title Bar" Drag & Drop the "search" widget aside your URL bar Drag & Drop the Five buttons you mention where you want You're welcome. (for the status bar URL link preview on hover it's already the case by default)

And have it all reverted at random because well "there seems to be along time since you last used Firefox, do you want to lose all your configurations? Yes. Later."

Re: Firefox 86.0

#84

Post by SamuelAdams »

Jamieee wrote: post #48
eznzt wrote: post #39

This new release also includes new ads, seems they forgot to put that in the release notes: https://twitter.com/CohanRobinson/status/1364172683118866433

From the tweet's Author it's disabled via: about:config browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.showSponsored browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.showSponsoredTopSites there is also: services.sync.prefs.sync.browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.showSponsored services.sync.prefs.sync.browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.showSponsoredTopSites

Yes, this works. For now. The bigger problem is that this will probably go away at some point and the "sponsored" items will have no way (or a very difficult way) of being removed.

This has happened before with the browser toolbar having an about:config option to disable enlarging behavior, now you have to do some hacky CSS thing.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1274579

Re: Firefox 86.0

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Post by driverdan »

matsemann wrote: post #23

Wow, Ctrl+P has now started to open the proper print-interface with a preview! I've helped loads of people over the years complaining about printing in Fx vs Chrome. It used to be so in Fx that selecting Print from the menu opened an interface for printing (ala Chrome), but pressing Ctrl+P just opened standard OS print dialog. So power users never saw the nice print preview.

This doesn't appear to be new in 86. I'm on 85 and it has preview when I hit Cmd+P.

Re: Firefox 86.0

#86

Post by driverdan »

blfr wrote: post #17

> Firefox now supports simultaneously watching multiple videos in Picture-in-Picture. Is Adderall the new Aspirin? Or is there some WFH use here that I'm missing.

I watched NASA's stream of Perseverance landing on Mars. It would have been cool to watch a few different landings streams at once since one had good narration and another had better footage.

Re: Firefox 86.0

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Post by Macha »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #32
ubercow13 wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How does a window manager get rid of Firefox's browser chrome?

Answer: it doesn't. The problem is browsers have two layers of decoration: the WM layer (which tiling window managers tend to remove), and the internal layer - the tab bar, address bar, option buttons, borders, etc. As far as I know, there isn't a way to remove all that without going full screen.

In the very first version of firefox with full screen mode it ended up doing just that, rendering full screen inside a normal window area in my tiling WM. It was likely a bug/unimplemented feature at that stage, but to be honest it would have been nice to have as an option prior to pip.

Re: Firefox 86.0

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Post by nitrohorse »

pentagrama wrote: post #60

Not totally related, but someone know if exist an RSS feed to follow the stable Firefox releases? Can't find it on this page. This Firefox changelogs are awesome to know big improvements and new features on a surface level. For Chrome I didn't find a proper way to follow the releases even if it has some RSS feeds, I follow the RSS feed of Chrome Releases blog [1] with a tag filter [2] but can't exclude the several po…

Interested myself, currently using https://groups.google.com/forum/feed/mozilla.announce/msgs/r... (https://groups.google.com/g/mozilla.announce).

Re: Firefox 86.0

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Post by wongarsu »

swiley wrote: post #61
blfr wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can speed up videos on Youtube. Both natively and with yuotube-dl then play locally with mpv or your (lesser) favourite player.

This was less clicks and faster.

Clicking on the gear in the youtube player allows you to set playback speed. Most videos are very watchable on 1.25x or 1.5x speed, on videos that are basically just filler with some information in between I even go to 2x

Re: Firefox 86.0

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Post by alecmg »

Found a random improvement: Kraken 1.1 benchmark runs faster now.

Improved from roughly 760 to 700ms on my 5800X.

Still ways to go to reach Chrome at 560ms

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