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Re: Firefox 50.0

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Post by [deleted] »

dbl9 wrote: post #22
JoshTriplett wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Now if only i was not stuck on ESR because GTK3... What's the issue with GTK3?

GTK3 itself has various regressions and is slower than GTK2 despite the architectural refactoring lending itself to a snappier experience. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=771708 Firefox GTK3 has regressions too, for instance the bookmark manager not remembering where you were last which works with Firefox ESR (GTK2). https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1267863 Also GTK3's file dialog is subjective…

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Re: Firefox 50.0

#92

Post by elkos »

dmm wrote: post #33
hprotagonist wrote: post #6

Breaks NoScript on launch day. That was an unpleasant surprise this morning...

I'm on the Aurora channel currently running 51.0 and NoScript works fine for me.

I'm on the Nightly channel running Firefox v 53.0a1 (2016-11-15) (64-bit) on a Linux box. NoScript works for me too

Re: Firefox 50.0

#93

Post by bearcobra »

If they could just add a decent profile management option, I would switch back from Chrome. Keeping my work and personal accounts separated is the only thing keeping me using that battery killer

Re: Firefox 50.0

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Post by ovibos »

bearcobra wrote: post #93

If they could just add a decent profile management option, I would switch back from Chrome. Keeping my work and personal accounts separated is the only thing keeping me using that battery killer

What's wrong with `firefox -P`?

Re: Firefox 50.0

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Post by asutherland »

bearcobra wrote: post #93

If they could just add a decent profile management option, I would switch back from Chrome. Keeping my work and personal accounts separated is the only thing keeping me using that battery killer

If you're willing to try Firefox Nightly, check out the containers experiment: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Contextual_Identity_Projec...

While everything still happens within a single profile, sites in different containers get different storage (cookies, localStorage, IndexedDB, etc.) and cannot see each other.

Re: Firefox 50.0

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Post by paublyrne »

tdkl wrote: post #66
abusque wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know about Firefox or Atom, but in Chromium you can achieve that via Ctrl-PgUp and Ctrl-PgDn.

Which is a pretty dumb shortcut to use one handed and compared to alt+tab.

On Mac at least you can use Command Shift [ and ]. Which is the same as in the browsers.

Re: Firefox 50.0

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Post by bearcobra »

asutherland wrote: post #95
bearcobra wrote: post #93

If they could just add a decent profile management option, I would switch back from Chrome. Keeping my work and personal accounts separated is the only thing keeping me using that battery killer

If you're willing to try Firefox Nightly, check out the containers experiment: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Contextual_Identity_Projec... While everything still happens within a single profile, sites in different containers get different storage (cookies, localStorage, IndexedDB, etc.) and cannot see each other.

That looks way more powerful than what Chrome is doing. I'll give it a try. Thanks for the suggestion

Re: Firefox 50.0

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Post by maket »

ht85 wrote: post #38
Aardwolf wrote: post #24

"Set a preference to have Ctrl+Tab cycle through tabs in recently used order " Finally something that is an actually improved UI feature! Not some "removed status bar and instead hover its info over text you want to read sometimes" or "moved refresh button to different place than before just to annoy you" or similar thing :)

This has been possible for a very long time, as a side-effect of enabling browser.ctrlTab.previews in about:config Glad to see they are paying more attention to this though. Thousands of people have requested that feature for Chrome. To this day there hasn't been (or I haven't found) an official answer and the only way to do it is to use an extension, using an alternative keybind as extensions aren't allowed to inter…

It seems as if the feature is just directly using browser.ctrlTab.previews, toggling it also toggles the new option in the Options menu.
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