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Firefox 53: Quantum Compositor, Compact Themes, CSS Masks

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Re: Firefox 53: Quantum Compositor, Compact Themes, CSS Masks

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Post by frik »

As much as I like Firefox. It is now on a cross road.

For debugging development purposes I am keeping a version now for older dev plugins that never got a proper replacement, and aren't compatible with the newer API and newer will be (because the API is so much less powerful, good for noobs / bad for power user).

And I can't wait until Servo gets more stable and feature complete. I am thinking about a Vivaldi browser like HTML5 based UI based on Servo web engine, instead of blink - that would be the ideal next-gen Firefox reboot! (Firefox/Firebird/forgotthename was initially a leaner fork of the "bloated" MozillaSuite, in the meantime Firefox got so much more bloated than the still maintained MozillaSuite (now called SeaMonkey, based on recent gecko engine)).

Re: Firefox 53: Quantum Compositor, Compact Themes, CSS Masks

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Post by interfixus »

frik wrote: post #2

As much as I like Firefox. It is now on a cross road. For debugging development purposes I am keeping a version now for older dev plugins that never got a proper replacement, and aren't compatible with the newer API and newer will be (because the API is so much less powerful, good for noobs / bad for power user). And I can't wait until Servo gets more stable and feature complete. I am thinking about a Vivaldi browser…

My Pale Moon (Linux) clocks in at around 200Mb less than latest Firefox. It's faster, too. And runs the addons I want it to run. Not going back.

Re: Firefox 53: Quantum Compositor, Compact Themes, CSS Masks

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Post by dstaley »

Whenever a new Firefox release drops, my favorite thing to do is to see if this (now ten-year-old) bug [0] is finally fixed.

Spoiler: it isn't.

This bug (and many others similar to it) are one of the main reasons I dislike using Firefox. It just feels out of place on macOS. I'm fine with non-native UI elements as long as they're not elements as fundamental as the select dropdown and the right-click menu.

Edit: Turns out this bug has been fixed, but only if you have Electrolysis [1] enabled [2].

[0] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=402625

[1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis

[2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=402625#c32

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