"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 interact with ctrl-tab.
I'm glad you like it. This is one of those personal UX preferences that has you either one or the other camp. Am I right to assume you liked this from your past Opera use?
Years ago, this used to be the default in Firefox. Since Ctrl+Tab has not been the default, I've been using Ctrl+Tab extension. Other browser like Chrome do not provide APIs to allow extensions access to override tab order. Accessing tabs by order of last used, is a requirement for my daily web browsing, which is why I've stuck with Firefox for so long. I'm glad this is now part of the preferences, and does not require an extension.
on that note: I really wish they would move the refresh button back to the modular interface. I hate where the refresh button is (so do lots of people) and just wish it wasn't the ONE thing on the toolbar you couldn't config. (yes I've replied to and opened a ticket)
I'm making some inquiries. It looks like the old code just ended up setting "position" to 0 when an object was assigned, while the new code (correctly per spec) throws. The real bug is assigning an object to a non-object-valued property...
That's ... not a bad thing. Chrome creating nonstandard APIs (IIRC this was for Drive?) on its own is a bad thing. Coming together and speccing (https://wicg.github.io/directory-upload/proposal.html) the API is a good thing. They seem to have specced more or less what Webkit had already implemented (plus some promise based stuff), but usually when a nonstandard API has been out there long enough it's best to build your standardized version on top of it instead of having two APIs for it. This is a common practice. This isn't "mimicking".
Unfortunately it is very slow compared to Tree Style Tabs if you have a considerable amount of tabs open (even using extensions like auto-unload, it is very very slow). Hope it gets fixed because I would _love_ a built-in vertical tab feature.
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
While everything still happens within a single profile, sites in different containers get different storage (cookies, localStorage, IndexedDB, etc.) and cannot see each other.
yes, this! I've tried so hard to like FF profiles, I really wish they'd make this better. I still refuse to go to Chrome, but I'm getting lost on these small features.
If you have a hard requirement to use a thoroughly obsolete GUI toolkit, you can for now fairly easily compile your own copy of Firefox for GTK2; it takes around 30-40 minutes on a laptop with a Core i5. (On Gentoo, there is a USE flag for it.)
I wanted to try reader mode, so I went to a random Atlantic article (https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/11/better-of...) and hit ctrl-alt-r. The graph related to the story was dropped. Would that be a bug, or is that how reader mode is supposed to work?
I don't have the equivalent Evernote plug-in anymore (I'm trying to get away from Evernote), so I have nothing to compare it to.
You can report a bug in Firefox Reader Mode here. Identifying the "important" content on a page is a hard problem. :) FWIW, Safari's Reader Mode doesn't include the article's graphs or pictures either.
Did something change in font rendering with Freetype on Linux? While 49.0.2 with FreeType 2.7 looked the best (subjectively) I've seen any font rendering (including Windows 10 and OS X Snow Leopard (been a while)), something off with 50.0's rendering. I haven't enabled any custom render options, just your typical archlinux freetype 2.7 desktop. Time to get ESR and compare with that but would be great to hear back from others with a similar environment.
So can I sync the reading list and use it later offline, both on desktop or mobile? I've looked for the reading list in about:about but I can't seem to find it.
I find that Firefox has a considerable lag on Macbook 2012 compared to Safari. I wish that would change because I love firefox and don't want to use Safari but Safari is just nimble
I had to stop using Firefox, because the 64-bit version apparently exists only to consume all of the memory on my PCs, not just some of it, like the 32-bit builds would.
I'm using Iron Browser now, which has its own issues, but which at least handles a hefty amount of tabs and some essential extensions without destroying system performance.
Regarding the new Referrer-Policy header introduction, what happens when my network.http.sendRefererHeader is 0, network.http.sendSecureXSiteReferrer is false and some website sets a Referrer-Policy: "unsafe-url" header? Which setting has the priority?
1) Is the site requesting a "no-referrer" policy? Then send no referer.
2) Is network.http.sendRefererHeader set to a value that would prevent sending of referrer in this situation (e.g. 0 in all situations)? Then send no referrer.
3) All the other logic (but generally aiming to follow the most restrictive directive we have).
It's great that Firefox finally has this option and I'm surprised that so many people dislike it; it's the single most important feature why Opera is my default browser.
I guess the reason why it's confusing to people is that Firefox (just like Sublime) doesn't have that little popup displaying a list of tabs while switching, it would make all the difference in the user experience, and make things clear.
[+] [-] Aardwolf|9 years ago|reply
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 :)
[+] [-] ohstopitu|9 years ago|reply
I feel like ctrl + tab has to move to next tab & ctrl + shift + tab should move to previous tab (cycle if it reaches the end).
I feel like that's more predictable behaviour.
[+] [-] ht85|9 years ago|reply
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 interact with ctrl-tab.
[+] [-] dbl9|9 years ago|reply
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[+] [-] vdnkh|9 years ago|reply
Only reason I'm mentioning it here is that it looks like the repo is dead.
[+] [-] bzbarsky|9 years ago|reply
[+] [-] doytch|9 years ago|reply
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases/50#Chan...
[+] [-] silverwind|9 years ago|reply
Granted, it's done by mimicking Webkit APIs, but that has the advantage that existing sites work without changes.
[+] [-] Manishearth|9 years ago|reply
That's ... not a bad thing. Chrome creating nonstandard APIs (IIRC this was for Drive?) on its own is a bad thing. Coming together and speccing (https://wicg.github.io/directory-upload/proposal.html) the API is a good thing. They seem to have specced more or less what Webkit had already implemented (plus some promise based stuff), but usually when a nonstandard API has been out there long enough it's best to build your standardized version on top of it instead of having two APIs for it. This is a common practice. This isn't "mimicking".
[+] [-] Nadya|9 years ago|reply
Am I missing something or was that right?
Example of error: http://superuser.com/questions/909112/does-firefox-support-f...
[+] [-] spacehacker|9 years ago|reply
[+] [-] kylek|9 years ago|reply
Unfortunately it is very slow compared to Tree Style Tabs if you have a considerable amount of tabs open (even using extensions like auto-unload, it is very very slow). Hope it gets fixed because I would _love_ a built-in vertical tab feature.
[+] [-] audessuscest|9 years ago|reply
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[+] [-] asutherland|9 years ago|reply
While everything still happens within a single profile, sites in different containers get different storage (cookies, localStorage, IndexedDB, etc.) and cannot see each other.
[+] [-] ovibos|9 years ago|reply
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[+] [-] heinrich5991|9 years ago|reply
It seems archives (such as .bz2, .gz) are treated as executable files. What is the reason for that? https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/054d4856cea6/too...
[+] [-] jimminy|9 years ago|reply
[+] [-] digi_owl|9 years ago|reply
Took them bloody long enough. Now if only i was not stuck on ESR because GTK3...
[+] [-] tetromino_|9 years ago|reply
[+] [-] aban|9 years ago|reply
[0]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/firefox-gtk2
[+] [-] JoshTriplett|9 years ago|reply
What's the issue with GTK3?
[+] [-] aidanhs|9 years ago|reply
For anyone else interested, it appears that the patch is still being reviewed - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1151899 (though I don't know if rust-url would have actually prevented the issue).
[+] [-] criddell|9 years ago|reply
I don't have the equivalent Evernote plug-in anymore (I'm trying to get away from Evernote), so I have nothing to compare it to.
[+] [-] cpeterso|9 years ago|reply
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Toolkit&c...
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[+] [-] CiPHPerCoder|9 years ago|reply
PSA: Please update immediately. One of these is critical.
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[+] [-] beedogs|9 years ago|reply
I'm using Iron Browser now, which has its own issues, but which at least handles a hefty amount of tabs and some essential extensions without destroying system performance.
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[+] [-] bzbarsky|9 years ago|reply
1) Is the site requesting a "no-referrer" policy? Then send no referer.
2) Is network.http.sendRefererHeader set to a value that would prevent sending of referrer in this situation (e.g. 0 in all situations)? Then send no referrer.
3) All the other logic (but generally aiming to follow the most restrictive directive we have).
The "network.http.sendSecureXSiteReferrer" still exists in 50, but is gone in 52; see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1308725
[+] [-] michalstanko|9 years ago|reply
I guess the reason why it's confusing to people is that Firefox (just like Sublime) doesn't have that little popup displaying a list of tabs while switching, it would make all the difference in the user experience, and make things clear.
[+] [-] chris_wot|9 years ago|reply