> We’re excited to introduce multiple tab selection, which makes it easier to manage windows with many open tabs. Simply hold Control (Windows, Linux) or Command (macOS) and click on tabs to select them. Once selected, click and drag to move the tabs as a group — either within a given window, or out into a new window.
Yessss. It doesn't happen often, but the times when I open up 6-10 tabs for research but then decide they deserve their own window so I can focus on them (and subsequently drag them out one by one) is still a lot.
I used to use OneTab, but it wasn't robustly constructed to deal with data loss/recovery. I've now moved on to Session Buddy, which has some really nice features, like auto-saving your browsing sessions without your doing anything. (I guess I should check if that respects private modes.)
Kind of a niche thing to comment on, but this release lands a commit I made that enables XDG desktop portals support in Firefox. If you're on KDE Plasma, you can run Firefox with the environment variable `GTK_USE_PORTAL=1` set and it will use KDE file selection dialogs.
I am sorry to be the one to ask, as it seems all the other commenters know it already. I even searched internet for "What are XDG desktip portals", but this came up with results for project that seem to use these portals, but no fast explanation of what they are? Can please somebody summarize what this is about?
Disclaimer: I am a Linux user since >20 years, using XMonad window manager on Ubuntu 16.04 at the moment.
> Easier performance management: The new Task Manager page found at about:performance lets you see how much energy each open tab consumes and provides access to close tabs to conserve power
> Improved performance for Mac and Linux users, by enabling link time optimization (Clang LTO). (Clang LTO was enabled for Windows users in Firefox 63.)
> Easier performance management: The new Task Manager page found at about:performance lets you see how much energy each open tab consumes and provides access to close tabs to conserve power
This is pretty neat, now I'm wondering why the webex extension is having "Medium" impact when it should be doing nothing.
Is this the version that kills Live Bookmarks? Some of us FF old-timers are hopelessly reliant on these things, and it's, as far as I have found, the fastest way to quickly scan lists of headlines from all your favorite sites at once. Seriously, one click and you can quickly mouse over the sites on your bookmarks toolbar to consume hundreds of headlines.
For those using Firefox, I have one question. Is there any way to replicate Chrome's tab-to-search feature? It's literally the ONLY reason I'm still on Chrome.
Let me explain by showing how I would search for "apples" in youtube across both browsers.
Firefox:
1 - Ctrl+L (go to location bar)
2 - Type "you", press "down" to select youtube from history.
3 - Wait for site to load......
4 - Click on search box
5 - Type in "apples"
6 - Press enter
Chrome:
1 - Ctrl+L (go to location bar)
2 - Type "you", and if youtube is first item in history,
3 - Press "tab"
4 - Type in "apples"
5 - Press enter.
Youtube opens up with my searched item. Nice and easy with far fewer key presses no waiting nor mouse clicking.
Works for youtube, hacker news, wiktionary, google images, and a heap of other sites I use daily.
Curious about the "energy impact" metric. It seems to be just runtime. Fairly lame, had expected some kind of real energy model. This will be quite misleading in many cases, e.g. GPU usage or heavy floating point.
// 'Dispatches' doesn't make sense to users, and it's difficult to present
// two numbers in a meaningful way, so we need to somehow aggregate the
// dispatches and duration values we have.
// The current formula to aggregate the numbers assumes that the cost of
// a dispatch is equivalent to 1ms of CPU time.
// Dividing the result by the sampling interval and by 10 gives a number that
// looks like a familiar percentage to users, as fullying using one core will
// result in a number close to 100.
let energyImpact =
Math.max(duration || 0, dispatches * 1000) / UPDATE_INTERVAL_MS / 10;
// Keep only 2 digits after the decimal point.
There's always been a look & feel problem for me with Firefox...something that seemed to be solved right out of the box with Chrome. I've not been able to put my finger on it, but I think this kind of small user-convenience stuff is part of it. It's not "features" per se, but more the feel of how the application works.
It reminds me of old platform video games before Super Mario Bros. (and for a while after) Superficially, they looked and played kind of the same, but there were a thousand little tweaks in how Mario handled that made it feel right.
I'm definitely going to give Firefox a spin and see how it handles these days.
I have a local html page devoted to news. An entry for a specific site will see at least two urls: The main site's URL and a link to it's RSS feed.
Linking to the feed directly was a great way to bypass all the modern garbage on the home page to see a simple list of articles (not unlike HN's home page). It's borked now...
None of my RSS links render. Chromium was very bad at this but at least it rendered a few (a couple of examples below), FF64 doesn't render any (in any form):
A huge part of my ability to enjoy the web has just been destroyed.:( I'll have to test this on other browsers...
edit (update): both sample links above are working now (odd). Most others with XML, RSS, Atom extensions do not render (FF offers to open in external app or save).
I really wish they would implement tab stacking, that is the feature that I really miss from the old Opera, here is a video of how it looks in case you don't know: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWpJvg8icmM
I've tried to find an extension for FF that does this, but so far I was unable to find one.
What's the status of the cat and mouse game being played with autoplay video being forced on and new options needing to be hunted down?
First Chrome forced it on, because EvilCorp's business model is around a forced-open-eyelid philosophy of advertising revenue from unstoppable impressions.
Next I moved to Firefox, which in an update a few months ago changed the autoplay option to be on, removed the config attribute and made it a new one, which has as options 0, 1 and 2. Turned out autoplay default should be 1.
I'm not about to wait to find out what's around the corner. I started using Vivaldi this weekend in hopes someone actually made a browser for those who don't care about some company's ad revenue.
I don't know why Firefox would do that, and introduce Pocket as well. Is copying Google that sexy a thing?
Every new release of Firefox makes the experience better and better. I'm glad Mozilla has started focusing on the browser again, not just as an "open alternative to chrome" but as the "best possible browser", which I truly believe Firefox today is :)
I'm afraid I'm a bit of a one-issue voter when it comes to web browser, and the reason that I haven't switched to Firefox from Chrome (even though ideologically I want to) is this workflow that I use for clicking links in other apps. I open an incognito/private browser window in the foreground, then click the link in the other application. In Chrome, this opens the link in the incognito window. In Firefox, this opens the link in a normal browser window. In order to open the link in a private browser window, I have to manually copy paste the link between applications into the private window. I follow this workflow when the link is some site that I don't generally visit, or don't recognize, and hence don't want to access any cookies associated with my regular browser window, and importantly, also don't want to show up in my browsing history.
I recall there being an issue on Mozilla's bug tracker where someone brought this up and it was closed as a wontfix. Unless there is something about Firefox's container system that obviates my workflow, I'm still reluctantly sticking with Chrome.
The new API browser.menus.overrideContext is announced with documentation links pointing to blogs, including a personal blog page with unrelated Japanese texts and anime pictures. The official documentation (MDN) has no reference to the new features. Even the API features from FF63 (august 2018) are only have a draft of documentation (e.g. Menus.getTargetElement). Documentation is important, even more for an API. I think this pattern is worrying.
Anecdotally the scrolling performance feels better on my 2018 Macbook Pro. I've been doing heavy work all morning (lots of scrolling around) and after updating, something feels better. Can't really prove any of this scientifically but good to percieve performance improvements.
I also have a brutally long Trello card that used to choke up Firefox (not as bad on Chrome). Happy to say that is no longer happening either.
Unfortunately Gmail still looks to have optimization that only work in Chrome. For whatever reason the time from first load to seeing the compose window after clicking "compose" is brutally slow in FFX, but not in Chrome.
> Symantec CA Distrust: Due to a history of malpractice, Firefox 64 will not trust TLS certificates issued by Symantec (including under their GeoTrust, RapidSSL, and Thawte brands). Microsoft, Google, and Apple are implementing similar measures for their respective browsers.
> Multiple tab selection: We’re excited to introduce multiple tab selection, which makes it easier to manage windows with many open tabs. Simply hold Control (Windows, Linux) or Command (macOS) and click on tabs to select them. Once selected, click and drag to move the tabs as a group — either within a given window, or out into a new window.
[+] [-] kevincrane|7 years ago|reply
Yessss. It doesn't happen often, but the times when I open up 6-10 tabs for research but then decide they deserve their own window so I can focus on them (and subsequently drag them out one by one) is still a lot.
[+] [-] squarefoot|7 years ago|reply
[+] [-] stcredzero|7 years ago|reply
[+] [-] unknown|7 years ago|reply
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[+] [-] moosingin3space|7 years ago|reply
[+] [-] reirob|7 years ago|reply
Disclaimer: I am a Linux user since >20 years, using XMonad window manager on Ubuntu 16.04 at the moment.
[+] [-] pmoriarty|7 years ago|reply
[+] [-] jt2190|7 years ago|reply
> Easier performance management: The new Task Manager page found at about:performance lets you see how much energy each open tab consumes and provides access to close tabs to conserve power
> Improved performance for Mac and Linux users, by enabling link time optimization (Clang LTO). (Clang LTO was enabled for Windows users in Firefox 63.)
Release Notes: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/64.0/releasenotes/
[+] [-] dec0dedab0de|7 years ago|reply
This is pretty neat, now I'm wondering why the webex extension is having "Medium" impact when it should be doing nothing.
[+] [-] Doctor_Fegg|7 years ago|reply
I would like these features to be standardised to hands-off-my-fricking-scrollbars.
I’m fed up with impossible-to-grab 1px-wide scrollbars because “everyone has trackpads”. No, they don’t.
[+] [-] jjordan|7 years ago|reply
I really, REALLY hate that they're killing this feature, but this addon promises to restore it: https://www.ghacks.net/2018/07/30/livemarks-restores-live-bo...
Edit: here's the official GitHub: https://github.com/nt1m/livemarks/
[+] [-] iod|7 years ago|reply
¹ https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=635134
² https://wiki.mozilla.org/Release_Management/Calendar
[+] [-] kentosi|7 years ago|reply
For those using Firefox, I have one question. Is there any way to replicate Chrome's tab-to-search feature? It's literally the ONLY reason I'm still on Chrome.
Let me explain by showing how I would search for "apples" in youtube across both browsers.
Firefox:
1 - Ctrl+L (go to location bar) 2 - Type "you", press "down" to select youtube from history. 3 - Wait for site to load...... 4 - Click on search box 5 - Type in "apples" 6 - Press enter
Chrome:
1 - Ctrl+L (go to location bar) 2 - Type "you", and if youtube is first item in history, 3 - Press "tab" 4 - Type in "apples" 5 - Press enter.
Youtube opens up with my searched item. Nice and easy with far fewer key presses no waiting nor mouse clicking.
Works for youtube, hacker news, wiktionary, google images, and a heap of other sites I use daily.
[+] [-] nn3|7 years ago|reply
[+] [-] bane|7 years ago|reply
It reminds me of old platform video games before Super Mario Bros. (and for a while after) Superficially, they looked and played kind of the same, but there were a thousand little tweaks in how Mario handled that made it feel right.
I'm definitely going to give Firefox a spin and see how it handles these days.
[+] [-] O1111OOO|7 years ago|reply
I have a local html page devoted to news. An entry for a specific site will see at least two urls: The main site's URL and a link to it's RSS feed.
Linking to the feed directly was a great way to bypass all the modern garbage on the home page to see a simple list of articles (not unlike HN's home page). It's borked now...
None of my RSS links render. Chromium was very bad at this but at least it rendered a few (a couple of examples below), FF64 doesn't render any (in any form):
http://feeds.arstechnica.com/arstechnica/index
https://feeds.feedburner.com/ItsFoss
A huge part of my ability to enjoy the web has just been destroyed.:( I'll have to test this on other browsers...
edit (update): both sample links above are working now (odd). Most others with XML, RSS, Atom extensions do not render (FF offers to open in external app or save).
[+] [-] amarsahinovic|7 years ago|reply
I've tried to find an extension for FF that does this, but so far I was unable to find one.
[+] [-] mancerayder|7 years ago|reply
First Chrome forced it on, because EvilCorp's business model is around a forced-open-eyelid philosophy of advertising revenue from unstoppable impressions.
Next I moved to Firefox, which in an update a few months ago changed the autoplay option to be on, removed the config attribute and made it a new one, which has as options 0, 1 and 2. Turned out autoplay default should be 1.
I'm not about to wait to find out what's around the corner. I started using Vivaldi this weekend in hopes someone actually made a browser for those who don't care about some company's ad revenue.
I don't know why Firefox would do that, and introduce Pocket as well. Is copying Google that sexy a thing?
[+] [-] madmax108|7 years ago|reply
Every new release reminds me of this comic: http://www.stickycomics.com/computer-update/
As a tweet I read today[1] :
"Mozilla seems to be under the assumption that there are people out there who don't want them to win.
EVERYONE WANTS MOZILLA TO WIN!
Half the developers on the Chrome team want Mozilla to win.
We're all sort of terrified that Mozilla isn't going to win"
I'm glad there are more people embracing this attitude within Mozilla and the developer community.
[1] https://twitter.com/mikeal/status/1071134519976022017
[+] [-] Perceptes|7 years ago|reply
I recall there being an issue on Mozilla's bug tracker where someone brought this up and it was closed as a wontfix. Unless there is something about Firefox's container system that obviates my workflow, I'm still reluctantly sticking with Chrome.
[+] [-] idoubtit|7 years ago|reply
[+] [-] TekMol|7 years ago|reply
I have been waiting for this feature for I don't know how many years.
Every Firefox release, I am reminded of this xkcd comic:
https://xkcd.com/619/
[+] [-] xvilka|7 years ago|reply
[+] [-] whalesalad|7 years ago|reply
I also have a brutally long Trello card that used to choke up Firefox (not as bad on Chrome). Happy to say that is no longer happening either.
Unfortunately Gmail still looks to have optimization that only work in Chrome. For whatever reason the time from first load to seeing the compose window after clicking "compose" is brutally slow in FFX, but not in Chrome.
[+] [-] pseudoanonymity|7 years ago|reply
> Multiple tab selection: We’re excited to introduce multiple tab selection, which makes it easier to manage windows with many open tabs. Simply hold Control (Windows, Linux) or Command (macOS) and click on tabs to select them. Once selected, click and drag to move the tabs as a group — either within a given window, or out into a new window.
[+] [-] nameless912|7 years ago|reply