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by 482794793792894 9y ago
I always find it's worth pointing out that you can also bookmark the about:profiles-page and stick that into the bookmarks-bar. Or if you don't use the bookmarks-bar, you can also go into Customize and drag the Bookmark-Items-elem
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by 482794793792894 9y ago
Don't think Mozilla could really afford to implement that right now. You can only piss off advertisers so much before webpage owners stop supporting your browser and Mozilla is already pissing off advertisers in many ways. Especially c
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by 482794793792894 9y ago
That is a privacy feature, which also drove advertisers mad, but technology-wise, this is completely different.
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I imagine, there's also going to be add-ons that make this even more accessible.
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by 482794793792894 9y ago
There's https://anbox.io/ . I don't know, though, if there's any limitation that prevents using this on the Librem 5.
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by 482794793792894 9y ago
Haven't ever had a Facebook account, but I've encountered the deactivation-deletion dark pattern before, most recently on Twitch. I think, it's a matter of them being required by law (won't be the case in all countries)
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by 482794793792894 9y ago
Also, Pokémon tend to have their species' name written somewhere on them. If instead you see a cool plant or animal outside, then good luck trying to look that up.
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by 482794793792894 9y ago
I can't promise that you won't ever have choppy CSS animations anymore, but it is currently the case that the desktop version of the "new Firefox", so the upcoming Firefox 57, ships with a new, written from scratch and h
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by 482794793792894 9y ago
The CSS engine was completely rewritten in Rust and now heavily utilizes parallelism, which Rust certainly did help with. I'd say, this was only about 1/4 of the performance increase going from 56 to 57, though. (Based on my perce
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by 482794793792894 9y ago
> Any data/metrics regarding bug counts on Rust vs C++ for the replaced components? Here's a funny one for the multimedia decoder: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2016/07/shipping-rust-in-firefox/
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by 482794793792894 9y ago
These components were built as part of the Servo project and then ported to Firefox, so you'd probably just want to ask the Servo team directly. You can find them on IRC, in the channel #servo on irc.mozilla.org. There is https:/
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by 482794793792894 9y ago
Just because you say that doesn't make it true, though. Sometimes a tool just is worse, even if you become skilled at it. I can try to work around Microsoft Word's UI by learning the keyboard shortcuts, but I can't do anythin
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by 482794793792894 9y ago
If it's a desktop environment for a Linux-based operating system, like it seems from the comments here, then you'd have access to more and especially more powerful software. And then I suppose, it's a matter of taste when com
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by 482794793792894 9y ago
> A lot of criticism for not being a "real" OS from a technical perspective It's not criticism, an actual full operating system written in NW.js would just be very special in its own way. NW.js requires an underlying opera
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by 482794793792894 9y ago
Don't know what you mean with packaging support, but you can install language packs into the Unbranded Builds to get the different languages.
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by 482794793792894 9y ago
The new Photon UI in Firefox 57 comes with a Touch UI. It's under Customize -> at the bottom "Density" -> Touch. No idea, though, how well it works, I don't have a touchscreen...
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by 482794793792894 9y ago
For my mental cleanup it works to have about:config?filter=browser.tabs.closeWindowWithLastTab set to false.
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by 482794793792894 9y ago
They had to sort of rush it, because they wanted to rush out multiprocess, to stop the bleeding of users (which has very much worked [1]). And then they needed to follow up with the switch to WebExtensions relatively quickly, so that extens
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by 482794793792894 9y ago
57 just entered Beta. It will be released on the 14th November. That's a whole 6 weeks still. It also is not the end of all Firefox development. Just because it's not necessarily done for 57, doesn't mean that it won't g
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by 482794793792894 9y ago
For now, it's already been enough to stop the losing of market share. The introduction of multiprocess in Firefox 48 (2nd August 2016) seems to have made the difference: http://netmarketshare.com/report.aspx?qprid=1&amp
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Because implementing such user protections takes away from the revenue stream of webpage owners. As a result of that, those have much less of a incentive to ensure compatibility with Firefox, which ultimately means lots of broken webpages w
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There's a lot of add-ons that are unmaintained and those won't get ported. For those, you'll want to look for alternatives.
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by 482794793792894 9y ago
Mozilla provided an add-on API for the Container Tabs, so maybe someone writes an add-on to do this. Or if you want to get your hands dirty yourself, you can try writing one yourself. I imagine hard-coding a few URLs and respective Containe
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by 482794793792894 9y ago
You can shrink the tab height further with userChrome.css. [1] Putting this into there should shrink it down a bit further: @namespace url("http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul&quot
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by 482794793792894 9y ago
Yeah, but that's nonsense that bad journalists write or Mozilla marketing people say, because it's more understandable for normal readers and makes it more credible that things will change. The truth is that they were in a dilemma
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> It’s no secret that Mozilla squandered a lot of time and energy on various projects that went nowhere (think its mobile phone OS, IoT services, creating a built-in video chat service, etc.). The "built-in video chat service"
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Yeah, this reasoning especially also struck me as weird, because Twitter's 140 character limit was chosen from an English-speaking viewpoint. The limit for Asian languages should have been adjusted downwards as early as Twitter launche
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In part, it is because of a Rust component. A new CSS engine, Stylo, is shipping with 57 and that brought a noticeable performance improvement. In the foreseeable future there will also be WebRender, which should give an even bigger improve
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I think, that is correct, yeah. DevEdition is nowadays essentially just Beta with slightly different defaults (and that option compiled in), so you could just use that. If you really do specifically want Beta, then Mozilla also supplies Unb
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by 482794793792894 9y ago
Mozilla is still doing something with the keyboard shortcuts API to make that more capable. I don't know what exactly they're doing, it won't be as powerful as Vimperator, but it should be a good bit more powerful than Vimium

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