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by 482794793792894 9y ago
A redesigned UI is coming to Firefox with version 57. Maybe you'll like that one better. Can't exactly argue with your other point, since you don't explain how Chrome beats Firefox, but as many people in this thread have alre
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by 482794793792894 9y ago
Over the course of the next two weeks, they'll be merging some major UI overhauls, as well as remove swaths of legacy code, so things might be a bit rockier for some time and I wouldn't necessarily install it on my gramma's P
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by 482794793792894 9y ago
Yeah: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/add-on-compat...
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by 482794793792894 9y ago
They are trying to move away from the old extension API (because maintaining that ate up a crap ton of resources, so don't come up with that move being a waste of resources) and Tree-Style Tabs is not yet compatible with this new API.
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by 482794793792894 9y ago
The title is misleading. These are not part of Firefox. They are in the Test Pilot program, which is a way for Mozilla to gather feedback on what features they should include, how they should change them if they do include them and all in a
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by 482794793792894 9y ago
> (the upstream Focus depends on proprietary Google stuff, while Klar works without it) Do you have a source for that? I see this and things like "Klar has the telemetry turned off by default" thrown around everywhere, but then
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by 482794793792894 9y ago
Personally, I have it set as my default browser, so that any links that I click on in other applications open up in it and then I also have my full-blown Firefox installed for when I need to do actual browsing. Works out really well, as Foc
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by 482794793792894 9y ago
That's only default-enabled in Private Browsing, though. To enable it in normal browsing, set "privacy.trackingprotection.enabled" to true in about:config.
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by 482794793792894 9y ago
Yeah, the first lawsuits are already warming up, but that might take years still. Plenty time for any competition to die off and then Google pays some one-time fee and gets to keep the monopoly.
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by 482794793792894 9y ago
> I don't know what advanced level jiu-jitsu the evil Google product managers are trying to pull off with this adblocker but I am glad I don't have to worry about it anymore. There's two (not mutually exclusive) theories:
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by 482794793792894 9y ago
The new UI for Firefox 57 is still written in XUL. It's just the XUL extension API that is being deprecated in favor of WebExtensions with Firefox 57. This deprecation of XUL extensions could prove problematic for Thunderbird, as it m