The Firefox/Mozilla Thread

Nergal · 10 May 2017 02:49

Wait what is "chrome compatibility" why are they dumbing down customization of themes and,toolbars

Winapp2.ini · 10 May 2017 02:58

Wait what is "chrome compatibility" why are they dumbing down customization of themes and,toolbars

The WebExtensions API is meant to replace the current addon model, but they don't plan to turn it on by default until it has reached feature parity with Chrome's API in order to make it easier for chrome extension developers to port their extensions to firefox

I believe they're moving the front end UI code from XUL to html/css (part of Quantum DOM?) and in doing so removing a lot of customization. I think userchrome.css will still be functional, I think more advanced themes that rely on XUL functions will not be.

JDPower · 10 May 2017 03:02

The WebExtensions API is meant to replace the current addon model, but they don't plan to turn it on by default until it has reached feature parity with Chrome's API in order to make it easier for chrome extension developers to port their extensions to firefox

I believe they're moving the front end UI code from XUL to html/css (part of Quantum DOM?) and in doing so removing a lot of customization. I think userchrome.css will still be functional, I think more advanced themes that rely on XUL functions will not be.

The end of Classic Theme Restorer. Dreading it <_<

Winapp2.ini · 10 May 2017 03:33

The end of Classic Theme Restorer. Dreading it

52 ESR should still work for another year

ROCKNROLL · 10 May 2017 17:18

52 ESR should still work for another year

With a possible chance of an extension when they add up the results this summer.

JDPower · 10 May 2017 22:56

52 ESR should still work for another year

If it's going it's going, no point delaying it lol. I'll either have to live with the default layout, or finally make the move to Vivaldi that I've been threatening since forever :lol:

ROCKNROLL · 11 May 2017 02:23

If it's going it's going, no point delaying it lol. I'll either have to live with the default layout, or finally make the move to Vivaldi that I've been threatening since forever

Guess again. Vivaldi already dropped XP/Vista support. The only other browser that I know of that works on XP/Vista (and also 2000 if it's any consolation) is Midori. It is still in early development and I don't know if they have any plans to drop support for those old systems, but the current versions runs on them. Well, Waterfox also managed to get XP/Vista working, while keeping updates with Firefox releases, but only 64-bit versions and some features have been disabled.

JDPower · 11 May 2017 02:33

Guess again. Vivaldi already dropped XP/Vista support

Don't use either so not a problem (though only a matter of time before developers start dropping support for Win7 - THEN I'll be pissed off)

Winapp2.ini · 11 May 2017 03:23

TWIF 16:

https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2017/05/10/these-weeks-in-firefox-issue-16/

Some mockups for Photon on Android:

http://imgur.com/a/sNBkR

QFEN #9:

https://ehsanakhgari.org/blog/2017-05-12/quantum-flow-engineering-newsletter-9

Winapp2.ini · 19 May 2017 04:00

Photon Engineering Newsletter #1:

https://dolske.wordpress.com/2017/05/18/photon-engineering-newsletter-1/

Data Science is hard: Anomalies pt 3:

https://chuttenblog.wordpress.com/2017/05/18/data-science-is-hard-anomalies-part-3/

QFEN 10

https://ehsanakhgari.org/blog/2017-05-19/quantum-flow-engineering-newsletter-10

Winapp2.ini · 19 May 2017 20:04

Firefox 53.0.3 released:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/53.0.3/releasenotes/

Winapp2.ini · 24 May 2017 22:10

Firefox 54 may see 4 content processes on by default (up from 1):

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1367244

the number of content processes can be modified by the user in about:config with dom.ipc.processcount or through a panel in the preferences (I've seen mockups but this module hasn't yet landed in Nightly)

PEN 2:

https://dolske.wordpress.com/2017/05/23/photon-engineering-newsletter-2/

Preview Form Autofill in Nightly:

https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2017/05/23/preview-form-autofill-in-firefox-nightly/

Winapp2.ini · 25 May 2017 22:52

TWIF 17:

https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2017/05/25/these-weeks-in-firefox-issue-17/

Also, the movement of DevEdition users to the Beta Channel will happen Soon™

ROCKNROLL · 26 May 2017 03:05

I have my process count on my PC set to 8, but I think I may increase it more. The autofill looks nice and will come in handy for people who do a lot of online shipping or whatever, especially since lots of people don't like saving information on a website.

I think soon I will go back to using Firefox beta and would even be willing to enable telemetry data for them to help development.