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Firefox 30 Available, Firebug 2.0 Released
Today Mozilla made Firefox 30 available, a relatively minor release after the massive redesign in version 29. According to the changelog, new features include VP9 video decoding, support for Opus in WebM, and horizontal volume control for HTML5 video and audio. Developers got support for multi-line flexboxes and hang reporting for background threads. There were also a number of security fixes. The Android version of Firefox received better support for native text selection, cutting, and copying, as well as predictive lookup for Awesomebar entries. The availability of Firefox 30 coincides with the launch of Firebug 2.0, which features an updated UI and a new debugging engine called JSD2. Significant new features include JavaScript syntax highlighting and de-minifying, improved code auto-complete, and the capability to hide or show individual Firebug panels.
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If you don't like it, switch to the ESR channel.
It's still based on Firefox 24, the next one wont be till FF 31. It's kept up to date in terms of security fixes for 9 mainstream releases.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/...
Most UI designers these days are hipsters. They don't give a flying fuck about usability. All they care about is making a UI that's trendy. It's totally cool if it's trendy but isn't actually usable. Usability is irrelevant to them.
Firefox is just one victim among many. They've fucked up Chrome from the very beginning. They've fucked up GNOME 3. They've fucked up Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012. They've fucked up iOS 7. They're in the process of fucking up OS X 10.10. They've been fucking up web design for a great many years now.
Hipsters are a disease that infects software projects. Once you understand that, then what has happened to the UIs of these formerly-great software projects makes perfect sense. It's much like the plagues that ravaged Europe centuries ago. A small hipster infection can spiral out of control and can destroy even the most robust and usable of software systems.
Classic Theme Restorergives you the option to put the tabs below the URL bar. I recommend it, even if you like Australis, because of all the nice customisation options it gives.
Do you mean the "Load images automatically" setting?
The preference for that seems to still be in about:config. It's called "permissions.default.image" and the values are documented as: // 1-Accept, 2-Deny, 3-dontAcceptForeign
Pale Moon Windows version
Pale Moon Linux version
Pale Moon has a 64-bit version. The 64-bit Pale Moon uses the Firefox add-ons; there are no problems except with some unusual add-ons.