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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.
...with this rapid release schedule. Firefox is trying to update more often than Java nowadays.
Run an unstable branch like everyone else, and run a testing/beta branch to become the next stable. It will make life a lot easier.
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
If yes then I'm still not using it. Palemoon all the way.
Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
Does it still require Classic Theme Restorer?
[Fuck Beta]
o0t!
They have a brand new sync as of 28. I don't like it because the new sync protocol theoretically lets them get access to your sync'd data. They promise not to, but I wish they'd just make it easy to host your own personal sync server and be done with it. It is theoretically possible but it is far from easy.
Why don't they just randomize the user interface every time you start the program? I've spent over a decade getting used to things being in certain places with FF. Each version shuffles things like rearranging the furniture in a blind man's house. I have to put things back where they were so my muscle memory still works. I still go for View/Page Source - it's been that way for many years. Why change it? What does it accomplish to change it?
So, do the people who write this software not use it themselves? Do they not have muscle memory? Do they really re-learn where everything is every new release?
I mean, why? Why rearrange everything and trash the user interface? There's no reason for it. I don't understand. I can't process the idea that they just go in and trash everything for no reason.
I don't understand. I am not sure I want to understand. This is crazy, so should not make sense.
The Firefox UI designers have created something that's universally hated! It's not just a little bit of hate from a few people here and there. It's total, unmitigated, unrelenting hatred for the Firefox 29 UI!
Yeah, thats the new business strategy of Mozilla corporation. Instead of relying on google money, they try to create universal pure hatred. Have you noticed the jumping bookmark star on the start page? This serves them as hatred collector. The code animating the star creates a websocket connection to mozilla headquarters, on which the hatred is transmitted into a black box in their basement with the label "hatred". When the box is full, they sell the hatred on the international hatred market. In recent years prices rose. Hatred has become a certain place to invest your money into. It doesn't foul, you get a good interest, and even if the prices fall, you can apply the hatred to anyone you want to be hated. Its extremely powerful. Its used by everyone. You won't find any despote, fortune 500 person, or politician that haven't used channeled hatred to fulfill their goals. Taken by weight, hatred is far more expensive than $500 bank notes.
This step by Mozilla is considered by insiders to be a huge innovation in the hatred mining business. Experts speak of a new era in the global hatred market.
Even if you have moral objections against mozilla selling the hatred of its users, you should consider that their move makes them less reliant on google. As you have already pointed out, the hatred they get is pure. They will get a good price for your hatred.
If you want to support mozilla, you should encourage your friends to hate the new UI even more and more totally than now. To ensure all hatred gets collected, your friends should watch the blue star as it jumps around. Mozilla is currently refining the hatred collector, but right now this step is neccessary. I've heard rumors that they want to merge the hatred collector with the new EME DRM plugin. This way your hatred gets channelled while you watch netflix videos. But I doubt that netflix will like this hatred piracy, as, by international law, the hatred is their property.
Firefox's share is plummeting
While I am not quite as vehement about it as you, I agree to some extent. Firefox has been trying to Chrome-ify its interface, and it sucks. It needs to go back to its roots.
And goddamn Google for harming it. Firefox is our last best hope for a non-intrusive, "independent" browser. Firefox needs to start looking -- HARD -- for better outside funding.
The "useless" toolbars are useful to people who understand toolbars. The pointless changes to the firefox UI are a big "fuck you" all the sane users.
Go use chrome if you want chrome. Some of us don't use chrome because the chrome UI sucks.
Did they fix the memory-hogging bug that causes instability? No.