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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.
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If yes then I'm still not using it. Palemoon all the way.
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Does it still require Classic Theme Restorer?
[Fuck Beta]
o0t!
I hope they fixed the memory usage problem I've been having since the last update. Lately for me FF has been running up over 3GB of memory usage and then crashing after anywhere from 6 to 12 hours with only 7 or 8 tabs open. It's been driving me crazy.
...if they used sane version numbers?
Probably something like 12.0.1...
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Firefox version creates puzzle for physicists
Firefox's rapid release schedule attained a new height yesterday when two consecutive Firefox versions were released 4*10^-44 seconds apart, less than the Planck time of 5*10^-44 seconds. "This should be physically impossible", said a prominent physicist, "this delay is too short for anything to happen, even at the subatomic level." Some skeptics speculated that the Firefox versions could have been designed in parallel and merely released 4*10^-44 seconds apart, but careful analysis of logs show that this is not the case and that a full development cycle occurred between the two releases. "We have a mystery on our hands", concluded the physicist.
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.
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.
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.
I'm at my Nevada vacation/retirement place for the first time since migrating my laptop from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS to 14.04 LTS. This dragged in Firefox 29.0 ("... Canonical 1.0").
The place only has dialup Internat at about 38Kbps. (Somewhat higher speeds are available at substantial cost, which doesn't make sense untlil we're here for more than a couple weeks a year.)
Web browsing was barely usable at this speed by using a few tricks. The most effective one was to configure Firefox to not load images until/unless I wanted to look at them.
When I got out here last Friday I discovered that firefox 29.0 no longer has the radio button in the preferences/configuration menus. An hour or so looking at about:config didn't turn up anything likely-looking, either.
Without this feature, "surfing" the current image-heavy web pages is essentially impossible. Even trivial pages may take a couple minutes to a half-hour to load. PER PAGE.
Did the Firefox crew restore the feature for 30.0? (Or does anyone know where it was hidden, if it still exists on 29.0 and 30.0?)
Developers breaking important features (that THEY don't use) while "improving" products is a real problem.
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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.
Looks like the developers picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue...
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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.