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Mozilla Releases Firefox 50 (softpedia.com)
Mozilla has begun seeding the binary and source packages of the final release of Firefox 50 web browser on all supported platforms, including GNU/Linux and macOS. From a report on Softpedia: We have to admit that we expected to see some major features and improvements, but that hasn't happened. The biggest new feature of the Firefox 50.0 release appears to be emoji for everyone. That's right, the web browser now ships with built-in emoji for GNU/Linux distributions, as well as other operating systems that don't include native emoji fonts by default, such as Windows 8.0 and previous versions. Also new, Firefox 50.0 now shows lock icon strikethrough for web pages that offer insecure password fields. Another interesting change that landed in the Mozilla Firefox 50.0 web browser is the ability to cycle through tabs in recently used order using the Ctrl+Tab keyboard shortcut. Moreover, it's now possible to search for whole words only using the "Find in page" feature. Last but not the least, printing was improved as well by using the Reader Mode, which now uses the accel-(opt/alt)-r keyboard shortcut, the Guarana (gn) locale is now supported, the rendering of dotted and dashed borders with rounded corners (border-radius) has been fixed as well.
... if the best we can say about Firefox, the "lean, lightweight browser without the bloat" that brought it into existence, is that version 50 has "emojis for everyone", then I think we've completely lost the plot.
So sorry, FF developers; you have a great platform [it's my browser of choice] but we're losing our way here...
As long as I can turn off emoji.
Instead of some stupid emojis for everyone, everyone who is an idiot that is, they should have instead directly implemented their vertical tabs feature straight from the experiment page.
That would have given 50 some actual tangible attention value.
"emojis for everyone"
I hate those things. They communicate absolutely zero to me. I ignore all posts that include them.
HBI's Law: Frequency of calling others Nazis is directly correlated with the likelihood of the accuser being Communist.
Cause I don't see that stupid eggplant often enough already.
Because you suffer from sociopathy and aspergers?
No, because using emoji is childish nonsense!
:-P
Your penis ---> 8==D
LUDDITE google hasn't given me emojis in Chrome yet, so I can't make a witty reply.
Sorry old timer but it's time to take you out back and put a bullet in your head. Silicon Valley has no use for people over 30. Now let's all write a new browser in javascript and css!
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I'm going to have to agree with the parent post: because they communicate absolutely zero.
A friend recently sent me an emoji of what looked like a constipated grimace. I found out later it was supposed to be a smile. Go figure.
Can Firefox now print a table without cutting off everything that won't fit on a single page?
I read the internet for the articles.
A sociopath uses replacements for the faces he can't make,
while only a person with asspergers needs emojis to relay what normal people otherwise can with words and proper formulation,
so you've lost me with your statement
I'm assuming that an emoji representative of your reply would be one with two cheeks and a cloud coming out between them?
Why doesn't Firefox just release more security updates and make the browser more like Pale Moon?
Non-tech persons call it Foxfire. Why? That and Linsky network gear. What psychological madness is occurring here? I try not to be that kind of nerd, but man it gets me every time I hear that and I wish I knew what their eyes were seeing.
Seems to have broken some of the Extensions I'm using.
Nah, it would be a black dick being forcibly-inserted into your anus.
^^ +5 Informative
Does anybody even use Firefox anymore?
I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
I swear you people are the most negative, whiny people on the internet. Emojis are pretty standard now. Firefox has not been a slim browser for some time now, and that's okay. These guys do a lot of good work; Firefox is a great browser. Show some support. Say something positive. I'm personally excited, as electrolysis is slowly being phased in which is awesome!
Mozilla did not add a lock icon strikethrough. That was delayed. Check the official changelog: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/...
Amazing. Here is to 50 more years.
I'm a good cook. I'm a fantastic eater. - Steven Brust
No Imojis, no tablet UI menu, no transition animations, no persistent suggestion/help balloons, and (gasp) the hipsterist(TM) thing of all: An about:config that actually permits you to make persistent actionable changes to the way the browser works. We could call this.... Modding, or... personalisation? I know, it's progressive. I'm just thinking outside of the app store for a moment.
Brendan Eich is rolling in his grave.
i would argue emoji's themselves are bot the problem but their over use and sometime exclusive use. they can express-->expresions
If we (and Mozilla) should be focusing on anything at all, it is Firefox's rapidly declining market share.
Firefox 49 didn't manage to break 5%. That's a big deal. Even if we add in the usage of all other versions of Firefox, including on Android, we're only looking at about 7% in total.
Firefox is insignificant compared to Chrome. It's well below UC Browser for Android. It's now essentially below iOS Safari 10 alone. Even Opera Mini nearly has more users.
Firefox 50 will likely have an even smaller share of the market than 49 did. It could very well be the first release to peak at under 4% of the market.
Unwanted features like emojis, or minor features like a keyboard shortcut to cycle through tabs, won't keep more people from jumping ship to Chrome.
At what point will we see some real concern from Mozilla? When Firefox hits 3%? Or will it be 2%, or even 1%?
But it may not even matter at this point. With numbers so low already, there's very little chance of Firefox ever regaining any relevant share of the market again.
back in my day we used ascii.
We've got emojis, but still no multi-threaded performance?
Yeah, I think we've lost our priorities here.
;-)
Everything I write is lies, read between the lines.
i would argue emoji's themselves are bot the problem but their over use and sometime exclusive use. they can express-->expresions
My God! It even includes an emoji bot?
Everything I write is lies, read between the lines.
Oh that's not an emoji. It's intelligible and doesn't require interpretation.
HBI's Law: Frequency of calling others Nazis is directly correlated with the likelihood of the accuser being Communist.
Sorry, I but I wasn't sexually mutilated as a child: 8==KD
I use both Firefox and Chrome or Chromium. For some reason, on all platforms, Googling using Firefox returns different, and far superior, results than Googling using Chrome. I have no idea why, but the differences are dramatic.
Firefox finally added ctrl tab eh? Maybe if they get a few more of the features from Opera 9 they'll have a real browser on their hands!
Why were they expecting major features and improvements in this release particularly? Firefox releases every six weeks. Just because the number has a 0 on the end doesn't mean there's going to be great leaps forward in that particular six weeks. There are big changes happening - such as the rollout of process separation, called "e10s", but they are coming gradually to make sure people don't end up with somethng really crashy. That's the right way to do it. Shipping new stuff to everyone at once in one big bang so Softpedia can write about the big new changes is _not_ the right way to do it.
So, how many add-ons will it take to get back to the familiar behaviour THIS time?
"[*] Google have far too much power..."
To me, it's very sad that Google seems to be on the way down. Google top management doesn't seem to know how to guide the company away from abusiveness.
Firefox 50 also displays a closed captioning (CC) button in the HTML5 video player, if the video has an accompanying WebVTT file with "captions" tracks:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/s...
This has been missing for quite a while and will help make more videos accessible across all browsers.
Guarana is a stimulant. (It contains caffeine.) If you take it before going to bed you are unlikely to sleep well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
But... what has actually been added is support for the Guarani locale. The I should have an acute accent over it rather than a dot, but Slashdot doesn't support Unicode.
I wonder if Mozilla has removed that proprietary spyware/begware Pocket and Hello shit from Firefox yet.
It sucks that almost all browsers suck these days. Pale Moon is pretty much the only good, trustworthy option.
On my windows xp 2 ghz laptop, FF eats up 70-90% of the cpu slowing down everything else and causing me to wait after clicking on any other program.
Thus, the FF version must have a direct relationship to the cpu utilization used. That is version 50 will eat up at a min 50% of the cpu and peak at 2*version # = 100% utilization.
Need to cut back on this resource hog.