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'See the Future Firefox Right Now' (cnet.com)
"Mozilla is prepping a new version of Firefox in an effort to rally in the race for browser supremacy," writes CNET's Matt Elliott, who decided to test drive a new nightly build of Firefox 57 which "promises fast speeds and a new look." An anonymous reader quotes their report:
Firefox 57 has added a screenshot button in the top-right corner... It highlights different elements on a page as you mouse over them, or you can just click-and-drag the old-school way to take a screenshot of a portion of a page. Screenshots are saved within Firefox. Click the scissors button and then click the little My Shots window to open a new tab of all of your saved screenshots. From here you can download them or share them... The bookmark and Pocket buttons have been moved from the right of the URL bar to inside it, but the Page Actions button is new. Click it and you'll get a small menu to Copy URL, Email Link and Send to Device. The Page Actions menu also has bookmark and Pocket buttons, which seems redundant at first but then I realized you can remove those items from the URL bar by right-clicking them. You can't remove the new, triple-dot Page Actions button...
As with any prerelease software, Firefox Nightly 57 is meant for developers and will likely exhibit strange and unstable behavior from time to time. Also, there is no guarantee that the final release will look like what you see in the current version of Nightly. For example, I have read reports that the search box next to Firefox's URL bar may be on the chopping block. It's part of the design of the current Nightly build but I wouldn't be surprised if it gets dropped between now and November since most web users have grown accustomed to entering their search queries right in the URL bar. Just as you can with the current version of Firefox, however, you can customize which elements are displayed at the top of Firefox Nightly 57, including the search box.
As with any prerelease software, Firefox Nightly 57 is meant for developers and will likely exhibit strange and unstable behavior from time to time. Also, there is no guarantee that the final release will look like what you see in the current version of Nightly. For example, I have read reports that the search box next to Firefox's URL bar may be on the chopping block. It's part of the design of the current Nightly build but I wouldn't be surprised if it gets dropped between now and November since most web users have grown accustomed to entering their search queries right in the URL bar. Just as you can with the current version of Firefox, however, you can customize which elements are displayed at the top of Firefox Nightly 57, including the search box.
making it impossible to have extensions more powerful than Chrome.
Maybe you should read what the maintainer of uBlock Origin thinks of the difference between Chrome and Firefox when it comes to extensions. To quote him: "It baffles me that some people think Firefox is becoming a 'Chrome clone', it’s just not the case, it’s just plain silly to make such statement."
The Print Screen key only works great if your screen shows everything you want to capture. If it goes off screen you need to use the developer full page screen shot command or use this new feature in 57. Just tried this feature and I'm not so keen on using it because it uploads the result to screenshots.firefox.com.
I liked the old look. So I run Seamonkey.
So why should I use this over Chrome? It sure looks the same to me.
Because Chrome is a way for Google to learn more about you and make money with that data.
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And they have killed off a bunch of useful plugins by changing the API as well, so now I have transited to Pale Moon. Even though some plugins aren't supported there most of the essential are - or there are replacements.
And in Pale Moon you still have the ability to block third-party cookies without having to resort to a plugin.
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker would destroy civilization.
Based on Chrome (and thus Chromium/Vivaldi) compatibility:
uBlock Origin - Yes
Greasemonkey - Yes
Flash Control - Chrome blocks Flash by default anyway
Stop Youtube AutoPlay Next - Use Greasemonkey
Self Destructing Cookies - Chrome has this functionality and equivalent add-ons
These I don't know about:
Classic Theme Restorer
Tab Mix Plus
Session Manager
Status-4-Evar
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
Yes.
Apparently yes, thanks to the cooperative threads in tabs. You would know it if you had RTFA.
It also will be safer. In case you missed it, they've created a new systems programming language from scratch only to be able to do what they couldn't do with C++, i.e. developing a new rendering engine with no memory leaks.
Captcha: blinding
The Dev version of uBlock works fine on the nightly. The release is right on the addon site. Scroll to the bottom of the uBlock Origin page (thats not compatible), and you'll see the dev release there.
Will it be faster?
Yes. A lot faster. A lot lot faster. Subjectively, the 57 nightlies feel even more responsive than Opera, which has been my primary browser for several years. I have been using the FF 57 nightlies for little over a week and I love it. Firefox has always been sluggish as hell compared to Chrome and especially Opera, including the last stable Firefox version 54. Firefox 57 beats them both. Let the next phase of the browser performance rally begin.
My other account has a 3-digit UID.
Firefox had it but dumped it some years ago and the resolution was to use plugins to do the same job.
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker would destroy civilization.
It's quite straightforward to code in c++ without memory leaks. You just have to use the correct subset of C++, enforce a simple discipline, and write libraries that use your own leak-proof memory allocation. We did this nearly 20 years ago, and without incurring any performance penalty.