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Firefox Quantum |OT| - Ground up redesign with new speed engine, UI, & extensions
- Thread starter Vanillalite
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I can't access Crave.ca anymore on Firefox. Deleting my cache and cookies doesn't do anything. The error message that pops up when trying to access the url is "the page could not be redirected correctly".
I just tried loading it in Firefox 70.0.1 and it seemed to work fine. Does it work if you try loading https://www.crave.ca/en directly?
Firefox randomly opens when windows 10 boots to the desktop. I don't understand why; sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. How do I make it stop?
MS added a feature to Windows 10 where applications can be set to run on startup if they were running when the system was previously shutdown. Firefox apparently added support for this a while back. You should be able to disable it following this: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-starts-automatically-when-i-restart-window
Firefox is still the only browser that supports my Surface Pen properly (besides vanilla Edge) so unless Microsoft somehow fix Chromium I won't be using a Chromium browser again.
Windows nightlies have been unstable as fuck recently though.
Windows nightlies have been unstable as fuck recently though.
The thing is, Firefox was never running when it happened; I always close it before rebooting or shutting down my computer. Maybe it's because the delay between closing firefox and shutting down my computer is too small? In any case, I have set to false the aforementioned value. We'll see if it changes. Thank you!
I mean, nah. Sure, some similarities. If you want to stretch it that much you can say it also resembles Chrome's logo too.
Wait, native picture in picture for videos that persists across tabs? That's incredible
According to the beta release notes it should be coming in the Mac version in 72.0.
So in the last month (more or less) Firefox started acting strange with Twitch and Spotify, especially when I have them in background or I'm on another tab. Playback would stop and I'd have to pause and restart multiple times to get them to work. Another thing is the control bar on Twitch disappearing no matter how much I would hover in/out of the video frame. Sometimes it appears again but I'd have to be fast and not move the cursor out of the frame, otherwise it'll disappear again lol.
Any idea what could cause it? I was thinking at the PiP feature, but I don't think I have it enabled (I believe I actually disabled it when I started seeing these symptoms)
Any idea what could cause it? I was thinking at the PiP feature, but I don't think I have it enabled (I believe I actually disabled it when I started seeing these symptoms)
Have they made any changes recently that would turn performance into complete garbage for me? In some browser windows (like discord, but also others) I'm finding myself typing and it taking a while to catch up.
Edit - I just turned off hardware acceleration, and now the text is being entered with no delay, but I've got glitchy scrolling.
Edit - I just turned off hardware acceleration, and now the text is being entered with no delay, but I've got glitchy scrolling.
Firefox 72.0 is now out.
Release notes: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/72.0/releasenotes/
Make sure your GPU driver is up to date. If disabling hardware acceleration fixes the issue that sounds like it's a GPU problem.
Release notes: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/72.0/releasenotes/
Make sure your GPU driver is up to date. If disabling hardware acceleration fixes the issue that sounds like it's a GPU problem.
Firefox 72.0.1 is now out.
Release notes: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/72.0.1/releasenotes/
Release notes: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/72.0.1/releasenotes/
This update patches a security vulnerability with known exploits in the wild, so best to update asap.
Is there a way to change the default position of the picture-in-picture? I'd like it at the top-right instead of the bottom-right.
On Mac I can just drag it where I like. It's also possible to resize it to your liking.
Yes, but when you close it and reactivate it, the position and size are reset. It would be cool if it could remember those.
Good question. I wonder if there are settings for that in about:config.
I installed the new MS Edge so of course it prompts to be the default browser whenever I click a link in e.g. Discord. And of course Windows isn't letting me pick Firefox as the default.
Gonna try to reinstall Firefox and see if that fixes it
edit: yep, reinstalling brings Firefox back as a default browser choice. Easy enough, still annoying.
Gonna try to reinstall Firefox and see if that fixes it
edit: yep, reinstalling brings Firefox back as a default browser choice. Easy enough, still annoying.
Firefox 72.0.2 is now out.
Release notes: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/72.0.2/releasenotes/
Release notes: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/72.0.2/releasenotes/
oh my god, I hope this is the fix I need. Shit has been driving me insane:
EDIT: it's fixed! Woohoo!
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Probably also worth mentioning that Fenix (the new rewritten Android port) is supposed to be officially replacing the current one (Fennec) sometime this spring:
blog.mozilla.org
Personally I think it's a little premature, since it sounds like the extension support won't have reached parity with Fennec until after that, but I guess they don't want the cutover date to be too close to the 68 branch EoL in case there are last minute delays.
Firefox for Android upgrade FAQs | Mozilla Support
This article addresses a series of common questions that you might have regarding the Firefox upgrade on Android.
blog.mozilla.org
Personally I think it's a little premature, since it sounds like the extension support won't have reached parity with Fennec until after that, but I guess they don't want the cutover date to be too close to the 68 branch EoL in case there are last minute delays.
Switched over to Firefox from Chrome around August of last year, and I'm getting a little frustrated with it. Some sites just work way faster with Chrome or Edge(Chromium). And some sites don't work very well at all. (justwatch.com is an example)
Tempted to give Edge a shot as my main browser, but I guess I will stick it out a bit longer. Privacy is important to me, and it seems like Firefox is the best option in that regard.
Tempted to give Edge a shot as my main browser, but I guess I will stick it out a bit longer. Privacy is important to me, and it seems like Firefox is the best option in that regard.
Firefox 73.0.1 is now out.
Release notes: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/73.0.1/releasenotes/
Release notes: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/73.0.1/releasenotes/
Extensions can unload tabs, if that's what you're looking for.
How is everyones' resource management with Firefox? I have five tabs of ERA open and the sixth one being Chilled Cow playing in the background, and yet Firefox is using 1.1GB of ram. Even when just opening Firefox to ERA and the Youtube homepage, it's using 700MB. I feel that's a little high, I thought this new redesign was suppose to help with it's resource management.
More or less the same here. It seems fine to me; that's 6% of my total RAM. Firefox's memory management shows its strength when you have a lot of tabs open (apparently with 30+ tabs open Firefox uses less RAM than Chrome).
Just looked into this. The two most popular ones are not recommended extensions and one of them even has sketchy permissions :(
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Found a recommended one: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/auto-tab-discard/
I will try it.
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I used to have a bookmark that'd open your bookmarks manager in the current tab. they recently broke it but I found out changing the url to "chrome://browser/content/places/places.xhtml" will give you the same effect.
Firefox 74.0.1 is now out.
Release notes: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/74.0.1/releasenotes/
Release notes: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/74.0.1/releasenotes/