A radical Firefox redesign in 2021
- xanthon
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Re: A radical Firefox redesign in 2021
For many years I have been moving addons' icons to the menubar (along with Bookmark Toolbar Items). There is plenty of room there and I am glad now that I particularly don't use the bookmarks bar because Mozilla seems to have had so much trouble with it.
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Re: A radical Firefox redesign in 2021
I did the same thing when they removed the extra toolbars and found I could now drag stuff to the menu bars (used to be impossible in early versions).
What I haven't been able to cope with is removing the bookmark descriptions.
Especially since I hadn't been paying attention to the change log when Firefox automatically updated and it caught me by surprise when it removed all the descriptions.
I had literally thousands of fanfic bookmarks with the story summaries along with author names in the description field. There even used to be a Greasmonkey script to automatically add that to any bookmark made on Fanfiction.net.
With that field removed it makes remembering which story is which based just on the title virtually impossible when somebody is doing a fic search on another board and I know I've read the story in question, but that was another rant from years ago.
What I haven't been able to cope with is removing the bookmark descriptions.
Especially since I hadn't been paying attention to the change log when Firefox automatically updated and it caught me by surprise when it removed all the descriptions.
I had literally thousands of fanfic bookmarks with the story summaries along with author names in the description field. There even used to be a Greasmonkey script to automatically add that to any bookmark made on Fanfiction.net.
With that field removed it makes remembering which story is which based just on the title virtually impossible when somebody is doing a fic search on another board and I know I've read the story in question, but that was another rant from years ago.
- Snake4
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Re: A radical Firefox redesign in 2021
wonder if they'll Make 89 that Proton Release or will 90 be that?
- WaltS48
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Re: A radical Firefox redesign in 2021
89Snake4 wrote:wonder if they'll Make 89 that Proton Release or will 90 be that?
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Re: A radical Firefox redesign in 2021
I hope they don't remove the menu you know the File Edit View History Bookmarks Tools Help toolbar.
- Snake4
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Re: A radical Firefox redesign in 2021
they wont take that away. still to many use that still. i do in ThunderbirdBaldape wrote:I hope they don't remove the menu you know the File Edit View History Bookmarks Tools Help toolbar.
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Re: A radical Firefox redesign in 2021
Like they won't take away the bookmark descriptions?
The additional toolbars?
The RSS feeds?
Legacy extensions and more importantly the features they used that are no longer supported in the name of security?
That just off the top of my head.
The additional toolbars?
The RSS feeds?
Legacy extensions and more importantly the features they used that are no longer supported in the name of security?
That just off the top of my head.
- Snake4
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Re: A radical Firefox redesign in 2021
im pretty sure you can still use RSS feeds in an email clientslickrcbd wrote:Like they won't take away the bookmark descriptions?
The additional toolbars?
The RSS feeds?
Legacy extensions and more importantly the features they used that are no longer supported in the name of security?
That just off the top of my head.
Legacy Extensions the way they used to Hook into XUL or whatever it is, was a security problem. if you dont care for security, give me ya IP address
bookmark Discriptions , was a pointless feature to begin with
- therube
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Re: A radical Firefox redesign in 2021
And "webextensions" (you know, the holy grail) are secure .Legacy Extensions the way they used to Hook into XUL or whatever it is, was a security problem.
(Heh. Been a long time since I've looked, & it looks like they've stopped "updating" it - or, there has been no reason to have it updated - since November 2020: Blocked Add-ons [you know, because webextensions are secure :evilgrin:.)
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Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110420 SeaMonkey/2.0.14 Pinball CopyURL+ FetchTextURL FlashGot NoScript
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Re: A radical Firefox redesign in 2021
I used it for fanfic bookmarks, before the "keywords" or "Tags" fields were in place, going back to the days of Netscape Navigator. I used to have a Greasemonkey script to automatically fill in the author and summaries on FF.net.Snake4 wrote:slickrcbd wrote:Like they won't take away the bookmark descriptions?
bookmark Discriptions , was a pointless feature to begin with
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- Snake4
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Re: A radical Firefox redesign in 2021
as i said it was a useless an baseless feature. i dont see other browsers with it, but thats besides the point of this thread. please dont derail it.
- Snake4
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Re: A radical Firefox redesign in 2021
update of the settings here https://www.ghacks.net/2021/04/03/firef ... at-is-new/
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Re: A radical Firefox redesign in 2021
Relieved to see the compact mode is not going after all, although they could have just kept it rather than this "middle ground" option.
https://www.ghacks.net/2021/04/07/mozil ... ting-ones/
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Re: A radical Firefox redesign in 2021
It seems like Proton was enabled by default for me on 89 Nightly. It looks fine so far.
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- smsmith
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Re: A radical Firefox redesign in 2021
Something is off about the shadow on the bookmarks menu button. It has a gap of a couple of pixels off to the right and bottom edge of the menu. But only on the main bookmarks menu, looks ok for the subfolder menus. Happens on two different computers of mine. Anybody else seeing that? No. I have not yet tried in safe mode.
Edit: Looks the same in safe mode.
Edit 2: Someone must have heard me complaining. It's fixed on one machine now. Will check on the other tomorrow morning!
Edit: Looks the same in safe mode.
Edit 2: Someone must have heard me complaining. It's fixed on one machine now. Will check on the other tomorrow morning!
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