> Same-site cookies ("First-Party-Only" or "First-Party") allow servers to mitigate the risk of CSRF and information leakage attacks by asserting that a particular cookie should only be sent with requests initiated from the same registrable domain.
I like this one!
https://mozillagfx.wordpress.com/2017/12/05/off-main-thread-...
Great to see so much effort being put into the fundamentals.
Is it just to make room for "highlights"? I switched that off because it's utterly useless for me. I don't find it helpful to be shown a random selection of things I've clicked on. Besides, I am capable of scrolling.
Yes I know, there's an addon for that (probably). But it just feels like such an arbitrary restriction.
Why are only twelve "top sites" allowed?
My question still stands but at least there's a partial workaround, even if it's potentially unstable.
EDIT This setting doesn't appear to be available on Android.
It seems that there is a hard limit in Firefox of 35 top sites.
I don't want any of that "top sites" BS on a new tab, I want the local HTML file that I created as my home page. Why not allow it for new tabs?
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/new-tab-overr...
Been waiting for this one.
(The rationale is "once the permission is denied, there's no way to bring it up again; a dismissed HTML5 box can be brought up again an infinite number of times")
As for me, I went for WebAPI Manager, which blocks most of the annoyances (Vibrate API? Never saw anyone outside malvertising use that), while still allowing me to manually whitelist sites.
[0] https://i.imgur.com/aiFFzLP.png
edit:
I've linked a demo below with the following caveat, this demo was set up exclusively as a mobile interface and still needs plenty of work. One of the issues is the clickwheel size is initialized as a percentage of the screen height when the page loads. So if you resize the window significantly or switch to mobile mode in dev tools, you must refresh the page to get the clickwheel size to adjust accordingly.
https://faa-aviation-data-portal.github.io/pirep/pirepMobile...
The direct and immediate one is laziness, and I wonder what the success rate of that is.
But we are in an age where any random website wants to send you realtime push notifications.
Instead of pestering you with an overlay that takes up screen real estate, the browser should indicate what subscription options are available for a page, e.g. in the address bar next to the page info icons.
Privacy > Permission > Notification Settings > Block new requests asking to allow notifications
It should be listed under > Pause notifications until Firefox restarts
They should have disabled the popup, but still allow me to activate it on a per site basis by clicking on the ⓘ in the url bar. Same for location, webcam and mic. I don't want sites to nag me with the location sharing notification, but on google maps I would like to enable it manually by pressing the ⓘ and granting permission.
When sites send me annoying ~~adds~~ notifications, it is a reminder for me to turn on adblock for them.
edit: adds to notifications (also I can't spell obviously)
A clean install and profile, no add-ons, and google.com/maps (for example) will max out my cpu. There must be some bug related to old hardware and OS (Macbook Pro 2009 + 10.11.x) or more people would be experiencing this.
Here are instructions if you'd like to help: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/7knnn4/firefox_qua...
When Firefox optimised for multi-process, did they test for single-core? I'm on a machine released this decade - a rare instance of a single core x86_64 machine (fanless Atom NUC)
Facebook is pretty much now unusable with they do their asynchronous page loading of stories.
1. https://mikeconley.ca/blog/2018/03/01/firefox-performance-up...
Additionally, Google doesn't do much to fix their web apps performance on Firefox. I even suspect the contrary.
I was assuming that this was just Google not caring about Firefox support. But now that you mention it, this seems to have started around the time of the Quantum update and doesn't affect all my machines. So maybe I'm experiencing this bug as well? I never connected the two things.
On my PC with windows 10, Firefox eat 25% to 30% of my CPU looking at a twitch stream (1080p60). Chrome and Edge will use about 5% while looking at the same stream.
I really want to love Firefox, and I'm giving it another try with 59, but at the end of the day I need my computer to work for me. :(
I'm on HN, right? Totally fine. Amazing browser. I hit up Twitter, and I could be stuck halfway through a tweet and it freezes up for a good minute or two. Same on FB, same on many other sites.
I LOVE the browser but on my laptop (Thinkpad), I had to switch back to Chrome.
The issues came about with the Quantum update for me as well.
e.g. Animations on stripe.com would auto max out my CPU.
I could only wish they allow 3 rows of Top Site ( without editing about:preference ), and an option to have Open All Top Sites in New Tab. Which is very useful since I check those site daily.
https://www.mozilla.org/media/img/firefox/home/new-tab.a1c9f...
BTW, where is the best way to ask about issues like this regarding Firefox, it seems like Googling for Firefox issues mostly only brings up years old issues and no one is publically posting about more recent issues like this. Also it's hard to describe problems like this in a reasonable way to come up with search terms that Google likes and doesn't hit old reported problems.
https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox https://support.mozilla.org/
Try using safe-mode https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-firefox-is... or maybe creating a new profile. The beta versions, just like Chromium or Chrome, occasionally have some weird bugs. At least for me most of them are always hardware acceleration related.
In the interest of not using Chrome though, when I run into such issues I use Brave as it's Chromium-based and thus allows me to side-step those problems.
The #firefox channel on irc.mozilla.org is a good place to start:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/IRC#Project_Channels
And the Firefox subreddit is pretty active:
Examples where Chrome performance and functionality is superior include:
- Inbox (try downloading attachments) - Maps - Analytics - ...
The only times I got issues with this on Firefox was due to some add-on (Disconnect for instance). On Firefox out of the box I haven't had issues with downloading attachments lately, even with the add-on on.
For me, it's: save MAFF format, foxyproxy, downthemall, "Image and flash blocker", tab mix plus, self exploding cookies, Torrent Status Tool.
It's sad.I guess I'm getting old and grumpy.
'Display preview in live bookmark item tooltip' and 'keep menu open after middle clicking items' are worth me staying on FF 55 for the time being.
Sure I have tried upgrading and using other addons but nothing really does as well for me as this addon.
Good. I get so tired of having to click that little [x] on the location prompt.
However it's really just covering up a bigger issue, which is that the permissions prompts in Firefox and Chrome should be redesigned. It would be good if they were designed so that they were still noticeable, but they:
* don't cover part of the webpage
* don't cover other parts of the browser's UI
* and don't take focus away from the webpage
https://forum.f-droid.org/t/making-it-easier-for-f-droid-to-...
I've had a stellar experience on Arch Linux. The RAM usage is down. I can't say I really ever found Chrome slow, but nor is Firefox for me. I think they're both plenty fast, but I prefer sites without lots of garbage flying around on the page anyway.
Edit: There is hope for Firefox 60 or 61 -> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1409573
Surprised this wasn't done yet.
I never really understood this argument, you gave up Firefox since you could no longer have your XUL/XPCOM extensions in favor of serious browsers who have less WebExt APIs than Firefox and don't have those same extensions?
Did you actually read the release notes? Quoting:
> Enhanced WebExtensions API including better support for decentralized protocols and the ability to dynamically register content scripts.
https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2018/01/26/extensions-firefo...
Some of those are coming or pretty much ready (tab hiding, addressbar focus), and others I've almost given up on, given how Mozilla seems to have changed their philosophy.
Does this update improve its power consumption? Currently, Firefox has a significantly larger effect on my MacBook's battery life compared to Safari with similar usage.
browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers => 0
dom.ipc.processCount => 1This will especially be noticeable when multiple tabs are actively doing something, for example if you open up multiple tabs at once or background tracking script are stealing your CPU cycles.
Blocking tracking scripts and ads or just JavaScript in general can alleviate this to the point where you won't really notice.
Either you spare a few CPU cycles or a bit of memory. Though chrome doesn't seem to be doing good on either front.
> Render the HTML preview within the Response side-panel
> Component: Developer Tools: Netmonitor
> Reported: 11 months ago
While websites do render fast, the UI is not very responsive, whether its laggy typing into the address bar [1] or the crawling devtools.
The "stop notifying me about permissions and just block it" is something I genuinely didn't know I wanted. Though I do hope (but will have to test later) if this also works for HTML Canvas since I use the additional anti fingerprinting.
Until such time as I can prevent the annoying floating URL pop-up in bottom corner when hovering over links, I won't be updating. I don't see why I can't have a harmless fixed status bar extending 100% at bottom of window. It creates a nice gap between Windows taskbar and the browser, with the URL hover text contained neatly within and doesn't appear over the page as an irritating floating layer.
Is it law at Mozilla that FF must imitate Chrome on interface style? Perhaps my choice of wanting choice is the wrong choice. Perhaps it's my fault as user, for wanting something that was taken away.
Another add-on I liked, now kaput, is Mozilla's own Lightbeam. The important list view and domain blocking function of that extension has been broken for some time. The march towards the "best browser" seems to involve breaking things and pissing people off.
In UI terms, the concept of a fixed footer is well established. We see it often on sites and applications. FF allows adjustment of the millisecond delay of the link text, but no control over other properties of that element. I don't get the logic. When vendors move the furniture around in their "security updates" it makes me distrust the updates, particularly when the furniture can't be moved back to how it looked before.
Should be part of Firefox 60.
My only thoughts would be the pref flip that seems to be ruled out at this point, or that you're trying to shoot an about:[SOMETHING] page for which we disable screenshots.
Otherwise, file an issue: https://github.com/mozilla-services/screenshots/issues
We're triaging in an hour or so :)
ohh yeah finally! I somehow missed that even though I'm following Nightly.
https://www.androidpolice.com/2017/09/26/project-quantum-enh...
Unfortunately, it'll still be pretty slow until then.
As in, it doesn't even use Gecko, it uses the native web engine of iOS/Android, so that's WebKit / Android Webview. With how many trackers and ads they block in Focus by default, they wouldn't exactly motivate webpage owners to support Gecko anyways, if they'd use Gecko in it.
This is the current release notes of Firefox Focus on Android: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/whats-new-focus-android...
Slightly off topic: has anyone else been getting frequent crashes lately? It's as if it's running out of memory then freezing a moment. I thought it was because I'm on an older phone at first (note 3 here) but my wife said the same thing to me and she is in an edge 7.
(Kinda hoping someone knows a config fix to it haha)
Nothing.. I wonder when they'll ever get to fully supporting u2f (probably via webauth) so I don't have to use Chrome to log into certain websites.
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/01/using-hardware-token-based...
What's the memory usage like compare to earlier versions?
Given that, and given that Firefox does support the per-standard "wheel" event, what is the argument for implementing "mousewheel"?
The release notes only list the most visible and most unexpected changes. Ongoing memory and performance work rarely clears that bar. It's happening all the time.
- act like Mozilla just killed their extensions lightly. They gave lots of warning in advance and took many extra steps to ease the transition. They also had lots of really good reasons for doing it.
- blame Mozilla for marketing things based on what their market looks like. Most users were not affected at all by the extension ecosystem change, but were positively affected by the newfound performance, security and stability. They also would not have done it in the first place, if they did not think it was a necessary and good step. I really don't know what you'd expect them to market it as.
- in general, speak like you're the only user whose interests are worth considering.
While it is a pain, it's not as if Mozilla removed XUL support with no warning. What addons are you missing? Perhaps we can find updates or replacements?
My default profile is not logged into Google or Facebook or anything similar and uses DuckDuckGo for search.
You can set URLs to always open in a container. That gives me the benefit of cookies without having every website being able to detect them.
Firefox is fast, at least as fast as Chrome, for me. I did lose some extensions but the trend is very positive.