Coinciding with this release, Firefox 52 ESR is no longer supported, so no supported versions of Firefox support the legacy extensions.<p>I'm mentioning this here just so I can tell Vimperator / Pentadactyl / VimFx users that there are loads of options you can replace your old extensions with, some of which are... okay.<p>Links follow in increasing order of user-friendliness:<p><a href="https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl</a> [^]<p><a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/surfingkeys_ff/" rel="nofollow">https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/surfingkeys_f...</a><p><a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vim-vixen/" rel="nofollow">https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vim-vixen/</a><p><a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vimium-ff/" rel="nofollow">https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vimium-ff/</a><p>[^] Disclaimer: I develop this one. If you've tried it before in the past, now might be a good time to try it again. We've just pushed out a release that moved quite a lot of code around, hopefully eliminating a whole class of bugs, especially relating to ignore mode and multiple windows.
With all these posters complaining, am I the only one who is totally satisfied with Firefox? I never had many issues using firefox. I did use Chrome briefly, but came back to firefox. If it matters, I mostly use firefox on Debian Linux and am also not a web developer.
> Removed the description field for bookmarks. Users who have stored descriptions using the field may wish to export these descriptions as html or json files, as they will be removed in a future release.<p>Does anyone know if there's an explanation for this somewhere? Between removing live bookmarks (a simple feed reader) and this, it seems like they're paring down user-facing features.<p>I don't think these are the features being referred to when people complain about "browser bloat", Mozilla. I expect Chrome to push me to use remote services, but I don't want that from Mozilla. I know it's a trope to complain about Firefox becoming a Chrome clone, but it feels truer every release.
I'm a die-hard Firefox fan. While all my colleagues develop in Chrome, I'm the weird one who uses Firefox and always catches some problem in rendering when testing.<p>But recently I installed an 4K monitor. I use the Latest Windows 10 and have an GTX 1050 graphic card. The Firefox on this resolution is VERY slow. I have no problem in Edge or Chrome. Please, if any dev is around, check this use case.
"Firefox Home (the default New Tab) now allows users to display up to 4 rows of top sites, Pocket stories, and highlights"<p>Yay, I always wanted to see more spam in it!<p>(had the "fun" experience of needing to figure out again how to disable new spammy things from new tab page on mobile despite having already done so before)
Not related to this particular release, but I wish Mozilla implemented tree-style tabs as core feature (or at least provided core API). The current "Tree style tab" plugin in indispensable for me, but has to be a hack, however exquisite, especially around tab context menus.
Been waiting for “Reopen in Container” for awhile. It's very annoying when I Ctrl+T to open a new tab for a site and it takes me awhile to realize I forgot to open it in the right container tab. Glad to see the feature finally added!
This is the feature I'm most excited about this time:<p>> “Reopen in Container” tab menu option appears for users with Containers that lets them choose to reopen a tab in a different container<p>This is going to make containers even more useful.
I really want to change to Firefox but a while ago it was a huge battery drain on my mac. It had something to do with it not using CoreAnimation, I think. Does anyone know if this is still the case?
One thing I still miss from Safari is 'Show all Tabs' which would give you thumbnails of open tabs. There is nothing built into FireFox that is equivalent. I have looked at some of the extensions, and they are in various states of support or waiting for FF to implement some API. The dropdown menu showing the tab titles becomes pretty useless after a certain number has been reached.<p>I'm amazed in 2018 it seems tab management (> 20 tabs) is still so awful.
With each new Firefox release, it gets farther and farther away from what the browser once was. I started using Firefox over a decade ago, now it's become just a different version of awful. I don't know exactly happened when Mozilla lost their perspective, but I do know when - the first introduction of Australis. And they should have figured out, when you name it after something upside-down, you should seriously wonder if it's upside down. WebExtensions is just piling error upon error.<p>And with each new release, more control is taken from the user, more decent features are removed. I swear, Firefox peaked at 4.0.
My take on how Firefox is better than Chrome: <a href="https://fiatjaf.alhur.es/entulho/firefox-vs-chrome.txt" rel="nofollow">https://fiatjaf.alhur.es/entulho/firefox-vs-chrome.txt</a><p>(No politics, just the raw browser features. Also, I'm a long time Chrome user, switched to Firefox an year ago, then back to Chrome for a week and now permanently on Firefox.)
I really like Firefox but unfortunately it doesn't run well on my machine.
I have Ryzen 2700X, geforce 1080 Ti, running current Ubuntu but firefox is using 1 full CPU at 100% (load is moving from one core to another) and constantly lags. Researched a lot for any similar problems but couldn't find any solution.<p>Has anyone seen anything like this and maybe even solved it?
Is it just me or does the HSTS preload list not work in Firefox 62 (macOS 10.12)? I see a plaintext HTTP request when opening <a href="http://www.google.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com</a> instead of an immediate https connection to www.google.com.
Youtube on Firefox for me is awful. I get constant buffering on 1080p+ content. Chrome is flawless. I have the same extensions on both browsers, curious if anyone else has experienced the same recently?
Is Pocket the only bookmarking service available? Seems a bit off that there is no public interface to this and the Mozilla seem to have some kind of agreement with Pocket?
If the status bar is still missing, I'm not interested in Firefox 62. They should never have taken that option away in their pathetic "make it look like Chrome" weakness of product strategy.
There is no non hacky way to make chrome not close window when you close the last tab. That's enough for me to drop it as my main browser. That's like literally the only thing I look for in a browser
>> Improved graphics rendering for Windows users without accelerated hardware using Parallel-Off-Main-Thread Painting<p>Because so many people run windows on hardware without decent graphics hardware?!?!?! And yet Wayland support is still not up to snuff.<p>I use Firefox almost exclusively, but Mozilla seems to have some strange priorities. It's not just them, it's a lot of people out there doing what they want instead of what's good for their users.